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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
This is a year of Sicilian life, its seasons and its sacred
festivals, its gorgeous fruits and demanding family life, its
casual assassinations and village feasts, its weather and the
neighbours. It chronicles a life divided between an apartment in
the city of Palermo with the weekends and summer devoted to
sustaining life in an old family farm. What makes this journal
truly exceptional is that Mary Simeti is both an outsider, (an
American who had studied medieval history and worked as a volunteer
on a social welfare programme) and an insider. For this journal was
written after twenty years of immersion in Sicilian life, as wife
to a Sicilian, mother to two Sicilian teenagers, as gardener, cook
and carer for a suspicious mother-in- law.
Although the products of globalization are far from new,
globalization as a process in the Pacific-Asian Region is both
dynamic and problematic. Pacific-Asia globalization outcomes at
present include: intensification of changes linked to the
influences of capitalism; information technology and innovative
technological systems; migration, transnationalism, and refugees;
tourism for those with newly apparent disposable incomes; altered
philosophical and religious perspectives, including the new
fundamentalism; paradigm shifts within indigenous languages and
cultures; lifestyles that embrace and/or disengage from all of the
globalizing factors listed above; and others. The Challenges of
Globalization defines globalization as "supra-national ideas and
processes that cross national borders with impunity." Such "ideas
and processes" may appear to possess a will of their own, fostering
closer links between cultures, societies, and economies. But, do
they? How do individuals, communities, and nation-states actually
respond to the forces of globalization? This book explores
globalization within the natural sciences, social sciences,
humanities, and education.
The human aspect plays an important role in the social sciences.
The behaviour of people has become a vital area of focus in the
social sciences as well. Recent Trends in Social and Behaviour
Sciences contains papers that were originally presented at the
International Congress on Interdisciplinary Behavior and Social
Sciences, held 4-5 November 2013, in Jakarta, Indonesia. The
contributions deal with various interdisciplinary research topics,
particularly in the fields of social sciences, economics and arts.
The papers focus especially on such topics as language, cultural
studies, economics, behaviour studies, political sciences, media
and communication, psychology and human development. This printed
abstracts volume comes with a full paper CD-ROM (634pp).
This book addresses the all-important dimensions of collaboration
in the study of learning raised by such questions as: Should
teachers engage students directly in discussions and inquiry about
learning? To what extent? What is gained by the collaboration? Does
it improve learning, and what do shared responsibilities mean for
classroom dynamics, and beyond?Practicing what it advocates, a
faculty-student team co-edited this book, and faculty-student (or
former student) teams co-authored eight of its eleven chapters. The
opening section of this book explores such dimensions of student
voices in the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) as power
and authority in the classroom, collaborative meaning-making, and
the role of students as both learners and experts on their own
learning. It opens up the process of knowledge-building to a wider
group of participants, and expands our conception of who has
expertise to contribute for instance recognizing students insider
knowledge of themselves as learners. Using various institutional
models to illustrate these foundational concepts, part one provides
a context for understanding the detailed examples that follow. The
case studies in the second half of the volume illustrate how these
concepts play out inside and outside the classroom when students
shift from serving as research subjects in a SoTL study to working
as independent researchers or as partners with faculty in such work
as studying curricular design/redesign, readings, requirements, and
assessment. This co-inquiry brings the principles and benefits of
the broader undergraduate research movement to the topic of
teaching and learning. It also increases student researchers sense
of themselves as independent learners. While recognizing the
impossibility of engaging every student in the scholarship of
teaching and learning in every course, the editors and contributors
make the case for making such opportunities available as broadly as
possible because, as this volume also makes clear, this is
transformational work with the potential to produce paradigm
shifts, turning points, new insights, and changes in classroom
culture for both faculty and students. The contributors demonstrate
how they validated student voices in theory, method, and
methodology across a wide variety of disciplines and while engaging
with different pedagogies. Disciplinary examples include:
anthropology, communication, chemistry, criminal science,
education, English, geography, history, human services,
mathematics, psychology, sociology, theater arts, philosophy, and
political science."
Drawing on interviews with Dan Bernstein (psychology, University of
Nebraska), Brian Coppola (chemistry, University of Michigan), Sheri
Sheppard (mechanical engineering, Stanford University), Randy Bass
(American literature, Georgetown University), and colleagues within
and outside their institutions and fields, the author looks at the
routes these pathfinders have traveled through the scholarship of
teaching and learning and at the consequences that this unusual
work has had for the advancement of their careers, especially
tenure and promotion. In collaboration with the Carnegie Foundation
for the Advancement of Teaching
Colleges and universities across the US have created special
initiatives to promote faculty development, but to date there has
been little research to determine whether such programs have an
impact on students' learning. Faculty Development and Student
Learning reports the results of a multi-year study undertaken by
faculty at Carleton College and Washington State University to
assess how students' learning is affected by faculty members'
efforts to become better teachers. Extending recent research in the
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) to assessment of
faculty development and its effectiveness, the authors show that
faculty participation in professional development activities
positively affects classroom pedagogy, student learning, and the
overall culture of teaching and learning in a college or
university.
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