Yet, at this very moment when we do at last see ourselves as we are, neither cosy nor playful, but swaying out on the ultimate wind-whipped cornice that overhangs the unabiding void – we have never stood anywhere else,– when our reasons are silenced by the heavy huge derision,–There is nothing to say. There never has been,–and our wills chuck in their hands– There is no way out. ‘Caliban to the...

Yet, at this very moment when we do at last see ourselves as we are, neither cosy nor playful, but swaying out on the ultimate wind-whipped cornice that overhangs the unabiding void – we have never stood anywhere else,– when our reasons are silenced by the heavy huge derision,–There is nothing to say. There never has been,–and our wills chuck in their hands–There is no way out. ‘Caliban to the ...

The paper re-examines the underachievement debate from the perspective of the ‘discourse of derision’ that surrounds much writing in this area. It considers the contradictions and inconsistencies which underpin much of the discourse – from a reinterpretation of examination scores, to the conflation of the concepts of ‘under’ and ‘low’ achievement and finally to the lack of consensus on a means ...

This article is about how negative discourses of teacher education position educators and they might influence or inspire action. We use self-study methods to investigate the political dimension in two national contexts: Sweden USA. More specifically, we examine emotions stirred by positioning related being a educator those can be used take line resist boundaries that limit us within profession...

In a recently published paper, Fonagy and Target (1995) tell us of a patient with a congenital deformity of the spine, who, unkempt, unshaven, and dirty, declined with contempt any help from the analyst, while at the same time asking for it, and sneeringly rejected an interpre­ tation involving his dependency on the latter. This patient started an analytic session by suddenly taking off his shi...

Abstract This article argues that Ronsard’s Hymnes (1555–56) offer an ironic reading of ghost figures and the fear daimons. Through various strategies aim to create a form complicity with reader, challenge seriousness ghosts by mocking they induce. Throughout Hymnes, which double (a cryptic one, be understood only few, explicitly allegorical one), poet pokes fun at supposed power ghostly demoni...

For several generations the bold, vigorous, common-sense of tliat most able teacher, John Bell, has moulded and influenced the practice of the Edinburgh Medical School. He inspired the early attempts at ovariotomy; he also by his satire and invective delayed advance in the department of intestinal surgery. He held up to derision the writings of his colleague Benjamin Bell, and states " that if ...