title: Re-configuring and deterritorializing subject↔object relations in education

authors: Tesar, Marek

abstract: For many years in the 20th Century, Western thinking in education has been defined against the background of Cartesian dualisms, both with respect to philosophy and methodology. And it was this Cartesian thinking, the separation of the discursive and material, and the elevation of the philosophy of the subject, the human I, that gave birth to the postmodern era, and in recent years, to the notions that we tend to call new materialisms and post-humanisms. And it was modernity and its ruins, that gave birth to the re-writing of the human self, and of subject↔object relations. As cultural critic Greenberg (1973) argues: “the essence of Modernism lies in the use of characteristic methods of a discipline to criticize the discipline itself, not in order to subvert it but in order to entrench it more firmly in its area of competence. Immanuel Kant used logic to establish the limits of logic, and while he withdrew much from its old jurisdiction, logic was left all the more secure in what there remained to it” (p. 66).

text: Re-configuring and deterritorializing subject↔object relations in education For many years in the 20th Century, Western thinking in education has been defined against the background of Cartesian dualisms, both with respect to philosophy and methodology. And it was this Cartesian thinking, the separation of the discursive and material, and the elevation of the philosophy of the subject, the human I, that gave birth to the postmodern era, and in recent years, to the notions that we tend to call new materialisms and post-humanisms. And it was modernity and its ruins, that gave birth to the re-writing of the human self, and of subject↔object relations. As cultural critic Greenberg (1973) argues: “the essence of Modernism lies in the use of characteristic methods of a discipline to criticize the discipline itself, not in order to subvert it but in order to entrench it more firmly in its area of competence. Immanuel Kant used logic to establish the limits of logic, and while he withdrew much from its old jurisdiction, logic was left all the more secure in what there remained to it” (p. 66).

year: 2016

title: Over the threshold: learning and student retention in electronic courses

authors: Scott, Jonathan B.

subjects: electronics

abstract: Retention of students in early electronics courses is a problem acknowledged worldwide. It is a particular problem in universities, such as the University of Waikato, that have a common first-year programme because students can change streams (e.g. from electrical to mechanical) at the end of the first year. It is commonly believed that the major reason for the low level of student retention is practical engagement—mechanical engineers can see and get their hands on boats, cars, propellers, cogwheels and so forth from the start, while electronics is too small to see and handle, and its workings are alien to most school leavers.

text: Over the threshold: learning and student retention in electronic courses Retention of students in early electronics courses is a problem acknowledged worldwide. It is a particular problem in universities, such as the University of Waikato, that have a common first-year programme because students can change streams (e.g. from electrical to mechanical) at the end of the first year. It is commonly believed that the major reason for the low level of student retention is practical engagement—mechanical engineers can see and get their hands on boats, cars, propellers, cogwheels and so forth from the start, while electronics is too small to see and handle, and its workings are alien to most school leavers.

year: 2010-06

title: Ōpōtiki Mai Tawhiti Kapa Haka

authors: Maxwell, Te Kahautu

abstract: Ōpōtiki Mai Tawhiti competed in Te Matatini World Championship Kapa Haka Competition and placed second overall out of 45 kapa haka. Placed 1st Male Leader, 1st Waiata a Ringa Composition, 1st, Poi Composition, 2nd Haka Composition, 1st overall composition, 1st Waiata Tira, 1st Waiata a Ringa, 3rd Whakakeke, 2nd Poi.

text: Ōpōtiki Mai Tawhiti Kapa Haka Ōpōtiki Mai Tawhiti competed in Te Matatini World Championship Kapa Haka Competition and placed second overall out of 45 kapa haka. Placed 1st Male Leader, 1st Waiata a Ringa Composition, 1st, Poi Composition, 2nd Haka Composition, 1st overall composition, 1st Waiata Tira, 1st Waiata a Ringa, 3rd Whakakeke, 2nd Poi.

year: 2015