Enacting English across Borders
Emergent researchers challenge misconceptions about teaching English in a globalised world. Drawing on Asian contexts, these studies critique existing assumptions, highlight inconsistencies in the field of ELT, and provide suggestions to address these issues.
Language in Use
This collection explores applications of metaphor in a variety of contexts and types of discourse, against a multitude of cultural backgrounds.
The Challenges of Mobility
This book arose from a shortage of literature on mobility as a tool for learning, dialogue, and artistic exchange. How does mobility alter geographies and create new narratives? This volume provides fresh perspectives on the crucial challenges of mobility.
Written in response to extremists, this book argues that the present state of violence and injustice has nothing to do with Islam, but with man-made laws. It challenges Muslims to explore the purity of the faith to end hatred, bigotry, and intolerance.
The studies included here stem from the assumption that broadly-understood borderlands, as well as peripheries, are abodes of significant culture-generating forces, and focus on various aspects of borderland art and literature.
Maimonides on God and Duns Scotus on Logic and Metaphysics (Volume 12
Moses Maimonides and John Duns Scotus are key figures who bookend a major thirteenth-century philosophical tradition. This volume explores Maimonides’s work on God and creation alongside the revolutionary logic and metaphysics developed by Scotus.
This is one of the first English publications to offer a profound analysis of Russian Constitutional Law. It covers the Constitution, federalism, the President, the court system, and human rights, and is useful for anyone interested in Russia’s system of power.
Revisiting “Social Factors”
This collection of cutting-edge research explores the human experience of the built environment. Touching on issues of sustainability, disaster recovery, and culture, it demonstrates a renaissance of Social Factors for scholars, students, and practitioners.
This text evaluates the effects of the economic reform that began in the 1970s on regional development in Jiangsu province in China, using detailed case studies which clarify several fundamental ideological and institutional concepts that have shaped the nation’s economic reform.
This book argues for placing equity and social justice at the centre of education. Leading researchers show how marketization harms students and offer strategies to reimagine schools for disadvantaged communities, ensuring all young people can effectively engage.
Patriarchy in Eclipse
This book examines two types of women in post-Civil War literature and art: the femme fatale and the New Woman. It explores how they challenged patriarchal culture and why they precipitated so much intellectual and artistic angst in their educated male readers.
The authors here centre their attention on such thinkers as Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoic philosophers, who used doctrinal elements from Mystery Cults, adapting them to their own thinking, and, as such, offer a new way of looking at various renowned Greek philosophers.
Home and Away
The first contribution to literary juvenilia studies in the past decade, this volume theorises the current state of this field and exemplifies it in action, showing the importance of the familiar world of home and the territory of adulthood to the imaginations of young authors.
This book reviews twenty years of research in German industrial relations. It analyzes changes in the German model and its major institutions, namely trade unions and co-determination, and discusses contributions from disciplines like HRM, economics, and labour law.
This book covers essential Author Cocitation Analysis (ACA) topics for graduate students and researchers. Learn techniques to delineate the intellectual structure of academic disciplines, compare research traditions, and trace paradigm shifts over time.
Training Foreign and Second Language Teachers
This book provides a comparative perspective on foreign language teacher training in France, Germany, Russia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. It highlights elements of good practice found across nations and sheds light on why certain nations manage multilingualism better than others.
Education in St. Maarten from 1954 to 2000
George narrates the development of education in St. Maarten over a period of nearly 50 years, tapping into the experience of the protagonists, giving postcolonial subjects, often bypassed or forgotten by most traditional historians, a voice in the recording of their own history.
Learning and Teaching with Geomedia is a practical introduction to the field for secondary education. It provides ready-to-use learning environments that foster spatial citizenship and are easily applied in any school with a web browser or mobile phone.
Both Swords and Ploughshares
This collection of essays explores the mythos of America as a place of religious freedom, yet one imbued with a socially-imposed civil religion and underpinned by a presumption of Protestant dominance.
‘Disciples of Flora’
‘Disciples of Flora’ explores gardens as sites of meaning and identity where culture and nature meet. Spanning ancient Rome to the present, this collection of essays revises garden histories, revealing alternative landscapes and contesting memories.