Given that schools are, potentially, powerful sites for influencing adolescent behaviour, it is important that there is greater understanding of the psychosocial aspects of the school climate that ...can be leveraged for this purpose. The research reported in this article used structural equation modelling (with data from a sample of 6120 students at Australian high schools) to examine the influence of the psychosocial school-level environment on students' self-reported experiences of bully victimisation (i.e. being victims of bullying) and engagement in delinquent behaviours. Further, we examined whether bully victimisation mediated the relationships between school climate variables and delinquent behaviours. School connectedness and rule clarity were negatively associated with both bully victimisation and delinquency (p < 0.05), and teacher support was negatively associated with bully victimisation (p < 0.01), confirming the importance of these aspects of the school-level environment. However, affirming diversity and reporting and seeking help both had positive influences on bully victimisation (p < 0.05), raising concerns about the ways in which these aspects of the school-level environment might have been promoted. Importantly, bully victimisation was found to mediate the influence of five of the six school climate constructs on delinquent behaviours (p < 0.001). This study advance our understanding of how specific aspects of the school climate influence the prevalence of bullying and delinquent behaviour, adding weight to the call for educators to actively monitor and enhance psychosocial aspects of the school climate in order to improve student behavioural outcomes. Author abstract
Becoming Audible explores the phenomenon of human and animal acoustic entanglements in art and performance practices. Focusing on the work of artists who get into the spaces between species, Austin ...McQuinn discovers that sounding animality secures a vital connection to the creatural.
To frame his analysis, McQuinn employs Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s concept of becoming-animal, Donna Haraway’s definitions of multispecies becoming-with, and Mladen Dolar’s ideas of voice-as-object. McQuinn considers birdsong in the work of Beatrice Harrison, Olivier Messiaen, Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, Daniela Cattivelli, and Marcus Coates; the voice of the canine as a sacrificial lab animal in the operatic work of Alexander Raskatov; hierarchies of vocalization in human-simian cultural coevolution in theatrical adaptations of Franz Kafka and Eugene O’Neill; and the acoustic exchanges among hybrid human-animal creations in Harrison Birtwistle’s opera The Minotaur . Inspired by the operatic voice and drawing from work in art and performance studies, animal studies, zooarchaeology, social and cultural anthropology, and philosophy, McQuinn demonstrates that sounding animality in performance resonates “through the labyrinths of the cultural and the creatural,” not only across species but also beyond the limits of the human.
Timely and provocative, this volume outlines new methods of unsettling human exceptionalism during a period of urgent reevaluation of interspecies relations. Students and scholars of human-animal studies, performance studies, and art historians working at the nexus of human and animal will find McQuinn’s book enlightening and edifying.
This paper reports salient findings of a yearlong study that aimed to understand the impacts of digitized ethnographic collections. We discuss the barriers and challenges to understanding, assessing, ...and communicating the impact of ethnographic digitization projects. We then discuss the implications of our findings for collection practice and development and advocate for cultivating a culture of assessment for digitization projects using the systematized collection of impact stories.
Authoritative study of the Scottish born artist Alastair MacLennan who has achieved worldwide renown as a performance artist. Includes comprehensive visual documentation of his performative practice ...drawn extensively from his archival resources, with essays from leading national and international scholars in the field. 350 colour illustrations. New Books Network (New Books in Art) interview with Sandra Johnston, Brian Patterson and Alastair MacLennan.
An introduction to the study and application of performance art through phenomenology for radical artists, educators and practitioner-researchers. Features exercises to activate your practice, clear ...introductory definitions to key phenomenological terms, and a multimodal design that lets the reader choose how to read the book. 36 illus.
RESUMEN:En el presente estudio exponemos las conclusiones a las que hemos llegado al analizar pormenorizadamente las obras del artista alemán Wolf Vostell –figura clave en la Historia del Arte de la ...segunda mitad del siglo XX- en las que podemos encontrar la presencia canina. De este estudio hemos concluido los distintos significados que este animal desprende en el lenguaje vostelliano, ampliando el horizonte y el conocimiento que sobre el artista se tiene, así como apuntado las distintas utilizaciones que de ellos hace en su obra, tanto reconocible como abstracta, en distintos formatos (happenings, conciertos Fluxus, environments, etc.) Palabras clave: Vostell; iconografía; happening; animales; naturaleza.
