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This is the first international and interdisciplinary handbook to offer a comprehensive and an in-depth overview of findings from contemporary research, theory, and practice in early childhood language education in various parts of the world and with different populations. The contributions by leading scholars and practitioners are structured to give a survey of the topic, highlight its importance, and provide a critical stance. The book covers preschool ages, and looks at children belonging to diverse ethno-linguistic groups and experiencing different histories and pathways of their socio-linguistic and socio-cultural development and early education. The languages under the scope of this ha...
This book presents ecological perspectives towards early language education that conceptualise the phenomenon of interactions between child language-based agency, teachers’ agency, peers’ agency and parents’ agency, consequently furthering insights into the lives of young children growing up in multilingual homes. Drawing on rich empirical research evidence, the book explores teachers’ and family strategies and practices aimed at enhancing children’s interest in home language maintenance and enrichment as well as in the novel language learning. It defines early language education as the education of children up to the age of 6 and considers international evidence of children’s la...
Laura Lojo is Associate Professor of English literature and language at the University of Santiago de Compostela and has a Ph.D. in VirginiaWoolf's writing. Lojo is the author of Introduction to Virginia Woolf's Short Fiction (2003), and is co-editor of Writing Bonds: Irish and Galician Contemporary Women Poets (2009). She has also published book chapters and articles in literary journals on various topics, such as the reception of British modernism in Spanish-speaking countries, Irish women's poetry, women's studies, and comparative literature. --
This book breaks new ground in considering the nature and function of anthologies of poetry and short stories in twentieth-century Portugal. It tackles the main theoretical issues, identifies a significant body of critical writing on the relationship between anthologies, literary history and the canon, and proposes an approach that might be designated Descriptive Anthology Studies. The author aims to achieve a full understanding of the role of anthologies in the literary polysystem. Moreover, this study considers anthologies published in Portugal in the early years of the twentieth-century, the influential figures who made them, the works they selected, and who read them. It also focuses on ...
La educación para el desarrollo anhela convertirse en una herramienta de transformación social, una oportunidad para el aprendizaje participativo que genere conciencias críticas haciendo a las personas responsables y activas para construir una sociedad más justa. Inspirada por un creciente interés por la educación para el desarrollo, surge una alianza entre una ONGD, un grupo de investigación universitario y un centro educativo. Con esta cooperación se intenta mejorar la práctica de la educación para el desarrollo, facilitando la transferencia del conocimiento. Esperamos que las experiencias que se muestran sirvan para identificar metodologías, temáticas, enfoques e instrumentos, y contribuyan también a visibilizar las luces y sombras, los aciertos y dificultades a los que nos enfrentamos.
¿Qué se sabía en realidad de las vanguardias históricas hispanoamericanas hace apenas treinta años? Muy poco, si se exceptúa la atención aislada que habían merecido las obras poéticas de algunas de las figuras más relevantes del período, Vicente Huidobro, César Vallejo, Oliverio Girondo, el Borges ultraísta. No sólo no se consideraban en toda su dimensión las vanguardias como un fenómeno continental, sino que parecía incluso haber caído en el olvido lo que la eclosión simultánea de esos movimientos juveniles, inquietos e iconoclastas trajo de nuevo a las artes y a la cultura de América Latina. Hoy se sabe que estas expresiones tuvieron un perfil propio que las distingue ...
This is the first feminist and postcolonial analysis of Galician cultural nationalism and its relation to the Spanish state and Spanish centralism.
Este libro, coordinado polo profesor Arturo Casas, márcase o obxectivo de elaborar unha achega sistemática e cohesionada sobre a Crítica no marco xeral dos Estudos literarios. Para alcanzalo, comeza por delimitar a identidade da Crítica como disciplina e por dirimir o lugar e funcións que lle corresponden en tanto actividade social, cuestións tratadas no primeiro dos seus tres bloques, “Aspectos teóricos”. No segundo e no terceiro, “A Crítica e os xéneros” e “A Crítica e o espazo interartístico”, expóñense as claves analíticas de diversos métodos crítico-literarios e efectúanse aplicacións concretas dos seus operativos sobre os arquixéneros recoñecidos pola Po...