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Bilingualism in Singapore was wrong - blog pngapore - 0 views

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  • Bill Brydon on 18 Dec 10
     
    'Insistence on bilingualism in early years of education policy was wrong: MM Lee', on 17 Nov 2009. In it, MM Lee said: Successive generations of students paid a heavy price, because of my ignorance, by my insistence on bilingualism. And I wasn't helped b
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Defining, measuring, and facilitating intercultural learning: a conceptual introduction... - 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
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EDUCATION-US: Social Justice Schools Shape New Wave of Activists - IPS ipsnews.net - 0 views

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    While most U.S. public schools are responding to new high-stakes testing requirements by teaching more math and English to the neglect of social studies and civics, a very small minority of schools are pushing forward a different agenda.
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The problem with autonomy: an ethnographic study of neoliberalism in practice at an Aus... - 0 views

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    The research reported here demonstrates the need for greater subtlety in the practice of policy than appears to be evident in many parts of the globe. Based upon an ethnographic study of school reform, this paper heeds Appadurai's call for those researchi
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Engaging Chinese ideas through Australian education research: using chengyu to connect ... - 0 views

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    The increasing number of higher degree research students from China in the universities of multicultural Australia as elsewhere has added to the mounting interest in pedagogies of postgraduate supervision. This paper explores the proposition that efforts
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The scrumpled geography of literacies for learning - Discourse: Studies in the Cultural... - 0 views

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    This paper draws upon the experience of the Literacies for Learning in Further Education research project in the UK. The project explored the literacy demands of a number of curriculum areas and the literacy practices of students in their everyday lives,
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Project MUSE - Pedagogy - Returning to Community and Praxis: A Circuitous Journey throu... - 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
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Project MUSE - Pedagogy - Globalism and Multimodality in a Digitized World: Computers a... - 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
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Project MUSE - Pedagogy - The Figure of Writing and the Future of English Studies - 0 views

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    With the long-term decline in the cultural capital of literature and a steep decline in tenure-track hires in literary studies, faculty across English are rethinking their relationship to writing. As interest in digital media grows, together with rising e
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    This article surveys the challenges college teachers in the United States will likely face in the near future and argues that overtly political attacks from the Right may be less important than the erosion of tenure entailed in universities' overuse of ad
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Project MUSE - Pedagogy - Performing Discussion: The Dream of a Common Language in the ... - 0 views

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    This article argues that students still must be encouraged to participate in active, interpretive communities that build viable textual meanings in literature classes (and elsewhere). It questions how instructors in student-centered classrooms negotiate t
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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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    More than 65 million youth (ages 15-29) live in the countries that make up Mercosur: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. Despite the socioeconomic situation, they have projects, dreams and an enormous capacity to contribute to human development in th
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MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. - Editor's Introduction: Translation and Alt... - 0 views

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    Yet perhaps there is an alternative to this binary in writing that twists English literacy into new forms and deformations, that turns "English" proper into something else-in writing that inflects, bastardizes, and hybridizes English with other tongues. C
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Bringing Our Brains to the Humanities: Increasing the Value of Our Classes while Suppor... - 0 views

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    This article argues that English faculty do not avail themselves sufficiently of research on cognition and learning in their classrooms or in their training of graduate students. The tenets of brain-based learning would enhance our ability to teach practi
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Cultural differences, learning styles and transnational education - Journal of Higher E... - 0 views

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    Australian universities have been active participants in the transnational education market over the past twenty years. Many Australian universities have structured various forms of franchising arrangements with universities and other education providers,
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Lifelong Learning for the African to Become a Twenty-First Century Person in the Global... - 0 views

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  • Bill Brydon on 18 Dec 10
     
    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
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Access to Majority Language and Educational Outcomes: South Asian Background Students i... - 0 views

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    This study examines the extent to which South Asian students in Hong Kong are gaining fluency in Chinese and the impact of this on their educational outcomes in the postcolonial context of an official shift to a trilingual (Cantonese, English, and Putongh
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What's anger got to do with it? Towards a post-indignation pedagogy for communities in ... - 0 views

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    We argue that anger tends to be naturalized and normalized in social and educational theory and our goal is to problematize the too easy justification of indignation as an emotional resource in political and pedagogical work. Instead we wish to propose th
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The social imaginary of first generation Europeans - Social Identities: Journal for the... - 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,
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