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This book introduces an ethnographic case study of two English
majors of ethnic minority at YUN, a local university of
nationalities in southwest China. Drawing on the theories of
post-structuralism and critical multiculturalism, this book mainly
studies two female multilingual individuals in Yunnan, China. By
scrutinizing university policies, curriculum, personal learning
histories, and by discussing the unequal power relationship between
national policies, school curricula, and ethnic multilingual
learners,this book provides information at a micro-level on how the
two ethnic minority students, who have acquired three languages
(L1-native, L2-Mandarin Chinese, and L3-English), successfully
navigate the Chinese higher education system as multilingual
learners despite various tensions, difficulties, and challenges.
How these students construct their multiple identities as well as
significant factors affecting such identity construction is also
discussed. This book will contribute to the scholarship of policy
and practice in ethnic multilingual education in China by
addressing the challenges for tertiary institutions and ethnic
multilingual learners. The author also points out that
multiculturalism as a discourse of education might help ease the
tension of being an ethnic minority and a Chinese national, and
reduce the danger of being assimilated or being marginalized.
This book introduces an ethnographic case study of two English
majors of ethnic minority at YUN, a local university of
nationalities in southwest China. Drawing on the theories of
post-structuralism and critical multiculturalism, this book mainly
studies two female multilingual individuals in Yunnan, China. By
scrutinizing university policies, curriculum, personal learning
histories, and by discussing the unequal power relationship between
national policies, school curricula, and ethnic multilingual
learners,this book provides information at a micro-level on how the
two ethnic minority students, who have acquired three languages
(L1-native, L2-Mandarin Chinese, and L3-English), successfully
navigate the Chinese higher education system as multilingual
learners despite various tensions, difficulties, and challenges.
How these students construct their multiple identities as well as
significant factors affecting such identity construction is also
discussed. This book will contribute to the scholarship of policy
and practice in ethnic multilingual education in China by
addressing the challenges for tertiary institutions and ethnic
multilingual learners. The author also points out that
multiculturalism as a discourse of education might help ease the
tension of being an ethnic minority and a Chinese national, and
reduce the danger of being assimilated or being marginalized.
What we make, makes us. This is the central tenet of Artful Design,
a photorealistic comic book that examines the nature, purpose, and
meaning of design. A call to action and a meditation on art,
authenticity, and social connection in a world disrupted by
technological change, this book articulates a fundamental principle
for design: that we should design not just from practical needs but
from the values that underlie those needs. Artful Design takes
readers on a journey through the aesthetic dimensions of
technology. Using music as a universal phenomenon that has evolved
alongside technology, this book breaks down concrete case studies
in computer-mediated toys, tools, games, and instruments, including
the best-selling app Ocarina. Every chapter elaborates a set of
general design principles and strategies that illuminate the
essential relationship between aesthetics and engineering, art and
design. Ge Wang implores us to both embrace and confront
technology, not purely as a means to an end, but in its potential
to enrich life. Technology is never a neutral agent, but through
what we do with it-through what we design with it-it provides a
mirror to our human endeavors and values. Artful Design delivers an
aesthetic manifesto of technology, accessible yet uncompromising.
Brings together 27 state-of-the-art research and review papers by
leading experts and practitioners in mathematical methods in
biomedical imaging, in intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT)
and in optimisation and inverse problems. These papers were
presented at the Huangguoshu International Interdisciplinary
Conference on Biomedical Mathematics-Promising Directions in
Imaging, Therapy Planning, and Inverse Problems November 3-9, 2008
in China. The emphasis is on trying to discover relations and
connections between these fields that will enhance progress in each
of them. As this volume shows, applicable mathematical work in
these fields goes hand-in-hand with real-world applications and the
mutual ""technology transfers"" between them leads to further
progress. The topics covered here include mathematical aspects and
practical problems in current major and emerging technologies in
diagnostic and therapeutic medicine and biology research. The
contributed work signifies the interdisciplinary cooperation
between mathematicians and scientists from medical physics,
engineering, clinical medicine, and biology that leads to
mathematically based better solutions of practical problems in
biomedical imaging and IMRT.
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