Tuesday, 27 February 2018
Dyslexia Scotland
http://addressingdyslexia.org/what-dyslexia
https://www.dsse.org.uk/home/links/
https://dyslexiascotland.org.uk/sites/default/files/library/June2014MagazineOnline.pdf
http://training.cpdbytes.com//ResourceFiles/All/P3TheUpperPrimary.pdf
https://unwrapped.dyslexiascotland.org.uk/
The Scottish Government has an act of parliament - Additional Support for Learning Act - which is the country's commitment to ensure all children can reach their potential with additional support as needed.
https://dyslexiascotland.org.uk/
Their local networks are run by volunteers and it looks like they have information evenings / support - Sign up for newsletter here
https://dyslexiascotland.org.uk/our-branches/inverness
https://dyslexiascotland.org.uk/our-branches/moray-firth
https://dyslexiascotland.org.uk/
http://www.chipplus.org.uk/links.asp
https://dyslexiascotland.org.uk/assessment-schools
Monday, 26 February 2018
anthropology | research
Research project : Indigeneity in waiting Elusive Rights and the Power of Hope (2016-2020)
University of Lapland
Australia, Finland and Greenland
The issues to be studied will be the two-decade-long discussions on ratifying ILO Convention 169 in Finland, the planned constitutional changes that would finally recognise the indigenous peoples in Australia and the rights of indigenous peoples after gaining self-government in Greenland in 2009.
The project is led by Professor Julian Reid, Faculty of Social Sciences and it employs two postdoctoral researchers: Marjo Lindroth from the Arctic Centre and Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen from the Unit for Gender Studies, Faculty of Education. The research partners of the project are Professor David Chandler (University of Westminster, London), Professor Mitchell Dean (Copenhagen Business School), Senior Researcher Tanja Joona (University of Lapland), Professor Francesca Merlan (Australian National University, Canberra), Associate Professor Frank Sejersen (University of Copenhagen) and Associate Professor Jeffrey Sissons (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand).
Suomen Antropologi Journal
University of Lapland
Australia, Finland and Greenland
The issues to be studied will be the two-decade-long discussions on ratifying ILO Convention 169 in Finland, the planned constitutional changes that would finally recognise the indigenous peoples in Australia and the rights of indigenous peoples after gaining self-government in Greenland in 2009.
The project is led by Professor Julian Reid, Faculty of Social Sciences and it employs two postdoctoral researchers: Marjo Lindroth from the Arctic Centre and Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen from the Unit for Gender Studies, Faculty of Education. The research partners of the project are Professor David Chandler (University of Westminster, London), Professor Mitchell Dean (Copenhagen Business School), Senior Researcher Tanja Joona (University of Lapland), Professor Francesca Merlan (Australian National University, Canberra), Associate Professor Frank Sejersen (University of Copenhagen) and Associate Professor Jeffrey Sissons (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand).
