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How Things Shape the Mind

Author : Lambros Malafouris
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262528924
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book How Things Shape the Mind written by Lambros Malafouris and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the different ways in which things have become cognitive extensions of the human body, from prehistory to the present. An increasingly influential school of thought in cognitive science views the mind as embodied, extended, and distributed rather than brain-bound or “all in the head.” This shift in perspective raises important questions about the relationship between cognition and material culture, posing major challenges for philosophy, cognitive science, archaeology, and anthropology. In How Things Shape the Mind, Lambros Malafouris proposes a cross-disciplinary analytical framework for investigating the ways in which things have become cognitive extensions of the human body. Using a variety of examples and case studies, he considers how those ways might have changed from earliest prehistory to the present. Malafouris's Material Engagement Theory definitively adds materiality—the world of things, artifacts, and material signs—into the cognitive equation. His account not only questions conventional intuitions about the boundaries and location of the human mind but also suggests that we rethink classical archaeological assumptions about human cognitive evolution.

Messy Play in the Early Years

Author : Sue Gascoyne
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351234684
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Messy Play in the Early Years written by Sue Gascoyne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining a rich theoretical foundation with practical tips, advice and case studies, Messy Play in the Early Years provides an informative and practical exploration of the unique qualities, characteristics and learning possibilities of messy play. Packed with valuable insights from research and theory, along with practitioner’s experiences, this accessible book will bolster readers’ understanding and appreciation of messy play and demonstrate how a range of material engagements can enhance young children’s development and learning. Exploring an array of resources and a broad spectrum of approaches, including adult-and child-led inquiry, chapters consider how the specific sensory qualities of materials encourage problem-solving, scientific thinking, creativity, self-regulation and self-expression as children discover and make sense of new phenomena. With examples of international practice and reflective questions throughout, the book highlights a variety of approaches to meeting differing time, space and budgetary needs, simplifies preparation and planning, and empowers practitioners and children to understand and use messy play effectively. An essential guidebook to supporting an engaging and rewarding journey into messy play, Messy Play in the Early Years will be an invaluable resource for early years students, practitioners and parents looking to understand and enhance children’s learning possibilities.

Rethinking Materiality

Author : Elizabeth DeMarrais
Publisher : McDonald Institute Monographs
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Materiality written by Elizabeth DeMarrais and published by McDonald Institute Monographs. This book was released on 2004 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the relationship between mind and ideas on the one hand, and the material things of the world on the other? In recent years, researchers have rejected the old debate about the primacy of the mind or material, and have sought to establish more nuanced understandings of the ways humans interact with their material worlds. In this volume alternative approaches are presented, deriving from a wide variety of theoretical perspectives. Contributors debate the significance of key thresholds in the human past, including sedentism, domestication, and the emergence of social inequality and their impact on changing patterns of human cognition, symbolic expression, and technological innovation. In its global coverage and its broad theoretical scope, this landmark volume offers an innovative and comprehensive assessment of current thinking and future directions.

The Oxford Handbook of History and Material Culture

Author : Ivan Gaskell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199341761
Total Pages : 679 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of History and Material Culture by : Ivan Gaskell

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of History and Material Culture written by Ivan Gaskell and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The past has left a huge variety of traces in material form. If historians could figure out how to make use of them to create accounts of the past, a far greater range of histories would be available than if historians were to rely on written sources alone. People who do not appear in writings could come into focus; as could the concerns of people that have escaped writing but whose material things belie their desires and actions. This book explores various ways in which aspects of the past of peoples in many times and places otherwise inaccessible can come alive to the material culture historian. It is divided into five thematic sections that address history, material culture, and-respectively-cognition, technology, symbolism, social distinction, and memory. It does so by means of six individually authored case studies in each section that range from pins to pearls, Paleolithic to Punk"--

Museum Materialities

Author : Sandra Dudley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136616543
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Book Synopsis Museum Materialities by : Sandra Dudley

Download or read book Museum Materialities written by Sandra Dudley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an innovative interdisciplinary book about objects and people within museums and galleries. It addresses fundamental issues of human sensory, emotional and aesthetic experience of objects. The chapters explore ways and contexts in which things and people mutually interact, and raise questions about how objects carry meaning and feeling, the distinctions between objects and persons, particular qualities of the museum as context for person-object engagements, and the active and embodied role of the museum visitor. Museum Materialities is divided into three sections – Objects, Engagements and Interpretations – and includes a foreword by Susan Pearce and an afterword by Howard Morphy. It examines materiality and other perceptual and ontological qualities of objects themselves; embodied sensory and cognitive engagements – both personal and across a wider audience spread – with particular objects or object types in a museum or gallery setting; notions of aesthetics, affect and wellbeing in museum contexts; and creative and innovative artistic and museum practices that seek to illuminate or critique museum objects and interpretations. Phenomenological and other approaches to embodied experience in an emphatically material world are current in a number of academic areas, most particularly strands of material culture studies within anthropology and cognate disciplines. Thus far, however, there has been no concerted application of this kind of approach to museum collections and interactions with them by museum visitors, curators, artists and researchers. Bringing together essays by scholars and practitioners from a wide disciplinary and international base, Museum Materialities seeks to make just such a contribution. In so doing it makes a valuable and original addition to the literature of both material culture studies and museum studies.

