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Pattern Research Project: An Investigation of The Pattern And Printing Process - Fruit Tree
2018 Pattern Research Project
Caitlin Sammons ā Fruit Tree
The Pattern Research Project involves research and analysis of contemporary patterns found in the textiles and wallcoverings of the built interior environment. Patterns use motif, repetition, color, geometry, craft, technology, and space to communicate place, time, and concept. Through this research and analysis, built environments - their designers, occupants, construction, and context - can be better understood.
Caitlin Sammons, VCU Interior Design BFA 2021, selected the Fruit Tree pattern for the 2018 Pattern Research Project. The text below is excerpted from the studentās work:
āThis textile, made in 1961, was heavily influenced by the 1960ās op art, color and geometry movement. As Girard started to build the pattern, he played with multiple iterations beginning with shapes and geometry, then studies shadows, then colors and finally develops different iterations of his final studies put together. In this iteration of the motif the colors used are grays, red, yellows, and greens. During this time period these colors were very prominent. The op art movement brought symmetry and color inspire an illusion of movement or three dimensions. The branches on top of the fruit imply dimension through layering and they lead the eye around every fruit (the shapes) that implies a vertical linear pattern gridding for the repetition.āhttps://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/prp/1024/thumbnail.jp
Investigating Educational Change: The Aga Khan University Institute For Educational Development Teacher Education For School Improvement Model
This article continues the analyses of the impact of an innovative teacher education programme aimed at school improvement in a developing country context (Khamis and Sammons 2004). Building on recent publications that have analysed outcomes of the teacher education programme and how the cadre of teacher educators has worked to initiate improvement in schools in Pakistan, the article considers the āTeacher Education for School Improvement Modelā based on findings from nine co-operating school case studies. Lessons are presented to further inform the development of teacher education programmes and the measurement of effectiveness of such programmes in developing country contexts. The article further considers relevant international research on educational change and reform to draw further lessons. These lessons include the need to pay greater attention to the cultural contexts and milieu in Pakistan, and the need to create models of school improvement and teacher education that originate within developing country contexts rather than the adaptation of European/North American models that are based on sources of data in those contexts. The article concludes by arguing for the need to develop better theoretical understandings from the current innovations underway and placing the onus on intervening agencies to better inform educational change strategies promoted in developing country contexts
Development of a cadre of teacher educators: some lessons from Pakistan
This article is based on an educational innovation, the creation of a cadre of teacher educators, in the developing world. Professional Development Teachers were trained in an in-service two-year teacher education programme leading to a Masters of Education Degree. The Professional Development Teachers were expected to play three roles in their home schools upon completion of the Degree Programme: (a) Exemplary Teachers; (b) Teacher Educators; and (c) Change Agents within their home schools to effect improvement
Effect of Aquathol K Treatments on Activity Patterns of Largemouth Bass in Two Coves of Lake Seminole, Georgia
Thirty largemouth bass (
Micropterus salmoide
s Lacepde)
were implanted with radio tags in late October 2003 in two
coves of Lake Seminole, Georgia, and tracked over a 24-hour
period about every 10 days to determine their response to
herbicide application. After five weeks of tracking, hydrilla
(
Hydrilla verticillata
Royle) in each cove was treated in early
December 2003 with dipotassium salt of endothall (Aquathol
K; 7-oxabicyclo [2.2.1] heptane-2,3-dicarboxylic acid) at a
rate of 3.5 ppm. Largemouth bass were tracked during application
and tracking continued for three months post treatment
to assess effects of herbicide treatment on activity
patterns. The treatment in Desser Cove successfully reduced
hydrilla in approximately half the cove. However, the treatment
in Peacock Lake completely eliminated all submersed
aquatic vegetation (SAV) by April 2004. Movement and activity
centers remained similar between treatment periods in
Desser Cove, but increased after treatment in Peacock Lake.
Depth occupied by telemetered fish decreased after
Aquathol K treatment in both coves. In general, behavior of
largemouth bass did not change appreciably during treatment,
and only minor changes were observed in the posttreatment
period in Peacock Lake, where all SAV was eliminated.
Fish showed little attraction to or movement away
from treatment areas, and fish migration from either cove
was nil after treatment. Application of Aquathol K and subsequent
reduction of SAV had little effect on largemouth bass
behavior or movement. (PDF has 8 pages.
The Law\u27s Mystery
What is the continuing significance of Cohen v. California, the 1971 U.S. Supreme Court decision holding that āFuck the Draftā is a message protected by the First Amendment? Using Cohen as an exemplar, this article offers a new theory about how to understand the law and judicial opinions.
The theory begins in a recognition of the ālawā as resting upon mystery and uncertainty, a mystery that is also the source of the lawās enchantment. It is this enchantment that we depend upon for the law to be authoritative rather than authoritarian and reducible to the political and thus to power. In simple terms, the mystery of the lawāits being beyond us in this wayāconstitutes its legitimate authority over us. The law that discloses itself to us does so through the openings that language provides. For our culture, judicial opinions are its primary way of doing this.
Having introduced the theory, the article applies it, exploring whether it is possible to bring to the surface the tracings of a āgreatā judicial performance, using āgreatā in the sense of revealing an opening through which the law discloses itself. This section describes a reading of Cohen that aims to discover whether through the performance of the opinion, its author has uncovered something that is āof the essenceā of our community.
The article finally raises questions about what it would mean to legal education and law practice if judicial opinions were evaluated without destroying the lawās mystery. What would it mean if we thought of judges as preservers of this mystery? What would it mean if readers of opinions started thinking in terms of their own experience of the opinion rather than as critics of it? And what would it mean if lawyers saw their task as related to ātruthā
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This brief paper reports findings from a two-year research project, funded by the ESRC, which identified, described and analyzed variation in effective primary and secondary school teachersā classroom practice. The study also explored these practices in relation to different school contexts and teachersā professional life phases in order to draw out relevant implications for policy and practice
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