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The Passenger: India
A journey into today’s India through essays, photography, and more, shortlisted for a 2022 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award. Since its earliest interactions with the West, India has been the object of a gross misinterpretation, a vague association with ideas of peace, spiritualism, the magic of the fakirs. Constantly reframed and mythologized by Westerners fleeing their supposedly rationalist societies, India continues to fascinate with its millennia-old history, shrines on every street corner, ancient beliefs and rituals, and unique linguistic and cultural diversity. Today this picture is mixed with that of a society changing at a frenetic pace and at the forefront of the digital revo...
Santa Claus Worldwide
This is a comprehensive history of the world's midwinter gift-givers, showcasing the extreme diversity in their depictions as well as the many traits and functions these characters share. It tracks the evolution of these figures from the tribal priests who presided over winter solstice celebrations thousands of years before the birth of Christ, to Christian notables like St. Martin and St. Nicholas, to a variety of secular figures who emerged throughout Europe following the Protestant Reformation. Finally, it explains how the popularity of a poem about a "miniature sleigh" and "eight tiny reindeer" helped consolidate the diverse European gift-givers into an enduring tradition in which Americ...
Incorporating Sustainability in Management Education
Responding to the pressing need of business schools to incorporate sustainability thinking into their curricula, this new book offers fresh thinking on how to achieve this in practical terms. Structured on a typical MBA programme, each chapter explores how sustainability thinking can be integrated into existing subject areas. Rather than being prescriptive, the chapters provide opportunities to reflect on successes as well as challenges associated with embedding sustainability into MBA courses. Contributors explore the employability implications of sustainability and how these are reflected in course designs, pedagogy and assessments. Filling an important gap in current literature, Incorporating Sustainability in Management Education provides important support to Higher Education Institutes who must quickly adapt to this desired change in business school curricula.
Meeting the Teaching and Learning Challenges in 21st Century Higher Education
Universal design has traditionally focused on learning spaces—that is, the physical buildings and areas that support teaching and learning. This book takes a broad interpretation of this concept to include a specific focus on teaching and learning practice in higher education. It draws from the expertise of a range of professionals working in higher education across three countries (the UK, China and Malaysia), thus giving voice to rarely explored debates around teaching and learning, but also drawing from different cultural perspectives. The volume also explores challenges that arise when delivering higher education courses in the 21st century and possible solutions that attempt to address such challenges. As such, it has a practical focus that will appeal to HE practitioners who are keen to enhance their own practice and, as a consequence, student outcomes.
India
***SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL WRITING AWARD (2022), ILLUSTRATED TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR*** The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, and reportage from around the world. Its aim, to break down barriers and introduce the essence of the place. Packed with essays and investigative journalism; original photography and illustrations; charts, and unusual facts and observations, each volume offers a unique insight into a different culture, and how history has shaped the place into what it is today. Brimming with intricate research and enduring wonder, The Passenger is a love-letter to global travel. IN THIS VOLUME, Arundhati Roy, Prem Shankar Jha, Tishani Doshi explo...
Denkräume
"Das Denken ist so unberechenbar wie die Gegenwart, in der es stattfindet." Wie sehr hängt das Denken davon ab, wo man denkt? Prinzipiell ist es überall und jederzeit möglich. Musik und Tanz können uns denken lassen, das Sitzen in der Küche, ein Spaziergang durch die Natur oder die Stadt, die virtuelle Bewegung im Netz, allein oder im Kontakt mit anderen: Orte und Weisen des Denkens und Schreibens sind vielfältig. Unsere Räume des Denkens eröffnen Möglichkeiten und beschränken diese, sie trennen und verbinden zugleich. Denken setzt sich, selbst räumlich beschränkt, über Grenzen hinweg. Journalistinnen und Journalisten, Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler, Schriftstellerinne...
Sprachwechsel - Perspektivenwechsel?
Literarische Texte von Autor*innen mit Migrationserfahrungen können ein kulturelles und ästhetisches Potential entfalten, das homogene Identitätskonzepte auflöst, nationale Paradigmen unterminiert und verschiedenartige Grenzen überwindet. Die Beiträge des Bandes legen dar, in welchen Formen und mit welchen Funktionen literarische Mehrsprachigkeit in Prozessen der Transkulturation zum Ausdruck kommt. Dabei fragen sie nach der spezifischen Qualität und Prägung literarischer Mehrsprachigkeit sowie nach Wechselwirkungen mit dem »transkulturellen Schreiben« bei deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsautor*innen mit Migrationshintergrund.
Teaching and Learning at the University
The focus of this book is the analysis of transformative changes and new teaching and learning perspectives at the university level. It summarizes the research results of an international team of scholars, and details the use of different theoretical approaches to explore change processes in the cases of Estonian, Swedish and Finnish universities. The case studies gathered here explain how organisation-wide changes might affect teaching practice, teaching and learning culture, professional identities, and academic career paths at universities. The book reflects both theoretical and analytical approaches, and will be of interest for all scholars, academic developers, professionals, practitioners and students interested in professional development at the university, organizational changes and higher education policies.
