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  • Change and Exchange in Global Education

    Learning with Chinese Stories of Interculturality

    Series series Education (R0)
    This unique book starts from the premise that students, scholars, and educators should be given access to a form of global education that is genuinely global. Using the notion of interculturality as change and exchange as a basis, the authors examine fifty discourse instruments (e.g. idioms, neologisms, slogans) related to what they call ‘Chinese stories of interculturality’. China, like other ... Read more

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  • Interculturality Between East and West

    Unthink, Dialogue and Rethink

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book urges readers to develop a radical capacity to unthink and rethink interculturality, through multiple, pluri-perspectival and honest dialogues between the authors, and their students. This book does not give interculturality a normative scaffolding but envisages it differently by identifying some of its polyphonic textures. China’s rich engagement with interculturality serves to support ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to Ethnic Minority Education in China

    Policies and Practices

    Series series Education (R0)
    Chinese ethnic minority education is virtually unknown to readers outside China. Based on extensive qualitative and quantitative data, this book examines the basic education policies for ethnic minorities in China and describes policy implementation. It also discusses successful case studies, restrictive factors, existing gaps and challenges as well as the associated problems, highlighting teacher ... Read more

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  • Teaching Interculturality 'Otherwise'

    Edited by Fred Dervin, Mei Yuan, Sude ...
    Series series New Perspectives on Teaching Interculturality
    This edited volume focuses on the thorny and somewhat controversial issue of teaching (and learning) interculturality in a way that considers the notion from critical and reflexive perspectives when introduced to students.Comprised of three parts, the book discusses the nuts and bolts of teaching interculturally, considers changes in the teaching of interculturality, and provides pedagogical ... Read more

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    The global/local distinction has changed significantly, and the topic has been heatedly debated in literary and cultural as well as translation scholarship. In this age of globalisation, the traditional definition of translation has been altered. In the present anthology, translation is viewed as a cultural and political practice, and accordingly translation studies is based on a heightened ... Read more

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  • John Dewey, Liang Shuming, and China's Education Reform

    Cultivating Individuality

    by Huajun Zhang ...
    This book explores the central question of how to cultivate a continued sense of self in the radically changing Chinese society, a question that is highly related to the current ongoing educational reform. If education cannot respond to the problem of students’ disconnection from the changing society, learning cannot truly happen in school and the reform will fail. Zhang suggests a philosophy of ... Read more

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  • Visual Culture in Contemporary China I

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    Series series China Perspectives
    As the first volume of a two-volume set that examines the interaction between social transformation and visual culture in contemporary China, this book explores the visual construction of popular culture, avant-garde art, and grassroots media culture.Drawing on an approach of Marxist historic materialism and academic resources of sociology, communication, and art, this study of contemporary China ... Read more

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  • Interculturality as an Object of Research and Education

    Observing, Reflecting and Critiquing

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book proposes a new method for working on the complex and polysemic notion of interculturality, aimed at scholars, students and educators who have an interest in enriching and challenging their own take on this somewhat controversial scientific notion. Multiple examples of observability made by the authors are provided to illustrate the method. The book helps readers to look at themselves as ... Read more

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  • The Paradoxes of Interculturality

    A Toolbox of Out-of-the-box Ideas for Intercultural Communication Education

    by Fred Dervin ...
    Series series New Perspectives on Teaching Interculturality
    Offering a unique reading experience, this book examines the epistemologies of interculturality and explores potential routes to review and revisit the notion anew.Grounded in different sociocultural, economic and political perspectives around the world, interculturality in education and research bears a paradoxical attribute of 'contradictions' and 'inconsistencies', making it a polysemous and ... Read more

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  • Supercriticality and Intercultural Dialogue

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book offers a snapshot of interculturality as a complex, unstable and highly political object of research and education when it locates at the centre of multifaceted dialogues between teachers and students; students and students; teachers, students, scholars and readers. The context of the book is a Chinese course on intercultural communication education where students engage with local and ... Read more

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  • Locating Translingualism

    by Jerry Won Lee ...
    Series series Key Topics in Applied Linguistics
    Encounters involving different cultures and languages are increasingly the norm in the era of globalization. While considerable attention has been paid to how languages and cultures transform in the era of globalization, their characteristic features prior to transformation are frequently taken for granted. This pioneering book argues that globalization offers an unprecedented opportunity to ... Read more

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  • Objectivism

    The Philosophy of Ayn Rand

    Series series Ayn Rand Library
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