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Although there is broad agreement that preparing global citizens
for the digital age is a core responsibility of educators and
schools, there is debate and uncertainty about how best to prepare
students for this future. Technologies for Enhancing Pedagogy,
Engagement and Empowerment in Education: Creating Learning-Friendly
Environments explores how technology-based learning can enhance
student engagement, performance, and empowerment. This book
provides researchers, educators, and practitioners with insights
from educational programs, classroom teaching, and
theory-into-practice research; places educational technologies
appropriately in their social and cultural contexts; and reflects
upon challenges and problems in evaluating and implementing changes
in the field. It shows how computer-enhanced education can improve
teaching and learning without confusing the increase of computer
facilities with the quality of education.
This book is the first systematic scientific study of global
quasi-legislation. Taking public opinion and multilateral
agreements as the international equivalent to national election and
passing laws on the national scale, and extending nation-state
concepts to a global society, it analyzes citizens' preferences and
the state's willingness to enter into 120 multilateral treaties.
After identifying the links as a first step toward conceptualizing
quasi-legislative global politics, the book examines how each of
the 193 states manifests quasi-legislative behavior by
factor-analyzing six instrumental variables such as treaty
participation index and six policy domains of multilateral
treaties, including peace and trade. It then discusses global
change between 1989 and 2008, and conceptually and empirically
examines the three theories of global politics that originated
during that period: the theory of power transition, theory of
civilizational clash and theory of global legislative politics.
Lastly, it proposes a theory of global legislative politics.
Shedding fresh light on the transformative nature of multilateral
treaties, this book attracts researchers and students in political
philosophy, international law and international relations as well
as practitioners and journalists. Inoguchi and Le have developed a
genuinely original perspective on world politics, one that opens up
a new research agenda for thinking about state and global actors
simultaneously.-- Anne-Marie Slaughter, Bert G. Kerstetter '66
University Professor Emerita of Politics and International Affairs,
Princeton University This is one of those books that warrant a
global readership given its emphasis on the implied trust that we
invest in public institutions as viewed from an interdisciplinary
perspective. -- Richard J. Estes, Professor of Social Policy &
Practice, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This book is innovative and distinctive in carving out a new way to
look at "global legislative politics." I do not know of anything
that compares in this interesting and novel niche of international
relations analysis.-- William R. Thompson, Distinguished Professor
and Rogers Chair of Political Science Emeritus, Indiana University
This book attempts to develop a novel way of conceptualizing
regionalism under hyper-globalization. Until recently, regionalism
has been often framed in terms of economic interdependence and
security connectivity in which sovereign states are the key
navigators within the liberal world order. Under
hyper-globalization in the third millennium, hyper-globalization
forces us to capture global politics at two more levels of
measurement at the state level and both there below and there
above. First, how 29 Asian sovereign states join multilateral
treaty participation to develop their global quasi-legislative
types and how citizens' satisfaction with quality of life in 29
civil societies shapes their societal types. Second, relating these
two features above and below sovereign states, the book attempts to
measure the features and speculate on the futures of four Asian
regionalisms (Central Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East
Asia) and their prospect of the demographically largest continent
called Asia in the twenty-first century. Regionalism is measured by
the proclivity of 600 multilateral treaty participation in terms of
speed (cautious versus agile), angle (global commons versus
individual interests) and strategy (aspirational bonding versus
mutual binding), whereas quality of life is measured by citizens'
satisfaction with 16 domains, aspects and styles of individual
daily life in terms of survival (or materialism), social relations
(post-materialism) and public policy preponderance. The book opens
an innovative vista to better understand tumultuous global
politics. This ambitious volume leverages original survey data on
citizen satisfaction and country-level data on treaty accessions to
characterize the trajectories of countries in four regions of Asia
as they adapt -- or fail to adapt -- to the challenges of
globalization in the 21st century and beyond. Readers will learn
much about politics from the basic level of the individual citizen
to the most comprehensive level of the global system - and about
the interactions of politics at all levels. -- Andrew J. Nathan,
Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science, Columbia University A
wonderful attempt to link a country's domestic development and its
adaptation to the global politics. It is truly eye-opening and the
findings are likely to significantly shape our understanding of
life and global politics. -- Zhengxu Wang, Ph.D. Distinguished
Professor, Department of Political Science, Fudan University
This book is a rarity in that it opens a genuinely creative new
vista for understanding global politics as distinguished from
international politics, enhancing the vision for understanding
global subjects such as multilateral treaties and the Covid-19
virus. Six hundred multilateral treaties deposited in the UN are
conceptualized as a bundle of quasi-social contracts by sovereign
states. A state's participation in multilateral treaties is
envisaged as digitized statecraft. Using a state's physical actions
and treaties' attributes, 193 profiles of statecraft are analyzed
with the implications for the future of global politics. This book
demonstrates that multilateral treaties are both a vehicle and an
agency in the globalization trend; thus, both state and
international actors influence a state's joining multilateral
treaties. The book represents a marriage of international law and
applied information science. It provides a framework for empirical
modeling based on artificial intelligence and analyzes this
framework in terms of international law and international
relations. This book thus creates a new understanding of global
politics.
This book is a rarity in that it opens a genuinely creative new
vista for understanding global politics as distinguished from
international politics, enhancing the vision for understanding
global subjects such as multilateral treaties and the Covid-19
virus. Six hundred multilateral treaties deposited in the UN are
conceptualized as a bundle of quasi-social contracts by sovereign
states. A state's participation in multilateral treaties is
envisaged as digitized statecraft. Using a state's physical actions
and treaties' attributes, 193 profiles of statecraft are analyzed
with the implications for the future of global politics. This book
demonstrates that multilateral treaties are both a vehicle and an
agency in the globalization trend; thus, both state and
international actors influence a state's joining multilateral
treaties. The book represents a marriage of international law and
applied information science. It provides a framework for empirical
modeling based on artificial intelligence and analyzes this
framework in terms of international law and international
relations. This book thus creates a new understanding of global
politics.
