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Bill Brydon

English renewed: Visions of English among teachers of 1966 :: English in Education - 0 views

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    This article examines the way in which curriculum renewal in English teaching in the late 1960s was brought about largely through the democratic process of teacher participation. It describes the role that the newly formed National Association for the Tea
Bill Brydon

Pedagogy - Pressing an Ear against the Hive: Reading Literature for Complexity - 0 views

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    This article documents a scholarship of teaching and learning project designed to help literature students cultivate the core disciplinary skill of reading for complexity. We offer a close reading of student responses from a collaboratively designed lesso
Bill Brydon

Pedagogy - Negotiating a Third Space in the Classroom - 0 views

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    This essay uses Jessica Benjamin's concept of intersubjectivity to consider a third space in the classroom, outside the teacher-centered or student-centered polarity. The intersubjective third space is characterized by the interplay of inner fantasy and r
Bill Brydon

Pedagogy - The Rhetoricity of Cultural Literacy - 0 views

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    Engaging the term rhetoricity, which refers both to Cultural Literacy as text and cultural literacy as concept, Cook claims that the most productive pedagogical component of Hirsch's proposal-the sophisticated rhetorical sensibility on which the entire co
Bill Brydon

The Canadian Modern Language Review - Indigenous, Minority, and Heritage Language Educa... - 0 views

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    In contrast to the plethora of studies published in recent years in The Canadian Modern Language Review and other journals on the teaching and learning of French and English as additional languages in Canada and the teaching of academic content through th
Bill Brydon

The Travels of Naturalism and the Challenges of a World Literary History :: Literature ... - 0 views

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    The history of the naturalist novel reveals shortcomings of recent proposals for the study of world literature, such as those of Franco Moretti and Pascale Casanova. After a naturalist esthetic coalesced in France in the 1860s naturalist schools appeared
Bill Brydon

University World News - EUROPE: Call to scrap Erasmus - 0 views

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    The 22-year-old scheme, which costs EUR440 million (US$650 million) a year, is not delivering value for money, Biancheri said, and should be returned to the member states. There was a need to produce managers trained to work through the EU who were at eas
Bill Brydon

UWN - PROFILE: Theorist of power Manuel Castells Communication Power - 0 views

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    It is Castells' fine focus on the interactions between two dimensions of change in the world - changes happening in and to the economic base, and related shifts in and possibilities for political understanding and agency - that lends his work its unusual
Bill Brydon

Lingual and Educational Policy toward "Homeland Minorities" in Deeply Divided Societies... - 0 views

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    In a bilingual or multilingual society, certain sectors may be regarded as disloyal should they speak the language of state enemies or be associated in one way or another with neighboring hostile countries. Within this framework, the present article analy
Bill Brydon

Revisiting The Master's Tools: Challenging Common Sense in Cross-Cultural Teacher Educa... - 0 views

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    According to Kevin Kumashiro (2004), education toward a socially just society requires a commitment to challenge common sense notions or assumptions about the world and about teaching and learning. Recalling Audre Lorde's (1984) classic essay, "The Master
Bill Brydon

Views: Only English Spoken - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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    Tradition is an insufficient argument for the continuation of past practices, yet at a time when foreign language requirements are embarrassingly minimal, and enrollment in foreign language courses (with the exception of Arabic and Chinese) are largely be
Bill Brydon

Ministry of Education Social Sciences and Humanities Curriculum Review - 0 views

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    In January, 2009 educators and other stakeholders had an opportunity to provide feedback on the proposed draft revisions of a number of courses in the Social Sciences and Humanities Curriculum, Grades 9 to 12. We are now soliciting feedback from educators
Bill Brydon

Bilingualism & Biliteracy: Issues of Equity, Access, & Social Justice for English Langu... - 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

Reframing Due Process and Institutional Inertia: A Case Study of an Urban School Distri... - 0 views

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    This article recounts a community's struggle for access to biliteracy in one of the largest urban school districts in the country. The authors examine the roles school personnel assume, the symbols they employ, and the scripts they follow in their efforts
Bill Brydon

The Preparation of Highly Qualified Teachers for English Language Learners: Educational... - 0 views

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    As the number of English language learners (ELLs) continues to grow in Califorina and throughout the country, there is a need to examine present policies that impact the preparation of teachers to meet the varying needs of this diverse student poplulation
Bill Brydon

'Because tumi Bangali': Inventing and disinventing the national in multilingual communi... - 0 views

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    In this article, we present an analysis of some of the voices we heard as we conducted linguistic ethnographic research in eight complementary (also known as 'community language', 'supplementary', 'heritage language') schools in four British cities. These
Bill Brydon

Two Languages, A World of Opportunities: Second-Language Learning in Canada's Universit... - 0 views

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    Education ministers across Canada, through the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada (CMEC), collectively commended the Commissioner of Official Languages today for undertaking the study "Two Languages, A World of Opportunities: Second-Language Learni
Bill Brydon

When a university opens itself to diversity: a brief report on the Intercultural Format... - 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

A People's Method(ology) A Dialogical Approach -- Barnard and Van Gerven 9 (6): 816 -- ... - 0 views

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    This is a critical dialogue between graduate student and activists in the discipline of sociology. Critical approaches to the essential question of critical race studies are discussed and evaluated in terms of their ability to develop a theory and praxis
Bill Brydon

Education Matters: First Nations Women and Postsecondary Education in Canada: Snapshots... - 0 views

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    First Nations women were more likely to have college and university credentials than First Nations men in both 2001 and 2006, whereas a higher percentage of First Nations men had trades credentials. In addition, compared to women in the overall Canadian p
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