Consumerism in urban Russia in the 1880s and 90s: Exploring conceptions of time, space, and modernity through bicycle and watch advertisements

This paper discusses the urban consumer culture in Moscow and Petersburg during the 1880s and 1890s and uses the consumption of bicycles and watches as a lens through which to explore changing perceptions of time and space within the experience of modernity at the end of the nineteenth century. Specifically, I argue that the way in which consumers and merchants constructed a dialogue of meaning around particular objects; the way in which objects are consumed by a culture gives insight into the values, morals, and tenure of that culture. The paper preferences newspaper ads and photographs as the mouthpieces of merchants and consumers respectively as they constructed a dialogue in the language of consumerism, and explores the ways in which both parties sought to assign meaning to objects during the experience of modernity. I am particularly interested in the way consumers perform elements of cultural modernity in photographs and how these instances of performance relate to their negotiation of modernity. The paper takes as its focus large section of the urban Russian population, much of whom can traditionally be called “middle class” but whose diversity has led me to the adoption of the term “consumer community,” and whose makeup is described in detail. The paper contributes to the continuing scholarly discourse on the makeup of the middle class in Russia and the social boundaries of late tsarist society. It speaks to the the developing sensibilities and values of a generation struggling to define itself in a rapidly changing world, to the ways in which conceptualizations of public and private space, as well as feminine and masculine space were redefined, and to the developing visual culture of the Russian consumer society, largely predicated on the display of objects to signify socially desirable traits. Whereas other explorations of consumer culture and advertisements have portrayed the relationship between merchants and consumers as a one-sided monologue in which merchants convince consumers that certain objects have cultural value, I emphasis the dialogue between merchants and consumers, and their mutual negotiation of cultural meaning through objects.

Exploration des pratiques et des conceptions éthiques des enseignantes et des enseignants du collégial en lien avec la compétence éthique

L’actualité est dominée par les questions d’éthique, dans le secteur économique entre autres où les actions des investisseurs comme celles des dirigeants d’organisations doivent répondre aux normes éthiques de leur domaine. C’est le cas aussi en éducation où l’attention est portée sur la professionnalisation de l’enseignement. Celle-ci est axée sur la formation et le travail des enseignantes et des enseignants. Elle vise à les former à des normes éthiques élevées et aux compétences professionnelles spécifiques au travail. L’une des composantes de la professionnalisation est l’éthique. L’éthique de la profession enseignante sous-tend les actions de l’enseignante et de l’enseignant dans sa pratique en ce qui a trait au contenu enseigné, aux étudiantes et aux étudiants, aux collègues et à soi. Or, la formation en éthique et en pédagogie n’est pas une condition à l’embauche des enseignantes et des enseignants des secteurs pré-universitaires et techniques du collégial qui sont recrutés comme des professionnels ou des spécialistes disciplinaires. Cette recherche vise à explorer sur le terrain les pratiques et les conceptions éthiques des enseignantes et des enseignants au collégial. Il s’agit de répertorier les pratiques éthiques en vue de connaître les raisons sur lesquelles ces derniers se basent pour les justifier. Pour situer le contexte de la problématique à l’origine de cette recherche, les facteurs suivants ont été pris en considération : les réductions des ressources financières qui caractérisent le milieu professionnel collégial depuis plus d’une décennie, les changements organisationnels et pédagogiques importants tels que l’approche-programme, la finalité de l’éducation, la nature de la tâche enseignante, le manque de formation en éthique et en pédagogie, l’insuffisance de l’encadrement des nouveaux enseignantes et enseignants qui arrivent en grand nombre, session après session, au collégial. Pour rendre compte des pratiques et des conceptions éthiques des enseignantes et des enseignants, il a été nécessaire de considérer et de préciser les éléments qui constituent le cadre de référence. Il s’agit de l’éthique, de la compétence éthique (MEQ, 2001), de l’éthique appliquée, de l’éthique réflexive, de la finalité de l’éducation, de la complexité de la tâche d’enseignement, de la compétence professionnelle au collégial (Dorais, Laliberté, 1999), des principales préoccupations éthiques au collégial (Desautels, Gohier, Jutras, 2009) et du cycle de vie de la carrière enseignante. Étant donné que la recherche porte sur les pratiques et les conceptions éthiques des enseignantes et des enseignants en lien avec la compétence éthique, une méthodologie qualitative a été utilisée. Un questionnaire de renseignements sociodémographiques et une entrevue semi-dirigée ont permis d’obtenir des données qualitatives à partir desquelles les récits des enseignantes et des enseignants ont été analysés afin de dresser un répertoire de leurs pratiques éthiques. Cette méthodologie a été privilégiée puisqu’elle permet de comprendre la signification que donnent les enseignantes et les enseignants à leurs pratiques et à leurs conceptions éthiques. L’interprétation des résultats comprend une analyse descriptive et une analyse compréhensive des données. Le travail a d’abord consisté à regrouper les données selon les principaux enjeux éthiques qui sont en fait des thèmes relevant de la compétence éthique. Par exemple, la préparation des cours, l’évaluation des apprentissages des étudiantes et des étudiants, les préoccupations éthiques des enseignantes et des enseignants en rapport aux collègues, etc. Une fois le portrait d’un thème fait, une analyse compréhensive est réalisée pour en trouver le sens à partir de l’explication des pratiques professionnelles des enseignantes et des enseignants. Les résultats de la recherche ont permis de constater la présence constante chez les enseignantes et les enseignants du souci d’amener les étudiantes et les étudiants à la réussite scolaire. Cela se traduit par la recherche de l’amélioration des moyens d’enseignement, les mises à jour des contenus enseignés, la recherche d’activités d’apprentissage qui ont un sens pour les étudiantes et les étudiants et le courage professionnel (essayer de nouvelles pratiques professionnelles). Les résultats montrent aussi que, malgré l’absence d’une structure permanente pour développer la compétence éthique, c’est-à-dire l’absence de balises administratives en matière d’éthique, les enseignantes et enseignantes développent bien la compétence éthique. Parmi les moyens qu’ils se donnent pour améliorer le développement de l’éthique, ils privilégient la sensibilisation à travers des groupes de discussion avec les pairs.

