'Authenticity, Creative Practices and Community in Online Teaching and Learning'

This presentation reflects upon the value of authentic educational practices that emerge both intentional and unintentionally in teaching and learning online; the transformative value students and teachers can find in distance learning and teaching relationships, creative practices used to encourage resident-style behaviour in a Higher Education context (White and Le Cornu, 2011), where students assess learning platforms to be present to each other in a shared learning journey. Using personal experience, student voice and literature the authors also reflect upon the notion that the curriculum is sticky (Orr and Shreeve,2017) and that it becomes increasingly so when fluid global learning communities develop

Ecological Reparations: The Story of the Quinquai Tree

Decarbonising with integrity means owning up to our violent histories, to ‘sit with the scream’ as Akomolafe shares echoing Ben Okri’s call to listen to the speech, the cries, the howls, and the screams . It means uncovering and telling these histories as entangled with toxic aspect of modernity as we currently experience it, to give it the palliative care it needs

Invocations, An Asygnifying Fieldwork Guide

Taking my cue from the photographic project ‘Invocations’ (2013 - ), in this paper I consider the ways in which animals and insects encounter each other in the night. Drawing from animal studies and post humanist literature and thinkers like Cary Wolf, Anat Pick, Thomas Nagel, Jean- Francois Lyotard, Guattari, amongst others, I rethink and examine the way in which science and naturalist culture approaches insects in the context of contemporary Britain, following moth trapping groups participating in the National Moth Recording Scheme. The Scheme presents moth trapping as a valuable activity to monitor the environment, moths being an indicator species. Through artistic fieldwork practice, other elements of the human-animal encounter are revealed and revisited. Invocations focuses both on the experience of animal encounters, primary with nocturnal insects and by extension bats, but also on looking at the culture of science with an anthropological lens, positioning the artist as a non-scientist fieldworker or a reflective outsider. This paper explores notions of animal visibility, imagination, empathy and subjective experiences of animals in the Anthropocene, to argue how outcomes of artistic fieldwork can assist us in the creation of a new space which sits between a romanticized approach to animal encounters and seeing animals as biological systems. This alternative way of relating and communicating approaches animals primarily by ‘mapping the different modalities of expression of animal bodies that point toward asignifying semiotics’1, which in Guattari’s perspective is not a separate non-meaning world, but the basis for our world of meaning, by transcending it

Inovação pedagógica em escolas de educação básica da rede pública de ensino do distrito federal – Brasil

Trata-se da Dissertação do Mestrado em Administração e Gestão Educacional que aborda o tema inovação pedagógica, com a análise empírica nas escolas públicas do Distrito Federal brasileiro, buscando responder à seguinte questão: Como ocorre a inovação pedagógica em escolas de Educação Básica da rede pública de ensino do Distrito Federal? Tem como objetivo geral analisar a implementação de projetos pedagógicos inovadores na Educação Básica da rede pública de ensino do Distrito Federal. O trabalho está estruturado inicialmente com o seu enquadramento geral que permite a contextualização do tema, questões de investigação, objetivos e a sua justificação. Em um segundo momento, é realizado o enquadramento teórico, com a discussão dos constructos: escola tradicional, inovação pedagógica e modelos pedagógicos, que sustentam e fundamentam o trabalho de campo. O percurso metodológico é descrito sob uma perspectiva qualitativa da investigação, tendo em vista que foi realizada a análise documental dos Projetos Político-Pedagógicos de duas escolas públicas do Distrito Federal consideradas inovadoras pela Secretaria de Educação do Distrito Federal e recolhidos dados por meio de entrevistas com as diretoras e coordenadora pedagógicas. Os dados gerados foram interpretados por meio da análise de conteúdo. Os resultados apontaram que os Projetos Político-Pedagógicos foram fruto de uma construção coletiva que culminou na eleição da gestão das escolas para implementação de um modelo pedagógico inovador, estruturado a partir de uma comunidade de aprendizagem. A percepção das gestoras aponta que o processo de implementação das ações pedagógicas inovadoras se encontra em estágio avançado em ambas as escolas e que os dispositivos pedagógicos propostos no projeto estão implantados, em sua maioria, e presentes no cotidiano escolar e na cultura organizacional. A participação dos atores sociais é efetiva no processo decisório e há uma prática coletiva no fortalecimento da missão e valores propostos para as escolas. Conclui-se que a comunidade de aprendizagem possui efetividade e que houve avanços consideráveis a partir da implementação do novo modelo pedagógico. Para pesquisas futuras, percebe-se a necessidade de ampliar a recolha de dados com outros membros da comunidade escolar como pais, alunos e parceiros, bem como estender a investigação para um número maior de escolas.This is the Master's Dissertation in Educational Administration and Management that addresses the topic of pedagogical innovation, with empirical analysis in public schools in the Brazilian Federal District, seeking to answer the following question: How does pedagogical innovation occur in Basic Education schools in the teaching in the Federal District? Its general objective is to analyze the implementation of innovative pedagogical projects in Basic Education in the Public Network of the Federal District. The work is initially structured with its general framework that allows the contextualization of the theme, research questions, objectives and its justification. In a second moment, the theoretical framework is carried out, with the discussion of constructs: traditional school, pedagogical innovation and pedagogical models, which support and support the fieldwork. The methodological path is described from a qualitative perspective of the investigation, considering that a document analysis of the Political-Pedagogical Projects of two public schools in the Federal District considered innovative by the Department of Education of the Federal District was carried out, and data was collected through interviews with the directors and pedagogical coordinator. The generated data were interpreted through content analysis. The results showed that the Political-Pedagogical Projects are the result of a collective construction that culminated in the election of school management to implement an innovative pedagogical model, structured from a learning community. The perception of the administrators points out that the process of implementing innovative pedagogical actions is at an advanced stage in both schools and that the pedagogical devices proposed in the project are implemented, for the most part, and present in everyday school life and organizational culture. The participation of social actors is effective in the decision-making process and there is a collective practice in strengthening the mission and values proposed for schools. It is concluded that the learning community is effective and that there have been considerable advances since the implementation of the new pedagogical model. For future research, there is a need to expand data collection with other members of the school community such as parents, students and partners, as well as extend the investigation to a larger number of schools

