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Paul Beaufait

93 Documentaries to Expand Your Consciousness - 0 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 15 Jun 16
     
    "There are over 800 documentaries now cataloged in our library of social change films. ... The films cover a wide array of topics, from media to war to politics and sustainability" (¶1-2, 2016.06.16).
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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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King's College London - International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation - 0 views

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    "The International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) is the first global centre for knowledge and leadership addressing the issues of radicalisation and political violence. It will produce world-class research and organise regular high-level meetings and outcome-driven dialogues on security issues" (¶1, 2015.03.28).
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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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English as lingua franca gives Singapore a fighting chance | Features | Malay Mail Online - 0 views

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  • Adopting the international language of business, diplomacy, and science and technology was about the only way this resource-less tiny island could guarantee its survival after losing its economic hinterland in Malaysia. Unemployment was at 14 per cent and rising.
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      Paul Beaufait on 25 Mar 15
       
      Main article, ¶2
  • Just as importantly, picking this race-neutral language demonstrated his government’s anti-communalistic stance, helping to keep the peace in a newborn nation made up of a polyglot-settler populace who had struggled for years with racial and religious strife.
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      Paul Beaufait on 25 Mar 15
       
      Main article, ¶4
  • 
For the sake of building “a community that feels together”, Lee pushed through the bilingualism policy in 1966. All students had to learn their “mother tongue”, Mandarin, Malay or Tamil, depending on their race, as a second language, and this became a compulsory and critical examination subject in 1969.
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      Paul Beaufait on 25 Mar 15
       
      Bilingualism, ¶1
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But the various initiatives Lee rolled out in subsequent years to put proficiency in mother tongue on par with that in English were to divide opinions, especially among the Chinese, even up to the present. Indeed, he described bilingualism in 2004 as the “most difficult” policy he had had to implement.
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      Paul Beaufait on 25 Mar 15
       
      Imperfect implementation, ¶1
  • Paul Beaufait on 25 Mar 15
     
    This article recap's policies that made English a national language of education and made other official languages required second languages.
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