The genesis of the Pauline mission

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston Universit

The Other Side

Group Exhibitio

Formación permanente del docente de inglés: una experiencia exitosa en Costa Rica

El artículo presenta el desarrollo y análisis de los resultados de un proyecto de capacitación dirigido a los docentes de inglés en servicio del Ministerio de Educación Pública de Costa Rica (MEP). El proyecto fue coordinado y ejecutado del año 2008 al 2011, bajo la responsabilidad de una comisión representada por las cuatro universidades públicas de Costa Rica y un representante del Ministerio de Educación Pública. La implementación de la capacitación, como un proceso continuo, muestra la importancia, la necesidad y el impacto que tiene la formación permanente en el desarrollo profesional de los docentes en la enseñanza del inglés, como idioma extranjero. Los datos presentan el panorama de Costa Rica en relación con el dominio lingüístico, de los docentes del área del inglés. Dichos datos son recogidos antes y después de un proceso aproximado de 350 horas de actualización en el área antes mencionada. La ejecución del proyecto representa un cambio en las estructuras organizacionales en lo que respecta a la actualización profesional

The Signature Quilt

Comissioned by Beacon as a response to The Manor Farmhouse at Helpringham, The Signature Quilt consisted of a temporary installation and a A1 printed publication consisting of image and text. It took as its subject the equivocal and shifting nature of ideas of home and community. Based around the image of a late 19th century signature quilt from Northern Ireland, an installation and text explore different inflections of how this kind of community might relate to the present. The two-part text interweaves an account of the history of the quilt with a history of the gradual, sporadic, and sometimes projected migration of the artist: from rural Northern Ireland through Manchester, New York, Newcastle and London. BEACON is a commissioning and exhibiting project that aims to establish new art and new artists in rural environments. Providing an opportunity for the residents of, and visitors to, Lincolnshire to see normally inaccessible heritage sites through innovative visual art activity in an area not well served by such art activity. Sense of place: place of sense was the theme for the 2005 BEACON project, a series of artworks were commissioned for heritage sites in Lincolnshire. Major Beacon commissions were awarded in the same year to Phyllida Barlow, Gerard Williams, Doug Fishbone, Simon Faithfull and Roxy Walsh The Text and image from The signature quilt have subsequently been re-published in TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING COMMUNITY, People and Places, Edited by Christopher J.Clay, Mary Madden and Laura Potts, published by Palgrave Macmillan 2007 ISBN 9780 230 54264

New Ethnicities and Language Use: Cultures of Hybridity in a Group of Adolescents of Mainly South Asian Descent in a London School in the Late 1990s

This thesis draws on anti-essentialist theorisations of ethnicity developed out of the British Cultural Studies tradition by authors such as Stuart Hall, Paul Gilroy and others. Of particular interest are the notions of `new ethnicities', `cultures of hybridity' and `diaspora'. These concepts are used as the basis for an empirical study attempting to show how they might be realised at the level of ordinary everyday life. The research informants are a group of 30 male and female adolescents (The Blackhill youth) of mainly South Asian descent in a secondary school in the western suburbs of London. The thesis, using a variety of methods including a survey questionnaire, written accounts, informant-made audio recordings and individual conversational interviews, elicits their representations of their patterns of language use. These facilitate discussion and analysis of a complex tapestry of ethnicities which embrace not only language use, but also religion and popular culture. This investigation also demonstrates that if the study of ethnicity shifts its focus from a dependence on the visual (what people look like), to the aural (what they sound like), there is a basis for new understandings of how `new ethnicities' might develop. The thesis suggests that rather than looking for a binary distinction between old and new ethnicities it might be more productive to look for a synthesis of residual, dominant and emergent elements in culture. This leads to a conclusion that the most important element in the `cultures of hybridity' of the Blackhill youth is their Britishness which is integrated in intricate ways with both traditional and contemporary modes of being South Asian. Thereby, the emergence of distinctive Brasian identities is signalled

Without

Without is a collaboration between Sally Underwood and Roxy Walsh. Their ongoing research explores how artworks co-habit gallery spaces, and how those spaces are inhabited by the bodies within it. Dwellings, small architectures, paintings and wall paintings are central to these explorations: artworks sited within other artworks. UnderwoodWalsh were invited by Karen Knorr and Daniel Blight to make a site specific installation for Chandelier Projects, housed in the studio of Karen Knorr in Hackney, for the spring of 2015. Following on from their installation at Art Exchange (See Outwith), a tree was central to this installation. Here, away from the parkland, a lone tree alongside a giant egg, a park bench not fit for sitting, and imagistic paintings (a figure, a dick-duck, a shadow in pink grass) alongside patches of architectural colour. An accompanying text was commissioned from Simon Clark. The finissage, on 16th May, also featured a poetry reading by Liz Berry and a performance by Simon Clark

On the Relationship Between North India Summer Monsoon Rainfall and East Equatorial Indian Ocean Warming

Generally, a strong north India summer-monsoon rainfall (NISR) is associated with anomalous upper troposphere ridge over northwest of India. This ridge triggers anomalous northerly winds over Tibetan Plateau and easterlies over India. The easterly anomaly over India reduces the tropospheric wind shear, while the northerly at Tibetan plateau allows frequent intrusions of high-latitude dry and cold meridional winds to interact with the lower-level relatively warm and moist easterly monsoonal flow, enhancing the NISR. The current study, using a suite of observations, reanalysis products and numerical model sensitivity experiments, explores the changes in NISR, and its association with the warming in the equatorial Indian Ocean. In the recent two decades (1996-2017), the NISR has been exhibiting a decreasing trend with increased variability, much larger than the earlier period (1979-2000). A possible reason for this is due to the rise in warm sea surface temperature (SST) observed in the east equatorial Indian ocean, which shows a negative correlation to NISR. The current analysis indicates that the warmer SST induce strong convection and associated northward propagating off-equatorial Rossby gyres to the west of the equatorial eastern Indian ocean, spreading the tropospheric heating towards the northeast of India, thereby elevating the geopotential height. This creates upper troposphere low pressure anomaly at the northwest of India. These factors are consistent with the suppression of the NISR, resulting in the observed decreasing trend in the recent decade