The purpose of this causal-comparative study was to determine if a relationship exists between implementing Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences and fifth graders' attitudes toward school. The focus population consisted of fifth grade students within a 300-mile radius of Kingsport, Tennessee. Surveys were administered to students at 15 elementary schools. Data were collected from five schools identified as implementing multiple intelligences theory, five schools identified as partially implementing multiple intelligences theory, and five schools identified as not implementing multiple intelligences theory in educational planning. Data collected primarily focused on students' attitudes toward school; however, information concerning gender was also solicited. The study employed quantitative data, and descriptive analysis was performed. Findings indicated that there was no significant difference in students' attitudes toward school among fifth graders attending schools implementing multiple intelligences theory, fifth graders attending schools partially implementing multiple intelligences theory, and fifth graders attending schools not implementing multiple intelligences theory. There were no gender related differences found. All 15 schools participating in the study could be characterized as institutions having good academic records, community support, and a dedicated faculty. The major conclusion was that these factors and others identified in the review of literature could affect students' attitudes toward school and possibly contribute to the closeness of the means among the three implementation groups.

Syftet med examensarbetet är att undersöka ett specifikt arbetssätt som pedagoger kan använda sig av för att skapa en stimulerande undervisningsmiljö med hjälp av uterummet, dvs hur man som pedagog kan använda skolträdgården som ett pedagogiskt verktyg. Arbetet utgår ifrån frågeställningarna: Hur arbetar pedagogerna med en skolträdgård som ett pedagogiskt redskap? Vilka motiv och teorier ligger bakom pedagogernas val att använda sig av skolträdgården som ett pedagogiskt verktyg? Hur upplever eleverna arbetet i skolträdgården? De metoder som används för att besvara frågeställningarna är dels kvalitativa intervjuer med pedagoger som i någon form arbetar med en skolträdgård i sin undervisning och dels en kvantitativ enkät ställd till eleverna som pedagogerna arbetar med. Undersökningsgruppen består av fem pedagoger som arbetar på tre olika kommunala skolor i södra Sverige samt ett urval av deras elever mellan åldrarna 6 – 12 år. Empirin har ställts mot tidigare forskning som handlar om skolgården och skolträdgården som ett pedagogiskt redskap, utomhuspedagogik, hälsoaspekten samt John Deweys teori om aktivitetspedagogik och Howard Gardners teori om människans multipla intelligenser. Slutsatserna utav detta examensarbete är att skolträdgården bidrar till en stimulerande undervisningsmiljö i grundskolans tidigare år men att det inte är problemfritt att arbeta med detta arbetssätt. Majoriteten av eleverna är positiva till arbetet med skolträdgården men fler vill vara med och bestämma.

A book review on Psychoanalytische perspectieven: conversations with Howard Shevrin. His work, his research, his ideas

[pt] Esta tese realiza um estudo da história e do desenvolvimento das agências de propaganda do Brasil, a fim de compreender os principais movimentos do campo da publicidade no país ao longo de cem anos. Parte-se da premissa de que a agência é a organização responsável por traçar as condições de existência do setor da publicidade e do aparecimento social do anúncio, como resultado e expressão de tipos de interação social e ação coletiva. O marco cronológico é fixado a partir da fundação da Eclética, em 1914, a primeira empresa que elabora uma disposição profissionalizante e coopera para a formação de um segmento profissional, até então inexistente. A pesquisa procura mapear o curso das agências, suas conexões com as transformações histórico-culturais, realçando o desenvolvimento empresarial para discutir o peso do discurso publicitário na constituição dos códigos culturais. O foco recai no exame dos agentes sociais e suas ações, como partes determinantes da produção do conhecimento e da elaboração das identidades culturais em um determinado sistema social. Através da pesquisa bibliográfica e aproximação da rotina produtiva da publicidade, é possível perceber a importância da atuação conjunta de identidades para a viabilidade do trabalho. Neste sentido, a teoria da ação coletiva de Howard Becker ancora a reflexão sobre as identidades culturais dos sujeitos que produzem os anúncios dentro de uma agência de propaganda e suas formas de operação, elaboradas, historicamente, para a produção deste dispositivo de comunicação. O quadro teórico adotado também enfatiza a perspectiva cultural da publicidade e trabalhos que destacam a preponderância do simbólico na construção dos seus significados públicos. Além da conjuntura interna das empresas de propaganda, o estudo também pondera, de forma mais ampla, a publicidade como uma narrativa central na sociedade moderno-contemporânea, uma vez que ela produz e faz circular temas que impactam subjetividades e oferecem componentes para o estabelecimento de signos e práticas que nos definem como uma sociedade de consumo. / [en] This dissertation provides an interpretative analysis on advertising agencies in Brazil in order to broadly examine the main movements in the field of advertising during the past one hundred years. We have relied on the assumption that the agency is the ownership that establishes conditions for the advertising sector s recognition as well as the social emergence of the ad, as an outcome and expression of social interaction and collective action types. The chronological framework is set as of the establishment of Eclética, in 1914, the first organization that devises a professional approach and sets the capacity building of a yet unknown professional segment. The survey pursues a constant on-going mapping of the agencies, the paths, and linkages with historical-cultural transformations, enhancing the entrepreneurial development in order to discuss the burden of the advertising speech vis-a-vis the cultural code heritage. The core focus is on the consideration of the social players and their actions as inherent part of the production of knowledge and issuance of cultural identities in a specific social system. By means of a bibliographic intersection with the productive routine of advertising, have endeavored to reach the final result of a joint performance of identities which crossing is of the utmost importance for its feasibility. Furthermore, Howard Becker s collective action theory anchors a profound reflection of the cultural identities of the subjects that convey the ads in an advertising agency, inasmuch as its ways of performance, historically produced for this communication device. The theoretical framework that has been considered, highlights as well, the cultural perspective of advertising and papers that enhance the prominence of symbolism when establishing cultural meanings. Besides the internal environment of the advertising organization, this survey contemplates, in a broader sense, advertising as a central narrative of modern contemporary culture inasmuch as it produces and circles issues that impact subjectivities and convey components to establish signs and practices that define us as a Consumption Society.

