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From a South African Passion Play to Turkish Sufi tourism, from
contemporary street preaching in America to public Hindu rites in
India, from cloistered prayer in 17th century France to the queer
politics of 'the closet' today, Performing Religion in Public
brings together an international array of voices that grapple with
the important role of religious performance in our secular public
lives. Because traditional notions of the public sphere have
emphasized rational discourse in a secular setting, religion has
often been excluded. But religious life is not impersonal argument;
rather, it is passionately performed, crossing boundaries between
public and private, the personal and the political, and claiming a
significant role in modern democracies, from everyday cultural
interactions to political advocacy. By focusing on the performative
nature of both religion and publics, this timely volume offers a
fresh and fruitful re-conception of the relationship between
religion and the public sphere.
This innovative book presents a new framework for researchers in
the field of physical education and youth sport. By examining the
complex interplay between values, voice and ethics within the
research process, it showcases how the CREATE Principles for
Research Design can facilitate meaningful research with/for
children and young people. Adopting a design thinking approach -
and underpinned by principles of youth voice - the book rethinks
educational research with children and young people and offers a
new framework for the field. With contributions from leading
international experts, the book exemplifies how the CREATE
Principles for Research Design can be applied in practice across a
range of diverse populations and contexts through ten in-depth case
studies. Reflecting contemporary issues in the field, such as
gender, race and ethnicity, disability and social disadvantage,
these case studies take the reader through the process of applying
the CREATE principles as a reflective lens through which to
consider research design with/for youth. Designed to support
aspiring and experienced researchers alike, this book equips
readers with valuable ideas and tools to enhance their research
praxis and shape meaningful and relevant research with/for children
and young people.
Invasions by exotic grasses, particularly annuals, rank among the
most extensive and intensive ways that humans are contributing to
the transformation of the earth's surface. The problem is
particularly notable with a suite of exotic grasses in the Bromus
genus in the arid and semiarid regions that dominate the western
United States, which extend from the dry basins near the Sierra and
Cascade Ranges across the Intermountain Region and Rockies to about
105 Degrees longitude. This genus includes approximately 150
species that have a wide range of invasive and non-invasive
tendencies in their home ranges and in North America. Bromus
species that became invasive upon introduction to North America in
the late 1800's, such as Bromus tectorum and B. rubens, have since
became the dominant cover on millions of hectares. Here, millenia
of ecosystem development led to landscapes that would otherwise be
dominated by perennial shrubs, herbs, and biotic soil crusts that
were able to persist in spite of variable and scarce precipitation.
This native ecosystem resilience is increasingly coveted by land
owners and managers as more hectares lose their resistance to
Bromus grasses and similar exotics and as climate, land use, and
disturbance-regime changes are also superimposed. Managers are
increasingly challenged to glean basic services from these
ecosystems as they become invaded. Exotic annual grasses reduce
wildlife and livestock carrying capacity and increase the frequency
and extent of wildfi res and associated soil erosion. This book
uses a unique ecoregional and multidisciplinary approach to
evaluate the invasiveness, impacts, and management of the large
Bromus genus. Students, researchers, and practitioners interested
in Bromus specifically and invasive exotics in general will benefit
from the depth of knowledge summarized in the book.
What does it mean to be a writer of Muslim heritage in the UK
today? Is there such a thing as "Muslim fiction"? In a collection
of revealing new interviews, Claire Chambers talks to writers
including Tariq Ali, Ahdaf Soueif, Hanif Kureishi, and Abdulrazak
Gurnah to discuss the impact that their Muslim heritage has had on
their writing, and to argue that this body of writing is some of
the most important and politically engaged fiction of recent years.
From literary techniques and influences to the political and
cultural debates that matter to Muslims in Britain and beyond --
such as the hijab, the war on terror and the Rushdie affair --
these thirteen interviews challenge the idea of a monolithic voice
for Islam in Britain. Instead, together they paint a picture of the
diversity of voices creating "British Muslim fictions" which
ultimately enriches the cultural, social and political landscape of
contemporary Britain.
This innovative and user-friendly book uses a design thinking
approach to examine transformative learning and liminality in
physical education. Covering theory and practice, it introduces the
important idea of 'threshold concepts' for physical education,
helping physical educators to introduce those concepts into
curriculum, pedagogy and assessment. The book invites us to reflect
on what is learned in, through and about physical education - to
identify its core threshold concepts. Once identified, the book
explains how the learning of threshold concepts can be planned
using principles of pedagogical translation for all four learning
domains (cognitive, psychomotor, affective and social). The book is
arranged into three key sections which walk the reader through the
underpinning concepts, use movement case studies to explore and
generate threshold concepts in physical education using design
thinking approach and, finally, provide a guiding Praxis Matrix for
PE Threshold Concepts that can be used for physical educators
across a range of school and physical activity learning contexts.
