Laura Major
Biographic Data
| ID | 644567 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Major |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Major |
| SIGNATURE | MAJOR L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Achva Academic College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7327-3101 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Preservice teachers’ evolving professional identity as future teachers of literature through the eyes of a project-based learning experience
As the Humanities face declining status, teacher education must find ways to equip preservice teachers (PSTs) with the knowledge, skills, and mindset to express and sustain their discipline's relevance. This research studies how a project-based learning (PBL) framework can foster PSTs' professional identity as future literature teachers. Drawing on Nussbaum's capabilities approach, we examine how PBL serves as a framework for cultivating these ca…
Seascapes, personhood and humanity
Despite longstanding research on human rights and the environment, scholarship has only recently moved towards an explicit connection to the marine environment. At the same time, research on human rights and oceans focuses on people at sea , not environmental protection. This article contributes to bridging this gap by putting forward an entry point to guide conceptualisation of the relationship between human rights and marine environmental prote…
Project-based learning as signature pedagogy for developing teacher professionalism in teacher education
Project-based learning (PBL) has been widely researched in teacher education. The relationship between PBL and signature pedagogy has been explored in other fields such as legal psychology but remains under-researched in teacher education. This study addresses this gap by employing a qualitative case-study approach to explore the ways in which PBL as an application of signature pedagogy contributes to the development of professionalism among PSTs…
Your earth is foul
This paper examines how Holocaust poets use the image of earth to convey a shattered world. Earth features as world or planet, but also as ground and soil, and in both meanings is participant in and witness to genocide. Moreover, earth becomes a figure for understanding the natural world and its relation to human horror. Valuable observations are made about how, in the Holocaust setting, humans experienced their environment and how they represent…
Managing Mass Graves in Rwanda and Burundi
English Abstract: The governments of Rwanda and Burundi exhume mass graves with the promise of revealing truths about the contested histories of past conflict and genocide. In Rwanda, exhumations recover and conserve the bodies of victims of the genocide against the Tutsi. Since December 2019, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Burundi has also begun mass exhumations; these efforts are motivated by truth-seeking and reconciliation aspirat…
How rural immersion training influences rural work orientation of medical students
AIM: To develop theory about how contexts and mechanisms interact to contribute to openness to future rural practice by medical students undertaking immersive rural training. METHODS: A realist evaluation based on RAMESES II protocol. We interviewed 23 students exploring Contexts (C) which were external (place-based) and internal (the student's characteristics), Mechanisms (M) (that drive a response) and Outcomes (O) (openness to rural work). RES…
“She Was Proud of Her Build”
This article analyzes the representation of fat in the HBO and BBC No 1. Ladies’ Detective Agency TV series, assessing, amongst other concerns, whether the depiction of the series’ heroine Mma Ramotswe as a proudly “overweight” or fat-positive character is dependent on the Western and Hollywoodian portrayal of a naïve, utopian, and exotically “other” Botswana. While Mma Ramotswe is of “traditional build” and proud of that, she must navigate the c…
Fictional Crimes/Historical Crimes
This paper will explore Philip Kerr’s Berlin Noir trilogy, composed of March Violets (1989), The Pale Criminal (1990), and A German Requiem (1991), discussing the overlap and blurring of generic boundaries in these novels and the ability of this form to reckon with the Holocaust. These detective stories are not directly about the Holocaust, and although the crimes investigated by the mordant Bernie Gunther are fictional, they are interweaved with…
Cloak and Dagger
[Review of Black Earth Rising, TV series, 8 Episodes, written and directed by Hugo Blick, co-production by BBC 2/Netflix, 2018] It is not difficult to understand why the events of the Rwandan Genocide in 1994 lend themselves easily to representation in film. The genocide provoked an enduring desire to understand why its organisers were so effective in propagating the violence and why the UN, among others, failed to intervene effectively despite t…
Unearthing, untangling and re-articulating genocide corpses in Rwanda
This paper is concerned with the mass graves and exhumed bodies of victims of the Rwanda genocide and war of the 1990s. A government-led programme of exhumation of mass burials and individual graves has taken place over the last decade. The exhumation of mass graves has been undertaken, in the main, by Tutsi genocide survivors who work under the supervision of state officials. Post-unearthing, these bodies are unravelled, and the remnants of soft…
Corporealities of violence in southern and eastern Africa
In a recent discussion on the display and concealment of bodies during Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, Nigel Eltringham asserts a common anthropological truism that ‘violence is discursive’, and that ‘the victim’s body is a key vehicle of that discourse’ (2015, 161). This point preambles his argument that scholars should pay ‘the same attention...to post-mortem disposal as has been given to ante-mortem degradation’ (2015, 172) in contexts of violent conf…
Unearthing, untangling and re-articulating genocide corpses in Rwanda
This paper is concerned with the mass graves and exhumed bodies of victims of the Rwanda genocide and war of the 1990s. A government-led programme of exhumation of mass burials and individual graves has taken place over the last decade. The exhumation of mass graves has been undertaken, in the main, by Tutsi genocide survivors who work under the supervision of state officials. Post-unearthing, these bodies are unravelled, and the remnants of soft…
Corporealities of violence in southern and eastern Africa