Material Cultures in Public Engagement

Author : Anastasia Christophilopoulou
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1789253691
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Book Synopsis Material Cultures in Public Engagement by : Anastasia Christophilopoulou

Download or read book Material Cultures in Public Engagement written by Anastasia Christophilopoulou and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Material Cultures in Public Engagement volume seeks to document and explore the significant change in the relationship of Museums with collections of the Ancient World and their audiences. The volume establishes a new approach to the study of public archaeology as a discipline and application within Museums, by bringing together the voices and experiences of museum professionals (curators, conservators and researchers) and public engagement professionals. Chapters in this volume present clear case-studies of the variety and diversity of public engagement projects conducted currently within European Museums and beyond. While the majority of case studies presented in the volume’s chapters stem from European Museum programmes, plenty of reference is made on parallel strategies and successful public engagement programmes outside Europe (e.g. recently implemented projects by the Pointe-à-Callière Museum, Montreal, the Dallas and Cleveland Museums of Art, or the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, to name but a few). Case studies within the volume provide important insights as to why public engagement programmes have developed in different ways between Europe and the Americas, as well as whether these differences may stem from different curatorial practices. Finally, a number of studies included in this volume point out that methodologies and practices of public engagement applied currently by Museums in or outside Europe, are rarely the subject of theoretical and methodological scrutiny, unlike other fields of study of the Ancient World or other social sciences. In summary, chapters within the book promise to contribute to the advancement of public engagement with the Ancient World, as well as to the advancement of public archaeology itself as a practice.

Babies’ engagements with everyday things

Author : Alex Orrmalm
Publisher : Linköping University Electronic Press
ISBN 13 : 9179297137
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (792 download)

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Download or read book Babies’ engagements with everyday things written by Alex Orrmalm and published by Linköping University Electronic Press. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis explores how babies (1-18 months old) engage with material things in their everyday lives. The aim is to contribute with theoretical and empirical insights into babies own practices around material things and how attending to these practices can lead to reflections on participation, material culture and everyday space. The empirical material is collected through video ethnographic fieldwork in the homes of seven babies and their families. The empirical material has been analysed through combining cultural analysis with the analytical approach ‘thinking with theory’. The thesis shows that sensoriality and movement is important for understanding babies own engagements with things and that these engagements are not limited to things given to, or intended for, them. Babies also shape the everyday spaces of the families through their movements of things in their homes. The analyses also show that focusing on sensoriality and movement in the meeting between babies and the researcher is a promising contribution to discussions concerning participatory research and ethnographic method. The thesis is theoretically situated within the field of child- and childhood studies. Avhandlingens syfte är att undersöka hur bebisar (1-18 månader) använder sig av materiella saker i deras vardagsliv. Syftet är att bidra med empirisk och teoretisk kunskap om bebisars egna praktiker samt hur ett fokus på bebisars egna intressen kan leda till reflektioner kring barns deltagande, materiell kultur och platsskapande i bebisars hem. Det empiriska materialet har samlats in genom videoetnografiskt fältarbete hemma hos sju bebisar och deras familjer. Materialet har analyserats med hjälp av en kombination av kulturanalys och genom att ’tänka med’ teori om rörelse. Avhandlingen visar att fokus på sensorialitet och rörelse är viktigt för att förstå vad bebisar gör med saker och att bebisars användande av saker inte är begränsat till leksaker eller andra saker avsedda för dom. Bebisar påverkar även hur hemmet är organiserat, till exempel, genom att flytta runt och sprida ut saker i hemmet. Analyserna pekar även på att ett fokus på sensorialitet och rörelse i mötet mellan bebisar och forskare är lovande för att undersöka frågor rörande etnografisk metod och deltagande. Avhandlingen är teoretiskt förankrad i barn – och barndomstudier.

Attestation Engagements 2017

Author : AICPA
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1945498269
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book Attestation Engagements 2017 written by AICPA and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-05 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Redrafted in accordance with the clarity drafting conventions (and differentiated from the extant standards by using the identifier "AT-C"), the attestation standards have been made easier to read, understand, and apply by establishing objectives and definitions in each AT-C section, and separating requirements from application and other explanatory material. Some of the changes introduced by SSAE No. 18 include (among other changes): Separation of procedural and reporting requirements for review engagements from their counterparts for examination engagements Required representation letters More robust risk assessment for examination engagements SSAE No. 18 supersedes all the extant attestation standards with the following exceptions: AT 501, An Examination of an Entity's Internal Control Over Financial Reporting That is Integrated With An Audit of Financial Statements AT 701, Management's Discussion and Analysis.