Unveiling faculty conceptions of academic risk taking:a phenomenographic study

Among recent developments in the field of higher education is the emergence of New Public Management and of what has been labelled as ‘risk university’. The aim of this paper is to redress the lack of discussion over the role that risk taking plays in academic practice by exploring what faculty understand academic risk taking to be and how they enact this understanding in their tasks. Drawing on a phenomenographic perspective and semi-structured interviews with 20 faculty members from a high-profile UK university, we find that academic risk taking is experienced in four qualitatively different ways. Our results suggest that although academics engage in relatively similar endeavours, they exhibit various approaches to these endeavours due to their different conceptions of what constitutes academic risk taking. These findings have implications for the literature on identity construction and the debate over how the greater accountability of academic activity is affectively experienced.

Form, Intention, and Indexing: The Liminal and Integrated Conceptions of Work in Knowledge Organization

This paper proposes a dual conception of work in knowledge organization. The first part is a conception of work as liminal, set apart from everyday work. The second is integrated, without separation. This talk is the beginning of a larger project where we will characterize work in knowledge organization, both as it is set out in our literature (Šauperl, 2004; Hjørland 2003 Wilson, 1968), and in a philosophical argument for its fundamental importance in the activities of society (Shera, 1972; Zandonade, 2004).But in order to do this, we will co-opt the conception of liminality from the anthropology of religion (Turner, 1967), and Zen Buddhist conceptions of moral action, intention, and integration (Harvey, 2000 and cf., Harada, S., 2008).The goal for this talk is to identify the acts repeated (form) and the purpose of those acts (intention), in knowledge organization, with specific regard to thresholds (liminal points) of intention present in those acts.We can then ask the questions: Where is intention in knowledge organization liminal and where is it integrated? What are the limits of knowledge organization work when considered at a foundational level of the intention labor practices? Answering such questions, in this context, allows us to reconsider the assumptions we have about knowledge organization work and its increasingly important role in society. As a consequence, we can consider the limits of classification research if we see the foundations of knowledge organization work when we see forms and intentions. I must also say that incorporating Zen Buddhist philosophy into knowledge organization research seems like it fits well with ethics and ethical responses the practice of knowledge organization. This is because 20th Century Western interpretations of Zen are often rooted in ethical considerations. This translates easily to work.

