Picturing Currere : envisioning-experiences within learning

Currere reconceptualises curriculum as understanding learning experiences. This paper outlines potentials for pictures in re-envisioning currere for a world growing in complexity.Vision, as the privileged sense for acquiring knowledge, is often regarded deterministically - seeing is believing. But, as sophisticated technology becomes more significant in the control of knowledge systems - as \u27reality\u27 becomes more virtual - personal visual experiences are becoming harder to generate, interpret and authenticate. Knowledge technology is increasing exposure to \u27mediated messages\u27 and diminishing the ability to validate them. I see this as problematic for the authenticity of learning within a world that is intensifying in its complexity.My work reaches beyond determinist/technological views of learning to explore envisioning-experiences within learning. I am particularly interested in ways that enacting with pictures embodies individuals, communities, and the world within understandings of complexity and authenticity. In practical terms, this involves interactively and reflexively \u27doing pictures\u27 as a personal process in learning for deeper understanding.The paper explores three issues: * Text and pictures: learning, thinking, and knowing, as textual dominions that marginalise pictures. * Enactivism and learning: an approach to learning for complex communities that embodies mindful thinking within haptic experiences. * Enactive picturing: laying a personal processual path with learning that complexifies understandings for authenticating experiences - doing-walking-talking - with pictures.<br /

Spaces for knowledge generation. Final report

The Spaces for knowledge generation: a framework for designing student learning environments for the future project has been funded via an Australian Learning and Teaching Council Priority Projects Grant and aims to address the need to create learning spaces that are based on strong design principles, informed by student needs, with the aim of producing forward-looking, flexible and sustainable Learning Spaces. Integral to the process is fostering the adoption of teaching practices to support student-directed learning and knowledge production. Longer-term outcomes include strategic cultural change to university practices and physical changes to campuses to advance learning and teaching

Picturing Currere towards c u r a : rhizo-imaginary for curriculum

This critical inquiry in curriculum studies uses poststructuralist and Deleuzian rhizomatic approaches alongside an original \u27picturing\u27 methodology. The author genealogically maps historical and contemporary curriculum theorising to deconstruct curriculum \u27development\u27 and foreground currere (curriculum reconceptualising). In performing Deleuzian philosophy, his proposed c u r a reimagines curriculum via currere to envision generatively living-learnin

One Track - Many Paths: Toward a Critique of Educating for the Knowledge Economy

In this thesis the role of education and learning in the so-called knowledge economy is examined in the light of existing and emerging, essentially different ways of perceiving and understanding the world. The study finds evidence that education is becoming ideologically and practically central to the propagation and implementation of the knowledge economy. Educating for the knowledge economy concerns not only the preparation of ideal economic citizens, it is also regarded as a valuable economic commodity in its own right. My hypothesis, however, is that education and the knowledge economy, while claiming to afford global social transformation, remain grounded in the modern worldview that is being critically challenged by postmodern views and understandings of the world. This is not to say that a modern worldview is 'incorrect', rather, it is to say that there are postmodern alternatives to carefully consider. I distinguish 'postmodern' within three positions, each with a different perspective about knowledge: one is power-based, another anti-power-based, and yet another ecologically-based. I argue that there is a modern worldview and postmodern positions with different worldviews, giving rise to incommensurabilities between the respective understandings of the world each position has. To navigate between these understandings I have engaged with the theory of enactivism. Enactivism enfolds the exploring and performing of learning and teaching theories that embody ecological and complex postmodern characteristics. The many paths of variety and diversity these characteristics reveal are contrasted with modern educational characteristics, before each is compared to consider the merits, or otherwise, of going down the track of educating for the knowledge economy

Re/de/signing the world : postructuralism, deconstruction and \u27reality\u27 in outdoor/environmental education research

This paper examines rhetorical constructions of &lsquo;reality&rsquo; in selected outdoor/environmental education discourses-practices.1 Many outdoor/environmental educators privilege philosophical realism coupled with suspicion towards poststructuralism(s) and deconstruction. From a postlogographic position on language, we argue that producing texts is a method of inquiry, an experience and performance of semiosis-in-use as we sign (and de/sign) the world into existence. This re/de/signed world never represents the &lsquo;real&rsquo; world precisely or completely, and in this paper we explore and enact modes of textual (and extratextual) production that struggle to retain a poststructuralist skepticism towards representational claims without falling into antirealist language games. We focus in particular on Deleuzean concepts of &lsquo;rhizomatic&rsquo; inquiry and nomadic textuality as enabling dispositions for re/de/signing worlds in which realities and representations are mutually constitutive (rather than dialectically related).<br /

