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Vision of Humanity - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 26 Aug 14
     
    "Vision of Humanity is a strong proponent of the need to further study, advocate and act on peace. It groups together a number of interrelated initiatives focused on global peace which enjoy the support of a wide range of philanthropists, business people, politicians, religious leaders and intellectuals. It brings a strategic approach to raising the world's attention and awareness around the importance of peace to humanity's survival in the 21st century" (A word from our founder, Steve Killelea, ¶3, 2014.08.26).
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Joan Tronto - Ethics of care - 0 views

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  • An ethic of care is an approach to personal, social, moral, and political life that starts from the reality that all human beings need and receive care and give care to others.
  • Paul Beaufait on 15 Nov 17
     
    "An ethic of care is an approach to personal, social, moral, and political life that starts from the reality that all human beings need and receive care and give care to others" (How would you define ethics of care? ¶1).
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Voices into Action - Home - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 07 Nov 18
     
    "[A] wealth of free curriculum-based teaching resources and online tools to help you teach your students about prejudice, human rights and social justice" (Welcome to Voices into Action, ¶1).
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Bill Gates: The next outbreak? We're not ready | Talk Video | TED.com - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 06 Apr 15
     
    A wake up call to use available know-how to save millions of human lives and trillions of dollars that future outbreaks could take.
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Welcome | Global Issues in Language Education - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 24 Jul 14
     
    The Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT) GILE SIG "works to promote global awareness, international understanding, social responsibility and action to solve world problems through content-based language teaching drawing on fields such as global education, peace education, environmental education and human rights education" (Main page, Welcome, ¶1, 2014.07.10).
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National Languages - Global Markets | Tomorrow's Professor Postings - 0 views

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  • powerful languages of the world may express national identities, or they may be the medium for the expression of other collective identities distinct from or even in conflict with the nation
  • Absorption and incorporation may be the preferred option for the powerful; for others – the majority, we suspect – the plurality and diversity of human expression, even within the world’s most powerful languages, is what the intercultural approach, moving from language learning to languaging, can both celebrate and encourage
  • It is therefore our task in the next chapter to begin to discover a way forward, to find theory and method sufficient to the task of creating critical dispositions for languaging and being intercultural
  • Paul Beaufait on 22 Feb 16
     
    Excerpt from Chapter 1, The Politics of Language (Phipps & Gonzalez, 2004) Phipps, Alison, and Gonzalez, Mike. (2004). Modern Languages: Learning and Teaching in an Intercultural Field. London, UK: Sage Publications.
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EducationHQ Australia - Language is the passport to personal mobility, opportunity and ... - 0 views

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  • English actually trails Chinese and Spanish as the third most commonly spoken language in the world, just ahead of Bengali, Hindi and Arabic. In 1950 about 9 per cent of the world’s population spoke English as their first language. That figure is now about 5.6 per cent.
  • While the proportion increases significantly when you add speakers of English as a second or third language, we’re still left with around 70-80 per cent of humanity not speaking English. Being a monolingual English-speaker places you firmly in humanity’s minority group.
  • The view that ‘English is enough’ fails to acknowledge that being bilingual or multilingual is an increasingly necessary passport to personal mobility, opportunity and prosperity, particularly in knowledge and services based economies where the ability to collaborate and communicate effectively across borders is a prized skill-set.
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  • Julie Bishop got it right in 2011 when she suggested language learning could be a "brilliant form of soft diplomacy", strengthening our capacity to work collaboratively in an increasingly interdependent and volatile world.
  • The number of students who discontinue languages study when they have discretion over that decision is very high. The reasons for attrition are complex and varied, but the perception among students that studying a language represents a low value proposition is one of most potent determining factors.
  • Paul Beaufait on 16 Dec 15
     
    Mullane, Kurt. (2015.12.09). Language is the passport to personal mobility, opportunity and prosperity.
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Hunkering down: Japan's higher education sector | Times Higher Education (THE) - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 26 Nov 18
     
    "The number of upper secondary school graduates in Japan has declined by 38 per cent since 1990, when the country's previously booming economy began to flatline, and job vacancies outnumber applicants by more than 60 per cent. Such factors have prompted questions about the country's ability to maintain a workforce capable of paying off the world's largest public debt; Japan's government owes around two-and-a-half times what its entire economy produces each year" (¶4, 2018.11.26).
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