A careful analysis of the teacher-student relationship at any level, inside or outside the school, reveals its fundamentally narrative character. This relationship involves a narrating Subject (the teacher) and patient, listening objects (the students). The contents, whether values or empirical dimensions of reality, tend in the process of being narrated to become lifeless and petrified. Educat...

In his article "Borges's Postmodern Landscape" Mario Vrbančić examines specific constructs of space -among them heterotopia (Michel Foucault) and hyperreality (Jean Baudrillard) -and applies them to narration and narrative strategies in Jorge Luis Borges's texts. Vrbančić posits that postmodern mapping undermines our known familiar geography and that authors like Borges who experimented with di...

This study builds on the multi-stakeholder perspective to explore nature of stakeholder engagement across key areas value creation in museum context. The empirical research followed a multiple case design, based three cases selected accordance with maximum variation strategy. investigation involved qualitative content analysis primary and secondary sources. findings reveal context-bound percept...

We present a novel interaction technique that helps to make printed information more accessible to those with low or no textual literacy skills. AudioCanvas allows cameraphone users to interact directly with their own photos of media items to receive audio feedback or narration on demand.

The Basic Communicative Spaces Network (BCSN – Sanders et al., 2009) accounts for crucial semantic–pragmatic characteristics of causal relations expressed by frequently used Dutch causal connectives. BCSN integrates subjectivity theory, domain theory, and mental spaces theory to explain their linguistic categorization. Starting with the original three-way classification of content, epistemic, a...

The concept of a local audio environment is to have sound playback locally restricted such that, ideally, adjacent regions of an indoor or outdoor space could exhibit their own individual audio content without interfering with each other. This would enable people to listen to their content of choice without disturbing others next to them, yet, without any headphones to block conversation. In pr...

OBJECTIVES: Rational minds make logical connections between cause and effect, whereas emotional minds make no such distinctions, following instinctive logic. This paper investigates episodic emotional memory in patients with panic disorder with agoraphobia in comparison to a control group. METHOD: Sixty volunteers, 30 patients with panic disorder with agoraphobia and 30 healthy controls were ex...

The aim of this study was to gather university student perspectives on a new type of assessment task requesting them to create “blended media”. Blended media is a new form of student-generated multimedia whereby students devise a narration or voiceover to explain a science concept complemented by any combination of visuals such as video, animation or still images that are original or created by...