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Den här studien undersöker hur filmmusik har använts som ett berättande verktyg i Peter Jacksons filmer Hobbit: En oväntad resa (2012) och Sagan om ringen: Härskarringen (2001). Till totalt sex filmer har Howard Shore skapat musik för att beskriva miljöer, karaktärer och folkslag i en värld som baseras på J.R.R Tolkiens fantasyroman från mitten av 50-talet.  Då filmerna inom varje trilogi har släppts med relativt korta mellanrum så jämförs ett antal scener i den första filmen ur vardera trilogi där tidsspannet mellan utgivningsåren är betydligt längre. Urvalet av scener representerar liknande aspekter ur vardera trilogi och analyseras därefter utifrån ett audiovisuellt perspektiv där Johnny Wingstedts teorier om berättarfunktioner ligger som grund. Eventuella likheter och skillnader diskuteras i uppsatsens avslutande kapitel.  Resultaten visar på hur musiken används för att komplettera och förstärka scenerna i filmerna, men också hur musiken vägleder narrativet genom upprepade användningar av ledmotiv i olika versioner. Ledmotiven används på så vis som ett berättande verktyg utöver filmens dialog och visuella aspekter.

Cette thèse est une étude de la géométrie de l'interaction dans le facteur hyperfini (GdI5), introduite par Jean-Yves Girard, et de ses liens avec les constructions plus anciennes. Nous commençons par montrer comment obtenir des adjonctions purement géométriques comme une identité entre des ensembles de cycles apparaissant entre des graphes. Il est alors possible, en choisissant une fonction qui mesure les cycles, d'obtenir une adjonction numérique. Nous montrons ensuite comment construire, sur la base d'une adjonction numérique, une géométrie de l'interaction pour la logique linéaire multiplicative additive où les preuves sont interprétées par des graphes. Nous expliquons également comment cette construction permet de définir une sémantique dénotationnelle de MALL, et une notion de vérité. Nous étudions finalement une généralisation de ce cadre afin d'interpréter les exponentielles et le second ordre. Les constructions sur les graphes étant paramétrées par une fonction de mesure des cycles, nous entreprenons ensuite l'étude de deux cas particuliers. Le premier s'avère être une version combinatoire de la GdI5, et nous obtenons donc une interprétation géométrique de l'orthogonalité basée sur le déterminant de Fuglede-Kadison. Le second cas particulier est une version combinatoire des constructions plus anciennes de la géométrie de l'interaction, où l'orthogonalité est basée sur la nilpotence. Ceci permet donc de comprendre le lien entre les différentes versions de la géométrie de l'interaction, et d'en déduire que les deux adjonctions — qui semblent à première vue si différentes — sont des conséquences d'une même identité géométrique. / This work is a study of the geometry of interaction in the hyperfinite factor introduced by Jean-Yves Girard, and of its relations with ancient constructions. We start by showing how to obtain purely geometrical adjunctions as an identity between sets of cycles appearing between graphs. It is then possible, by chosing a function that measures those cycles, to obtain a numerical adjunction. We then show how to construct, on the basis of such a numerical adjunction, a geometry of interaction for multiplicative additive linear logic where proofs are interpreted as graphs. We also explain how to define from this construction a denotational semantics for MALL, and a notion of truth. We extend this setting in order to deal with exponential connectives and show a full soundness result for a variant of elementary linear logic (ELL). Since the constructions on graphs we define are parametrized by a function that measures cycles, we then focus our study to two particular cases. The first case turns out to be a combinatorial version of GoI5, and we thus obtain a geometrical caracterisation of its orthogonality which is based on Fuglede-Kadison determinant. The second particular case we study will giveus a refined version of older constructions of geometry of interaction, where orthogonality is based on nilpotency. This allows us to show how these two versions of GoI, which seem quite different, are related and understand that the respective adjunctions are both consequences of a unique geometrical property. In the last part, we study the notion of subjective truth.

