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Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Description
"The study of the eighteenth century has been a growth area in university research and teaching in recent decades. Although widely taught in history departments, the eighteenth century also presents challenges, including new students' unfamiliarity with the period, the theoretical and interdisciplinary nature of the critical writings, and extensive online source material requiring digital skills for its evaluation. Focusing on pedagogical innovation...
Pub. Date
octubre de 2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (474 pages)
Description
This volume makes a cartography of the last twenty-five years of the field of Latin American studies organized by turns. Its sixteen chapters, which range from the turn of memory, the decolonial, the transatlantic, to the affective, include both a review of the key bibliography to understand the respective paradigm shift and its effects on the broader field of Latin American studies, as well as an evaluation of the achievements, possibilities and...
Pub. Date
©2012
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xvi, 286 pages) : illustrations
Description
This volume presents the diverse approaches and achievements of scholars of Asian cultures and languages in today's global academy. Recent vast increases in student numbers and ethnic diversity have created pressing challenges for a higher education which engages with contemporary concerns for Asian societies as well as for Asian students involved in Western education. This collection of scholarly analyses demonstrates the centrality and significance...
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 283 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Collection of all 46 Schoolhouse rock! songs on the topics of science, multiplication, money, American history and English grammar. Plus, the new song "I'm gonna send your vote to college" about the American electoral college.
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Description
"The challenge of this book is to go beyond the realm of cultural diplomacy when it comes to outlining Canadian studies. Based on renewed research into the imaginary of the North, the book explores transnordic narrative spaces between Canada, the Nordic countries and the Baltic states. Although the book takes cultural studies as its theoretical basis, opposing a diplomatic perspective and arguing that there is a specificity to Canadian culture that...
Author
Description
This is the story of Azar Nafisi's dream and of the nightmare that made it come true. Prof. Nafisi resigned from her job as professor of English Literature at a university in Tehran in 1995 due to repressive government policies. For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to read and discuss works of Western literature forbidden by the new regime. They were all former students...
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
viii, 879 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Description
This work provides an overview of the progress that has characterized the field of research and policy in art education. It profiles and integrates history, policy, learning, curriculum and instruction, assessment, and competing perspectives.
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
xii, 201 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
Assessing Expressive Learning is the only book in the art education field to date to propose and support a research-supported teacher-directed authentic assessment model for evaluating K-12 studio art, and to offer practical information on how to implement the model. This practical text for developing visual arts assessment for grades 1-12 is based on and supported by the results of a year-long research effort primarily sponsored by the National Endowment...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (viii, 338 pages) : illustrations
Description
"In the field of history, the Web and other technologies have become important tools in research and teaching of the past. Yet the use of these tools is limited--many historians and history educators have resisted adopting them because they fail to see how digital tools supplement and even improve upon conventional tools (such as books). In Pastplay, a collection of essays by leading history and humanities researchers and teachers, editor Kevin Kee...
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Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
1 online resource (59 pages)
Description
Elegy for Literature is an overview of the current crisis within the academic study of literature. It suggests a way forward for rethinking the work that literary studies can do - less as a set of literary objects, and more as a way of life.
Author
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
213 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
In this smart survival guide for students and teachers -- the only book of its kind -- James Elkins examines the phenomenon of college-level art instruction, focusing particularly on the problematic practice of conducting critiques of student work.
