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The Invisible Professionals : English School Nursery Nurses talk about their jobs
(2001)Views of 110 school nursery nurses working in an English midlands county were studied to discover how they assess the nature and demands of their jobs. Two specific questions were asked: a) From nursery nurses' viewpoint, ... -
Under-Construction or Facing Demolition? : Contrasting Views on English Teacher Professionalism from across a Professional Association
(2002)The effects of legislated change on teacher professionalism were researched with members of the Association for the Study of Primary Education (ASPE). Results from a survey and semi-structured interview suggest that many ... -
Lessons of the Holocaust : A response to the critics
(2003)The Holocaust currently forms part of the National Curriculum in England and Wales and is mandatory in several other countries. Its teaching is frequently justified on the grounds of providing a range of important lessons. ... -
The Role of Education in Jewish Continuity : A response to Jonathan Sacks
(2005)Contrasting explanations of Jewish survival form the backdrop to this article. For Jonathan Sacks (1994) the crucial factor has been the role played by Jewish education; indeed, he claims that the demographic threat currently ... -
Faith schools and indoctrination : A response to Michael Hand
(2003)Michael Hand has recently advocated the abolition of faith schools on the grounds that they may indoctrinate their pupils. In this rejoinder, I aim to show that the assumptions underpinning his thesis are seriously flawed. ... -
Faith-based schools : A threat to social cohesion?
(2002)The British government recently announced its willingness to expand the number of state–funded faith schools. It was a decision that aroused considerable controversy, with much of the unease centring around the allegedly ... -
Views of nursing staff on the use of physical restraint
(2003)A postal questionnaire survey was employed in regional secure and psychiatric intensive care units in England and Wales, in respect of mental health nurses' training in the use of physical restraint. The nurses' views were ... -
The workforce in health and social care services to older people : developing an education and training strategy
(2004)Planning workforce development across the health and social care services for older people presents a formidable challenge. In England, Workforce Development Confederations are responsible for commissioning the education ... -
Pregnancy, illness and the concept of career
(2003)This paper explores a neglected area of women's reproductive experience, namely major illness during pregnancy. It draws on a qualitative study of 15 women who had either a pre-existing illness or developed a major health ... -
Like Me? - Measures of Correspondence and Imitation
(2001)Imitation is a powerful mechanism for efficient learning of novel behaviors that both supports and takes advantage of sociality. A fundamental problem for imitation is to create an appropriate (partial) mapping between the ... -
Specifying Multiple Time Granularities in Interactive Systems
(2001)Time plays an important role in interactive systems, but can be difficult to specify, particularly where temporal properties exist at several different time granularities. The relationship between different time granularities ... -
The Cognitive Dimensions of an Artifact vis-a-vis Individual Human Users : Studies with Notations for the Temporal
(2001)Cognitive Technology explores ways in which the cognitive fit between people and technology may be optimized. If this goal is to be achieved we will require methods of assessing tools and information arftifacts in order ... -
Cognitive Dimensions of Notations: Design Tools for Cognitive Technology
(2001)The Cognitive Dimensions of Notations framework has been created to assist the designers of notational systems and information artifacts to evaluate their designs with respect to the impact that they will have on the users ... -
Values Acquisition and Values Education: Some Proposals
(2001)Three proposals are made regarding values acquisition in schools. It is believed that: (a) optimal conditions for the integration of values into school-students' lives will include students' voluntary commitments; (b) ... -
Fact and Artifact : Reification and Drift in the History and Growth of Interactive Software Systems
(2001)We discuss the processes and forces informing artifact design and the subsequent drift in requirements and interests in the long-term growth of reified systems. We describe, following Latour, the strategies of technoscience ... -
Kripke's sceptical paradox : normativeness and meaning
(1986)Saul Kripke's recent discussion of Wittgenstein's later philosophy presents a powerful sceptical paradox. The conclusion of it is that no facts about an individual considered on his own determine what he means by his words. ... -
Swinburne on thought and consciousness
(1987)Some years ago H. H. Price put forward a dispositional account of thinking, suggesting that we are never directly aware of our thoughts as such, and claiming that we are, at most, conscious of inner word images (auditory ... -
Meaning, mistake and miscalculation
(1997)The issue of what distinguishes systems which have original intentionalityfrom those which do not has been brought into sharp focus by Saul Kripke inhis discussion of the sceptical paradox he attributes to Wittgenstein.In ... -
The Inaugural Address: Perception and metaphysical scepticism
(1998)In this paper I introduce and critically examine a paradox about perceiving that is in some ways analogous to the paradox about meaning which Kripke puts forward in his exegesis of Wittgenstein's views on Rule-following. ... -
Pharmacological characterization of cannabinoid receptor activity in the rat-isolated ileum myenteric plexus-longitudinal muscle preparation
(2010)Background and purpose: Cannabinoid effects on intestinal transit are commonly evaluated in rats. We characterized the cannabinoid receptors mediating the inhibitory effect of 5-(1,1-dimethylheptyl)-2-[5-hydroxy-2-(3-hyd ...