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María Zambrano
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 286

María Zambrano

María Zambrano is widely regarded as one of the most original Spanish thinkers of the twentieth century. Her biggest contribution to intellectual history is, without doubt, her poetic reason and unique attempt to overcome the limiting coordinates of the framework of rationality established by the Enlightenment. Having spent forty-five years in exile, the relevance of this Spanish Republican thinker has only been recognised in recent decades, and this monograph explores the political dimension present throughout her work to argue for it as one of her key motivations. This monograph, therefore, reveals the political dimension inherent to Zambrano’s proposal for an alternative rationality – that is, poetic reason – and, to this end, this book questions existing assumptions regarding Zambrano’s thought and reframes it with its emphasis on the pivotal role of reason.

Telecollaborative Language Learning
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 200

Telecollaborative Language Learning

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: Peter Lang

This guidebook brings together the knowledge, insight and experience gained by the participants of an international telecollaborative language learning project entitled Moderating Intercultural Collaboration and Language Learning (MICaLL). Telecollaboration is understood here as a shared teaching and learning experience between distanced partners that is facilitated through the use of Internet technology; an area of growing interest for many teachers. The book first provides a theoretical outline of suitable pedagogical practices for this type of joint effort and then moves into the more practical aspects of designing, setting up, implementing and evaluating telecollaborative projects. The guidebook considers relevant questions and issues which often come up when teachers without previous experience in telecollaboration undertake this type of enterprise. Through the realistic advice and practical examples provided, the reader will be motivated to engage in telecollaborative language learning projects with their own pupils.

Papá y yo
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 187

Papá y yo

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-03-09
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  • Publisher: TAURUS

Un homenaje al escritor Eduardo Caballero Calderón por parte de su hija.

Reading Continental Philosophy and the History of Thought
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 241

Reading Continental Philosophy and the History of Thought

This book frames the mission of the Continental Philosophy and History of Thought series at Lexington Books. International leading scholars contribute essays that explore and redefine the relationship between received arguments in contemporary Continental philosophy and various influential figures and arguments in the history of thought. By bringing Continental philosophy and the histories of thought into dialogue, editors Christian Lotz and Antonio Calcagno broaden the standard canon of what is considered Continental philosophy by including important yet understudied figures and arguments in the tradition; the chapters also deepen and contextualize significant movements and debate in the field by showing their rich historical underpinnings, thereby establishing new viewpoints in specific constituent subfields of philosophy. Reading Continental Philosophy and the History of Thought shows the growing richness of Continental philosophy via unexplored rethinking of the history of thought. The contributors expand Continental philosophy with and through the recovery of important historical developments, figures, and lines of thought.

Curious Exotica (Ink on Paper)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 120

Curious Exotica (Ink on Paper)

Ethnographic museums have been fundamentally reshaped during recent decades, acknowledging contemporary cultural practices, recognising aesthetic expressions and encouraging the active involvement of indigenous participants in all processes of museum creation and administration. Despite these efforts, however, this book reveals how the institution of the museum as such continues to be haunted by its previous, restrictive ideas of the other while talking about the self. It investigates the ethnographic object and its performance in museum displays, departing from notions of haunting as expressed by Jacques Derrida and Avery Gordon to think about presence and absence and the tension between object and text. The book argues that the tension between satisfying and dissatisfying informational needs is essential to the museum context, and that the objects on display have to be arranged in familiar patterns to be recognisable as material knowledge. As such, the ethnographic museum can be nothing else but a monument to its own history, and the ethnographic object remains trapped by the limitations of its category that is inseparable from the museum setting.

On Making in the Digital Humanities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 309

On Making in the Digital Humanities

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-03-13
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  • Publisher: UCL Press

On Making in the Digital Humanities fills a gap in our understanding of digital humanities projects and craft by exploring the processes of making as much as the products that arise from it. The volume draws focus to the interwoven layers of human and technological textures that constitute digital humanities scholarship. To do this, it assembles a group of well-known, experienced and emerging scholars in the digital humanities to reflect on various forms of making (we privilege here the creative and applied side of the digital humanities). The volume honours the work of John Bradley, as it is totemic of a practice of making that is deeply informed by critical perspectives. A special chapter ...

Memory and Trauma in the Postwar Spanish Novel
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 184

Memory and Trauma in the Postwar Spanish Novel

In recent years, much Spanish literary criticism has been characterized by debates about collective and historical memory, stemming from a national obsession with the past that has seen an explosion of novels and films about the Spanish Civil War and Franco dictatorship. This growth of so-called memory studies in literary scholarship has focused on the representation of memory and trauma in contemporary narratives dealing with the Civil War and ensuing dictatorship. In contrast, the novel of the postwar period has received relatively little critical attention of late, despite the fact that memory and trauma also feature, in different ways and to varying degrees, in many works written during ...

La Patasola
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 92

La Patasola

En nuestro folclor colombiano, la Patasola es una mujer monstruosa que tiene una sola pierna en forma de pezuña y un aspecto aterrador. Sin embargo, es la protectora de los animales y del medio ambiente. En esta historia una firma petrolera extranjera se instala en un lugar de los llanos orientales para perforar la tierra, con el consecuente daño ecológico. Uno de los personajes principales, "el gringo", es además abusivo y desconsiderado con los animales silvestres que encuentra a su paso, lo que despierta la ira de la Patasola. Es una obra de teatro para niños desde los diez años, que ofrece divertidas situaciones, y, a la vez, despierta la conciencia del cuidado de los recursos hídricos, la flora y la fauna, en los jóvenes lectores. Al final presenta sugerencias de montaje, vestuario, caracterización de personajes y escenografía, que facilitarán la puesta en escena.

Online and Distance Education for a Connected World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 309

Online and Distance Education for a Connected World

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-03-27
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  • Publisher: UCL Press

Learning at a distance and learning online are growing in scale and importance in higher education, presenting opportunities for large scale, inclusive, flexible and engaging learning. These modes of learning swept the world in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The many challenges of providing effective education online and remotely have been acknowledged, particularly by those who rapidly jumped into online and distance education during the crisis.This volume, edited by the University of London’s Centre for Online and Distance Education, addresses the practice and theory of online and distance education, building on knowledge and expertise developed in the University over some 150 years....

The Darkening Nation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 251

The Darkening Nation

At the turn of the twenty-first century, Argentina was in the midst of its worst economic crisis in decades, the result of years of drastic neoliberal reforms. This book looks at the way ideas about race and nationhood were conveyed during this period of financial meltdown and national emergency, examining in particular how the neoliberal crisis led to the critical self-questioning of the dominant imaginary of Argentina as homogeneously white – allegedly the result of European immigration and the extinction of most indigenous and black people in the nation-building age. The Darkening Nation focuses on how the self-examination of racial and national identity triggered by this crisis was expressed in culture, through the analysis of literary texts, films, artworks and music styles. By considering a wide range of artistic and cultural products, and different forms of racial identity and difference (white, indigenous, Afro-descendant, immigrant and negro as it is understood in local contexts), this study constitutes a timely addition from a literary and cultural studies perspective to recent academic enquiry into race and nation in Argentina.