Suomen Antropologi Journal
Elkins | art history not-art history
Elkins
This was recorded for a conference in Bressanone, Italy, which I couldn't attend; it was screened at the conference in autumn 2018. The "seven ways" of looking at images include: 1. Do images have a nature? (An ontology? An essence?) 2. Why is it so difficult to classify images? Why can't they be classified the way that animals, plants, and so many other kinds of objects are? 3. What sort of thing is _not_ an image? Is there anything that is clearly non-imagistic? 4. How closely do people look at images? Is the current discourse in materiality getting closer to the texture of paintings, for example? 5. What does it mean that so many people who work with images (artists, historians, theorists) do not have theories of what images are? This material builds on the book "What is an Image?" and also the book "Visual Studies: A Skeptical Introduction." It includes thoughts on the nature of writing in art history, art theory, aesthetics, visual culture, and visual studies.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCORRn2PTxP0AKpK7oK--e1A
This was recorded for a conference in Bressanone, Italy, which I couldn't attend; it was screened at the conference in autumn 2018. The "seven ways" of looking at images include: 1. Do images have a nature? (An ontology? An essence?) 2. Why is it so difficult to classify images? Why can't they be classified the way that animals, plants, and so many other kinds of objects are? 3. What sort of thing is _not_ an image? Is there anything that is clearly non-imagistic? 4. How closely do people look at images? Is the current discourse in materiality getting closer to the texture of paintings, for example? 5. What does it mean that so many people who work with images (artists, historians, theorists) do not have theories of what images are? This material builds on the book "What is an Image?" and also the book "Visual Studies: A Skeptical Introduction." It includes thoughts on the nature of writing in art history, art theory, aesthetics, visual culture, and visual studies.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCORRn2PTxP0AKpK7oK--e1A
Tuesday, 20 February 2018
Saturday, 17 February 2018
Firehawk Knowledge
George Nichols in The Conversation shows how Indigenous Knowledge, Traditional Knowledge and Traditional Ecological Knowledge may (or may not) be taken into account by Western Scientific Knowledge. He uses the 'new' knowledge of firehawks selectively firing country with firestick as an example of colonial science coming to understand these birds and their actions - intentionally setting fire to areas with firesticks - (Mark Bonta, Robert Gosford, Dick Eussen, Nathan Ferguson,
Erana Loveless, and Maxwell Witwer)
Though Aboriginal rangers and others who deal with bushfires take into account the risks posed by raptors that cause controlled burns to jump across firebreaks, official skepticism about the reality of avian fire-spreading hampers effective planning for landscape management and restoration.
(abstract)
Erana Loveless, and Maxwell Witwer)
Though Aboriginal rangers and others who deal with bushfires take into account the risks posed by raptors that cause controlled burns to jump across firebreaks, official skepticism about the reality of avian fire-spreading hampers effective planning for landscape management and restoration.
(abstract)
Friday, 16 February 2018
Films to change consciousness | human impact
Anthropocene (indie production company and activist)
Filmmakers and photographer
De Pencier, Burtynsky, Baichwal
The goal of the Project is to explore a
critical point in Earth and human history, and expand awareness of our
species' reach and impact.
https://theanthropocene.org/Filmmakers and photographer
De Pencier, Burtynsky, Baichwal
Monday, 29 January 2018
Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin (October 21, 1929–January 22, 2018)
My first-loved author Ursula K. Le Guin, presented on the reading list for the Science Fiction unit of a Contemporary Literature BA at (Walter) Murdoch University in 1975/76. The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed. . .
Article in The New Yorker 17 October 2016 by Julie Phillips The Fantastic Ursula K. Le Guin
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| Ursula K. Le Guin photo: Benjamin Reed. |
My first-loved author Ursula K. Le Guin, presented on the reading list for the Science Fiction unit of a Contemporary Literature BA at (Walter) Murdoch University in 1975/76. The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed. . .
Article in The New Yorker 17 October 2016 by Julie Phillips The Fantastic Ursula K. Le Guin
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov
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| Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Not Everyone Will Be Taken Into The Future, 2001 |
Tate Modern
http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/ilya-and-emilia-kabakov
http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/ilya-and-emilia-kabakov
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| Ilya and Emilia Kabakov The Six Paintings about the Temporary Loss of Eyesight (They are Painting the Boat) 2015 oil on canvas |
Saturday, 27 January 2018
Sweet Country
Sweet Country
Review - Lucio Crispino in The Conversation 9 October 2017
Crispino notes a nod to The Man who Shot Liberty Valence
Luke Buckmaster in The Guardian 23 Jan 2018
ABC
The Final Cut
Trailer
Review - Lucio Crispino in The Conversation 9 October 2017
Crispino notes a nod to The Man who Shot Liberty Valence
Luke Buckmaster in The Guardian 23 Jan 2018
ABC
The Final Cut
Trailer
Sunday, 14 January 2018
Indigenous Research networks
Indigenous Research Network, Worldwide universities
https://wun.ac.uk/wun/research/view/indigenous-research-network
NIRAKN National Indigenous Knowledge Production: Generating Change through Connections
https://wun.ac.uk/wun/research/view/indigenous-research-network
NIRAKN National Indigenous Knowledge Production: Generating Change through Connections
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