Tales from camp Wilde: queer(y)ing environmental education research

This paper questions the relative silence of queer theory and theorizing inenvironmental education research. We explore some possibilities for queering environmental education research by fabricating (and inviting colleagues to fabricate) stories of Camp Wilde, a fictional location that helps us to expose the facticity of the field&rsquo;s heteronormative constructedness. These stories suggest alternative ways of (re)presenting and (re)producing both the subjects/objects of our inquiries and our identities as researchers. The contributors draw on a variety of theoretical resources from art history, deconstruction, ecofeminism, literary criticism, popular cultural studies, and feminist poststructuralism to perform an orientation to environmental education research that we hope will never be arrested by its categorization as a &ldquo;new genre.&rdquo;<br /

The faint young Sun problem

For more than four decades, scientists have been trying to find an answer to one of the most fundamental questions in paleoclimatology, the `faint young Sun problem'. For the early Earth, models of stellar evolution predict a solar energy input to the climate system which is about 25% lower than today. This would result in a completely frozen world over the first two billion years in the history of our planet, if all other parameters controlling Earth's climate had been the same. Yet there is ample evidence for the presence of liquid surface water and even life in the Archean (3.8 to 2.5 billion years before present), so some effect (or effects) must have been compensating for the faint young Sun. A wide range of possible solutions have been suggested and explored during the last four decades, with most studies focusing on higher concentrations of atmospheric greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, methane or ammonia. All of these solutions present considerable difficulties, however, so the faint young Sun problem cannot be regarded as solved. Here I review research on the subject, including the latest suggestions for solutions of the faint young Sun problem and recent geochemical constraints on the composition of Earth's early atmosphere. Furthermore, I will outline the most promising directions for future research. In particular I would argue that both improved geochemical constraints on the state of the Archean climate system and numerical experiments with state-of-the-art climate models are required to finally assess what kept the oceans on the Archean Earth from freezing over completely.Comment: 32 pages, 8 figures. Invited review paper accepted for publication in Reviews of Geophysic

Acoustic and oceanographic observations and configuration information for the WHOI moorings from the SW06 experiment

This document describes data, sensors, and other useful information pertaining to the moorings that were deployed from the R/V Knorr from July 24th to August 4th, 2006 in support of the SW06 experiment. The SW06 experiment was a large, multi-disciplinary effort performed 100 miles east of the New Jersey coast. A total of 62 acoustic and oceanographic moorings were deployed and recovered. The moorings were deployed in a “T” geometry to create an along-shelf path along the 80 meter isobath and an across-shelf path starting at 600 meters depth and going shoreward to a depth of 60 meters. A cluster of moorings was placed at the intersection of the two paths to create a dense sensor-populated area to measure a 3-dimensional physical oceanography. Environmental moorings were deployed along both along-shelf and across-shelf paths to measure the physical oceanography along those paths. Moorings with acoustic sources were placed at the outer ends of the “T” to propagate various signals along these paths. Five single hydrophone receivers were positioned on the across shelf path and a vertical and horizontal hydrophone array was positioned at the intersection of the “T” to get receptions from all the acoustics assets that were used during SW06.Funding was provided by the Office of Naval Research under Contract No. N00014-04-1014

The future for sheep

In the 1960\u27s the sheep industry has been described as being at a crossroads. Serious concern has been expressed over the future of the entire industry. Declining numbers, competition from other meats and fabrics and low returns have all been cited as reasons for pessimism. But recent developments in product improvement and industrywide efforts to a~tack problems have given rise to a degree of cautious optimism about the future.https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/card_reports/1022/thumbnail.jp

High-risk mammographic parenchymal patterns and anthropometric measures: a case–control study

Mammographic parenchymal patterns are related to breast cancer risk and are also affected by anthropometric measure. We carried out a case–control study comprising 200 cases with high-risk (P2 and DY) mammographic parenchymal pattern and 200 controls with low-risk (N1 and P1) patterns in order to investigate the effect of body size and shape and breast size on mammographic patterns. Women in the highest quartile of body mass index (BMI) distribution were significantly less likely to have a high-risk pattern (odds ratio (OR) = 0.21, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.08–0.52, P-value for trend = 0.001) compared to those in the lowest quartile. Relative to women with a waist to hip ratio (WHR) of less than 0.75, the OR of having a high-risk pattern in women with a WHR greater than 0.80 was 0.30 (95% CI 0.14–0.63). Breast size as measured by cup size was significantly and negatively related to high-risk pattern. Our study indicates that both BMI and WHR are negatively associated with high-risk patterns. However, both phenomena are associated with increased risk of breast cancer in post-menopausal women. This negative confounding of two positive risk factors means that the effect of parenchymal patterns on risk will tend to be underestimated when not adjusted for BMI and WHR and vice versa. Thus we may have underestimated the importance of BMI and mammographic parenchymal patterns in the past. Further studies are needed to determine a measure of parenchymal density that is independent of anthropometric measures and breast size. © 1999 Cancer Research Campaig