Citizenship in action 1.

Ciudadanía es un tema nuevo en el curriculo nacional inglés para los estudiantes de las etapas 3 y 4 (Key stage 3 y 4). Este texto cumple con los objetivos del Programa de estudio de Ciudadanía que es desarrollar los conocimientos y habilidades que se necesitan en el siglo XXI para convertirse en un miembro informado, responsable y activo de la comunidad local, nacional y mundial. Para ayudar a entender las cuestiones importantes de esta materia, cada capítulo incluye actividades, preguntas sobre temas clave, definiciones de términos y un resumen.

Citizenship in action 2.

Ciudadanía es un tema nuevo en el curriculo nacional inglés para los estudiantes de las etapas 3 y 4 (Key stage 3 y 4). Este texto cumple con los objetivos del Programa de estudio de Ciudadanía que es desarrollar los conocimientos y habilidades que se necesitan en el siglo XXI para convertirse en un miembro informado, responsable y activo de la comunidad local, nacional y mundial. Para ayudar a entender las cuestiones importantes de esta materia, cada capítulo incluye actividades, preguntas sobre temas clave, definiciones de términos y un resumen.

ICT in action. Ages 7-9.

Cumple con los requisitos del plan de estudios para las Tecnologías en Información y Comunicación de la etapa 2 (Key stage 2). Ofrece actividades para aprender y practicar no solo las habilidades de las TIC sino también las relacionadas con otras áreas del curriculum. Proporciona a los profesores instrucciones para crear su propio material con el software estándar de la mayoría de los ordenadores. Sus secciones incluyen entre otras: asociación de texto y gráficos, correo electrónico y utilización de Microsoft PowerPoint; así como guías para los profesores sobre el manejo de archivos y ordenadores, salud y seguridad y la utilización de la Red para mejorar el aprendizaje.

ICT in action. Ages 9-11.

Cumple con los requisitos del plan de estudios para las Tecnologías en Información y Comunicación de la etapa 2 (Key stage 2). Ofrece actividades para aprender y practicar no solo las habilidades de las TIC sino también las relacionadas con otras áreas del curriculum. Proporciona a los profesores instrucciones para crear su propio material con el software estándar de la mayoría de los ordenadores. Sus secciones incluyen entre otras: una introducción a las hojas de cálculo, presentación multimedia, evaluación de información y el uso de Internet para buscar información; así como guías para los profesores sobre el manejo de archivos y ordenadores, salud y seguridad y la utilización de la Red para mejorar el aprendizaje.

The inclusive process of training in social museology: alternative museology in action in Carapateira, Portugal

Pierre Mayrand is a long-time member of ICTOP and founder of MINOM. He did graduate studies in Montreal and overseas, studying art history with a specialization in architecture and urban planning. In 1970, when the Université du Québec was founded, Pierre entered the teaching profession, participating (as director, professor, and researcher) in the setting up of programs in national heritage, museology and cultural development. He is still active in teaching and project development now as a altermuseologist.

Abrupt climate change: ice sheets and oceans in action

Large temperature variations on land, in the air, and at the ocean surface, and highly variable flux of ice-rafted debris (IRD) delivered to the North Atlantic Ocean show that rapid climate fluctuations took place during the last glacial period. These quasi-periodic, high-amplitude climate variations followed a sequence of events recognized as a rapid warming, followed by a phase of gradual cooling, and terminating with more rapid cooling and increased flux of IRD to the north Atlantic Ocean. Each cycle lasted ˜1500 years, and was followed by an almost identical sequence. These cycles are referred to as Dansgaard/Oechger cycles (D/O cycles), and approximately every fourth cycle culminated in a more pronounced cooling with a massive discharge of IRD into the north Atlantic Ocean over an interval of ˜500 years. These massive discharges of IRD are known as Heinrich layers. “Heinrich events” are thus characterized as a rapid transfer of IRD from a “source,” the bed of the Laurentide Ice Sheet (LIS), to a “sink,” the North Atlantic.

