Aproximació històrica a l'educació especial a Catalunya: l'educació institucionalitzada en centres d'educació especial a les comarques de Girona (1873-1997)

Aquesta Tesi Doctoral se situa en l'àmbit dels estudis històrico-educatius. S'estructura a partir d'una aproximació a la història de l'educació especial de les persones amb discapacitat i contextualitzada a partir de l'educació institucionalitzada en centres d'educació especial, a les comarques de Girona, durant el període de 1873 fins a 1997. El primer centre es va crear el 1873. Li seguiran, molts més anys més tard, altres iniciatives que sorgeixen a través de l'impuls de professionals i associacions de pares. L'Església participarà a través dels seus mossens i ordes religioses en la creació d'alguns d'aquests centres. L'administració educativa també assumirà un important paper en la creació, manteniment i consolidació dels centres. Aportem un important estudi sobre la legislació que va aparèixer al llarg d'aquest període. El punt final, el situem el 1997, a partir de la publicació per part del Department d'Ensenyament, del Decret 299/1997, de 25 de novembre, sobre l'atenció educativa a l'alumnat amb NEE.

Stephen Martin Leake: a Victorian's view of the Common Law

This article considers the life and work of Stephen Martin Leake and seeks to locate his work within the wider context of the procedural and substantive transformation of the mid-to-late Victorian legal world. In particular, the article attempts to rescue Leake from obscurity and emphasise his importance in this process. It is argued that Leake’s work began the process whereby common lawyers conceived of their law as organised in a principled rather than procedural manner. Later common law jurists built upon this work. Consideration is also given to the philosophical and jurisprudential sources upon which Leake drew in constructing his treatises.

Earl of Aylesford v Morris (1873)

A Characteristic of a landmark case is that it stands for a proposition of law. In Earl of Aylesford v Morris,1 Lord Selborne held that where there existed an inequality between contracting parties, with weakness on one side and an extortionate advantage taken of that weakness on the other, the contract could not stand unless the party claiming the benefit of the contract could rebut the presumption by establishing that the transaction was ‘fair, just and reasonable’. This chapter examines the historical circumstances behind the formulation of this proposition.

The Stephen Dwoskin dossier: introduction

This dossier aims to consider the contribution Stephen Dwoskin and his work made to the development of film and its infrastructure in the UK from 1964 when he arrived in the London until his death in 2012. Dwoskin not only straddled different contexts and ideologies about film but advocated for the support of work in a wide variety of forms. Because of this he was not easily categorizeable. Much of the work analyzing his camera work and his contribution to film is written in French and there is little, particularly in recent years, in English. As such this dossier constituted an important contribution to the reassessment of a singular avant-garde artist and film maker. (can I use avant garde here?) In the light of his recent death this is a timely moment for a consideration of Dwoskin’s achievements and legacy. As well as having a groundbreaking vision of what film could do, he was an influential figure and constituting force in terms of the milieu and structures that supported the independent film world in the UK for several decades. Much of the literature surrounding this world in the UK has been formed by key figures making sense of their part in history. This dossier aims towards some first steps in historicising his legacy. Two of the proposed texts will be making use of new material to conduct original research made available through the recently acquired Dwoskin Archive at University of Reading. Due to Dowksin’s heterogenous involvement in film, there are many ways in which Dwoskin can be considered and the proposed essays will take a range of perspectives to assess and analyse his contribution.

A Reading by Tapscott Stephen

A reading delivered at Colby College on January 1, 1981.

A Reading by Stephen Tapscott

A reading delivered at Colby College on January 1, 1981.