This study identifies the current need for teachers to be aware of the potential demand upon them for job retraining and offers one possible approach to the problem of adjustment to new teaching assignments through the use of a self-directed learning (SDL) plan. The study is based upon the writer's five-year experiences in which she designed and implemented a SDL plan in ceramics which would enable her to teach ceramics at the secondary level. The main characteristics of an SDL plan, the process of gaining skills and knowledge, and the evolution of the ceramics program are discussed. Visual and verbal examples are included to document important procedures and processes. Conclusions are offered that SDL is a feasible, practical and flexible learning approach that has benefits for both teacher and student learners. Conclusions are that SDL can be adapted to others' needs in that the plan can be modified to be used in a number of subject areas. / Education, Faculty of / Curriculum and Pedagogy (EDCP), Department of / Graduate

Nicaragua falls on the edge of what is often referred to as Mesoamerica’s “southern periphery.” Only a small amount of archaeological research has been conducted in Nicaragua, and there has been little of it in the northwestern portion of the country. Because of this, there are no local ceramic typologies or sequences which can make the identification and classification of artifacts difficult. The proposed research focuses on investigating the ceramic assemblage from the Santa Cristina archaeological site located in the Department of Chinandega, in northwest Nicaragua. The goal of this research will be to create a ceramic typology for the site, taking into consideration ceramic wares, groups, types, and varieties that have already been identified in other parts of Central America and defining taxa that have not been previously identified. Establishing the ceramic typology and defining taxa will help establish cultural affiliations as well as chronological markers. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2020. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

The diploma work is focused on the ceramic tool materials and its effective use. The introductory part of the work contains the detail characteristic of the ceramic tool materials from the point of view of their dividing, physic-mechanical propertis, production methods and marking. The main part of the work is focused to judging of the ceramic portion at the production assortment of the top World producers of tool materials and to evaluation of cutting ability of the particular materials of these producers. The detail analysis of recommended cutting conditions, which is aimed to an effective use of the ceramic materials, had been worked up for this purpose. The technical economic analysis confirms, that the present effective aplications of ceramic are limited only for specific cases of machining cast irons, steels and alloys.

The faceneck vessel is a significant and prolific ceramic form in the visual culture of the Wari civilization, a powerful polity with formidable cultural influence during the Middle Horizon Period of Andean prehistory. Numerous large and elaborately modeled and painted examples have been unearthed from prominent Wari centers, and hundreds of smaller examples have been found in tombs or reside in collections without provenience. The faceneck form was produced in all epochs of the Middle Horizon and has been found at Wari sites across the entire region of Wari influence. Furthermore, this vessel type has antecedents that can be traced back to the second millennium B.C., was produced by various Middle Horizon societies, and continued to be produced after the collapse of the Wari Empire in A.D. 1000. Nevertheless, the faceneck vessel has never been at the center of any major study and little is known about the meaning or use of this elusive ceramic form. This study aims to shed light on the faceneck vessel in the context of Wari visual culture by bringing together more than 200 examples drawn from collections in Peru, the United States, and Europe. Through the formal analysis and stylistic comparison of facenecks from all over the Wari sphere of influence, this study looks closely at how the faceneck form may have functioned within an ancient Andean social network that included both human and non-human participants. Scholarship on ancient Andean visual culture has recently been undergoing an ontological turn as art historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists have been applying a localized ontological perspective to their interpretations of the material record. This study applies Andean perspectivism, an ontological viewpoint that considers the significance of feasting rituals and ancestor veneration within an animate world, to think through the potential for faceneck vessels to have participated as social agents in complex rituals involving valuable offerings and communion with the dead. Ultimately, I conclude that faceneck vessels, as anthropomorphized objects projecting a powerful sense of personhood, likely functioned as active participants in rituals involving the transfer of offerings between disparate parties. I argue that as full-bodied clay persons, faceneck vessels are well equipped to provide material bodies for the absent bodies of the recipients of offerings, such as disembodied ancestors. Serving as surrogate bodies, facenecks may have helped fulfill certain critical acts of reciprocity that were required by the Andean doctrine of ayni. This study brings attention to the prominent status of ceramics in the ancient Andes and calls for further study into how other uniquely Andean ceramic forms may have played similarly powerful roles in ritual activity.

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