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Bill Brydon

Defining, measuring, and facilitating intercultural learning: a conceptual introduction to the Intercultural Education double supplement - Intercultural Education - 0 views

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    If you do not already think so, the papers in this volume will convince you that study abroad has changed. At the university level, it has transcended its history as a 'grand tour' for the leisure class and the more plebian 'junior year abroad'. Now unive
Bill Brydon

Project MUSE - Pedagogy - Returning to Community and Praxis: A Circuitous Journey through Pedagogy and Literary Studies - 0 views

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    Using autobiographical incidents, the author argues that to reform our pedagogy we need to change our professional lives, abandoning our habits of solitary research for more direct and communal action. We must go beyond our disciplinary fields and enlist
Bill Brydon

Project MUSE - Pedagogy - Globalism and Multimodality in a Digitized World: Computers and Composition Studies - 0 views

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    In this article we focus on new methods of multimodal digital research and teaching that allow for the increasingly rich representation of language and literacy practices in digital and nondigital environments. These methodologies-inflected by feminist re
Bill Brydon

Lessons for higher education: the university as a site of activism - British Journal of Sociology of Education - 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

Multimodal texts in Higher Education and the implications for writing pedagogy - Archer - 2010 - English in Education - 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
Bill Brydon

Threats to autonomy in consumer societies and their implications for education - Theory and Research in Education - 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
Bill Brydon

The potential of human rights education for conflict prevention and security - Intercultural Education - 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
Bill Brydon

Lost in knowledge translation: Time for a map? - Graham - 2006 - Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions - 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
Bill Brydon

Changing Perceptions, Practice and Pedagogy: Challenges for and Ways Into Teacher Change -- Gatt 7 (2): 164 -- Journal of Transformative Education - 0 views

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    Implementing innovation in schools requires careful orchestration of a host of dimensions and stakeholders. Stakeholders fundamental to change are teachers. This article explores the potential of an in-school professional development program at empowering
Bill Brydon

THE RIGHT TO EDUCATION AND THE PEDAGOGY FOR HOPE - Critical Asian Studies - 0 views

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    This article is constructed as three narratives that are situated within the distinct and separate spatio-temporal contexts of social activism and research of the three contributors. Each contributor's role and position within this context has inflected h
Bill Brydon

Cooperative learning: a diversified pedagogy for diverse classrooms - Intercultural Education - 0 views

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    As a generic and diversified pedagogy, cooperative learning (CL) reaches out to the field of intercultural education with an offer to establish a reciprocal relationship. After a short description of the diversity of CL and a brief exploration of the infl
Bill Brydon

Cooperative learning for educational reform in Armenia - Intercultural Education - 0 views

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    Armenia is in the midst of major educational reforms in which teacher professional development is a key component. Much of the energy devoted to developing education in Armenia is targeted towards enhancing student-centred teaching, especially cooperative
Bill Brydon

Cooperative learning - a double-edged sword: a cooperative learning model for use with diverse student groups - Intercultural Education - 0 views

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    Although very little research has been done on cooperative learning (CL) in New Zealand, international research is positive about the educational benefits of working in culturally diverse groups. This paper presents the findings of a research project exam
Bill Brydon

Theoretical framework for Cooperative Participatory Action Research (CPAR) in a multicultural campus: the social drama model - Intercultural Education - 0 views

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    This paper describes a long-term research seminar, developed in 2001 by Hertz-Lazarowitz at the University of Haifa (UH). The goal of the seminar was to involve students in a meaningful, experiential and cooperative-interactive learning environment, based
Bill Brydon

Lifelong Learning for the African to Become a Twenty-First Century Person in the Global System -- Tefe 25 (2): 151 -- Journal of Developing Societies - 0 views

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    The Dakar Conference on Education organized by UNESCO in 1972 led to the formation of a commission on education chaired by Edgar Faure. In 1996 the commission released what later on became known as Delores' Report on Education as a framework or philosophy
Bill Brydon

The social imaginary of first generation Europeans - Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture - 0 views

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    Scientific and political commentators on social 'uprisings' and political engagement among second generation immigrants in Europe often refer to quantitative indicators of structural integration in national labour and school systems. Equally, if not more,
Bill Brydon

TOWARDS A LEARNING MODEL OF ICT APPLICATION FOR DEVELOPMENT - Information, Communication & Society - 0 views

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    This paper reports on a two-day workshop held in Sweden (7-8 April 2008) to bring together researchers and professionals to share insights and experiences in the application of information and communication technology (ICT) to sustainable development (SD)
Bill Brydon

Bilingualism & Biliteracy: Issues of Equity, Access, & Social Justice for English Language Learners: Introduction to This Special Issue - Equity & Excellence in Education - 0 views

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    This special issue of Equity in Excellence in Education presents a series of articles that focus on conceptual, curricular, pedagogical, and policy issues that are central to the education of English language learners (ELLs) and the development of biliter
Bill Brydon

When a university opens itself to diversity: a brief report on the Intercultural Formation Course for Indigenous Teachers, from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil - Intercultural Education - 0 views

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    The Federal University of Minas Gerais (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais - UFMG), located in the city of Belo Horizonte in Brazil, has been a committed partner of indigenous communities since 1996. This partnership began with the creation of spaces in
Bill Brydon

ARGENTINA: "Myth" of Egalitarian Society Fading Away for Young People - IPS ipsnews.net - 0 views

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    A study on young people and human development in South America's Mercosur trade bloc indicates that while in Brazil, the country's longstanding social inequality is the focus of at least somewhat successful efforts to combat it, in Argentina the vision of
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