Outlining fundamental theory and useful, practical teaching and
coaching advice, this book is invaluable reading for all PE teacher
educators, coach educators, and any advanced student, coach or
teacher looking to enrich their knowledge and professional
practice.
This innovative and user-friendly book uses a design thinking
approach to examine transformative learning and liminality in
physical education. Covering theory and practice, it introduces the
important idea of 'threshold concepts' for physical education,
helping physical educators to introduce those concepts into
curriculum, pedagogy and assessment. The book invites us to reflect
on what is learned in, through and about physical education - to
identify its core threshold concepts. Once identified, the book
explains how the learning of threshold concepts can be planned
using principles of pedagogical translation for all four learning
domains (cognitive, psychomotor, affective and social). The book is
arranged into three key sections which walk the reader through the
underpinning concepts, use movement case studies to explore and
generate threshold concepts in physical education using design
thinking approach and, finally, provide a guiding Praxis Matrix for
PE Threshold Concepts that can be used for physical educators
across a range of school and physical activity learning contexts.
Outlining fundamental theory and useful, practical teaching and
coaching advice, this book is invaluable reading for all PE teacher
educators, coach educators, and any advanced student, coach or
teacher looking to enrich their knowledge and professional
practice.
Learning to Mentor in Sports Coaching is an innovative,
user-friendly, practical and theoretical guide for educating sports
coaches as mentors. It is the first book to employ design thinking
techniques to develop a new approach to mentor education in sports
coaching. Providing theoretical grounding in mentoring
conversations, design thinking and case study research, the book
centres on a series of redesigned mentoring conversations between
some of the world's leading sports coaching experts, coach
educators, mentors and mentees. It covers topics such as:
supporting novice volunteer coaches' learning the learning needs of
novice volunteer coaches and novice professional coaches
professional communities of learning in coaching the impact of
coaching behaviours on learning environments autonomy-supportive
learning environments coaching children, young people and adults
Closing with a critique of the sports coach mentor as design
thinker, Learning to Mentor in Sports Coaching is important reading
for any upper-level student or researcher working in sports
coaching, sports pedagogy or youth sport, and any coach looking to
integrate sound mentoring theory into their professional practice.
Mentoring is a core element of any successful teacher education or
coach education programme, with evidence suggesting that teachers
and coaches who are mentored early in their careers are more likely
to become effective practitioners. Physical education and sports
coaching share important pedagogical, practical and cultural
terrain, and mentoring has become a vital tool with which to
develop confidence, self-reflection and problem-solving abilities
in trainee and early career PE teachers and sports coaches. This is
the first book to introduce key theory and best practice in
mentoring, for mentors and mentees, focusing on the particular
challenges and opportunities in physical education and sports
coaching. Written by a team of international experts with extensive
practical experience of mentoring in PE and coaching, the book
clearly explains what mentoring is, how it should work, and how an
understanding of socio-cultural factors can form the foundation of
good mentoring practice. The book explores practical issues in
mentoring in physical education, including pre-service and newly
qualified teachers, and in coach education, including mentoring in
high performance sport and the role of national governing bodies.
Each chapter includes real mentoring stories, practical guidance
and definitions of key terms, and a 'pedagogy toolbox' brings
together the most important themes and techniques for easy
reference. This is a hugely useful book for all teacher and coach
education degree programmes, for any practising teacher or coach
involved in mentoring, and for schools, clubs, sports organisations
or NGBs looking to develop mentoring schemes.
Invasions by exotic grasses, particularly annuals, rank among the
most extensive and intensive ways that humans are contributing to
the transformation of the earth's surface. The problem is
particularly notable with a suite of exotic grasses in the Bromus
genus in the arid and semiarid regions that dominate the western
United States, which extend from the dry basins near the Sierra and
Cascade Ranges across the Intermountain Region and Rockies to about
105 Degrees longitude. This genus includes approximately 150
species that have a wide range of invasive and non-invasive
tendencies in their home ranges and in North America. Bromus
species that became invasive upon introduction to North America in
the late 1800's, such as Bromus tectorum and B. rubens, have since
became the dominant cover on millions of hectares. Here, millenia
of ecosystem development led to landscapes that would otherwise be
dominated by perennial shrubs, herbs, and biotic soil crusts that
were able to persist in spite of variable and scarce precipitation.
