Helen Palmer
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View article: Towards more culturally aware teaching of ‘scientific practices’: Understanding science as a social-historical human endeavour
Towards more culturally aware teaching of ‘scientific practices’: Understanding science as a social-historical human endeavour Open
‘Scientific practices’ are included as a core element in Norway’s new science curriculum as of 2020. In dialogue with international research on the teaching and learning of scientific practices, Haug et al. (2021) have identified and opera…
View article: Student active learning in a digital classroom: high-performing science students’ perceptions of their experiences
Student active learning in a digital classroom: high-performing science students’ perceptions of their experiences Open
In March 2020 higher education institutions across Norway closed campuses in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This study explored five high-performing science students’ perceptions of their experiences with active learning in a digital p…
View article: Synaesthesia
Synaesthesia Open
The following entry includes firstly a list of synaesthetic portals, and secondly an initial table of scaled sensory modalities following Felicity Colman’s ‘Fragment of a Modalities Map’ (Colman, 2019, p. 985-987). James Joyce famously beg…
View article: Scales as Spectra
Scales as Spectra Open
View article: Sirens and Organs
Sirens and Organs Open
View article: Sensorium
Sensorium Open
View article: Diffractive pedagogies: dancing across new materialist imaginaries
Diffractive pedagogies: dancing across new materialist imaginaries Open
We theorise an interdisciplinary arts practice university course and consider the forms of educational imaginary challenged by our curriculum. We argue for the disruptive and generative potential of what we call diffractive pedagogy as an …
View article: Sexual expression and the romantic ideal explored through an ‘American’ style of dance in dance-led dream ballets within Hollywood film musicals 1935-1956
Sexual expression and the romantic ideal explored through an ‘American’ style of dance in dance-led dream ballets within Hollywood film musicals 1935-1956 Open
Dream ballets were a regular feature of Hollywood film musicals in the 1940s and 1950s, especially at Metro Goldwyn Mayer, but they have received limited academic study. An understanding and exploration of these dream ballets in the contex…
View article: Psychosynthesis and Culture
Psychosynthesis and Culture Open
This paper is a keynote address the author gave in Oslo, Norway, at a psychosynthesis conference in 2015. The conference organiser had heard Helen present at a Conference in Rome in 2012 on the development of psychosynthesis in our bicultu…
View article: Decomposing Matter: From literary critique to language creation
Decomposing Matter: From literary critique to language creation Open
This article provides a context for the section “Creating Language and Theorizing Literature”. The editors of the section discuss both contemporary and historicalarticulations of the materiality of language from a new materialist perspecti…