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Bill Brydon

Walter Benjamin's "The Task of the Translator": Theory after the End of Theory- Partial... - 0 views

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    If literary theory recently has undergone a fundamental change, the question arises: is it possible that the very nature of theory has itself changed? This paper argues that Walter Benjamin's essay "The Task of the Translator" provides some strategies tha
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The Pedagogy of Global Development: the promotion of electoral democracy and the Latin ... - 0 views

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    This contribution uses insights from the field of critical pedagogy to study North-South power relations. It analyses the attempts of the European Union to promote democracy in the 'developing world', or Global South. The metaphor of development helps to
Bill Brydon

Imagining Globalization Through Latin American Literature -- Seminet 8 (1): 86 -- Arts ... - 0 views

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    Through a combination of practical applications and theoretical underpinnings, this article explores the question of how to approach the teaching of Latin American Literature in the current period of globalization. Many theorists argue that we need new ep
Bill Brydon

The Canadian Modern Language Review / La revue canadienne des langues vivantes - Of Mot... - 0 views

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    This article addresses two key challenges that globalization poses to literacy research: the need for new models of literacy and literacy education, and the stakes of adopting multiliteracies pedagogies in different contexts - that is, the tensions betwee
Bill Brydon

The Canadian Modern Language Review / La revue canadienne des langues vivantes - Promot... - 0 views

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    The community is an important stakeholder in language education, and community views are critical for the successful implementation of new language policies. This article reports on a study on multilingual language policies conducted in two primary school
Bill Brydon

English as a foreign language, globalisation and conceptual questioning - Globalisation... - 0 views

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    This text discusses the locus of English in globalisation discourses. Assuming that languages constitute discursive formations informing ways of knowing, discourses of English as a global language (EGL) are positioned in relation to teaching English as a
Bill Brydon

Zadie Smith Speaking in Tongues - The New York Review of Books - 0 views

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    In this lecture I have been seeking to tentatively suggest that the voice that speaks with such freedom, thus unburdened by dogma and personal bias, thus flooded with empathy, might make a good president. It's only now that I realize that in all this util
Bill Brydon

Ethics and the Broader Rethinking/Reconceptualization of Research as Construct -- Linco... - 0 views

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    The focus of this article is the conceptualization of a critical anticolonial social science that places ethics and concern for others at the forefront, while at the same time challenges the will to know others that so dominates social science research as
Bill Brydon

On the Impossibility of (Some) Critical Pedagogies: Critical Positionalities within a B... - 0 views

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    In teaching, our teacherly bodies are always available for the interpretation and evaluation of others. Indeed, it was a first lesson for many: entering the classroom the first time and feeling those eyes reading your performance of self, deciding what ki
Bill Brydon

Dissent, criticism, and transformative political action in deliberative democracy - Cri... - 0 views

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    Many discussions of deliberative democracy ignore or misunderstand the purposes of the ideal speech situation in Habermas' theory. These purposes are to show the possibility of dissent in actual communication and of supplying a normative standard of socia
Bill Brydon

Journal of Media Literacy Education - 0 views

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    The Journal of Media Literacy Education is an online interdisciplinary journal that supports the development of research, scholarship and the pedagogy of media literacy education. The journal provides a forum for established and emerging scholars, media p
Bill Brydon

Critical Teaching about Asia: Orientalism, Postcolonial Perspectives and Cross-cultural... - 0 views

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    This paper explores the ways to develop a curriculum and pedagogy to teach Asian cultures and histories to US students - and by implication to students in the West - from critical postcolonial perspectives. In particular, by examining studies of Japan as
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Psychic and Ethical Dimensions of Language Loss - Journal of Intercultural Studies - 0 views

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    This paper examines the structural and contextual registers of the experience of language loss in the process of translingual subject formation. Using the psychoanalytic theory of bereavement, the paper argues that the psychic and social obstacles against
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Eurozine - Global justice and the renewal of critical theory - Nancy Fraser, Alfredo Go... - 0 views

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    Nancy Fraser explains how the shift from redistribution to recognition undertaken by political movements during the 1990s forms part of the "post-socialist condition". The fall of the Soviet Union, she argues, not only brought the end of communism, but al
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John Kitchens, the purposes of education should go beyond critical thinking and toward ... - 0 views

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    Schools should not only be the catalyst for such ideological change, but also the location for its material germination. As such, equality in education must be a priority for the new administration, and national standards should have less to do with perfo
Bill Brydon

NICARAGUA: Literacy Campaign Changing Women's Lives - 0 views

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    MANAGUA, Apr 27 (IPS) - Lorena Castillo was 10 years old when she was told that her lot in life was to become a good homemaker and a devoted wife and mother. But she would learn none of that at school, her father said when she asked to be allowed to go wi
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International Crisis Group - Where Peace Begins - 0 views

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    Most people recognize instinctively the role of education in preventing conflict and in building peace. Now it is time to begin to work toward the establishment of peace in countries affected by conflict by integrating quality education into peace agreeme
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Education and Culture - Toward a Fully Realized Human Being: Dewey's Active-Individual-... - 0 views

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    This essay explores the conception of the individual in Dewey's democratic writings. Following Dewey's lead, I argue that it is human individuality, including our impulses, habits, and capacities, along with an appropriate environment, that represents the
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Critical Pedagogy and Democratic Life or a Radical Democratic Pedagogy Cultural Studies... - 0 views

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    My argument unfolds thusly. I begin with a brief discussion of indigenous theatre and the performance turn in the human disciplines and include a genealogy. I next discuss pedagogies of hope, the critical imagination, and the contours of a critical perfor
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Global Human Rights Awareness, Education and Democratization - Journal of Human Rights - 0 views

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    The 1990s was the era of human rights awareness, democratic transitions, and growing involvement of international organizations and the nongovernmental sector in human rights education (HRE). The UN Decade for HRE from 1995-2004 was not only born out of t
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