This paper explores the preliminary process reading that arises from achievements in the progressive. The meaning of the progressive as a partitive operator poses challenges in the formalization of ...its occurrence with punctual predicates like achievements. I discuss problems with prior proposals (Rothstein 2004, Bohnemeyer 2005), and argue that the preliminary process reading should be accounted for in terms of the meaning of achievements rather than the meaning of the progressive. Based on Bach’s (1981) subdivision of achievements, I propose to analyze culminationachievements as denoting a set of complex events which consist of a preliminary process and its culmination, while analyzing happening-achievements as a set of simple events of culmination. I show how the lexical specifications of the two subtypes of achievements result in the different patterns in the progressive. Furthermore, I argue that culmination-achievements differ from accomplishments in terms of the discourse statuses of the implications which are associated with their two subevents. Building on previous studies on projective contents (e.g. Simons et al. 2011, Tonhauser et al. 2013, 2018), I take a close look at the properties of the process implication triggered by culmination-achievements, and show that it is projective content. KCI Citation Count: 0
After World War II, the concept of borders became unsettled, especially after the rise of subaltern and multicultural studies in the 1980s. Art at the U.S.-Mexico border came to a turning point at ...the beginning of that decade with the election of U.S. President Ronald Reagan. Beginning with a political history of the border, with an emphasis on the Chicano movement and its art production, Ila Sheren explores the forces behind the shift in thinking about the border in the late twentieth century. Particularly in the world of visual art, borders have come to represent a space of performance rather than a geographical boundary, a cultural terrain meant to be negotiated rather than a physical line. From 1980 forward, Sheren argues, the border became portable through performance and conceptual work. This dematerialization of the physical border after the 1980s worked in two opposite directions—the movement of border thinking to the rest of the world, as well as the importation of ideas to the border itself. Beginning with site-specific conceptual artwork of the 1980s, particularly the performances of the Border Art Workshop/Taller de Arte Fronterizo, Sheren shows how these works reconfigured the border as an active site. Sheren moves on to examine artists such as Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Coco Fusco, and Marcos Ramirez "ERRE." Although Sheren places emphasis on the Chicano movement and its art production, this groundbreaking book suggests possibilities for the expansion of the concept of portability to contemporary art projects beyond the region.
Atender y responder Mena Malet, Patricio
Tópicos (Santa Fe, Argentina),
07/2018
26
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
El presente artículo busca interrogar el atender en su doble acepción, en tanto atención perceptiva y en tanto cuidado. Lo que parece interesante del examen del vínculo entre ambos sentidos es que ...pone en juego un sujeto que se comprende en relación estricta con la alteridad cuyo modo de ser está determinado por sus respuestas. En este sentido, el examen progresivo que va de la atención perceptiva a la atención en cuanto cuidado aporta recursos importantes para pensar la dimensión responsiva del sí-mismo al alero de los aportes de la fenomenología contemporánea que va de Ricoeur, pasando por Levinas, Marion, Chrétien, Housset y Romano.
In order to overcome some unsatisfactory trends and limitations of the traditional path integration (PI) method for Poisson white noise, a novel PI method is proposed in this paper, which includes ...two improved schemes. The first one is a new Transition Probability Density Function (TPDF) approximation which considers the randomness of the impulse happening time during each time intervals. The second one is a transformation of Chapman–Kolmogorov (CK) equation by a variable substitution instead of directly using it, whose numerical calculation is based on the back stepping Runge–Kutta scheme and the triangulation-based interpolation. Monte Carlo Simulations (MCS) are utilized to measure the accuracy of the improved algorithm with three illustrative nonlinear systems. The results show that compared with the traditional PI method, the improved PI method can give a more accurate description of the TPDF values, and provide more precise stationary Probability Density Function (PDF) results whenever the mean arrival rate is large or small. The improved algorithm has a wider range of choices in time interval values to maintain the accuracy of stationary PDF results. Besides, it is discovered that cubic interpolation deserves to be applied in the improved PI method more than linear and natural interpolations.
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