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NEPAL: Education Far More than ABCs - Experts - 0 views

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    KATHMANDU, Jun 13 (IPS) - Far more than just the learning of ABCs and 123s, education should be playing a transformative role in children's lives if it is to ensure them a better and more 'equal' and gender-responsive future. "Gender is a trigger a
Bill Brydon

Language and the seizure of power: an interview with C. L. R. James -- Searle 50 (1): 7... - 0 views

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    In this hitherto unpublished wide-ranging and reflective interview from 1982 on the relationships between language, literature and political change, C. L. R. James examines what is specific to the Caribbean genus of imaginative writing in English. And he
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Rebel Youth and Zapatista Autonomous Education -- Baronnet 35 (4): 112 -- Latin America... - 0 views

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    The Lacandón rain forest of Chiapas, Mexico, has been progressively colonized by Maya peasant families since the middle of the twentieth century. Recently, the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (Zapatista Army of National Liberation-EZLN) uni
Bill Brydon

International e-learning strategies - 0 views

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    This study examines approaches to the development and implementation of e-learning in selected countries and organizations, highlighting existing policies and initiatives, and providing useful insights for CCL's work on e-learning in Canada.
Bill Brydon

Anthropological Quarterly, Volume 81, 2008 - The "Lettered City" and the Insurrection o... - 0 views

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    This article explores how the knowledge practices of some academic-intellectuals are shifting in such a way as to signal a radical departure from the "traditional" role that academic-intellectuals have had in Latin America. This re-direction is part of a
Bill Brydon

So farewell then, lit-crit | Books | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

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    Books pages in newspapers and magazines are shrinking, while reviewers are paid peanuts. Where, I wonder, did it all go wrong?
Bill Brydon

An Essay on the Politics of Schooling and Educational Research -- Smith and Gallagher 8... - 0 views

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    For a very long time, the process of schooling and the research on that process were thought of as above or beyond politics. The myth of a politics-free schooling was exposed beginning with the social movements of the 1960s. The myth of educational resear
Bill Brydon

Reset - The global challenge faced by journalists - Ibrahim Helal - 0 views

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    The audiences are watching media that reconfirm their ideologies. The global scene has become more complex and complicated, and so working as a journalist. Because of this complexity, we, as journalists, tend to simplify things. After 9/11 there is a kind
Bill Brydon

Nationalism and Otherness: Reading Nation in the Literature Classroom -- The Global So... - 0 views

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    This essay examines the impact of modernities and globalities on cities and sexualities in postcolonial India, arguing that it has taken another monumental movement since colonization-globalization- for us to come to terms with our own modernities. Th
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Reset - On the Public Sphere, Deliberation, Journalism and Dignity Seyla Benhabib inter... - 0 views

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    the last 10 or 15 years I have been increasingly more struck about the fragmentation of the public sphere. The emergence of new media technologies, and new centres of information is leading to everyone doing their "own thing," so to speak. It's as i
Bill Brydon

FOTOGRAFÍA-CUBA: La lente natural - 0 views

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    Hace más de 30 años que Eduardo Aguiar enlazó su pasión por la naturaleza con la fotografía. De las cavernas donde hizo sus primeros trabajos hasta los encuentros en escuelas rurales para enseñar a redescubrir su entorno, la vida de este cubano de 55 años
Bill Brydon

The Case for Education in Virtual Worlds -- Nesson and Nesson 11 (3): 273 -- Space and ... - 0 views

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    This article is a practical, often ethnographically based, argument for the current value and future potential of virtual worlds in education that attempts to specifically address the concerns and reservations of the many thoughtful educators and observer
Bill Brydon

Keeping hope alive: reflecting upon learning to teach in cross-cultural contexts - Re... - 0 views

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    In this paper we explore some of our cross-cultural experiences of learning to teach in three different contexts. Drawing upon a conceptual framework of narrative inquiry we see individual lives as stories lived and told. In this sense our teaching practi
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Black Looks SOPUDEP turning a house of torture into community school in Petion-Ville, H... - 0 views

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    We must act quickly if this precious resource is to be saved and the rights of SOPUDEP's school protected. Please forward this alert far and wide.
Bill Brydon

Reading Derrida on Being Monolingual - New Literary History - Volume 39, Number 2, Spr... - 0 views

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    The essay is a study of Derrida's autobiographical reflections on the politics of language under colonialism, reflections that are made especially thought-provoking by Derrida's candid revelations of his own anguished relationship to the French language.
Bill Brydon

Foretaste of the new journalism, by Marie Bénilde LMD September 2008 - 0 views

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    Traditional media are shedding staff and those that remain, or are recruited, are expected to be multimedia performers, online 24/7 to titillate and amuse websurfers. What happened to journalism?
Bill Brydon

Visual competence: a new paradigm for studying visuals in the social sciences? - Visual... - 0 views

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    This introductory article provides an overview and theoretical anchor for the following contributions in this special issue. The article discusses, first, the necessity for introducing a new research paradigm - 'visual competence' - in the social sciences
Bill Brydon

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the Humanities: The Place - and Problem - o... - 0 views

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    What i s the place of theory in the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL)? And what does 'theory' mean, especially when the question concerns the humanities? This special issue of Arts and Humanities in Higher Education is dedicated to exploring key
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University of Regina welcomes new president - 0 views

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    Dr. Timmons holds degrees from the University of Calgary, Gonzaga University, Acadia University and Mt. Allison University. Her extensive history of community engagement is reflected in research contributions that focus in the area of education psychology
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New Left Review - Gregor McLennan: Among the Unbelievers - 0 views

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    According to Karl Marx, by 1844 the criticism of religion-the 'premise' of all social criticism-was 'essentially complete'. A hundred and sixty years later, Edward Said endorsed the sentiment in Humanism and Democratic Criticism-though more by way of hope
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