New Approaches to Teaching Italian Language and Culture
This collection of essays offers a variety of up-to-date approaches to teaching Italian. International scholars provide case studies and hands-on strategies using curricular innovations, technology, film, and study abroad programs as effective pedagogical tools.
This volume analyses how feminism has shaped Polish literature, film and language, seeking to identify what is particular to the Polish feminist experience. Scholars examine Polish cultural history and memory through the transformations of the last two centuries.
Language Education and the Challenges of Globalisation
This book focuses on sociolinguistic issues linked to language education in the age of globalisation. It examines these in contexts of immigration and super-diversity, providing a useful look at the current state of the art for scholars and students.
Women Past and Present
In Western societies, despite legal gains for women, resistance and prejudice persist in this “post-feminist” era. New asymmetries in gender relations are also emerging, a result of globalisation, migration, new technologies, and trafficking.
Museums now engage with hot topics like terrorism, climate change, and social justice. This collection explores the role of cultural institutions in a complex world, examining how they can activate conversations and action through both new theories and practical means.
Unsettling Stories
The first study of postcolonialism and the short story composite, this book considers how the form expresses writing on settler terrain. Uniquely comparing American, Canadian, and Australian literature, it explores difficult affiliations to place, home, and nation.
Social Issues and Policies in Asia
Across Asia, rapid change creates conflict between family, work, and ageing. This book addresses these social issues by comparing the challenges and interventions in societies like Japan, Korea, and China, providing insight into this dynamic part of the world.
Practices of Ethics
For social sciences researchers confronted with ethical dilemmas, this book provides examples of ethical reflection. It deals with complex ethical questions that arise during fieldwork which find no clear guidance from professional codes, showing a new empirical approach.
This book addresses the main issues within Islamic banking. It analyzes the experiences of Islamic banks worldwide, providing an objective assessment of their successes and failures while discussing the challenges and future of interest-free banking.
Managing Institutions
This book explores the strategies minban schools use to navigate China’s fragmented institutional environment. It reveals how different types of schools adopt tactics from isolation to capitalization, showing how they thrive under substantial state control.
This pioneering volume introduces recent research into less-studied Iranian languages like Kurdish, Balochi, and Pamir. Covering theoretical, descriptive, and applied linguistics, it is a valuable contribution to our understanding of a complex language family.
Cartographies of Nature
This volume expands the links between nature conservation and border studies, showing how nature conservation produces borders. By exploring species’ borders and those created by conservation areas, it enriches our conceptualisation of borders.
The Edges of Trauma
A collection of essays on visual art and literature that explores the cultural construction of trauma. Scholars offer new perspectives on historical traumas and canonical texts, examining how the non-experience of trauma finds its way into artistic representation.
Thy Truth Then Be Thy Dowry
This collection of essays offers new insights into inheritance in American women’s writing. Contributors examine women’s problematic relationship to their legacy, revealing strategies of resistance and empowerment used to cope with the burden or lack of inheritance.
Language in Action
This volume presents a critical analysis of the relationship between language and action, building on the Vygotskian and Leontievian legacy. It sheds light on human activity and the role language has in mediating what we think, do, and learn.
Our world became engineered, yet remains human. Through the philosophy of engineering, this book explores debates on the future of humankind in an era of robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology, in an attempt to redefine our engineered future.
Quantum Theatre
Quantum Theatre uses quantum mechanics to construct a framework for examining performance. This pioneering analysis reveals hidden aspects of the theatrical event, providing a coherent alternative to postmodernism as a theoretical framework for performance.
This unique interdisciplinary volume explores the convergence of linguistics, biology, and computation. Using bio-inspired models to approach formal and natural languages, it offers specialists new ideas, tools, and formalisms to advance their work.
From Critique to Action
This book applies ethical thinking to business, management and computing. Based on the practical experience of researchers and practitioners, it is written in an accessible way with a strong, cross-disciplinary and intercultural flavour.
Alfred North Whitehead on Learning and Education
This book explores Alfred North Whitehead’s educational ideas, based on his process philosophy. It presents an alternative framework for learning and shows how these ideas can be applied to different sub-domains, offering a promising alternative to traditional education.
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