With the development of technology, people are now able to access more comfortable education. This anthology offers articles on technology, guidance and leadership topics and will serve as a reference book for those wishing to learn about recent advances in the field of education
This book explores staff and student perceptions of English as the medium of instruction (EMI) in Pakistani universities. It examines attitudes towards Pakistani English and exposes the gap between EMI policy and practice, revealing multi-layered issues.
Taringana considers the growth of the coffee sector in colonial Zimbabwe within the broader context of agrarian capitalism in settler economies. He unpacks the central philosophy of statecraft based on the desire to develop Southern Rhodesia as a permanent white settler colony.
Border Folk Balladeers
This book contains critical studies on Américo Paredes, a founder of Mexican American Studies. Renowned scholars analyze his pioneering work on border culture, from the traditional Texas-Mexican corrido to its contemporary offshoots like narcoballads and narconovels.
Thornton Wilder in Collaboration
Evolving from papers given at the Second International Thornton Wilder Conference, the contributions examine Wilder’s work as both playwright and novelist, focusing upon how he drew on the collaborative mode of creativity required in the theatre, when writing drama and fiction.
Van Tongeren offers a thorough study of Nietzsche’s thoughts on nihilism, the history of the concept, the different ways in which he tries to explain his ideas on nihilism, the way these ideas were received in the 20th century, and, ultimately, what these ideas should mean to us.
The Internet’s new language balances expressiveness and speed. To convey emotion, users use pictographic symbols in a system that echoes ancient hieroglyphs. Will this virtual society become a counter-power to bureaucratic systems and penetrate the real?
This title adds to the existing literature on the Great Recession and the variety of current troubles in the European Union by providing the views of someone who has been in the trenches at national and international levels and who has extensive policy and academic experience.
Colonial Self-Fashioning in British India, c. 1785-1845
De Silva considers the ways in which British residents in India represented their lives through visual material, and reveals that the position of the British population in the country in the 19th century was often more nuanced than often assumed.
Teaching Languages and Cultures
Explore diverse perspectives on language and culture teaching in a globalized world. This volume offers insights into foreign language instruction, intercultural competence, and learning strategies for researchers and practitioners in Europe and beyond.
This book challenges the division between academic and practical philosophy. It offers a melioristic view that rethinks philosophy’s methods, reinvigorates its teaching, and secures its relevance outside the academe by offering original solutions to its contemporary crisis.
While educational systems are culture-bound, our globalized world needs a shared understanding of teaching a language. This book offers a framework for a non-culture-bound theory of language education, providing a common core that goes beyond national standards and guidelines.
Delving into the dynamics of colonial engagements and their implications in understanding the dominant discourses of the empire, the book investigates the various imperial interactions with colonized peoples in the former British colonies of India and in sub-Saharan Africa.
The Contemporary Arab Contribution to World Culture
This book challenges the projected image of a dominant West as a necessary model for a dependent ‘rest of the world.’ It calls for a decolonization of human knowledge, using recent Arab contributions as an example of an alternative to the globalization of Western norms.
Conflict Veterans
Returnees from violent conflicts belong to their societies as much as any other distinct social group. This volume brings together experts on veteran studies whose views present a variety of sociological, anthropological and military perspectives on contemporary veteran cultures.
The Inter-Processual Self
How should we understand the self, as well as personal, relational and systemic growth? This volume proposes a radical new way of answering this question, resting on a non-representational theory of knowledge on how to approach and comprehend the self and action more broadly.
This anthology represents the work of theorists and practitioners from various Central and Eastern European countries who offer a multifaceted approach to security and safety issues which companies in international and domestic trade, as well as consumers, are facing nowadays.
New Media and the Mediatisation of Religion
New media has transformed religious practice and expression. This book offers a unique, Africa-centred perspective on how technology influences religious engagement, shapes discourses, and enables beliefs to reach a broader audience.
Between Regulation and Freedom
These studies re-frame the roles of guilds in medieval and early modern European cities. They focus on the ways in which we can understand the interfaces between regulatory frameworks, represented by guild and civic regulations, and the wider world of labour and production.
The essays here focus on the relevance of the past to the present and future in terms of the shifting attitudes to personal and collective experiences that have shaped dominant Western critical discourses about history, memory, and nostalgia.
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