Focusing on literacy pedagogy, this book explores how modern media influences teaching and learning. It addresses the challenges and opportunities presented by new technologies, offering strategies for educators to effectively engage students in a rapidly evolving digital landscape. Emphasizing practical applications, the text aims to enhance literacy skills while integrating contemporary media practices into the classroom.
The second edition delves into current debates and challenges in education, offering a comprehensive examination of evolving teaching methodologies and learning environments. It addresses contemporary issues faced by educators and students, providing insights into effective practices and innovative approaches to learning. This updated version serves as a valuable resource for understanding the dynamic landscape of education today.
POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATIONFleche (the French word for 'arrow') is an offensive technique commonly used in fencing, a sport of Mary Jean Chan's young adult years, when she competed locally and internationally for her home city, Hong Kong.
Exploring the innate human capacity for learning, this book delves into how individuals acquire knowledge from the moment they are born. It examines the natural processes and mechanisms behind learning, emphasizing the importance of experiences and interactions in shaping understanding. The narrative highlights the continuous journey of growth and development, showcasing the interplay between environment and innate abilities. Through various insights, it encourages readers to appreciate the lifelong journey of learning that defines humanity.
Brings together concepts of meaning and communication across a range of subject areas such as education, media studies, cultural studies, arts, design and architecture. It will be of interest to scholars and students of semantics and discourse analysis, and those working in the fields of media and communication studies, semiotics, and education.
First published in 1998, this collection of letters, presented with scholarly introduction, notes and glosses, enters the debate on women and gender in early modern England as documents for the case of Elizabeth Wiseman, a wealthy widow. The letters and first-person narrative accounts relate to the courtship of Wiseman (neé North) by Robert Spencer in 1686-87. Widowed at the age of 37 in 1684 on the death of Robert Wiseman, she was left with a fortune of £20,000 and disliked Spencer so significantly that she made every effort to avoid him. These documents provide evidence for the circumstances and degree of agency over one’s marital circumstances which could be expected and exercised by wealthy, late 17th century widowed women. Historians are provided here with a glimpse of the rich and complex texture of social life in the period. The participants were people of influence and social standing in London at the time, some with strong interest in the outcome of the discussion, and the letters provide an almost complete correspondence on the issue of courtship and marriage.
This book tells a series of living stories about a domain of social activity, “the work and play of the mind,” in a particular historical the “information age.” The stories concern political processes and movements as varied as the World Trade Organization’s Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, China’s Great Firewall, practices of image sharing in social media, Occupy Wall Street, The Arab Spring, The Alt-Right, and the use of geographical indications by indigenous peoples and farmers to defend their lifestyles.In its theoretical analysis, the book illuminates four alternative political agendas for the work and play of the mind. These four “propertyscapes” represent competing visions for social life, framing projects for collective political action that are at times competing, at times overlapping. The author prompts us to consider whose property is the work and play of the mind, as well as addressing larger questions regarding the framing of political space, the kinds of political communities we may need for the future, and the changing place of the work and play of the mind within these social imaginaries. The book will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including media and communications, arts and design, law, politics and interdisciplinary social sciences.