Following Russell Re Manning, I acknowledge the diversity and persistence of natural theology. Going further than Re Manning, however, I propose a 5-type taxonomy stretching from natural theology as natural religion to natural theology as theology of nature. Having met this descriptive responsibility, I then turn in a second chapter to prescriptive possibility in dialogue with the Anglican theologian Howard E. Root (1926–2007). An early advocate of natural theology and the arts, Root called in his 1962 essay, “Beginning All Over Again,” for awareness (i.e., of the arts) rather than formal argument. Critiqued by E.L. Mascall and others, Root responded in his 1972 Bampton Lectures, “The Limits of Radicalism.” Never published, I discovered these lectures in an uncatalogued box at Lambeth Palace Library, London. Drawing upon these lectures, as well as other archival materials, I consider Root's contribution to a natural theology of the arts. That said, Root's work requires further development, and so in an effort to recover Root I have supplemented his contribution with the more recent work of David Brown, his unacknowledged theological heir. In an effort to recover Root more fully I turn in a third chapter to consider the philosopher William Desmond, the result of which is a metaxologically reformulated Root-Brown hybrid. In a fourth and final chapter, I consider the American contemporary artist Jonathan Borofsky and several others in order to see how this theoretical frame might be applied in practice as a metaxological natural theology of the arts.

Den här uppsatsen diskuterar John Howard Yoders teologiskt motiverade sexuella våld, med hjälp av queerteologen Marcella Althaus-Reid och den feministiska teologen Mary Daly, och även andra teologiska perspektiv. Särskilt fokus läggs på hur en teologi för syndarens upprättelse och försoning riskerar att osynliggöra skadade och sårbara personer, hur en idealiserad bild av församlingen riskerar att skada den personliga omdömesförmågan, och hur ett profetiskt motiverat gränsöverskridande riskerar att legitimera våld. / This thesis aims to discuss the theologically motivated sexual violence of John Howard Yoder, in the light of the writings of queer theologian Marcella Althaus-Reid and also feminist theologian Mary Daly, and others. Attention is put on how the hurt persons might be left out of a theology for redemption of the sinner, how an idealized view of the congregation risk hurting the personal capacity for judgement, and on how a prophetic calling to cross boundaries might end up protecting transgressive violence.

At the heart of the connections between Proof Theory and Type Theory, the Curry-Howard correspondence provides proof-terms with computational features and equational theories, i.e. notions of normalisation and equivalence. This dissertation contributes to extend its framework in the directions of proof-theoretic formalisms (such as sequent calculus) that are appealing for logical purposes like proof-search, powerful systems beyond propositional logic such as type theories, and classical (rather than intuitionistic) reasoning. Part I is entitled Proof-terms for Intuitionistic Implicational Logic. Its contributions use rewriting techniques on proof-terms for natural deduction (Lambda-calculus) and sequent calculus, and investigate normalisation and cut-elimination, with call-by-name and call-by-value semantics. In particular, it introduces proof-term calculi for multiplicative natural deduction and for the depth-bounded sequent calculus G4. The former gives rise to the calculus Lambdalxr with explicit substitutions, weakenings and contractions that refines the Lambda-calculus and Beta-reduction, and preserves strong normalisation with a full notion of composition of substitutions. The latter gives a new insight to cut-elimination in G4. Part II, entitled Type Theory in Sequent Calculus develops a theory of Pure Type Sequent Calculi (PTSC), which are sequent calculi that are equivalent (with respect to provability and normalisation) to Pure Type Systems but better suited for proof-search, in connection with proof-assistant tactics and proof-term enumeration algorithms. Part III, entitled Towards Classical Logic, presents some approaches to classical type theory. In particular it develops a sequent calculus for a classical version of System F_omega. Beyond such a type theory, the notion of equivalence of classical proofs becomes crucial and, with such a notion based on parallel rewriting in the Calculus of Structures, we compute canonical representatives of equivalent proofs.