Plutarch's chemistry of stones and metals: conceptions and explanations. With an appendix on the TheSu XML annotation scheme

This dissertation presents a systematic and analytic overview of most of the information related to stones, minerals, and stone masonry which is found in the corpus of Plutarch of Chaeronea, combined with most of the information on metals and metalworking which is connected to the former. This survey is intended as a first step in the reconstruction of the full landscape of ‘chemical’ ideas occurring in Plutarch’s writings; accordingly, the exposition of the relevant passages, the assessment of their possible interpretations, the discussion on their implications, and their contextualization in the ancient traditions have been conducted with a special interest in the ‘mineralogical’ and ‘metallurgic’ themes developed in the frame of natural philosophy and meteorology. Although in this perspective physical etiology could have come to acquire central prominence, non-etiological information on Plutarch’s ideas on the nature and behaviour of stones and metals has been treated as equally relevant to reach a fuller understanding of how Plutarch conceptualized and visualized them in general, in- and outside the frame of philosophical explanation. Such extensive outline of Plutarch’s ideas on stones and metals is a prerequisite for an accurate inquiry into his use of the two in analogies, metaphors, and symbols: to predispose this kind of research was another aim of the present survey, and this aim has contributed to shape it; moreover, a special attention has been paid to the analysis of analogical and figurative speaking due to the nature itself of a large part of Plutarch’s references to stones and metals, which are either metaphorical, presented in close association with metaphors, or framed in analogies. Much of the information used for the present overview has been extracted —always with supporting argumentation— from the implications of such metaphors and analogies.

Mães ouvintes com filhos surdos: concepção de surdez e escolha da modalidade de linguagem

The aim of this study was to analyze the conceptions that hearing mothers of deaf children have about deafness and relate it to the language mode used by the mother and the child. We interviewed 10 mothers of deaf children, five of whom were prescholars and five of school age. The content was analyzed as to thematic and category types, with emphasis on the categories conception of deafness and choice of language mode . Data analysis showed that one mother seems to see deafness as a disease, another as a difference and the other mothers were found to be somewhere between these two views. In relation to the preferred language mode, half the mothers reported that their children predominantly use signs, the other half uses speech and signs, with the exception of one child who uses only speech. The child whose mother acts as if deafness is a disease uses speech while another one whose mother acts as if deafness is a difference uses speech as well as signs.

Centros de treinamento de ginástica rítmica no Brasil : estrutura e programas

Universidade Estadual de Campinas . Faculdade de Educação Física

Aspectos historicos da biomecanica na Educação Fisica brasileira

Universidade Estadual de Campinas . Faculdade de Educação Física

A disciplina recreação e lazer no curriculo de formação de profissionais de Educação Fisica : o que dizem e fazem professores em Universidade do Nordeste do Brasil

Universidade Estadual de Campinas . Faculdade de Educação Física

Jogos cooperativos : o jogo e o esporte como um exercicio de convivencia

Universidade Estadual de Campinas . Faculdade de Educação Física

Por um lazer potencialmente transformador : um estudo sobre as apropriações conceituais do lazer

Universidade Estadual de Campinas . Faculdade de Educação Física

Educação fisica na educação infantil : concepções e praticas de professores

Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Faculdade de Educação Física

Educação fisica adaptada : proposta de ação metodologica para formação universitaria

Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Faculdade de Educação Física

O discurso em jogo : um estudo sobre as visões de mundo das teorias

Universidade Estadual de Campinas . Faculdade de Educação Física

As roupas esportivas em Revista na cidade de Belo Horizonte (1929-1950) : moldes, recortes e costuras

Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Faculdade de Educação Física