Codification of Statements on Standards for Attestation Engagements, January 2018

Author : AICPA
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119523370
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (195 download)

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Book Synopsis Codification of Statements on Standards for Attestation Engagements, January 2018 by : AICPA

Download or read book Codification of Statements on Standards for Attestation Engagements, January 2018 written by AICPA and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-04-11 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title provides the current clarified Statements on Standards for Attestation Engagements (SSAEs) and related interpretations in a codified format, providing accountants with the most up-to-date information needed to perform attestation engagements. This authoritative guidance, issued directly by the AICPA, is essential to fully understanding the requirements associated with an attestation engagement. In addition to SSAE No. 18, Attestation Standards: Clarification and Recodification, which is now effective, this edition includes the following new standard: Interpretation No. 4, “Performing and Reporting on an Attestation Engagement Under Two Sets of Attestation Standards,” of AT-C section 105, Concepts Common to All Attestation Engagements This codification is fully indexed and arranged by subject. The codified standards and related interpretations are vital to practitioners performing attestation engagements.

Codification of Statements on Standards for Attestation Engagements, January 2019

Author : AICPA
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119621992
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (196 download)

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Book Synopsis Codification of Statements on Standards for Attestation Engagements, January 2019 by : AICPA

Download or read book Codification of Statements on Standards for Attestation Engagements, January 2019 written by AICPA and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition delivers the current clarified Statements on Standards for Attestation Engagements (SSAEs) and related interpretations in a codified format, providing the most up-to-date information needed to perform attestation engagements. Issued directly by the AICPA, this authoritative guidance is essential to fully understanding the requirements associated with an attestation engagement. This codification is fully indexed and arranged by subject. The codified standards and related interpretations are vital to practitioners performing attestation engagements

Attestation Engagements on Sustainability Information (Including Greenhouse Gas Emissions Information)

Author : AICPA
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1945498633
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (454 download)

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Book Synopsis Attestation Engagements on Sustainability Information (Including Greenhouse Gas Emissions Information) by : AICPA

Download or read book Attestation Engagements on Sustainability Information (Including Greenhouse Gas Emissions Information) written by AICPA and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-04-18 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Authoritative Guide for SSAE No. 18 and Sustainability Organizations are increasingly seeking to add credibility to sustainability information: According to the CFA Institute, 73 percent of portfolio managers and research analysts surveyed take sustainability matters into account when making investment decisions and 69 percent believe it is important that such information be subject to independent assurance. This new guide will assist CPAs with interpreting and applying the clarified attestation standards (SSAE No. 18) when performing examination or review engagements on sustainability information. Note: This guide supersedes AICPA Statement of Position (SOP) 13-1, Attest Engagements on Greenhouse Gas Emissions Information. The content of that SOP has been updated for the clarified attestations standards and included in the guide.

Transpacific Engagements

Author : Florina H. Capistrano-Baker
Publisher : Ayala Foundation, Inc., Getty Research Institute, and Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (Max-Planck-Institut)
ISBN 13 : 6218028224
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (18 download)

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Book Synopsis Transpacific Engagements by : Florina H. Capistrano-Baker

Download or read book Transpacific Engagements written by Florina H. Capistrano-Baker and published by Ayala Foundation, Inc., Getty Research Institute, and Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (Max-Planck-Institut). This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, competing European empires, notably Spain, Portugal, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Belgium, and others vied for commercial and political control of transoceanic networks, particularly the transpacific routes between Asia and the Americas. The essays in Transpacific Engagements: Trade, Translation, and Visual Culture of Entangled Empires (1565–1898) address the resulting cultural and artistic exchanges with an emphasis on both the Spanish and American enterprises in the Asia-Pacific region. The essays are grouped into three parts entitled “Entangled Empires,” “Empires and Translations,” and “Empires and Trade.” A common thread in the diverse perspectives presented here is the importance of transpacific engagements to the global connections of the sixteenth century and beyond. While the focus is on the specific connection between the Asia-Pacific region and the Americas through the Philippines, we see how other parts of the world, notably South and Southeast Asia and Europe, were also participants impacted by these transpacific linkages. The goal is to convey the complexity of entangled networks of commercial, political, and religious interests that complicate the Spanish enterprise in the Pacific. Commercial ventures into Canton and Manila by the early American republic, for example, overlapped with and later replaced the Spanish galleons. East, South, and Southeast Asian polities and dynasties remained powerful players in what were often multilateral, rather than bilateral, exchanges. Contributors to this volume are based in Asia, the Americas, and Europe.