This native ecosystem resilience is increasingly coveted by land
owners and managers as more hectares lose their resistance to
Bromus grasses and similar exotics and as climate, land use, and
disturbance-regime changes are also superimposed. Managers are
increasingly challenged to glean basic services from these
ecosystems as they become invaded. Exotic annual grasses reduce
wildlife and livestock carrying capacity and increase the frequency
and extent of wildfi res and associated soil erosion. This book
uses a unique ecoregional and multidisciplinary approach to
evaluate the invasiveness, impacts, and management of the large
Bromus genus. Students, researchers, and practitioners interested
in Bromus specifically and invasive exotics in general will benefit
from the depth of knowledge summarized in the book.
A vital sourcebook for information on clothing and textiles in the
middle ages, containing many previously unprinted documents. Texts
(with modern English translation) offering insights into the place
of cloth and clothing in everyday life are presented here. Covering
a wide range of genres, they include documents from the royal
wardrobe accounts and petitions to king and Parliament, previously
available only in manuscript form. The accounts detail royal
expenditure on fabrics and garments, while the petitions demand the
restoration of livery, for example, or protest about the needfor
winter clothing for children who are wards of the king. In
addition, the volume includes extracts from wills, inventories and
rolls of livery, sumptuary laws, moral and satirical works
condemning contemporary fashions, an OldEnglish epic, and English
and French romances. The texts themselves are in Old and Middle
English, Latin and Anglo-Norman French, with some of the documents
switching between more than one of these languages. They are
presented with introduction, glossary and detailed notes. Louise M.
Sylvester is Reader in English Language at the University of
Westminster; Mark Chambers is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at
Durham University; Gale R. Owen-Crocker is Professor of Anglo-Saxon
Culture at the University of Manchester.
Religious life and public life are both passionately performed, but
often understood to exclude one another. This book's array of
voices investigates the publics hailed by religious performances
and the challenges they offer to theories of the democratic public
sphere.
Through interviews with leading writers (including Ahdaf Soueif and
Hanif Kureishi), this book analyzes the writing and opinions of
novelists of Muslim heritage based in the UK. Discussion centres on
writers' work, literary techniques, and influences, and on their
views of such issues as the hijab, the war on terror and the
Rushdie Affair.
The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing
from a range of disciplines. This year's volume focuses largely on
the British Isles, with papers on dress terms in the Middle English
Pearl; a study of a thirteenth-century royal bride's trousseau,
based on unpublished documents concerning King HenryIII's Wardrobe;
an investigation into the "open surcoat" referenced in the
multilingual texts of late medieval England; and, based on customs
accounts, a survey of cloth exports from late medieval London and
the merchants who profited from them. Commercial trading of cloth
is also the subject of a study of fifteenth-century brokers' books,
revealing details of types, designs, and regulation of the famous
silks from Lucca, Italy. Another paper focuseson art, reconsidering
the incidence of frilled veils in the Low Countries and adopting an
innovative means of analysis to question the chronology,
geographical diversity, and social context of this style. Robin
Netherton is a professional editor and a researcher/lecturer on the
interpretation of medieval European dress; Gale R. Owen-Crocker is
Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture at the University of Manchester.
Contributors: Benjamin L.Wild, Isis Sturtewagen, Kimberly Jack,
Mark Chambers, Eleanor Quinton, John Oldland, Christine Meek
Trichloroethylene (TRI), administered orally at high doses for 18
months has been shown to increase the incidence of hepatocellular
carcinoma in B6C3F 1 mice but not Osborne-Mendel rats (NCI, 1976).
The interpretation of these studies has been confounded due to the
presence of epoxide stabilizers in the TRI. However more recent
studies have demonstrated that pure TRI also causes hepatocellular
carcinoma in B6C3F mice (NTP, 1983) and Aldedey Park (Swiss) mice
(Elcombe 1 and Pratt, unpublished data). Furthermore, no increase
in the incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma was observed in Fisher
344 rats administered pure TRI (NTP, 1983). TRI has been
extensively examined for mutagenic potential, but many studies were
bedeviled by the presence of mutagenic epoxide stabilizers.
However, in general, TRI has been found to be only 'marginally'
mutagenic or non-mutagenic (Greim et ai., 1975; Simmon et ai.,
1977; Bronzetti et ai., 1978; Waskell, 1978; Bartsch et ai., 1979;
Slacik-Erben et ai., 1980). Covalent binding of trichloroethylene
or its metabolites to protein, RNA and DNA has been illustrated in
vitro (Van Duuren and Banerjee, 1976; Bolt et ai., 1977; Bolt and
Filser, 1977; Uehleke and Poplawski-Tabarelli, 1977; Banerjee and
Van Dauren, 1978). However, in vivo, only extremely low
(indistinguishable from protein binding) or zero binding of TRI
metabolites to DNA has been reported (Parchman and Magee, 1982;
Stott et ai., 1982).
