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Playing games in the cultural transformations in the second half of the twentieth century

2013

Injustice in the Ruins and a Disordered Post-Apocalypse: Gothic Ideology in the Digital Game World of Fallout 3

2020

The Gothic is an influential source for storytelling in a wide range of digital games. Thus far, interpreting it in games and how they are informed by Gothic ideology has been little studied. This study seeks to address this gap in research by investigating these issues in the narrative of the action role-playing game, Fallout 3. More specifically, through a close reading of the game narrative and by drawing on theories of the Gothic, ideological aspects of the Gothic are analyzed in detail with specific reference to non-player characters and their actions and dialogue along with elements of the mise-en-scéne, style, and simulation. Results show how classic Gothic ideology is reproduced in …

FinTech in Latvia: Status Quo, Current Developments, and Challenges Ahead

2021

FinTech has been in the focus of discussion for quite some time. However, the market share of FinTech companies is still relatively small compared to that of more traditional financial services. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the status quo, current developments, and challenges ahead for the Latvian FinTech sector. We combine three analyses: a political and legal, economic, social, and technological environment (PEST) analysis

Audzēkņu instrumentspēles prasmju un ķermeņa darbības pilnveides mijsakarības trombona spēles mācību procesā mūzikas skolā

2015

Trombona spēles pedagoģija bieži vien izmanto paņēmienus un metodes, kas ir pretrunā ar cilvēka ķermeņa darbības fizioloģiskajiem principiem un var gan kavēt un ierobežot instrumentspēles prasmju attīstību, gan radīt kaitējumus mūziķa veselībai. Ārvalstu mūzikas pedagoģijas zinātniskajā literatūrā arvien lielāks uzsvars tiek likts uz cilvēka darbības psiholoģisko un fizioloģisko mehānismu un likumsakarību integrēšanu pedagoģiskajā procesā. Arī trombona spēles prasmju pilnveidi nepieciešams balstīt cilvēka ķermeņa darbības pamatprincipos. Mērķis: izpētīt trombona spēles prasmju pilnveides teorētiskos aspektus un izstrādāt ķermeņa darbības psihofizioloģiskajos pamatprincipos balstītu vingrinā…

Oetzel, Gespräche' über Herrschaft: Herrscherkritik bei Elisabeth I. von England (1558-1603) (Matthiesen Verlag, 2014)

2016

Review of Lena Oetzel, Gespräche' über Herrschaft: Herrscherkritik bei Elisabeth I. von England (1558-1603) (Husum: Matthiesen Verlag, 2014).

Outdoor activities and motor development in 2–7-year-old boys and girls

2021

Problem Statement: Parents of young children favor indoor activities for their children, because staying inside supports comfortable daily routines in the family timetable, safety issues and clothing. However, playing outdoors supports children’s development, offering multiple challenges to overcome and the possibility to learn new skills. Approach: Based on Gibson’s theory of affordances (1977), outdoors can be seen as an excellent learning environment for children to reach the zone of proximal development (Vygotsky, 1987). Purpose: This paper describes Finnish nature and four seasons as an environment to support children’s motor development and inspire outdoor playing. The Skilled kids pa…

Walk the Talk: Financial Fairness in European Club Football

2017

AbstractUEFA’s Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations represent the most restrictive regulatory intervention European club football has ever seen. Put simply, it demands from clubs to operate on the basis of their own football-related incomes. While the policy has attracted considerable attention from the economic and social sciences, very few contributions systematically investigate it from a philosophical-ethical perspective. The present paper fills this research gap by posing questions on FFP in relation to fair play as a normative concept. We draw on sport economic assessments concerning potential outcomes of FFP and argue that the policy should go beyond the mere pragmatic goal of promo…

Live Action Role Play and the Development of Teacher Competences: Evaluation of “Everyday Life in the Classroom”

2016

Building on Dörner’s (1996) theory of complex problem-solving, a learning scenario for teacher students was created and tested. Classroom management is interpreted as a complex problem, which requires the integration of competing interests and tackling multiple, simultaneous tasks under time pressure and with limited information. In addition, rising emotions are likely to impede thinking and the quality of decision-making. To prepare student teachers to understand and reflect the complex problem-solving challenges inherent in classroom management, we developed the live action role play “Everyday Life in the Classroom” which was embedded in a seminar structure to guide the development of ana…

María de Fonseca (c. 1486-1521) and the Marquis of Zenete (1473-1523): Aristocratic Rebels and Patrons of Renaissance Culture

2016

La historia de Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, marqués de Zenete, el hijo primogénito del Cardenal Mendoza, y su segunda mujer María de Fonseca podría proporcionar a un escritor material más que suficiente para escribir una novela apasionante, y ciertamente merece ser mejor conocida, sobre todo en el mundo anglófono. Entre otras cosas, este artículo arroja algo de luz sobre la condición social vulnerable de la mujer en España durante la baja Edad Media y el Renacimiento, cuando había más oportunidades educativas para las damas de la nobleza, y pone en duda el supuesto papel jugado por la reina Isabel en defensa de la libertad y los derechos de la mujer; y discute cómo el marqués de Zenete expresó su…

Play assessment for group settings: A pilot study to construct an assessment tool

2006

The Play Assessment for Group Setting (PAGS) was constructed to measure children's play performance. The study was undertaken with 93 children aged from 2 to 8 years to examine whether the items of the PAGS construct a unidimensional scale that can be used to measure children's play ability. The internal scale validity and the person response validity of the PAGS were investigated by examining the goodness-of-fit of the play items and children's play performance to the many-faceted Rasch model for the PAGS. In total, 46 of the 51 play items demonstrated acceptable goodness-of-fit. Of the 93 children, 90.3% demonstrated acceptable goodness-of-fit on the scale of play items. Overall, the resu…