scholarly journals A Girl Activist Inventory

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. v-vi
Author(s):  
Claudia Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Young Women ◽  
Women Activists ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Northern Ontario ◽  
Feminist History ◽  
University Of British Columbia ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

In March 2019, I had the pleasure of giving a talk at Peter Green College at the University of British Columbia that I called “The Politics and Possibilities of Girl-led and Youth-led Arts-based Activism to Address Gender Violence.” I wanted to highlight in particular the activist work of numerous groups of Indigenous girls and young women in a current project and the youth AIDS activist work of the Fire and Hope project in South Africa but I also wanted to place this work in the context of girls’ activism and youth activism more broadly. To do this I started out with a short activity called “Know your Girl Activist” during which I showed PowerPoint photos of some key girl and young women activists of the last few years, and asked the audience if they could identify them. The activists included two Nobel Prize Peace Prize winners, Malala Yousafzai (2014) and Nadia Murad (2018) along with Autumn Pelletier, the young Indigenous woman from Northern Ontario, Canada, well known for her work on water activism, and, of course, Greta Thunberg, now a household name but then, in 2019, already well known for her work on climate change activism. To my surprise only some of these activists were recognized, so, during the Q and A session, when I was asked if there is a history of girls as activists I could see that this question indicated clearly the urgent need for this special issue of Girlhood Studies which was only just in process then. Now, thanks to the dedication of the two guest editors of this special issue, Catherine Vanner and Anuradha Dugal and the wide range of superb contributors, I can point confidently to girls’ activism as a burgeoning area of study in contemporary feminism rooted in feminist history.

scholarly journals The future of the history of the human sciences

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-8
Author(s):  
Chris Renwick
Keyword(s):  
Human Sciences ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Future ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

This special issue is the product of a conference, The Future of the History of the Human Sciences, which was held at the University of York in April 2016. The meeting brought together scholars from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds and at various stages of their careers to reflect on what were identified as major challenges and opportunities for the research that History of the Human Sciences publishes. The articles included here are a sample of the responses that were generated and contain reflections on not only the boundaries of history of the human sciences research but also the methods used within the discipline. As this introduction explains, the overall aim of the conference was to explore these questions in order to think about both future directions for research and ways in which we can ensure the field remains dynamic and vital.

scholarly journals Faculty Teaching Practices and Perceptions: Comparative Analysis Based on Time Spent Lecturing

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 27-44
Author(s):  
Gulnur Birol ◽  
Adriana Briseño-Garzón ◽  
Andrea Han
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Response Patterns ◽  
University Of British Columbia ◽  
Faculty Teaching ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Baseline Information ◽  
Survey Responses ◽  
The University ◽  
Classroom Time ◽  
Large Research

The University of British Columbia-Vancouver (UBC-V) implemented a campus-wide survey of faculty teaching practices and perceptions. All 11 Faculties participated, resulting in a total of 1177 responses for an overall response rate of 24%. We compared response patterns of faculty who reported spending less than 25%, between 26-50%, between 51-75%, and more than 75% of classroom time lecturing. Using this breakdown, we analysed survey responses related to in and out-of-class practices and expectations for students, use of teaching assistant time, participation in professional development opportunities, and perceptions of whether the institution valued teaching. Participants across quadrants reported employing a wide range of teaching methods irrespective of years of experience and class size. Our findings outline the range of teaching practices employed by faculty at a large research-intensive Canadian institution and may provide baseline information for institutions of similar scale and focus.

Editorial

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-4
Keyword(s):  
Gifted Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
World Health ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
University Of Georgia ◽  
University Of British Columbia ◽  
Australasian Journal ◽  
University Of Arizona ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
The University

Welcome to the second issue of the Australasian Journal of Gifted Education for 2021. I am proud to introduce this issue of the journal, which is a special issue of the work of Professor Emerita C. June Maker and her colleagues on the fidelity of implementation of the Real Engagement in Active Problem Solving (REAPS) model. All four studies that form a part of the special issue were undertaken with Australian participants. The institutions that the authors of the articles represent include the University of Arizona, the University of Georgia, the University of British Columbia, the World Health Organization, and the Vail Unified School District in the United States.

The Colonial Experience in Education: Historical Issues and Perspectives. Edited by ANTONIO NÓVOA, MARC DEPAEPE, ERWIN V. JOHANNINGMEIER. (Pedagogica Historica: Supplementary Series, Vol. 1.) Gent: CSHP, 1995. Pp. 382. Belg. Fr. 1200 (ISSN 0030-9230; ISBN 90-800947-3-6).

