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Perceptions of the actions, initiatives, policies and successes, or otherwise, of the post 1997 UK Government for the education of gifted and talented children, as outlined in its Excellence in Cities proposals - Thomas, Meurig Owen
This paper enquires into the implementation of the Government’s directives for the education of the ‘gifted and talented’, as specified in the ‘Excellence in Cities’ (EiC)document. The term ‘gifted and talented’ (GaT) has been determined by government diktat and its appropriateness is examined, as are the arguments about precise definitions, the identification of such children and the rationale for the Government choice. The current concern has its roots in the past, demanding an examination of the political and educational raison d’être for the evolving policies. The assessment of the results of such policies and arrangements sheds light on their suitability...
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Student voice in Building Schools for the Future - Mason, Wendy
The research explores student voice in the process of designing schools, using a case study of a Buildings Schools for the Future (BSF) One School Pathfinder project, 2005 – 2007. The suggestions made by the students during the design development were compared with those raised by the staff and parents to discover if the student voice brought anything different or unique to the project. Comparisons were then made with the Student Council’s contribution on projects at two schools local to the case study school. To explore the contribution made by ‘non traditional students’ a similar exercise was conducted in a...
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Sexing up the international - Obendorf, Simon Benjamin
This thesis takes sexuality as its subject matter and uses a methodology informed by postcolonial studies to explore new possibilities for thinking about the international, its construction, and its contemporary politics. I argue that postcolonial readings of sexuality can impel us to rethink the meanings and politics of international theory and to challenge notions that have come to appear fixed and unchanging. The thesis canvasses how such an intervention might occur – calling especially for a focus on the local and the everyday – and considers both the utility and the limits of the contributions sexuality might make to a...
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Preserving the Hand-Painted Films of Margaret Tait - Winn, Joss
In this paper I discuss a small amount of the work of Margaret Tait. The Introduction offers a personal discussion on the profession of Archiving which I revisit in my conclusion. Section One provides a general overview of Margaret Tait’s life and influences. This brief biographical information serves as a background for the more substantial technical discussion in Section Two.
Though I do enjoy Tait’s films and find her work compelling, I should emphasise that I am not concerned with providing a critique of Margaret Tait’s films nor a complete overview of her life and work. I deem that to be...
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The challenges facing leaders and managers in the independent special school sector – a changing agenda - Roberts, Lesley
This study investigates the challenges facing leaders and managers of independent special schools during the period during when inclusion of SEN students in mainstream schools has been government policy. The challenges investigated centre around ascertaining the key role of these schools at this time, the general challenges they have faced, and the implications for them in the years ahead. This has included research on how independent special schools respond to external demands and expectations and how they balance these with their own internal imperatives.
The research was carried out using an empirical phenomenological approach, with the objective of gathering...
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A reflective architecture to support dynamic software evolution - Rank, Stephen
This thesis presents work which is concerned with the run-time
evolution of component-based software systems. In particular, the
main result of the research presented here is a framework which is
used to model and control the architecture of a software system. This
framework allows the run-time manipulation of the components which
make up a software system. The framework makes the architecture of
software systems visible, and allows interaction with it, using a
reflective meta-object protocol.
The motivating objectives of this work are providing a framework to
support architectural flexibility, higher-level intervention, safe
changes, and architectural visibility in software systems.
The framework's behaviour and structure was motivated by a set of
case-studies which...
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