Zulfikar Ghose
Zulfikar Ghose was ranked with writers like Conrad and Nabokov, yet remains a marginal presence because his work resists categorization. This book investigates the structural patterns in his novels, focusing on his fastidious style and aesthetic design.
Stories of Peace Volume II
The chapters within this collection highlight the importance of creating and sustaining peace, proposing that peace can be created and sustained through people’s actions. They present stories to inspire the reader to work for peace.
Establishing a Culture of Intercultural Education
This edited volume brings together experienced educators and researchers who focus on problematic aspects of intercultural education, as well as crucial issues related to different regional contexts.
Education is unlikely to become inclusive without deliberate efforts to dismantle exclusion. This book explores what these efforts entail, from developing teachers to be responsive to learner diversity to reconstituting systems for meaningful inclusion.
My intercultural may not be your intercultural. This volume makes sense of the contested notion of the ‘intercultural’ in education, proposing critical and reflexive approaches from contexts worldwide. For students, teachers, and researchers.
Passing the Torch
Passing the Torch explores the mentor-student relationship and how anthropology is passed from one generation to the next. Through personal stories and classical examples, such as Boas’s mentoring of Margaret Mead, this book illuminates how the discipline is passed on.
The Emotionally Intelligent College
This text synopsises the research that has been conducted pertaining to emotional and social skills development in third level learning environments, and will help students and educators reach their maximum potential.
The discourse of education for sustainability is a self-centred discourse, refusing to acknowledge insights from other fields. It needs a radical paradigm shift to become communal learning in a real place, facing tough questions about its prevailing insularity.
Written for pre-service music teachers, this book features insights from leading international academics. Engaging, real-life examples enable readers to critically explore the perspectives presented and consider their application in future practice.
Re-Shaping Education for Citizenship
This book explores school processes in Hong Kong, where education must now manage diversity. It investigates how a liberal and democratic national identity, distinct from that of mainland China, develops under the “one country two systems” policy.
Business Process Reengineering
Master Business Process Reengineering. This practical guide provides expert strategies and the unique Sturdy BPR Matrix to implement real-world change and achieve your business objectives.
Battleground States
This volume collects work from emerging scholars examining cultural scholarship in a global world. Bringing together diverse thoughts on politics, film, history, and literature, these voices explore the threads that bind us and the forces that seek to separate us.
Philosophy and Education
Are children natural philosophers? This book shows how to build on their inherent curiosity about life’s big questions. It describes models for introducing philosophy into schools using literature, games, and activities to help students develop analytic skills.
Contested Boundaries
Contested Boundaries uses Toni Morrison’s enigmatic novel, A Mercy, as a locus to discuss her entire canon. Essays explore her re-figuration of core themes—the legacy of slavery, trauma, and love—charting a shift in her work to open up new ways of interrogating her writing.
This book provides insights into key aspects of language teacher education. It explores theoretical issues supporting the European Portfolio for Student Teachers of Languages (EPOSTL), discussing reflection, autonomy, and case studies for educators and students.
Reservoirs of Hope
This book is about hope and the personal spirituality that sustains school leaders. Based on interviews, it uses the metaphor of ‘reservoirs of hope’ to explore how a leader’s values in action can sustain a school, without their own reservoir running dry.
Imagination is the source of creativity. This collection of essays from authors around the world offers new, practical ideas for infusing classrooms with imaginative activities. Explore theories of creativity and their application to curriculum and social issues.
Intercultural Horizons
This volume features papers from the Intercultural Horizons conference on “Best Practices in Intercultural Competence Development.” Authors include leaders in the field, researchers, and teachers, providing diverse perspectives on intercultural communication.
Translation and the paratext surrounding it are not innocent. Publishers manipulate a text’s presentation, while writers use prefaces and notes to push their own interpretations. These articles reveal how these elements impact a text’s production and reception.
Following the Path from Teaching to Research University
Smaller universities are pressured to join the research race, creating stress and faculty resistance. This book explores the shift from a teaching to a research culture, unveiling the characteristics of productive faculty at private institutions.