Codification of Statements on Standards for Attestation Engagements

Author : AICPA
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119723388
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (197 download)

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Book Synopsis Codification of Statements on Standards for Attestation Engagements by : AICPA

Download or read book Codification of Statements on Standards for Attestation Engagements written by AICPA and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-05-20 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2020 edition delivers the current clarified Statements on Standards for Attestation Engagements (SSAEs) and related interpretations in a codified format, providing the most up-to-date information needed to perform attestation engagements. This authoritative guidance, issued directly by the AICPA, is essential to fully understanding the requirements associated with an attestation engagement. This edition includes the following new standards: SSAE No. 19, Agreed-Upon Procedures Engagements SSAE No. 20, Amendments to the Description of the Concept of Materiality

Transformational Change Efforts: Student Engagement in Mathematics through an Institutional Network for Active Learning

Author : Wendy M. Smith
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 1470463776
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (74 download)

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Book Synopsis Transformational Change Efforts: Student Engagement in Mathematics through an Institutional Network for Active Learning by : Wendy M. Smith

Download or read book Transformational Change Efforts: Student Engagement in Mathematics through an Institutional Network for Active Learning written by Wendy M. Smith and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2021-05-05 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this handbook is to help launch institutional transformations in mathematics departments to improve student success. We report findings from the Student Engagement in Mathematics through an Institutional Network for Active Learning (SEMINAL) study. SEMINAL's purpose is to help change agents, those looking to (or currently attempting to) enact change within mathematics departments and beyond—trying to reform the instruction of their lower division mathematics courses in order to promote high achievement for all students. SEMINAL specifically studies the change mechanisms that allow postsecondary institutions to incorporate and sustain active learning in Precalculus to Calculus 2 learning environments. Out of the approximately 2.5 million students enrolled in collegiate mathematics courses each year, over 90% are enrolled in Precalculus to Calculus 2 courses. Forty-four percent of mathematics departments think active learning mathematics strategies are important for Precalculus to Calculus 2 courses, but only 15 percnt state that they are very successful at implementing them. Therefore, insights into the following research question will help with institutional transformations: What conditions, strategies, interventions and actions at the departmental and classroom levels contribute to the initiation, implementation, and institutional sustainability of active learning in the undergraduate calculus sequence (Precalculus to Calculus 2) across varied institutions?

Annual Update and Practice Issues for Preparation, Compilation, and Review Engagements

Author : Hugh Parker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119737400
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (197 download)

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Book Synopsis Annual Update and Practice Issues for Preparation, Compilation, and Review Engagements by : Hugh Parker

Download or read book Annual Update and Practice Issues for Preparation, Compilation, and Review Engagements written by Hugh Parker and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practice-oriented review of the latest developments related to SSARS Nos. 21-24, this title includes a wide range of issues, including: Developments in the conceptual framework New and proposed independence interpretations Consideration of materiality in a review engagement Going concern considerations Restatement of prior year financial statements

Alert: Developments in Preparation, Compilation, and Review Engagements, 2017/18

Author : AICPA
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1945498676
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (454 download)

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Book Synopsis Alert: Developments in Preparation, Compilation, and Review Engagements, 2017/18 by : AICPA

Download or read book Alert: Developments in Preparation, Compilation, and Review Engagements, 2017/18 written by AICPA and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-05-10 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This annual Alert covers the latest developments in the preparation, compilation and review engagements, including current exposure drafts from Accounting and Review Services Committee (ARSC), and common deficiencies identified during peer reviews. Reviewed by ARSC chair, it also addresses the latest and emerging practice issues, and provides valuable information regarding accounting and reporting developments. Key benefits of this title include: Discussion of two new exposure drafts. Current practice issues in SSARS engagements. Ethics updates. Peer review common findings. Additional SSARS engagement resources

Guide: Preparation, Compilation, and Review Engagements, 2017

Author : AICPA
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1945498382
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (454 download)

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Book Synopsis Guide: Preparation, Compilation, and Review Engagements, 2017 by : AICPA

Download or read book Guide: Preparation, Compilation, and Review Engagements, 2017 written by AICPA and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-12-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issued under the authority of Accounting and Review Services Committee (ARSC) and a go-to guide for accountants performing preparation, compilation and review engagements, this version contains the most up-to-date guidance, including the recently issued Statement on Standards for Accounting and Review Services (SSARS) No. 22, Compilation of Pro Forma Financial Information, and SSARS No. 23, Omnibus Statement on Standards for Accounting and Review Services – 2016. This edition also contains some enhancive updates related to materiality in review engagements, professional skepticism, and more illustrative accountant’s reports.