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Bill Brydon

Lessons for higher education: the university as a site of activism - British Journal of... - 0 views

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    Len Barton is acutely aware of the power of the academy to either enhance critical thinking or to depress it. He is a true academic, never accepting the received wisdom or perspective of any given sociological standpoint, no matter how powerful or fashion
Bill Brydon

Augmenting learner autonomy through blogging - ELT J - 0 views

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    Blogs have developed in two major ways: as a personal diary online and as a technologically enhanced multimedia diary that can be manipulated to suit the user's needs. This paper investigates one such blogging programme in India vis-à-vis its effect on au
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Multimodal texts in Higher Education and the implications for writing pedagogy - Archer... - 0 views

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    Although studies on writing pedagogy and academic literacies have examined changing genres in tertiary education, there has not necessarily been an emphasis on how a range of modes and media have influenced texts in various disciplines. This paper explore
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LANGUAGE POLICY, 'ASIA'S WORLD CITY' AND ANGLOPHONE HONG KONG WRITING - Interventions: ... - 0 views

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    Hong Kong's official language policy of 'biliteracy' (Chinese and English) and 'trilingualism' (Cantonese, Putonghua, English), announced after the reversion to China in 1997, claims to address actualities of language use in the territory, remove inequiti
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Forging a 'neoliberal pedagogy': The 'enterprising education' agenda in schools - Criti... - 0 views

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    New Labour came to power with a stated commitment to 'education, education, education' and confirmed quickly that this commitment included a greater role for business in the modernization of state schools. One important, yet under-researched, element of d
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Youth Media Reporter: Using Media Literacy to Combat Racism - 0 views

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    Media literacy, critical thinking, and media production are powerful tools for youth to combat racism. Whether we have the chance to address it in the classroom, after school program or community, we have a responsibility as educators and citizens to work
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Communication Across the Curriculum and in the Disciplines: A Call for Scholarly Cross-... - 0 views

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    Communication-across-the-curriculum (CXC) programs provide assistance to other disciplines on the teaching and learning of communication-meeting an increasingly important need for students not only to be content specialists, but also coherent communicator
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Student authority: Antidote to alienation - Theory and Research in Education - 0 views

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    The widespread disaffection of students from school is manifested in academic failure, indifference, and defiance. These problems can be alleviated, I argue, when an authority structure is developed that combines three components - freedom, power, and leg
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Threats to autonomy in consumer societies and their implications for education - Theory... - 0 views

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    The development of autonomy in children is a central concern of liberal philosophers of education. We endorse the liberal intuition that autonomy matters and that it is an appropriate aim of education. However, we divert from autonomy liberals, who defend
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Brown Policy and the Moral Pillars of Democracy: Exploring Justice as the Organizing Pr... - 0 views

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    The purpose of this article is to revisit Brown as a paradigmatic understanding of social justice and its barriers, by reconsidering Brown in light of the three moral pillars of democracy identified by Cornel West (2004). West maintains that authentic dee
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Putting Digital Literacy in Practice: How Schools Contribute to Digital Inclusion in th... - 0 views

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    In the sociology of childhood and youth, children have been conceptualized as passive subjects on hold, still in the process of becoming-rather than in an effective state of being. In effect, children have been conceptualized as the subjects rather than t
Bill Brydon

The Spatial Impact of Language Policies on the Marginal Bids for English Education in H... - 0 views

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    In 1997 the government of Hong Kong reformed its policy on the language medium for teaching at the secondary-school level and removed schools' right to choose their own medium. Among the 404 public and "aided" secondary schools in Hong Kong, the governmen
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Transmedia Storytelling and Entertainment: An annotated syllabus - Continuum: Journal o... - 0 views

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    This article describes my experiences teaching a course on Transmedia Entertainment and Storytelling at the University of Southern California, a course which sought to bridge across multiple media and methodologies, to integrate the perspectives of indust
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The potential of human rights education for conflict prevention and security - Intercul... - 0 views

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    This paper examines the contribution of human rights education (HRE) to conflict prevention and to the promotion of security. It outlines the difficulties in evaluating the long-term impact of HRE, but then proposes five benefits of a rights-based approac
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Lost in knowledge translation: Time for a map? - Graham - 2006 - Journal of Continuing ... - 0 views

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    There is confusion and misunderstanding about the concepts of knowledge translation, knowledge transfer, knowledge exchange, research utilization, implementation, diffusion, and dissemination. We review the terms and definitions used to describe the conce
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New Media Scholarship and Teaching: Challenging the Hierarchy of Signs -- Cushman 11 (1... - 0 views

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    This article describes the culture of some English departments and the value system often attached to various forms of media in them. Because English studies so often values the letter, texts, and the consumption of these, it's been caught in its own hier
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The Song of the Sirens and the Non-Transcendental - The European Legacy: Toward New Par... - 0 views

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    Over the past three decades the ethnographic-based human sciences (anthropology, social linguistics, ethnomusicology, sociology, etc.) have come under heavy scrutiny for the perpetuation of injustice and inequality, and a lack of sensitivity to indigenous
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HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AS TRANSFORMATIVE PRACTICE - Critical Asian Studies - 0 views

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    Examining the historical trajectory of these two "models" and the transformative practice that produced relatively high human development outcomes, the article identifies some common elements behind their success, highlighting the centrality of public act
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Studies in American Indian Literatures - Publishing Sámi Literature-from Chri... - 0 views

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    Publishing in the Sámi languages has always been difficult. The Sámi are currently spread across four countries, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia. There are nine different Sámi languages, some of them with only a few speakers. The Sámi publishing indus
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Educação & Sociedade  31.111 Narratives, identities and political action in p... - 0 views

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    This paper aims to consider the recent interest in a type of qualitative research known as narrative research, discussing the relationship between narrative and identity formation and/or understanding. The main objective is to try to establish a link betw
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