Telling Tales: Genre and Narrative in Post-Soviet Poetry

Two Telling Tales

I am writing this despite a reluctance to add to the chorus of criticisms of the scientific publication process — an industry full of easy over-generalisations and proposals to discard babies with their bathwater. But a couple of recent publications do, I think, illustrate some recurring problems in the scientific “literature”. One of these is highlighted by the Graur et al. [1] paper in Genome...

Teens telling tales: how maternal and peer audiences support narrative identity development.

Prior research has shown that parents help children to develop the requisite skills to construct an autobiographical self in past event conversations, yet research in adolescence is lacking. Further, friendships increase in importance during adolescence, and these new relationships may play a role in narrative identity development. The current study examined past event conversations between ado...

Telling Tales: Models, Stories and Meanings

ion versus idealisation Applying both the abstraction (physical modelling) and idealisation (system identification) processes to the same situation can often be very revealing. For example, ignoring friction, inertia and compressibility, and using physical reasoning, leads to an integrator model of an actuator. Including inertia and viscous friction, and applying Newton’s Laws, leads to a model...

Narrative and story telling Chair :

This paper will describe technical developments within the Kidstory project aimed at moving the technology used within schools to aid the acquisition of storytelling skills in young children away from the model of one or two children sitting in front of a monitor. We are aiming towards scenarios of larger groups interacting naturally with responsive objects that hide the manner in which they co...

Portuguese Narrative Poetry