The West, a Nest, and You

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The West, A Nest And You\u27

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When Mother Nature Sings Her Lullaby

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Reflectors, Converts and the Disengaged: A study of Undergraduate Architecture Students' Perceptions of Undertaking Learning Journals

The benefits of encouraging students to reflect on their learning are widely extolled, since reflection aids learners in understanding new information and forming new conceptions. Learning journals are used in a number of schools of architecture as a means to promote awareness of the design process, through encouraging students to reflect on their learning experiences. This paper outlines the findings of a small scale research project, looking at students’ perceptions of the use of learning journals within a school of architecture and sets out to identify the subsequent learning approaches and attitudes that they adopt. The research identified three possible attitudes towards journal keeping held by students: natural; convert and disengaged. Natural types were pre-disposed towards keeping learning journals and found them beneficial. Convert types were initially sceptical about the use of learning journals, but through their use became more convinced. The disengaged students showed misconceptions of the purpose and potential benefit of the learning journal and did not find them to be beneficial. The research highlights the importance of how staff implement learning journal projects and support students in developing the confidence and ability to reflect

Norden, reframed

This paper calls for Norden to be understood as a metaframe. Related formulations like “Nordic art” or “Nordic welfare” function as mesoframes. These trigger multiple framing devices. A cache of related framing devices constitutes a framing archive. Framing devices work best when operating unobtrusively such that inclusions, exclusions and inconsistencies are condoned or naturalised. Their artifice, however, becomes apparent whenever a frame is questioned. Questioning or criticising a frame gives rise to a framing dispute. The theoretical justification for these typologies is provided at the outset. This schema is then applied to a select range of empirical examples drawn largely from the disciplinary frames (Ernst 1996) of art history and museum studies. Despite this specificity it is envisaged that the general principles set out below can and will be used to address a variety of devices, disputes and archives in Norden and beyond

I Love You

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