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The Remaking of the Euro-Mediterranean Vision
  • Language: en

The Remaking of the Euro-Mediterranean Vision

The findings and policy recommendations presented in the book aim to contribute to making EU policies more responsive to major challenges in the region, more flexible on the multilateral and the bilateral level and more inclusive of key stakeholders.

The Fat Pedagogy Reader
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 293

The Fat Pedagogy Reader

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-03-30
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  • Publisher: Peter Lang

Over the past decade, concerns about a global «obesity epidemic» have flourished. Public health messages around physical activity, fitness, and nutrition permeate society despite significant evidence disputing the «facts» we have come to believe about «obesity». We live in a culture that privileges thinness and enables weight-based oppression, often expressed as fat phobia and fat bullying. New interdisciplinary fields that problematize «obesity» have emerged, including critical obesity studies, critical weight studies, and fat studies. There also is a small but growing literature examining weight-based oppression in educational settings in what has come to be called «fat pedagogy»...

Last Things
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 234

Last Things

This collection from the fields of literature, theology and corpus linguistics focuses on ways in which endings are formally signaled in literature, journalism and film. It is also concerned with larger philosophical notions of closure and apocalypse. It gives examples from fairytales, Byron, Longfellow, Dillard, Barnes and South African writers.

Bruno Munari
  • Language: en

Bruno Munari

Bruno Munari was one of the most important and eclectic twentieth-century European artists, pioneering what would later be labelled kinetic art. Through original archival research and illuminating comparisons with other artists and movements, both within and outside Italy, this volume offers a unique analysis of Munari's seven-decade-long career.

PAR EntreMundos
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 259

PAR EntreMundos

"PAR EntreMundos: A Pedagogy of the Américas powerfully engages the theory and practice of participatory action research in ways that revolutionize its potential for critically understanding the particularities and universalisms of the cultural traditions of the Américas. In so doing, the editors of this book bring together a striking collection of educational essays that illustrate the pedagogical and political force of a communal methodology for radically comprehending the beautifully diverse and complex hemisphere that informs our labor as educators and cultural citizens of the world."-Antonia Darder, Leavey Presidential Endowed Chair in Ethics and Moral Leadership at Loyola Marymount University and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Education at the University of Johannesburg

The Anthropological Perspective of the World
  • Language: en

The Anthropological Perspective of the World

A new global middle class of consumers is in the process of emerging and transforming the whole interplay of social forces.This book presents an inductive method in action, as it has been put in practice all over the world in almost 50 years of qualitative investigations in fields, offices, trains, kitchens, bathrooms or living rooms.

Autism from the Inside Out
  • Language: en

Autism from the Inside Out

This is the first book focused on providing Irish parents and early years, primary, post-primary and special school teachers with effective strategies for supporting children with autism spectrum difference. It rejects «disorder» in favour of «difference», emphasising the importance of a child-centred approach and the dangers of overgeneralising.

Pedagogical Matters
  • Language: en

Pedagogical Matters

Introduction : Re-attuning to the Materiality of Education / Nathan Snaza, Debbie Sonu, Sarah E. Truman, and Zofia Zaliwska -- Curriculum for New Material, New Empirical Inquiry / Elizabeth St. Pierre -- Playgrounds as Sites of Radical Encounters : A Mapping of Material, Affective, Spatial, and Pedagogical Collisions / Linda Knight -- Bodies, Borders, and the Politics of Attention / Nathan Snaza and Debbie Sonu -- Matter, Movement, and Memory / Elizabeth de Freitas and Francesca Ferrarra -- Meditating with Bees : Weather Bodies and a Pedagogy of Movement / Stephanie Springgay -- The Sound of Silence : The Material Consequences of Scholarship / Walter Gershon -- Intratextual Entanglements : A...

In this Together
  • Language: en

In this Together

This book provides a nexus between research and practice through teachers' narratives of their experiences with telecollaboration. The projects described in the volume serve as excellent examples for any teacher or education stakeholder interested in setting up their own telecollaborative exchange.

Translation and Interpreting
  • Language: en

Translation and Interpreting

Translation and interpreting have long been regarded as two separate fields of study, in spite of their overlap in practice. This book aims to address this gap by providing insights into theoretical and methodological approaches that can help integrate both fields into one and the same discipline.