Literacy-based behavioural interventions delivered by peers: a teaching strategy for students with severe disabilities

Many children with severe disabilities do not perform basic daily living skills needed for typical school and home environments. Previous research on literacy-based behavioural interventions (LBBIs) has shown promise for promoting skill acquisition and maintenance in some learners; however, only one study has examined the effectiveness of this intervention when delivered by peers. In this study, peer classmates were taught to deliver an LBBI story that highlighted hand-washing skills in three students with severe disabilities. Results showed that the accuracy of students’ new skills increased dramatically after their peers delivered the stories with pictures and printed words, and these skills maintained after the LBBI stories were removed. Further, each of the students demonstrated accurate hand-washing in novel environments using different sinks. This study builds on previous LBBI studies by incorporating peers into the story delivery, and using the intervention to teach new self-care skills.     

‘Family comes in all forms,blood or not’: disrupting dominant narratives around the patriarchal nuclear family

ABSTRACT

After nearly 25 years of democracy, lives of young South Africans are still profoundly shaped by the legacies of apartheid. This paper considers how these differences are produced, maintained and disrupted through an exploration of changing narratives developed by a small group of South African pre-service teachers, with a particular focus on the narratives developed around discourses of fatherhood generally and absent fathers in particular. We draw on interviews conducted with three students in which we discussed their digital stories and literature reviews. In this paper, we draw attention to the limitations of digital storytelling and the risks such autobiographical storytelling presents of perpetuating dominant narratives that maintain and reproduce historical inequalities. At the same time, in highlighting ways in which this risk might be confronted, the paper also aims to show the possibilities in which these dominant narratives may be challenged.     

“War Through Children’s Eyes” in the Archiwum Wschodnie [Eastern Archive] Collection

In 1981, Hoover Institution Press published a collection of testimonies of Polish citizens and their children deported to the Soviet Union between 1939 and 1941. War Through Children’s Eyes contained English translations of compositions, interviews, and testimonies from the Polish Government Collection at the Hoover Institution Archives. In the 1980s efforts were underway in Poland to collect similar personal stories of survivors of Soviet deportations, including children’s testimonies. The result was the creation of the Archiwum Wschodnie [Eastern Archive] and the KARTA Center in Warsaw. The archive, legalized after the fall of Communism in 1990, is a major primary source collection dealing with the history of former Polish eastern territories. The paper discusses parts of the Archiwum Wschodnie collection focusing on the testimonies of children deported to the Soviet Union. The trauma of war and displacement is examined through personal stories and testimonies of deportees.     

穿透经验抵达人心之难——略论中国乡土叙事的症候

从中国百年文学的图景中,抽选五位中国乡土经验的杰出书写者,做一次巡礼式的窥探,重现作家创作方式与其文学理想、审美情趣、经验认知、人性视镜的复杂关系,逼显中国乡土叙事的症候,标示穿透经验抵达人心的难度。一个顶尖的作家,应该穿越政治,文化、道德,身体的有限视域,全面地挖掘人性视境的丰富岩矿,用语言提纯一个时代穿透其心脏时全部的欢愉与痛楚,进而用自己的创作为一个时代作出心灵的证词。     

轿夫的“抬”与“不抬”：关于《龟仔抬美人》图事件的思考

文章主要是关注1905年抵制美货运动中由《龟仔抬美人》图而引发的政治风波。通过分析轿夫们的“抬”与“不抬”,进而引发对该漫画刊载背景的阐释和基于清廷立场的思虑。关注同一事件在不同叙事下产生差异的原因,反思史学研究中所应秉持的史学态度。     

Make books,not war: workshops at a summer camp in Bosnia

This article focuses on a bookmaking project that was conducted with pre‐adolescent Serbian and Bosnian girls at a summer camp outside Sarajevo, Bosnia in 2005. During this camp, children from Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia were brought together by the Global Children's Organisation to engage in a variety of activities, including conflict resolution, art, athletics and academics. The literacy workshops that were offered gave the children the opportunity to write, illustrate and construct their own books about topics such as peace, friendship and the preservation of nature in Bosnia. The workshops were conducted in English and Serbo‐Croatian, using a variety of pedagogical strategies. Upon completion of their books, the girls hosted a ‘story hour’ for the younger children at the camp and their stories were read aloud and discussed. This article explores the story telling of children in post‐war Bosnia (through writing samples) and discusses the powerful social component of literacy events and their ability to unite and heal disparate groups. Additionally, this article explores writing as a means of imagining a more hopeful future and how as writers, children are shapers of their own cultures and of their individual and collaborative identities within those cultures.     

论利奥塔的后现代科学哲学

在后现代主义科学哲学的视域中 ,利奥塔通过对科学知识与叙事知识流变的历史考察 ,揭示了知识合法化的危机 ,构建了后现代的实用知识观 ,从而展现了现代科学哲学发展的困境和后现代科学哲学的前景。     

宋人哲理诗：巅峰前的创新

宋人哲理诗的巧妙和方法是大大有别于西方哲理诗的“中国式哲理诗”的新样式，它以“哲理之理”和“事理之理”入诗，使得诗歌突破了“以情动人”的唯一表达模式，实现了“以理服人”的含蓄化，这是宋代诗人才气的表现，也是他们在唐代诗歌艺术巅峰面前的创新。     

Creative Knowledge: The Centrality of Creativity in Teachers’ Conceptions of Subject English

ABSTRACT

This paper examines the notion of creativity as a core concept in English teachers’ knowledge and valuing of their subject. It draws on research from a broader investigation into teachers as writers and discusses one of the key findings of the study: that creativity is not only crucial to how teachers approach their pedagogy and subject content, but that contexts in which creativity is minimised in English teachers’ lives results in struggle or even a departure from the profession. The paper concludes with a call for teachers and bureaucrats to affirm creative knowledge as foundational to English teachers and their profession, and the ability of teacher narratives to offer a powerful contribution to debates in English teaching.