This book is the first systematic scientific study of global
quasi-legislation. Taking public opinion and multilateral
agreements as the international equivalent to national election and
passing laws on the national scale, and extending nation-state
concepts to a global society, it analyzes citizens' preferences and
the state's willingness to enter into 120 multilateral treaties.
After identifying the links as a first step toward conceptualizing
quasi-legislative global politics, the book examines how each of
the 193 states manifests quasi-legislative behavior by
factor-analyzing six instrumental variables such as treaty
participation index and six policy domains of multilateral
treaties, including peace and trade. It then discusses global
change between 1989 and 2008, and conceptually and empirically
examines the three theories of global politics that originated
during that period: the theory of power transition, theory of
civilizational clash and theory of global legislative politics.
Lastly, it proposes a theory of global legislative politics.
Shedding fresh light on the transformative nature of multilateral
treaties, this book attracts researchers and students in political
philosophy, international law and international relations as well
as practitioners and journalists. Inoguchi and Le have developed a
genuinely original perspective on world politics, one that opens up
a new research agenda for thinking about state and global actors
simultaneously.-- Anne-Marie Slaughter, Bert G. Kerstetter '66
University Professor Emerita of Politics and International Affairs,
Princeton University This is one of those books that warrant a
global readership given its emphasis on the implied trust that we
invest in public institutions as viewed from an interdisciplinary
perspective. -- Richard J. Estes, Professor of Social Policy &
Practice, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This book is innovative and distinctive in carving out a new way to
look at "global legislative politics." I do not know of anything
that compares in this interesting and novel niche of international
relations analysis.-- William R. Thompson, Distinguished Professor
and Rogers Chair of Political Science Emeritus, Indiana University
While there are many books on language and literacy education,
there is an urgent need to provide a book which makes an essential
link between theory, research and pedagogy with a focus on the two
interrelated fields of linguistics and language education. This
book is a timely contribution to the current academic discourse for
such a study. It is a big challenge for lecturers and university
students of educational linguistics to be fully aware of new
developments in the field of linguistics and language education.
This book provides some essential insights and directions which
have shaped innovative ideas, practices and research implications
in this broad field. The chapters of the book are grouped into
three parts with different focuses: theory into research, cultural
and social aspects which influence theory and practice of language
education, and finally pedagogical implications. The book is a
collective contribution of scholars with intensive research and
professional experiences from different countries, levels of
education and global contexts.
This book was published in response to the need to provide a
comprehensive book dealing with the multidimensional complexity of
language and literacy education. This book is carefully designed to
capture three major interrelated aspects of language and literacy
education in a changing and challenging world: to introduces some
fundamental theoretical concepts and issues about the nature and
functions of language, particularly with insights gained from
linguistics and applied linguistics; to focus on language and
literacy education in context; and to deal with social and cultural
aspects of language and literacy in an intercultural context. This
book provides a comprehensive and integrated range of theoretical
and practical insights beyond the limited traditional focus on
language and literacy pedagogy.
One of the most essential aspects in life for anyone in any society
is health and well-being. It is the indispensable base on which
happiness is based. This book examines these two important aspects
of life. It focuses on the social and cultural aspects of health
and well-being in current societies and cultures. Traditionally,
health research has placed a greater emphasis on physical and
clinical aspects such as diseases, medical treatments and
rehabilitation. With an increasing interest in population health,
particularly in the current context of globalisation, the sphere of
health research has been expanded to also cover social and cultural
factors which not only affect health conditions of individuals and
communities but can also be determining health factors in some
respects.
This book is unique in the sense that it presents a broad and
dynamic research narrative, which is filled with phenomena, issues
and challenges facing researchers in various disciplines, cultural
contexts, linguistic and ethical discourses. The content of the
book is addressing three overarching research issues: What are the
diverse challenges, opportunities, and limitations different
cohorts of individuals face? Why and how do these cohorts respond
to these challenges, opportunities, and limitations? How, where,
when, and why do researchers interact with these challenges and
what have they learned from their investigations? One of the
strengths of this edited book is, each of the contributors has
explored these three issues from a somewhat unique perspective, but
collectively they provide a rich discourse and milieu around the
purpose of research and how and why it is conducted and interpreted
within a contemporary multimodal context. Across all the chapters
the contributions have focused on the process of researching and as
a consequence there are two recurring discourses identified. The
first discourse relates to conducting the research and involves
topics, such as methodology, ethics, research populations,
assessment, data, and linguistic complexity. The second discourse
is around the researchers, because they are the "lens" through
which their research is conceived, guided, articulated, and
interpreted. For too long now, too many books about research,
particularly social science related research, have been locked into
a narrow discourse around the benefits of either qualitative or
quantitative research methods. While this topic is explored in this
text, it is not dominated by this one, rather artificial dichotomy.
What is exciting about the book is its diversity and the range of
dichotomies that are explored and the range of contexts and issues
that are reviewed. There is a strong narrative quality throughout
the chapters where the voice of the researchers and their purpose
is amplified. The book is of special interest to
research-orientated students as well as to those who want to learn
more about conducting research in a challenging discourse of
diverse paradigms.
The world is becoming more and more intricately multidimensional,
both culturally and linguistically. Language is so deeply embedded
in culture that cultural identity is defined to a great extent in
terms of language. Based on this premise, the loss of one's
language contributes to the loss of one's culture. This is the
reason it is essential to maintain one's linguistic integrity in
order to protect one's cultural identity. This new book captures
the fundamental concepts and issues raised in this context.
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