Developing Self-regulation

Abstract This research seeks to determine if children can develop self-regulation through games and activities in early childhood. This research was completed over six weeks in a classroom of three- to six-year-old students in a Montessori school. The researcher presented weekly games to the students to develop self-regulation skills such as listening, following directions, and body awareness. The researcher completed student surveys using qualitative and quantitative data from teacher observations to support their findings. The research found that games and activities can develop self-regulation skills in young children, lead to positive self-regulation behavior, decrease negative regulation skills, and increase self-awareness

Blindness, Confession, and Re-membering in Gower\u27s Confessio

Much scholarship on Gower’s Confessio Amantis has focused on the poem’s assertion that poetic narration, represented by Amans’ ongoing confession, has the ability to restore the fragmentary natures of social and spiritual bodies. Surprisingly, the role that the (dis)abled body plays in the poem’s struggle with fragmentation and integration has been ignored. By focusing on the poem’s representation of blindness in the tales of Medusa and Constance, I will demonstrate that the formal structure and thematic explorations of the Confessio, in fact, rely upon the (dis)abled body and its inextricable relationship to narration. Indeed, it is Amans’ disabling illness that inaugurates the poem and provides Gower with the vehicle through which to critique the fractured body politic of fourteenth-century England, and it is only through the act of narration that both bodies may be “cured.” Using modern and medieval disability scholarship, this paper will posit that the poem’s reliance on a topos of disability that creates a “problem” that the poem must then attempt to unify. In particular, the poem fixates on blindness, linking physical and metaphorical blindness to sin, and thus division, and its cure to unification. In the Confessio, this cure is contingent upon the act of confession, of providing a story that unifies the “trouble” of the deviant body. As a result, Gower asserts the poet as the rememberer and re-memberer of bodies spiritual, social, and physical

Letter from C. VandeVenter to Thomas Mather, June 4, 1825

Letter from C. VandeVenter to Thomas Mather, June 4, 1825. VandeVenter provides information about Mather\u27s commission

Letter from C. VandeVenter to George Sibley & Benjamin Reeves, August 6, 1825

Transcript of Letter from C. VandeVenter to George Sibley & Benjamin Reeves, August 6, 1825. VandeVenter tells to commissioners wait for approval before crossing the US/Mexican border

Rhizomatic Assemblage: A diffractive ethnography on the geographical constitutiveness of organising

This thesis contributes to a narrative about the interwovenness of the sociomaterial world. To do so, I propose a new way of thinking about the collective activities that form a fundamental part of our lives: namely, I argue that organising is geographically constituted. Taking issue with existing engagements in organisation studies with geography and pointing to the lively debates about space, place, scale and territory in human geography, I draw these together by arguing for the geographical constitutiveness of organising as a conceptual framework at the intersection of these two fields. This framework incorporates a processual, relational, and sociomaterial view of the world. Further, by plugging in (Jackson and Mazzei, 2012) the notion of rhizome to assemblage, I suggest that ‘rhizomatic assemblage’ serves as a useful metaphorical tool for thinking at this intersection. Building from this, the research question that this thesis seeks to answer is: How can collective activities of organising be understood as geographically constituted? To respond to this question, a methodological argument draws on new materialism and Barad’s (2007) ‘agential realism’ in favour of a diffractive ethnographic approach (Gullion, 2018), in which ‘agential cuts’ implicate the researcher’s ethics and ways of knowing with the phenomena that exist in the world. Diffractive considerations of my subjectivity as researcher and my values inform whyhe focus of empirical fieldwork was on a particular rhizomatic assemblage: the Redbricks, a housing estate in Hulme, Manchester. Findings from the fieldwork are discussed in terms of four agential cuts to the rhizomatic assemblage: genealogising, shaping, cultivating and geometabolising. Each provokes a new perspective about how collective activities on the Redbricks are geographically constituted, and how organising is a geographical accomplishment. Throughout, collective activities on the estate are (re)considered as a rhizomatic assemblage: as consequential unfoldings of geographically constituted collective activities of organising also imbued with potentiality. Thus, this thesis enlivens a narrative about the sociomaterial becomings-together that give meaning to our lives, and suggests ways that such activities should be encouraged

The transformative potential of everyday life: shared space, togetherness, and everyday degrowth in housing

This paper proposes that everyday life in housing contains the possibility to shape and transform its material, cultural, and social conditions. Mobilizing a materialist ontology and insights from human geography, we examine how shared spaces manifest practices of togetherness which prefigure the enactment of socioecological degrowth. We draw on ethnographic fieldwork on a housing estate in Manchester (UK) to identify practices that characterize everyday housing geographies, including reappropriation, commoning, accepting limits, and territorializing tendencies. These constitute a therapeutic assemblage, facilitating wellbeing while simultaneously enfolded with(in) the political possibilities being realized on the estate to form a contingent, yet durable, instantiation of everyday degrowth. We thus contribute to revealing how transformative degrowth politics are sustained in everyday housing contexts