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Identifying Race and Transforming Whiteness in the Classroom
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 308

Identifying Race and Transforming Whiteness in the Classroom

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004
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  • Publisher: Peter Lang

As educators, how do we challenge and interrupt the social construction of whiteness in ourselves, in the classroom, in schools, and in the wider society? Coming from diverse backgrounds, the contributors in this volume draw on their own well-examined experiences of race, racism, and whiteness in developing effective antiracist pedagogies and classroom activities that interrupt and contest whiteness. They have explored their own lives from the selective position of their own memories and have traced the ways in which their assumptions - which they use to mediate and interpret the world around them - have been constituted by public ideological forces. They have collaborated with others in building alternative pedagogies and support systems, enabling them to teach, and at the same time, reflect on the assumptions behind and the effects of their teaching. The result is the work collected here.

The Alcalde
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 96

The Alcalde

  • Type: Magazine
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  • Published: 2005-03
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  • Publisher: Unknown

As the magazine of the Texas Exes, The Alcalde has united alumni and friends of The University of Texas at Austin for nearly 100 years. The Alcalde serves as an intellectual crossroads where UT's luminaries - artists, engineers, executives, musicians, attorneys, journalists, lawmakers, and professors among them - meet bimonthly to exchange ideas. Its pages also offer a place for Texas Exes to swap stories and share memories of Austin and their alma mater. The magazine's unique name is Spanish for "mayor" or "chief magistrate"; the nickname of the governor who signed UT into existence was "The Old Alcalde."

Musical Cognition
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 167

Musical Cognition

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-12-04
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Why do people attach importance to the wordless language we call music? Musical Cognition suggests that music is a game. In music, our cognitive functions such as perception, memory, attention, and expectation are challenged; yet, as listeners, we often do not realize that the listener plays an active role in reaching the awareness that makes music so exhilarating, soothing, and inspiring. In reality, the author contends, listening does not happen in the outer world of audible sound, but in the inner world of our minds and brains. Recent research in the areas of psychology and neuro-cognition allows Henkjan Honing to be explicit in a way that many of his predecessors could not. His lucid, ev...

Straight
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 220

Straight

straight / 'strāt (adj.) . . . without curves . . . correct . . . honest . . . not deviating from the normal . . . conventional . . . Heterosexual Practically all mainstream cinema is "straight," and has been since its inception. In Straight, Wheeler Winston Dixon explores how heterosexual performativity has been constructed in film, from early cinema to the present day. In addition to discussing how cinematic visions of masculine and feminine desire have been commodified and sold to reinforce existing societal constructs, Dixon also documents the recent emergence of "hypermasculinity," a kinetic and exaggerated masculinity that has been created to counter the more gentle, thoughtful male portrayed in While You Were Sleeping, Sleepless in Seattle, and other films that seemingly threaten the established order of patriarchal cinematic discourse.

Race, Culture, and Identities in Second Language Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 333

Race, Culture, and Identities in Second Language Education

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-06-02
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This groundbreaking volume presents empirical and conceptual research that specifically explores critical issues of race, culture, and identities in second language education and provides implications for engaged practice.

Picturing the Language of Images
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 567

Picturing the Language of Images

Picturing the Language of Images is a collection of thirty-three previously unpublished essays that explore the complex and ever-evolving interaction between the verbal and the visual. The uniqueness of this volume lies in its bringing together scholars from around the world to provide a broad synchronic and diachronic exploration of the relationship between text and image, as well as a reflection on the limits of representation through a re-thinking of the very acts of reading and viewing. While covering a variety of media—such as literature, painting, photography, film and comics—across time—from the 18th century to the 21st century—this collection also provides a special focus on the work of particular authors, such as A. S. Byatt, W. G. Sebald, and Art Spiegelman.

Darwin's Dreampond
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 292

Darwin's Dreampond

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1998
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

Darwin's Dreampondtells the evolutionary story of the extraordinary "furu" and the battlefield leading to extinction. Tijs Goldschmidt skillfully blends a masterful discussion of the principles of neo-Darwinian evolution and speciation with a history of Lake Victoria's ecosystem. The science unfolds in the context of the engaging first-person narrative of Goldschmidt's adventures and misadventures as a field researcher. An astute observer and a clear and witty writer, he warmly portrays the colors and textures of the landscapes and the lives of the local people as he interacts with them during the course of his fieldwork.

The Sage Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods: A-L ; Vol. 2, M-Z Index
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1073

The Sage Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods: A-L ; Vol. 2, M-Z Index

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008-08-21
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  • Publisher: SAGE

An encyclopedia about various methods of qualitative research.

Practice what You Teach
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 154

Practice what You Teach

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Practice What You Teach follows three different groups of educators to explore the challenges of developing and supporting teachers' sense of social justice and activism at various stages of their careers.

The Past is a Foreign Country - Revisited
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 679

The Past is a Foreign Country - Revisited

A completely updated new edition of David Lowenthal's classic account of how we reshape the past to serve present needs.