Peter Cowan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3755685 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Cowan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Cowan |
| SIGNATURE | COWAN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Film Independent |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Amerindian and translingual literacies across time and space
Recent studies have examined Indigenous and mestizo communities that engage in social practices of transculturated, Amerindian and translingual literacies, often to resist efforts by powerful groups to oppress them. By drawing on data from studies conducted in Peru and the United States, we trace the trajectories of Amerindian and translingual literacies from the early modern/colonial period to the postmodern/postcolonial present. We trace the do…
Drawn” into the community: Re‐considering the artwork of Latino adolescents
This qualitative study of drawings created by inner‐city, Latino, junior high school students examines how these drawings are made, how they are used, and how they are read by other Latinos as visual texts that encode and communicate culturally important information. The study is based on interviews with young Latino adults about the roles these drawings played during their adolescence. The interviews revealed that these drawings function as text…
Authors’ Statements [Peter Cowan]
Editors’ Statements [Peter Cowan]
The Containment of Urban England: Discussion
Developing Patterns of Urbanisation
Developing Patterns of Urbanization
Developing Patterns of Urbanisation
Communications
Conclusions
Medical Care and Information
The Eternal Present, 2. The Beginnings of Architecture
The size of Hospitals
One of the most important and pressing decisions we have to take about the future development of the hospital service concerns the size to which hospitals should be planned. Discussion of this topic began in 1864, when Holmes and Bristow1 concluded that : ' We have no hesitation in saying that the size of the hospital is a matter of absolute indifference; whether it contains a hundred patients or a thousand does not appear to exercise the least i…
Children in Hospital
Drawn” into the community: Re‐considering the artwork of Latino adolescents
This qualitative study of drawings created by inner‐city, Latino, junior high school students examines how these drawings are made, how they are used, and how they are read by other Latinos as visual texts that encode and communicate culturally important information. The study is based on interviews with young Latino adults about the roles these drawings played during their adolescence. The interviews revealed that these drawings function as text…
Developing Patterns of Urbanization
The Containment of Urban England: Discussion
Developing Patterns of Urbanisation
The size of Hospitals
One of the most important and pressing decisions we have to take about the future development of the hospital service concerns the size to which hospitals should be planned. Discussion of this topic began in 1864, when Holmes and Bristow1 concluded that : ' We have no hesitation in saying that the size of the hospital is a matter of absolute indifference; whether it contains a hundred patients or a thousand does not appear to exercise the least i…
Children in Hospital
Medical Care and Information
The Eternal Present, 2. The Beginnings of Architecture
Communications
Conclusions
Developing Patterns of Urbanisation
Developing Patterns of Urbanization
Developing Patterns of Urbanisation
The Containment of Urban England: Discussion
Authors’ Statements [Peter Cowan]
Editors’ Statements [Peter Cowan]
Drawn” into the community: Re‐considering the artwork of Latino adolescents
This qualitative study of drawings created by inner‐city, Latino, junior high school students examines how these drawings are made, how they are used, and how they are read by other Latinos as visual texts that encode and communicate culturally important information. The study is based on interviews with young Latino adults about the roles these drawings played during their adolescence. The interviews revealed that these drawings function as text…
Amerindian and translingual literacies across time and space
Recent studies have examined Indigenous and mestizo communities that engage in social practices of transculturated, Amerindian and translingual literacies, often to resist efforts by powerful groups to oppress them. By drawing on data from studies conducted in Peru and the United States, we trace the trajectories of Amerindian and translingual literacies from the early modern/colonial period to the postmodern/postcolonial present. We trace the do…
Political science (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · MEDLINE (3 works) · Urbanization (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies (2 works)