Picturing Mato Grosso: The Royal Society and Royal Geographic Society Xavantina Cachimbo expedition 1967-69

This thesis explores the archival collections linked to the Xavantina-Cachimbo expedition to Mato Grosso, Central Brazil, from 1967-69. It focuses primarily on the collection of the expedition leader, Iain Bishop, donated to the Royal Society by his family in 2008. Drawing on photographs, films, fieldwork notebooks, papers and published materials, the thesis examines the role of photography and film in expeditionary science in the mid-twentieth century using lens-based media as a tool to approach emergent issues in expeditionary science archival collections. Engaging with cataloguing for narrative recovery, embedded literature review and critical analysis, the thesis aims to investigate and understand fieldwork science paradigms in their complexity. In eight chapters, the thesis explores the blended association between imperialist and postcolonial ways of thinking in twentieth-century expeditionary science; the intersections between the autobiographical and institutional in the archive; the boundaries between private and public, domestic, and wild; the balances between marginal and dominant narrative-making; and the blended transitions between ways of publicising and communicating expeditionary science in the mid-twentieth century. The geographical location of base camp, situated in the cerrado, the ecological border between dry forest and campo, a dramatic-looking shift between arboreal and savanna ecosystems, is employed as a useful metaphor for the findings of this research project: using the research areas above as navigation guidelines, I explore and highlight borders and boundaries as a consistent theme which emerges through the collection. Finally, this thesis invites a mission to further uncover the collective nature of expeditionary fieldwork, making visible the work of marginal collaborators, and presenting the argument that the second half of the twentieth century saw a transitional and blended approach to thinking about and communicating fieldwork and expeditionary science, from scientific institutions, the media, and scientists themselves. The thesis further concludes that, at this time, borders, and boundaries between previously established social and scientific canons began to blur and productively collapse

O desenho do movimento : uma arquitetura que dança

Dissertação de mestrado em ArquitecturaO objeto de estudo é a Arquitetura enquanto expressão do desenho do movimento, tomando a Dança como fator que determina esse mesmo desenho. O estudo deste objeto dará lugar a um ensaio projetual baseado numa Arquitetura que, apesar de estática, terá a sua essência no movimento. O estudo e o desenvolvimento de uma arquitetura para a dança, resultou da necessidade destes espaços darem resposta às exigências corporais e cinestésicas de um bailarino que, ao experienciar e utilizar um determinado espaço, contribui para a sua configuração, desenho e construção. O objetivo é procurar uma intenção arquitetónica capaz de trabalhar o movimento desde o exterior ao interior dos edifícios, ordenando o espaço, através de espaços de circulação instruídos por princípios de continuidade, partindo do movimento e do repouso enquanto momentos complementares que se associam. O desenho dos espaços deverá construir uma intenção clara e inequívoca de como os edifícios devem ser recebidos e utilizador por corpos em deslocamento. Assim, o edifício procura transmitir a sensação de uma experiência espacial dinâmica, projetando esquemas e lógicas espaciais capazes de estimular e desencadear situações possíveis de movimento.The object of study is Architecture as an expression of movement design, taking Dance as a factor that determines this same design. The study of this object will involve a design test based on an Architecture that, despite being static, will have its essence in movement. The study and development of an architecture for dance, determined by the need for these spaces to respond to the bodily and kinaesthetic demands of a dancer who, by experiencing and using a given space, contributes to its configuration, design and construction. The objective is to seek an architectural intention capable of working on movement from the exterior to the interior of buildings, ordering the space, through circulation spaces instructed by principles of continuity, starting from movement and protection as complementary moments that are associated. The design of spaces must build a clear and unambiguous intention of how buildings should be received by the user by moving bodies. Thus, the building seeks to convey the sensation of a dynamic spatial experience, designing spatial schemes and logics capable of stimulating and triggering possible movement situations

Creative Exchange 'Mapping Emergence' In Progress Report

This report highlights the progress and current outputs of the funded Creative Exchange collaborative research project 'Mapping Emergence'. This art / science collaboration set out to conduct an experimental creative exchange with social insects, mapping their colonies’ emergent properties. During 2023 the project evaluated the meaning of ‘creative exchange’ from a non-anthropocentric perspective, and indeed to consider the boundaries of human | non-human collaboration

The Living Image: Falmouth Flexible Photography Symposium 2019

Whenever the photograph is shared it casts out a limb and clings to a new current of significance. While there may still be territories where its liberties are curtailed, there are many more where it thrives rampantly, and even threatens indigenous imagery. The goal is survival and it will shift, expand, transfigure, and even shed its glassy skin to keep it that way. As far as we know, there is no limit to what it can do, and we are way out of our depth if we think ourselves risk-free. If there is a so-called 'sea of images,' then we would do well to remember that there must also be a food-chain

Bagaza virus in wild birds, Portugal, 2021

Bagaza virus emerged in Spain in 2010 and was not reported in other countries in Europe until 2021, when the virus was detected by molecular methods in a corn bunting and several red-legged partridges in Portugal. Sequencing revealed high similarity between the 2021 strains from Portugal and the 2010 strains from Spain.Peer reviewe