Outline on Greenwich Village street

General note: Title and date provided by Bettye Lane.

Halloween parade in Greenwich Village

General note: Title provided by Bettye Lane.

‘Beijing bling’: creative details and consumer choices in contemporary China : an interview with Hung Huang

This edited interview with Hung Huang, CEO of China Interactive Media Group (CIMG), was conducted by Lucy Montgomery in Beijing on 12 August 2005. It was done as part of the ARC Discovery research project, Internationalising Creative Industries: China, the WTO and the Knowledge Economy, led by John Hartley. That project is investigating the development of creative industries in China by focusing on a number of creative services including fashion magazines. Huang’s group publishes five fashion magazines in China, including i-Look, Youth International (Qingnian Yizu), which is the Chinese edition of Seventeen (originally founded by TV-Guide mogul Walter Annenberg), and the Beijing and Shanghai versions of London’s Time Out. It also produces TV programs under the same media brands. The company is based in the stylish Bauhaus-designed former factory 798-Space in the district of Dashanzi, Beijing (see www.798space.com). Huang went to school in Greenwich Village and graduated from Vassar College in New York. She is the daughter of Zhang Hanzhi, who was Mao Zedong’s personal English teacher, and stepdaughter of Qiao Guanhua, Foreign Minister of China during the 1970s at the time of the Nixon visit. Her book My Abnormal Life sold 200,000 copies in China.

Making use of pedagogic models as reflective catalysts for investigating pedagogic practice

The notion of pedagogy for anyone in the teaching profession is innocuous. The term itself, is steeped in history but the details of the practice can be elusive. What does it mean for an academic to be embracing pedagogy? The problem is not limited to academics; most teachers baulk at the introduction of a pedagogic agenda and resist attempts to have them reflect on their classroom teaching practice, where ever that classroom might be constituted. This paper explores the application of a pedagogic model (Education Queensland, 2001) which was developed in the context of primary and secondary teaching and was part of a schooling agenda to improve pedagogy. As a teacher educator I introduced the model to classroom teachers (Hill, 2002) using an Appreciative Inquiry (Cooperrider and Srivastva 1987) model and at the same time applied the model to my own pedagogy as an academic. Despite being instigated as a model for classroom teachers, I found through my own practitioner investigation that the model was useful for exploring my own pedagogy as a university academic (Hill, 2007, 2008). Cooperrider, D.L. and Srivastva, S. (1987) Appreciative inquiry in organisational life, in Passmore, W. and Woodman, R. (Eds) Research in Organisational Changes and Development (Vol 1) Greenwich, CT: JAI Press. Pp 129-69 Education Queensland (2001) School Reform Longitudinal Study (QSRLS), Brisbane, Queensland Government. Hill, G. (2002, December ) Reflecting on professional practice with a cracked mirror: Productive Pedagogy experiences. Australian Association for Research in Education Conference. Brisbane, Australia. Hill, G. (2007) Making the assessment criteria explicit through writing feedback: A pedagogical approach to developing academic writing. International Journal of Pedagogies and Learning 3(1), 59-66. Hill, G. (2008) Supervising Practice Based Research. Studies in Learning, Evaluation, Innovation and Development, 5(4), 78-87

Constituting the teacher of reading in contemporary Australian literacy debates

This chapter documents the history of the National Inquiry into the Teaching of Literacy and the subsequent fate of the figure of the teacher, in terms of how the inquiry has acted to background the teacher and bring new figures into prominence. The classroom teacher is being moved out of a central role of authority in literacy education, in spite of claims about the importance of the teacher in parts of the report. Authority is now being placed in the figure of the scientific researcher who decides what the best techniques are, and develops diagnostic tools that the teacher must use in order to decide which of the techniques to apply. Specialist literacy teachers, well “trained”by these experts, are needed to ensure that teachers do what the experts recommend (evidence-based practice). Thus, the classroom literacy teacher becomes a cipher for applying expertly designed techniques and tests.

In search of Gustav: The story of the Lilienfeld (later Lynfield) family covering the last 200 years 1800-1920

This is the first of three books about the history of Geoffrey Lynfield's family. It is about four Lilienfeld brothers--Geoffrey Lynfield's grandfather and his brothers. They were born in the Jewish enclave of Marburg and ended up in South Africa when and where the first diamonds were discovered. The manuscript also includes photographs and documents.

Collaborative approaches to the management of e-learning (CAMEL)

A teaching and learning project funded by the Office of Learning, Enhancement, Access and Participation (LEAP) at the University of Greenwich.

Levantamento exploratório - reconhecimento de solos do Estado de Sergipe.

Este trabalho constitui o texto explicativo do levantamento dos solos do Estado de Sergipe, que abrange uma area de 21.994km2 e situa-se na Regiao Nordeste do Brasil, localizado entre os paralelos de 9 31'54" e 11 34'12" de latitude Sul e os meridianos de 36 11'20" de longitude a Oeste de Greenwich. O levantamento foi executado em nivel intermediario entre exploratorio e de reconhecimento, utilizando-se como bases o mapa topografico do Estado na escala 1:400.000 e foto-mosaicos nao controlados nas escalas de 1:100.000 e 1:80.000. Na zona umida costeira foram utilizadas tambem fotografias aereas verticais na escala de 1:60.000. No Estado de Sergipe prevalecem na zona costeira clima quente e umido; vegetacao florestal e cerrado; relevo plano, suave ondulado nosvales; sedimentos do Grupo Barreiras-Terciario, do Holoceno e do Cretaceo. O solo mais importante desta area e o Podzolico Vermelho Amarelo e em menor proporcao sao encontradas as Areias Quartzosas Distroficas e Latosol Vermelho Amarelo Distrofico, os quais sao derivados principalmente de sedimentos do Terciario. Relacionados com o Holoceno, sao encontrados as Areias Quartzosas Marinhas, Solos Indiscriminados de Mangues, Podzol e outros Solos Hidromorficos. Na parte oeste do Estado predominam: clima semi-arido muito quente; vegetacao de caatinga; relevo plano e suave ondulado; rochas cristalinas (xistos, gnaisses, granitos) e meta-siltitos. Destacam-se: Solos Litolicos Eutroficos, Brunos nao Calcicos, Planosol Solodico Eutrofico, Regosol, Solonetz Solodizado..