1997 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-177
Author(s):  
JOHN D. HARGREAVES
Keyword(s):  
History Of Education ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
International Conference ◽  
Supplementary Series ◽  
Colonial Experience ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
Historical Issues ◽  
Selection Of

This special issue of Pedagogica Historica, a journal published from the University of Gent, presents a selection of eighteen papers from an international conference on the history of education held in Lisbon in 1993. The texts are in English and French, although there are no contributors from France or Britain. The contributions deal with general themes and European backgrounds as well as colonial experience. Six which relate to Africa will be briefly described here.

scholarly journals Introduction: special issue on the economics of climate change and sustainability (Part A)

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 555-559
Author(s):  
Elettra Agliardi ◽  
Marco Casari ◽  
Anastasios Xepapadeas
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
International Workshop ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Location Decisions ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Subsequent Issue ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Experimental Approaches ◽  
Economics Department ◽  
The University

AbstractClimate change is one of the most significant and complex challenges facing the world's economies. The necessity to enlarge the knowledge base regarding climate change and its impacts and to design efficient policies is widely accepted by the scientific community, the decision makers and the general public. This special issue, which will be published in two parts in the current and subsequent issue of Environment and Development Economics, is a selection of papers related to the topic of the international workshop on ‘The Economics of Climate Change and Sustainability’ organized by the Economics Department of the University of Bologna in April 2018. The papers in this special issue cover a wide range of climate-change-related topics, which include endogenous growth and overlapping generation models; climate-related financing and green bonds; demographics; location decisions; technology diffusion; quantitative relationships and experimental approaches. We hope that this special issue will provide some new insights into the economics of climate change and help to identify new directions for future research.

scholarly journals Special issue on Aspects of OV and VO order in the history of English

2005 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANN TAYLOR ◽  
WIM VAN DER WURFF
Keyword(s):  
Large Body ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Diachronic Syntax ◽  
University Of Leiden ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
English Syntax ◽  
The University ◽  
Recent Monograph ◽  
Detailed Picture

Whether judged by the amount of intrinsic interest, the number of knock-on effects, or the sheer volume of scholarly work devoted to it, it seems safe to say that one of the major issues in English historical syntax is the shift from object–verb (OV) to verb–object (VO) order. Over the last three decades in particular, a large body of literature has grown up that has resulted in an increasingly detailed picture of this change. No doubt in part because the recent introduction of electronic corpora has provided a boost to data-oriented work, the popularity of this change shows no imminent signs of abating. Evidence for the continuing popularity of this topic was demonstrated at two conferences held at the University of Leiden Centre for Linguistics in 2003 (the second Holland–York Symposium on the History of English Syntax in April 2003, and the Conference on Comparative Diachronic Syntax in August 2003). Although neither of the meetings had the shift from OV to VO in English as a special theme, the conference programmes together included no fewer than eight papers on the topic. Seven of these can be found in this special issue, which aims to illuminate selected aspects of the alternation between OV and VO order in the history of English; the collection of articles is rounded off by a review of a recent monograph on the subject.

scholarly journals Glasgow encounters with tropical diseases

Parasitology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 144 (12) ◽  
pp. 1561-1566
Author(s):  
FRANCIS E. G. COX
Keyword(s):  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
Sleeping Sickness ◽  
Parasitic Diseases ◽  
Tropical Diseases ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
African Sleeping Sickness ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
The Tropics

SUMMARYThe period 1875–1925 was remarkable in the history of parasitology mainly for the elucidation of the life cycles of parasites causing important parasitic diseases and the incrimination of vectors in their transmission. These discoveries were made by a small number of scientists working in the tropics a number of whom were Scots. Sir Patrick Manson, the discoverer of the mosquito transmission of filarial worms, was instrumental in directly or indirectly encouraging other Scots including Douglas Argyll-Robertson, David Blacklock, David Bruce, David Cunningham, Robert Leiper, William Leishman, George Low, Muriel Robertson and Ronald Ross, who all made significant discoveries across a wide spectrum of tropical diseases. Among these, William Leishman, Robert Leiper and Muriel Robertson were all graduates of the University of Glasgow and their achievements in the fields of leishmaniasis, schistosomiasis, dracunculiasis and African sleeping sickness, together with subsequent developments in these fields, are the subjects of the ten papers in this Special Issue of Parasitology.

Preschools for Science: The Child Study Centre at the University of British Columbia, 1960–1997

2012 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Penney Clark ◽  
Mona Gleason ◽  
Stephen Petrina
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Canadian Universities ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
University Of British Columbia ◽  
Child Study ◽  
Study Centre ◽  
History Of ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The University

Although not entirely neglected, the history of preschool reform and child study in Canada is understudied. Historians have documented the fate of “progressivism” in Canadian schooling through the 1930s along with postwar reforms that shaped the school system through the 1960s. But there are few case studies of child study centers and laboratory schools in Canada, despite their popularity in the latter half of the twentieth century. Histories of child study and child development tend to focus on the well-known Institute of Child Study directed by the renowned William E. Blatz in the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto (U of T). Yet there were over twenty other child study centers established in Canadian universities during the 1960s and 1970s directed by little-known figures such as Alice Borden and Grace Bredin at the University of British Columbia (UBC).

scholarly journals Introduction to the special issue on rehabilitation robotics

Robotica ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 485-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Hillman
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
Elderly Population ◽  
Medical Engineering ◽  
Rehabilitation Robotics ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Robotic Technology ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The University

This special issue of “Robotica” gives an opportunity to present a cross-section of the wide range of research and development projects in rehabilitation robotics. Rehabilitation Robotics (RR) is the application of robotic technology to the rehabilitative needs of people with disabilities as well as the growing elderly population. The papers were originally presented at the ICORR'97 conference, organised by the Bath Institute of Medical Engineering and held in April 97 at the University of Bath. ICORR'97 was the fifth in the series of International Conferences on Rehabilitation Robotics and, after a break of three years, was a welcome and overdue time for sharing of ideas between workers in the field.

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