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Bill Brydon

Designing digital knowledge management tools with Aboriginal Australians - Digital Crea... - 0 views

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    The paper describes an approach to digital design grounded in processes of Indigenous collective memory making. We claim the research should be understood as performative knowledge making, and accounting it should also be performative. Accordingly we pres
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Pedagogising poverty alleviation: a discourse analysis of educational and social polici... - 0 views

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    For the past decades international organisations and governments have promoted and implemented analogous education policies on the grounds that education is the key factor to foster development and fight poverty. This article sets the context of these edu
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URUGUAY: Schoolgirls Access Computers but Can't Shake Gender Stereotypes - IPS ipsnews.net - 0 views

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    MONTEVIDEO, Jul 30 (IPS) - The girls who attend the school of Villa García, a township on the outskirts of the Uruguayan capital, are still playing dolls and dress up - only now they do it on their laptop computers.
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EDUCACIÓN: Libertad, ciberigualdad, humanidad - IPS ipsnoticias.net - 0 views

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    BENTO GONÇALVES, Brasil, 31 jul (IPS) - Esta ciudad de 100.000 habitantes en el meridional estado brasileño de Rio Grande do Sul honra desde su nombre al líder de la independentista Revolución de los Farrapos, librada entre 1835 y 1845 bajo la consigna de
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Who is talking to whom? Linguistic cues for engaging with the audience - CoDesign: Inte... - 0 views

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    In this paper we explore the options writers can use for establishing and maintaining the relationship with their audience, including the options concerning the choice of terminology, appraisal, subjectivity, rhetorical moves. We illustrate the study with
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NICARAGUA: Literacy Goal Met - Further Education Planned - IPS ipsnews.net - 0 views

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    MANAGUA, Aug 27 (IPS) - After an intense two-year literacy campaign, Nicaragua has managed to reduce the number of people who cannot read and write to below four percent of the adult population, from nearly 21 percent.
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Special Issue Introduction: Youth, Cultural Politics, and New Social Spaces in an Era o... - 0 views

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    . Our core goal is to explore the situated effects of the era in which we are now living-called alternately and interchangeably "postmodern," "post-industrial," "high modern," and "globalized"-on the global and local cultures of young people around the wo
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Globalizing critical studies of 'official' knowledge: lessons from the Japanese history... - 0 views

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    This paper discusses the Japanese history textbook controversy over 'comfort women' to tease out insights that help globalize the existing theoretical discussion of politics of school knowledge. I begin by documenting how the domestic struggles over Japan
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RUSSIA: The Language of Influence Weakens - IPS ipsnews.net - 0 views

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    Nearly all of the former Soviet republics have adopted native languages that were suppressed during the communist era at the expense of Russian. This is affecting Russia's influence over the commonwealth of independent states.
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Unspeakable Transgressions: Indigenous Epistemologies, Ethics, and Decolonizing Academy... - 0 views

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    What does happen, when "history" and "heritage" is nowhere to be found or claimed and granted? Drawing in his own mestiço heritage, the author tells the story of Geraldo in relation to his own one. Who was Geraldo? The intention is to challenge categories
Bill Brydon

Alien Environments or Supportive Writing Communities?: Pursuing writing groups in acade... - 0 views

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    This article addresses the impetus for joining and maintaining writing groups in academe. The authors consider the motivations and purposes for organizing and forming such groups. Revealing the complexities of writing both as profession and in pursuit of
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' Making a World that is Worth Living In': Humanities teaching and the formation of pra... - 0 views

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    This article considers humanities teaching as a vital space where students might develop their capability as 'practical reasoners'. The importance of this for self-development, but also for society and democratic life, is considered, while the economic pu
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Imagining a Peace Curriculum: What Second-Language Education Brings to the Table :: Pea... - 0 views

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    Just as peace and justice studies contributes much to Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, the reverse is also true: second-language classes are particularly rich sites to explore diverse notions of the common good and implications for peace a
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Reimagining England: English voices, spaces and institution building :: Public Policy R... - 0 views

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    Gerry Hassan asks whether the factors that have given rise to the so-called English Question are concerned with identity and culture or governance and legitimacy - or both - before looking to possible solutions
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More than words: Chris Searle's approach to critical literacy as cultural action -- Lan... - 0 views

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    Chris Searle took it as axiomatic that working-class children should learn to read, write, spell, punctuate and develop the word as a tool to be used in struggles - their own and those of people like them, wherever they may live - for improvement and libe
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Education and Psycho-UtopianismComenius, Skinner, and Beyond - World Futures: Journal o... - 0 views

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    In this article I will look closer at the similarities and differences between these two thinkers regarding their psycho-utopian notions. I will conclude with similar reflections on psycho-utopian tendencies in present discourses on information and commun
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Un-contented characters: an education in the shared practices of democratic engagement ... - 0 views

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    How should children be educated for democratic politics in ways that do not undermine their diverse needs, ideas, and interests? The dual challenges for a democratic theory of education are, first, to protect the pluralism of the young from standardizatio
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Beyond English Literature A Level: The silence of the seminar? :: English in Education - 0 views

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    This paper presents data from a doctoral study of the relationships between A Level English Literature and university English, a study which examines the experiences of one class of first year university English students. It argues that, whilst the socio-
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Hesitantly into the arena: An account of trainee teachers' and sixth form students' pre... - 0 views

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    This paper describes an attempt to exploit the potential of email as a means of granting access to a 'pedagogical arena' in which trainees and students might attempt to negotiate their own ways of working together. It concludes by suggesting that both gro
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Auspicious reasoning: can metadesign become a mode of governance? - Postcolonial Studies - 0 views

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    As society must very soon adopt more ecological ways of living, this article argues that a primary duty of all citizens should be to envision better ways of living. However, the way we tend to reason remains an obstacle to change. This is because most of
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