Historical Talk Research Articles

Z poezją łatwiej uczyć polskiego i Polski. Od wiersza Jana Brzechwy do kulinarnych obyczajów

Autorka pisze o komunikacyjnym, kontekstowym i kulturowym nauczaniu języka polskiego jako obcego, pokazując jak można w tym celu wykorzystać literaturę. Podstawę literacką stanowi wiersz dla dzieci Jana Brzechwy Na straganie. W artykule pokazano jak od ćwiczeń wstępnych, językowych, przygotowujących do odbioru wiersza można przejść do utrwalania typowych fraz języka polskiego. Utwór Brzechwy jest na zajęciach kolejno podstawą do poznania słownictwa związanego z nazwami warzyw, do rozpoznania emocji, które towarzyszą rozmowom na straganie, by na koniec doprowadzić do pogadanki kulinarnej i historycznej związanej z tematem kulinariów.

WESTERN SAHARA: Historic Talks

WESTERN SAHARA: Historic Talks

North and South Korea team up to tackle TB and malaria

The agreement is the first joint public-health initiative since the country’s leaders met for historic talks in September. The agreement is the first joint public-health initiative since the country’s leaders met for historic talks in September.

Linguagem matemática e comunicação: Um enfoque interdisciplinar

Este texto tem o objetivo de sugerir um enfoque interdisciplinar que visa à comunicação entre aluno e professor no processo de ensino e de aprendizagem da linguagem matemática. Esse enfoque é tratado sob o ponto de vista de diferentes olhares: o filosófico discute a natureza do objeto matemático; o antropológico aponta para a relação que o aluno estabelece com os objetos matemáticos e as suas representações; o histórico discorre sobre o discurso que fala da dificuldade da matemática; o psicológico destaca o processo cognitivo do aluno quando lida com conceitos matemáticos; e o semiótico trata das representações dos objetos matemáticos. Para tanto, analisa-se as implicações de algumas características da linguagem matemática nos processos de seu ensino e de sua aprendizagem, bem como se reflete acerca do papel da comunicação nesse processo que envolve os seguintes temas: a relação entre a língua natural e a linguagem matemática; e os jogos de linguagem como forma de vida para que haja a comunicação entre professor e aluno.

Supporting parent-child conversations in a history museum

Museums can serve as rich resources for families to learn about the social world through engagement with exhibits and parent-child conversation about exhibits. This study examined ways of engaging parents and child about two related exhibits at a cultural and history museum. Sample participants consisted of families visiting the Animal Antics and the Gone Potty exhibits at the British Museum. Whilst visiting two exhibits at the British Museum, 30 families were assigned to use a backpack of activities, 13 were assigned to a booklet of activities, and 15 were assigned to visit the exhibits without props (control condition). Compared to the families in the control condition, the interventions increased the amount of time parents and children engaged together with the exhibit. Additionally, recordings of the conversations revealed that adults asked more questions related to the exhibits when assigned to the two intervention conditions compared to the control group. Children engaged in more historical talk when using the booklets than in the other two conditions. The findings suggest that providing support with either booklets or activities for children at exhibits may prove beneficial to parent-child conversations and engagement with museum exhibits.

ON TOUR WITH ACS SPEAKER SERVICE

ARMED WITH A GOOD ROAD MAP and a healthy appetite, former American Chemical Society president Ned D. Heindel set out in late September to crisscross the state of Tennessee. I tagged along for the first half of the trip to witness this ACS Speaker Service veteran and longtime volunteer hard at work. Our first stop was Memphis, where we joined members of the Memphis Section for dinner at Buckman Laboratories. After dinner, Heindel gave a freewheeling talk about the history of commercialized quackery. Our next stop was 160 miles north, in Murray, Ky., where members of the Kentucky Lake Section had gathered for dinner and to hear Heindel give a historical talk about folk medicine in the 19th century. By 9:30 PM, we were on the road again, headed south toward Nashville, where I would catch my return flight to Washington, D.C. Heindel would continue on to Chattanooga, Knoxville, and, finally, Johnson City. By the ...

Symmetries of fermions in the lowest Landau level

In the first paper we presented a general theory of conformal fields on a complex plane, and in the second paper we wrote down, for the first time, a supersymmetric transformation of the conformal fields. I think I was expected to present a historical talk at the conference. But, since I had already written an essay on the reminiscences of my entire research activities in [3] and furthermore since a part of the article has been printed again in [4], I chose not to talk about my recollections on this matter. Instead, under the title Symmetries of Fermions in the Lowest Landau Level, I discussed the subjects, which may or may not be suited to the theme of this conference, namely (a) the dynamic symmetries of edge excitations and (b) the method of collective coordinates for planar fermions and the bosonization. Since I believe the viewpoint I took on the latter subject is unconventional, in this written report I expanded the discussion and have written it in detail.

The house that Jack built: the collected lectures of Jack Spicer

The House That Jack Built collects for first time four historic talks given by controversial poet Jack Spicer just before his early death in 1965. These lively and provocative lectures function as a gloss to Spicer's own poetry, a general discourse on poetics, and a cautionary handbook for young poets. This long-awaited document of Spicer's unorthodox poetic vision, what Robin Blaser has called the practice of outside, is an authoritative edition of an underground classic. Peter Gizzi's afterword elucidates some of fundamental issues of Spicer's poetry and lectures, including concept of poetic dictation, which Spicer renovates with vocabularies of popular culture: radio, Martians, and baseball; his use of California landscape as a backdrop for his poems; and his visual imagination in relation to aesthetics of west-coast funk assemblage. This book delivers a firsthand account of contrary and turbulent poetics that define Spicer's ongoing contribution to an international avant-garde.

Early history of Los Alamos with emphasis on the two Van de Graaff accelerators from the University of Wisconsin

The early involvement of the author in the nuclear bomb project in the period commencing January 1942 at Madison, Wisconsin and ending July 16, 1945 with the test explosion at Trinity site is discussed. The text is based on a historical talk.