Reimagining local studies in Devon Maxted, Ian
Global knowledge, memory and communication,
11/2019, Letnik:
68, Številka:
8/9
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect that government austerity policies has had on local studies in Devon and suggest a possible alternative means of maintaining local studies’ ...collections.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper presents an historical survey of local studies provision in the county since the nineteenth century and outlines the present local studies’ landscape.
Findings
The findings show that local studies’ provision has been severely affected by eight years of progressive cuts to public library funding and that present publications, both printed and digital, are no longer being adequately recorded.
Practical implications
This paper suggests that in Devon, the museum sector may be a more appropriate home for local studies’ library provision than are archive services.
Social implications
Volunteers in libraries, museums and archives across Devon will be involved in maintaining a union catalogue and a bibliography of local publications.
Originality/value
While this is a suggested solution for Devon, it may not be applicable in regions with different traditions of heritage provision.
Situating the quest for 'best practice' in education in the early ambitions of the Royal Society of London and the early history of statistics, and in insights offered by John Dewey in his 1929 ...Gifford and Kappa Delta Pi lectures, the paper argues for greater appreciation of the uncertainties and complexities of teaching and learning and for greater modesty in researcher claims. It contends that the quest for best practices in education needs to be tempered with the notion of better over best practice by maintaining the value of, and the need for, a greater place for outliers in research.
The State Library of NSW established the Public Library Network Research Committee in 2002. The committee was established to oversee the research program, to ensure that the Public Library Network ...had input into identifying research projects, to recommend projects, and to ensure research implementation. The key factor addressed by the committee and used in identifying potential projects is the lack of research, in specific areas, about public libraries within NSW.
Este trabajo consiste en un estado de la cuestión sobre los procesos de señorialización que tuvieron lugar en los concejos de realengo de la Extremadura castellano-leonesa, un espacio con una gran ...presencia urbana. En él se combinan las aportaciones historiográficas de la historia de la nobleza, de la historia urbana y de la historia de la monarquía; así como los trabajos de enfoque global y los estudios localistas. El objetivo es sintetizar lo que conocemos sobre el proceso a nivel jurisdiccional, económico y socio-político, los conflictos y mecanismos de pacificación de las villas, y las cuestiones que aún están por resolver. This study presents a state of the question on the process of seigneurialization that took place in the town-councils of royal domain (realengo) in the Extremadura region, an area with a considerable urban presence within the kingdom of Castile and Leon. The scholarship on the history of the nobility will be considered along with that of urban and royal history. Likewise, we will focus on a global approach and on local studies in order to synthesize what is known about this process on a jurisdictional, economic and socio-political level. Finally, we will also consider the conflict and pacifying procedures of the towns, and further issues that remain unresolved.
This paper discusses the legacy of Nikolai Antsiferov (1889–1958), a Russian historian who suggested a unique approach to urban studies in which literature played the key role. In the first section ...of this paper, the genesis of Antsiferov’s conceptions of the study of urban history and the image of the city are outlined. The second section provides an analysis of his ideas on the literary image of St. Petersburg and the theory of literary-themed guided tours, which were articulated in his works of the 1920s. The finalsection of the article sheds light on the reception and legacy of Antsiferov’s intellectual ideas in the modern humanities and assesses its significance in the modern context of interdisciplinarity.
Home movies and videos have not traditionally been seen as key resources informing cultural or historical studies. Yet recent moves to raise the profile of home movies and acknowledge their value as ...historical documents, particularly focused on the family and locality, has seen a growing awareness of the need for their acquisition and preservation. For local-studies collections, movies, video and now digital media should feature as part of the broader collecting policy. This paper presents an overview of the media and their importance, focusing on their relevance to such collections, and discusses a range of approaches to their acquisition, handling and management.
The purpose of this article is to analyze the gap between the learning process of immigrant childrenin local studies and the aim of the teacher, and from there to empirically indicate the direction ...of localstudies for immigrant children.In this article, a survey was conducted on a small unit of a social studies class in the third grade of aJapanese public elementary school, “People Working in a Store”. The survey respondents of this articlewere two Brazilian children.From the observation of the class and the interview with the two Brazilian children, it was found thatthe children in the study followed a learning process that was different from the flow of the class. Therewere two reasons why they did not follow the flow of the class.First, the children did not feel a familiarity with the subject theme, the supermarket. Almost all ofthe classmates had been felt familiar with the supermarket, however, the two children did not. Althoughthe children lived in the same area as the other Japanese children, they had different life experiences.For this reason, they may not have felt the familiarity of the theme and may not have studied it as thehomeroom teacher had expected.Secondly, the homeroom teachers and the two children had different perspectives on the subjecttheme of the class. The homeroom teacher and the two children interpreted the words used askeywords with different meanings. As a result, they could not have the same perspective on the subjecttheme.As described above, even though immigrant children live in the same area as many Japanesechildren, they feel differently from their Japanese due to the differences in their life experiences causedby their cultural backgrounds. Therefore, teachers must understand the life experiences of immigrantchildren. And to devise ways to “connect” the theme of the class with the immigrant childrenthemselves to conduct regional studies that take their cultural backgrounds into account.
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