...This chapter examines how Japanese-style gardens can provide places for learning about aesthetics and transculturalism, and for maintaining constructs of cultural identity. It argues that gardens offer sites where visitors can enjoy aesthetically rich somatic experiences while learning about...

... Laud William deafness deaf Amyraut Moise Pelagianism Timson John Collinges John Overton Richard Aristotle Aristotelean La Peyrère Isaac Saunders Humphrey Blake Thomas Court of Wards Edwards Jonathan Watts Isaac changelings Enlightenment Intellectual disability Learning disability...

...This chapter is a survey of first generation Quaker attitudes towards unlearnedness. Quakers regarded learning as a demarcation between the godly who relied on inward learning and the ungodly who adopted a rational approach to knowledge. Their antihumanism even led them to consider spirituality...

... that inequalities could not simply be abolished, relations and roles were debated and remoulded. The Fed levered genuine learning opportunities and avenues of ‘empowerment’, enabling participants to achieve personal and social change through writing and publishing. While activists drew on Freire in expressing...

...Policy documents on education tend to envisage the activity of learning in terms of the acquisition of skills. Yet, this notion implies that individuals are composed of discrete accomplishments detached from the core of their personalities, and in some way this does violence to the unity...

... influence of family history, the impact of adult education and other forms of lifelong learning. The book considers the debates generated by academics, including the divergence of views over local and regional issues, and the importance of standards set by the Victoria County History (VCH). Also discussed...

...) in Bosnia, looking in particular at the role of learning, path dependency and unintended consequences. In this chapter it is argued that a focus on institutions and political conflict can help us better understand the development of EU foreign and security policy in the past two decades and, in particular...

... and development of bureaucratic organisations, formal rules and the informal norms shared among policymakers. Second, this institutionalisation process developed by default rather than design. In this regard, path dependency, unintended consequences and learning have become key driving forces behind...

... material, people, and practices in the prehistoric Pacific. As the study makes clear, especially when small-scale and pre-modern societies are concerned, kin networks are crucial vectors for the dissemination of new ideas, technologies, and practices particularly through teaching and learning...

..., and interview data from British policymakers, the chapter will argue that it was not slow learning that delayed the ‘return’ to Sunningdale for the British, but the realities of events on the ground in Northern Ireland and the political attitudes of those involved in the conflict. The British were key players...

... Parliament had been prorogued. The fundamental element of slow learning from 1973 to 1998 was that if Unionists wished to secure Northern Ireland’s position within the Union then Nationalists had to be given an equal share in its governance; and if Nationalists wished to persuade Unionists that their future...

...This introductory chapter discusses the theme of this volume, which is about Italian language learning in England during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. It demonstrates how the impetus for the fruitful engagement with Italian materials in English poetry and drama at the turn...

...This book offers a comprehensive account of the methods and practice of learning modern languages, particularly Italian, in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England. It suggests that there is a fundamental connection between these language-learning habits and the techniques for both...

...This collection explores how concepts of intellectual or learning disability evolved from a range of influences, gradually developing from earlier and decidedly distinct concepts, including ‘idiocy’ and ‘folly’, which were themselves generated by very specific social and intellectual environments...

...David Marquand revisits the trajectory of his thinking and writing across his varied life experiences. Above all, Marquand places value on the ‘mutual learning’ that goes with pluralist democracy as well as the potential, through public deliberation, for citizens to transform their outlooks...

... an innovative strategic-projection model that sought to delineate between four modes of Europeanisation: the effective obligation of membership, differential empowerment and strategic adaptation within government, administrative transfer through intergovernmental learning, and the desire to maximise...

... corporate operations, the company's capacity for organisational learning, and the environmental reputation of the company. Corporate Actor model environmental reputation company specific factors ExxonMobil organisational learning proactive strategies reactive strategies Shell carbon intensity coal...

... de Wix Primary School Ginnis P Honeywell Primary School learning process Macron Emmanuel mistakes valuing of French language and culture Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle LFCG unconditional positive regard National Health Service NHS repeating years of schooling Rogers C African...

...This chapter explores in detail John Toland's intellectual transactions with Lord Robert Molesworth, one of the commonwealth politicians in his circle, in order to allow a more reflective appreciation of the function of his learning and ideas. The first result of Toland's relationship...

... was fundamentally affected and shaped by Europeanisation. This chapter looks at the adaptation and change that occurred in institutional structures and policy over the period since membership and evaluates the sources and degree of policy learning and adaptation. British Commonwealth de Valera Eamon Fianna Fáil...