In a recent discussion on the display and concealment of bodies during Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, Nigel Eltringham asserts a common anthropological truism that ‘violence is discursive’, and that ‘the victim’s body is a key vehicle of that discourse’ (2015, 161). This point preambles his argument that scholars should pay ‘the same attention...to post-mortem disposal as has been given to ante-mortem degradation’ (2015, 172) in contexts of violent conf…
Managing Mass Graves in Rwanda and Burundi
English Abstract: The governments of Rwanda and Burundi exhume mass graves with the promise of revealing truths about the contested histories of past conflict and genocide. In Rwanda, exhumations recover and conserve the bodies of victims of the genocide against the Tutsi. Since December 2019, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Burundi has also begun mass exhumations; these efforts are motivated by truth-seeking and reconciliation aspirat…
Unearthing, untangling and re-articulating genocide corpses in Rwanda
This paper is concerned with the mass graves and exhumed bodies of victims of the Rwanda genocide and war of the 1990s. A government-led programme of exhumation of mass burials and individual graves has taken place over the last decade. The exhumation of mass graves has been undertaken, in the main, by Tutsi genocide survivors who work under the supervision of state officials. Post-unearthing, these bodies are unravelled, and the remnants of soft…
Corporealities of violence in southern and eastern Africa
In a recent discussion on the display and concealment of bodies during Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, Nigel Eltringham asserts a common anthropological truism that ‘violence is discursive’, and that ‘the victim’s body is a key vehicle of that discourse’ (2015, 161). This point preambles his argument that scholars should pay ‘the same attention...to post-mortem disposal as has been given to ante-mortem degradation’ (2015, 172) in contexts of violent conf…
Fictional Crimes/Historical Crimes
This paper will explore Philip Kerr’s Berlin Noir trilogy, composed of March Violets (1989), The Pale Criminal (1990), and A German Requiem (1991), discussing the overlap and blurring of generic boundaries in these novels and the ability of this form to reckon with the Holocaust. These detective stories are not directly about the Holocaust, and although the crimes investigated by the mordant Bernie Gunther are fictional, they are interweaved with…
Cloak and Dagger
[Review of Black Earth Rising, TV series, 8 Episodes, written and directed by Hugo Blick, co-production by BBC 2/Netflix, 2018] It is not difficult to understand why the events of the Rwandan Genocide in 1994 lend themselves easily to representation in film. The genocide provoked an enduring desire to understand why its organisers were so effective in propagating the violence and why the UN, among others, failed to intervene effectively despite t…
How rural immersion training influences rural work orientation of medical students
AIM: To develop theory about how contexts and mechanisms interact to contribute to openness to future rural practice by medical students undertaking immersive rural training. METHODS: A realist evaluation based on RAMESES II protocol. We interviewed 23 students exploring Contexts (C) which were external (place-based) and internal (the student's characteristics), Mechanisms (M) (that drive a response) and Outcomes (O) (openness to rural work). RES…
“She Was Proud of Her Build”
This article analyzes the representation of fat in the HBO and BBC No 1. Ladies’ Detective Agency TV series, assessing, amongst other concerns, whether the depiction of the series’ heroine Mma Ramotswe as a proudly “overweight” or fat-positive character is dependent on the Western and Hollywoodian portrayal of a naïve, utopian, and exotically “other” Botswana. While Mma Ramotswe is of “traditional build” and proud of that, she must navigate the c…
Managing Mass Graves in Rwanda and Burundi
English Abstract: The governments of Rwanda and Burundi exhume mass graves with the promise of revealing truths about the contested histories of past conflict and genocide. In Rwanda, exhumations recover and conserve the bodies of victims of the genocide against the Tutsi. Since December 2019, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Burundi has also begun mass exhumations; these efforts are motivated by truth-seeking and reconciliation aspirat…
Your earth is foul
This paper examines how Holocaust poets use the image of earth to convey a shattered world. Earth features as world or planet, but also as ground and soil, and in both meanings is participant in and witness to genocide. Moreover, earth becomes a figure for understanding the natural world and its relation to human horror. Valuable observations are made about how, in the Holocaust setting, humans experienced their environment and how they represent…
Project-based learning as signature pedagogy for developing teacher professionalism in teacher education
Project-based learning (PBL) has been widely researched in teacher education. The relationship between PBL and signature pedagogy has been explored in other fields such as legal psychology but remains under-researched in teacher education. This study addresses this gap by employing a qualitative case-study approach to explore the ways in which PBL as an application of signature pedagogy contributes to the development of professionalism among PSTs…
Preservice teachers’ evolving professional identity as future teachers of literature through the eyes of a project-based learning experience
As the Humanities face declining status, teacher education must find ways to equip preservice teachers (PSTs) with the knowledge, skills, and mindset to express and sustain their discipline's relevance. This research studies how a project-based learning (PBL) framework can foster PSTs' professional identity as future literature teachers. Drawing on Nussbaum's capabilities approach, we examine how PBL serves as a framework for cultivating these ca…
Seascapes, personhood and humanity
Despite longstanding research on human rights and the environment, scholarship has only recently moved towards an explicit connection to the marine environment. At the same time, research on human rights and oceans focuses on people at sea , not environmental protection. This article contributes to bridging this gap by putting forward an entry point to guide conceptualisation of the relationship between human rights and marine environmental prote…
Sociology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Theology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Cambodian History and Society (2 works) · Genocide (2 works)