"From Above The Web" 1975 science-education textbook manuscript - OFY grant
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"From Above The Web" 1975 science-education textbook manuscript - OFY grant
- Publication date
- 1975-08
- Topics
- Canadian, Opportunities for Youth, young authors, student authors, science writing, university, college, higher education, science education, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 1975, 1970s, science, flowchart, visual aid, conceptualizing, physics, math, chemistry, biology, astronomy, special relativity, atomic, sub-atomic, unpublished, first draft, Lorne Whitehead
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- Language
- English
This item pertains to a 494-page first draft manuscript for a general-science textbook entitled From Above the Web: A New Look at Physics and its Extensions, copyright 1975 by the Vancouver BC authors: Stephen Arthur, James Atkins, Mark Termes, and Lorne Whitehead. Funded by an OFY ’75 grant.
The proposal for the grant originated with UBC second-year undergraduate student Stephen Arthur (ne Stephen Arthur Bowlsby), who envisioned a supplementary science book for higher education that would use flowcharts to show how the major ideas in science develop from one another. Each node of the flowcharts corresponded to an explanatory essay.
As this manuscript has never been available to archive researchers, the originator and co-author, Stephen Arthur (ne Bowlsby), has posted parts of it here as fair use to memorialize, preserve, and rescue the experience and cultural phenomenon.
The grant:
Canada. Department of the Secretary of State; Opportunities for Youth (Federal aid programme) 1975
“ In the early seventies Canada was the first western industrialized country to increase spending on short-term job creation programs. In contrast to the policy legacy of short-term public works projects, programs such as Opportunities for Youth and the Local Initiatives Program stressed the participation of the unemployed on projects that would promote "meaningful work" and "community betterment". The direction of job creation policy changed dramatically in the mid-seventies. In the context of stagflation and rising unemployment, there was less funding for job creation and the emphasis of the program shifted to "real work" on infrastructure projects and private sector initiatives." -- MAKING WORK: FEDERAL JOB CREATION POLICIES IN THE 1970s by Jennifer Marguerite Keck, Doctor of Philosophy 1995, Graduate Department of Social Work, University of Toronto
The authors:
Current-day public articles:
Lorne Whitehead: Discover
Magazine column (humor)
https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/lorne-whitehead
Stephen Arthur: How I Know There Are No Aliens
https://archive.org/details/how-i-know-there-are-no-aliens-stephen-arthur-july-24-2020-final
Lorne Whitehead, the roommate of Stephen Arthur (Bowlby) in 1975, went on to receive his PhD in applied physics from UBC and became the CEO of TIR Systems, a university spin-off company that grew to about 200 employees before being purchased by Philips Corporation. Since joining the UBC faculty in 1994, his research has launched several other companies in building illumination and displays for computers, television and cinema. He has also acted as VP Academic & Provost and Leader of Education Innovation. See profile and selected patents and publications: https://phas.ubc.ca/users/lorne-whitehead
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- 2022-07-16 01:49:44
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