Turning Points and Transformations
Turning points and transformations are central to literature, culture, and life. But why are they transformational, and what brings them about? The essays in this volume examine these questions, exploring personal and cultural shifts and how we cope with them.
This book offers valuable insight into the issues managers contend with and serves as a compendium for emerging business theories. Educators will find it a valued tool to help students embrace the theoretical and develop the applied.
This book investigates Anna Banti’s contribution to a female literary canon and the renewal of the Italian historical novel. Focusing on her novel La camicia bruciata, it shows how Banti’s personal experience of marriage and motherhood influenced her narrative.
Decolonization and the Other
Histories of the British West Indies focus on decolonization from the top down, ignoring the impact on local populations. This book explores local perspectives by using West Indian literature to supplement the historical record and understand these events.
Living in Liverpool
This collection penetrates the lost world of working-class Liverpool. It reprints a selection of writings from social commentators, chief amongst them journalist Hugh Shimmin, who recorded the habits, housing, and wages of the city’s toiling masses.
Quality Issues in ICT Integration
This publication discusses the quality of integrating technology into teaching and learning. Drawing on the experiences of researchers and tutors, it offers students and teachers an insight into various applications of technology and their critical evaluation.
This book provides an engaging overview of how digital media impact informal learning, with a particular focus on young people. International scholars examine these processes and discuss their implications for education, ICT and media.
Academic mobility in higher education is a high-profile phenomenon. This book reports research on the experience for students and staff, charting the far-reaching effects on universities, teaching, and individuals as they are forced to see themselves in a new light.
History and Narration
This volume explores the relation between narration and history, arguing we must be aware of the rhetorical strategies in historical writing. The essays consider narrativity in authors as diverse as V. Woolf, S. Rushdie, J. M. Coetzee, and A. Ghosh.
From Authority Religion to Spirit Religion
George Burman Foster was a key figure in the “Chicago School.” This volume explores his religious thought through his major writings and diverse shorter works, discovering that Foster was laying the foundation for the emergence of American humanism.
This book explores international students’ adaptation to academic writing, introducing new concepts of adjustment. It offers a dialogical pedagogic model for mutual adaptation, arguing that adjustment is a shared responsibility between students and academics.
Based on pupils’ experiences, this book demonstrates that the education system has a disastrous effect on young people. It thwarts their intelligence, exploits their vulnerability to trauma, and fails to fulfil its own aims. The research points to clear conclusions.
This volume offers a critical evaluation of interculturality, capturing vigorous debates across four continents. Scholars break with tradition to challenge the tired old notion of ‘culture’ and establish new ways of engaging with the concept.
This study explains the stunning vitality and success of postcolonial Indian novels. It analyses themes of empire, nation, gender, and language to show how writers from Rushdie to Roy have created a truly world literature, liberated from the nation.
Transgender Children and Young People
This collection approaches the current theory and practice of transgendering children. Essays are written against the grain of the popularised medical definition of ‘the transgender child’ as a young person whose ‘true’ gender lies in the brain, or pre-social ‘identity’.
This study investigates the effectiveness of audio versus text feedback for non-native English-speaking students in online courses. It shows how feedback impacts learning and perception, and how results differ if the instructor is a native or non-native speaker.
Thinking European(s)
In a changing Europe of clashing identities, Thinking European(s) brings new geographies alive. It fosters active, reflective citizens by stimulating critical thinking through case studies from across Europe and the United States.
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.
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.
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.