Mentoring is a core element of any successful teacher education or
coach education programme, with evidence suggesting that teachers
and coaches who are mentored early in their careers are more likely
to become effective practitioners. Physical education and sports
coaching share important pedagogical, practical and cultural
terrain, and mentoring has become a vital tool with which to
develop confidence, self-reflection and problem-solving abilities
in trainee and early career PE teachers and sports coaches. This is
the first book to introduce key theory and best practice in
mentoring, for mentors and mentees, focusing on the particular
challenges and opportunities in physical education and sports
coaching. Written by a team of international experts with extensive
practical experience of mentoring in PE and coaching, the book
clearly explains what mentoring is, how it should work, and how an
understanding of socio-cultural factors can form the foundation of
good mentoring practice. The book explores practical issues in
mentoring in physical education, including pre-service and newly
qualified teachers, and in coach education, including mentoring in
high performance sport and the role of national governing bodies.
Each chapter includes real mentoring stories, practical guidance
and definitions of key terms, and a 'pedagogy toolbox' brings
together the most important themes and techniques for easy
reference. This is a hugely useful book for all teacher and coach
education degree programmes, for any practising teacher or coach
involved in mentoring, and for schools, clubs, sports organisations
or NGBs looking to develop mentoring schemes.
Learning to Mentor in Sports Coaching is an innovative,
user-friendly, practical and theoretical guide for educating sports
coaches as mentors. It is the first book to employ design thinking
techniques to develop a new approach to mentor education in sports
coaching. Providing theoretical grounding in mentoring
conversations, design thinking and case study research, the book
centres on a series of redesigned mentoring conversations between
some of the world's leading sports coaching experts, coach
educators, mentors and mentees. It covers topics such as:
supporting novice volunteer coaches' learning the learning needs of
novice volunteer coaches and novice professional coaches
professional communities of learning in coaching the impact of
coaching behaviours on learning environments autonomy-supportive
learning environments coaching children, young people and adults
Closing with a critique of the sports coach mentor as design
thinker, Learning to Mentor in Sports Coaching is important reading
for any upper-level student or researcher working in sports
coaching, sports pedagogy or youth sport, and any coach looking to
integrate sound mentoring theory into their professional practice.
The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing
from a range of disciplines. Three of the essays in this collection
focus on Italy, with contributions on footwear in Lucca based on
documentary evidence of the fourteenth century; aristocratic
furnishings as described in a royal letter of the fifteenth
century, along with its first translation into English; and
Boccaccio's treatment of disguise involving Christian/Islamic
identity shifts in his Decameron. The Bayeux Tapestry is discussed
as a narrative artwork that adopts various costumes for semiotic
purposes. Another chapter considers surviving artefacts: a detailed
study of a piece of quilted fabric armour, one of two such items
surviving in Lubeck, Germany, reveals how it was made and suggests
reasons for some of the unusual features. The volume also includes
an investigation of the commercial vocabulary related to the
medieval textile and fur industries: the terms used in Britain for
measuring textile and fur are listed and discussed, especially the
unique use of Anglo-French "launces" in a document of 1300.
Contributors: Jane Bridgeman, Mark C. Chambers, Jessica Finley, Ana
Grinberg, Christine Meek, Gale R. Owen-Crocker
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Medieval English Theatre 41 (Paperback)
Sarah Carpenter, Elisabeth Dutton, Meg Twycross, Gordon L. Kipling; Contributions by Meg Twycross, …
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Discovery Miles 10 730
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Essays on the performance of drama from the middle ages, ranging
from the well-known cycles of York to matter from Iran. Medieval
English Theatre is the premier journal in early theatre studies.
Its name belies its wide range of interest: it publishes articles
on theatre and pageantry from across the British Isles up to the
opening of the London playhouses and the suppression of the civic
mystery cycles, and also includes contributions on European and
Latin drama, together with analyses of modern survivals or
equivalents, and of research productions of medieval plays. The
articles here focus on civic theatre and display. Chester, York,
Durham and Newcastle, and London. Practicalities are to the fore:
what the Drawers of Dee actually did, how the actors in the York
Corpus Christi Play knewwhat time it was, the difficulties
presented to London pageantry by unauthorised house-extensions and
horse-droppings. Even the stately entertainments of a royal tour by
James VI & I featured (in Newcastle, of course) negotiationover
the monopoly on coal disguised as a historical event in a play
about King Alfred and Canute. Ranging further afield is an
introduction to the living tradition of Iranian mystery plays,
whose history and development have somethought-provoking parallels
with those of medieval waggon plays in the West. Finally, the
director and producer discuss their 2019 production of John
Redford's Wit and Science by Edward's Boys, the first to be played
by aboys' company since the sixteenth century.
Maps and illustrations are included, as are a chronology of the
Wars for Independence, suggestions for further reading, and a
thorough index.
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