CAFS in action

For those few readers who do not know, CAFS is a system developed by ICL to search through data at speeds of several million characters per second. Its full name is Content Addressable File Store Information Search Processor, CAFS-ISP or CAFS for short. It is an intelligent hardware-based searching engine, currently available with both ICL's 2966 family of computers and the recently announced Series 39, operating within the VME environment. It uses content addressing techniques to perform fast searches of data or text stored on discs: almost all fields are equally accessible as search keys. Software in the mainframe generates a search task; the CAFS hardware performs the search, and returns the hit records to the mainframe. Because special hardware is used, the searching process is very much more efficient than searching performed by any software method. Various software interfaces are available which allow CAFS to be used in many different situations. CAFS can be used with existing systems without significant change. It can be used to make online enquiries of mainframe files or databases or directly from user written high level language programs. These interfaces are outlined in the body of the report.

The margin of appreciation, domestic irregularity and domestic court rulings in ECHR environmental jurisprudence: Global legal pluralism in action

Global legal pluralism is concerned, inter alia, with the growing multiplicity of normative legal orders and the ways in which these different orders intersect and are accommodated with one another. The different means used for accommodation will have a critical bearing on how individuals fare within them. This article examines the recent environmental jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights to explore some of the means of reaching an accommodation between national legal orders and the European Convention. Certain types of accommodation – such as the margin of appreciation given to states by the Court – are well known. In essence, such mechanisms of legal pluralism raise a presumptive barrier which generally works for the state and against the individual rights-bearer. However, the principal focus of the current article is on a less well-known, recent set of pluralistic devices employed by the Court, which typically operate presumptively in the other direction, in favour of the individual. First, the Court looks to instances of breaches of domestic environmental law (albeit not in isolation); and second, it places an emphasis on whether domestic courts have ruled against the relevant activity. Where domestic standards have been breached or national courts have ruled against the state, then, presumptive weight is typically shifted towards the individual.

Discourse in Action: Introducing Mediated Discourse Analysis

From emails relating to adoption over the Internet to discussions in the airline cockpit, the spoken or written texts we produce can have significant social consequences. The area of Mediated Discourse Analysis considers texts in their social and cultural contexts to explore the actions individuals take with texts - and the consequences of those actions. Discourse in Action: brings together leading scholars from around the world in the area of Mediated Discourse Analysis reveals ways in which its theory and methodology can be used in research into contemporary social situations explores real situations and draws on real data in each chapter shows how analysis of texts in their social contexts broadens our understanding of the real world. Taken together, the chapters provide a comprehensive overview to the field and present a range of current studies that address some of the most important questions facing students and researchers in linguistics, education, communication studies and other fields.

Representing violence, playing control: warring constructions of masculinity in Action Man toys

This chapter analyses how children, and especially boys, are constructed as ‘savage’ in relation to warlike toys and representations that narrate particular versions of conflict, such as war and terrorism. The chapter uses Action Man toys as a case study that is contextualized against a wider background of other toys, television programmes and films. Action Man is most familiar as a twelve-inch costumed toy figure, but the brand also extends into related media representations such as television programmes, comics and advertising. The chapter focuses increasingly on the specifics of Action Man representations produced from the 1960s to the 1990s, prefacing this detailed discussion with some examples of transmedia texts aimed at children in film and television. This chapter suggests that making the toy a central object of analysis allows for insights into representations of the gendered body that are particularly useful for work on the child-savage analogy. Some of the cultural meanings of war toys, warlike play and representations of war that can be analysed from this perspective include their role in the construction of masculine identity, their representation of particular wars and warlikeness in general, and their relationship to consumer society. This complex of meanings exhibits many of the contradictions that inhabit the construction of ‘the child’ in general, such as that the often extreme masculinity of war toys and games is countered by an aesthetic of spatial disposition, collecting and sometimes nurturing that is more conventionally feminine. Such inter-dependent but apparently opposed meanings can also be seen in the construction of the child as untainted by adult corruption yet also savage, or as in need of adult guidance yet also offering a model of innocence and purity that adults are expected to admire.