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Most education research is undertaken in western developed
countries. While some research from developing countries does make
it into research journals from time to time, but these articles
only emphasize the rarity of research in developing countries. The
proposed book is unique in that it will cover education in Papua
New Guinea over the millennia. Papua New Guinea's multicultural
society with relatively recent contact with Europe and the Middle
East provides a cameo of the development of education in a country
with both a colonial history and a coup-less transition to
independence. Discussion will focus on specific areas of
mathematics education that have been impacted by policies,
research, circumstances and other influences, with particular
emphasis on pressures on education in the last one and half
centuries. This volume will be one of the few records of this kind
in the education research literature as an in-depth record and
critique of how school mathematics has been grown in Papua New
Guinea from the late 1800s, and should be a useful addition to
graduate programs mathematics education courses, history of
mathematics, as well as the interdisciplinary fields of cross
cultural studies, scholarship focusing on globalization and post /
decolonialism, linguistics, educational administration and policy,
technology education, teacher education, and gender studies.
The stories are set in the UK, France and America. A man sells his
tin-making invention in the States. A small town in France is out
on a Sunday after the long hard years of war. Liverpool women sweep
the streets during the 1915 riots. There is a sense of loss and of
restricted lives in a number of these stories.
Paranormal activity has yet to be accepted by modern culture, and
these paranormal hoaxes surely aren't helping its case! Take a
detailed look at some of the most famous, and infamous,
otherworldly hoaxes perpetrated in recent and ancient history with
this in-depth collection.
" When the popularity of Milton Berle's television show began to
slip, Berle quipped, ""At least I'm losing my ratings to God "" He
was referring to the popularity of ""Life Is Worth Living"" and its
host, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen. The show aired from 1952 to 1957, and
Sheen won an Emmy, beating competition that included Lucille Ball,
Jimmy Durante, and Edward R. Murrow. What was the secret to Sheen's
on-air success? Christopher Lynch examines how he reached a diverse
audience by using television to synthesize traditional American
Protestantism with a reassuring vision of Catholicism as patriotic
and traditional. Sheen provided his viewers with a sense of
stability by sentimentalizing the medieval world and holding it out
as a model for contemporary society. Offering clear-cut moral
direction in order to eliminate the anxiety of cultural change, he
discussed topics ranging from the role of women to the perils of
Communism. Sheen's rhetoric united both Protestant and Catholic
audiences, reflecting -and forming- a vision of mainstream, postwar
America. Lynch argues that Sheen's persuasive television
presentations helped Catholics gain social acceptance and paved the
way for religious ecumenism in America. Yet, Sheen's work also
sowed the seeds for the crisis of competing ideologies in the
modern American Catholic Church.
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