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Dirk Schmidt deposited Rethinking Classical Tibetan Pedagogy in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months agoThe following paper explores classical Tibetan language pedagogy as it’s generally practiced in the West, while suggesting a radical reinterpretation to that approach by providing alternatives based on the consensus of multidisciplinary research from second language education and linguistics, among others. Especial attention is paid to the i…[Read more]
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Dirk Schmidt deposited Creating a Research-based Alphabet Book for Tibetan in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months agoTraditional pedagogy for learning alphabetic principles focuses on introducing the alphabet a letter at a time in a traditional order—the ABCs for English speakers; ཀ་ཁ་ག་ང་། for Tibetan. What educational research has shown, however, is that this form of education can actually be disadvantageous to the beginning reader. Instead, students b…[Read more]
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Ferdinand Stenglein deposited Cycling Diaries: Moving Towards an Anarchist Field Trip Pedagogy in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months agoIn this chapter we explore the pedagogical effects of collective movement on bicycles grounded in our direct experiences, personal reflections, group discussions and the notes we took during a trans-European, self-organized educational activity called Cycling Alternatives in 2013 and 2014. We thereby engage with non-representational and…[Read more]
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Samantha Lomb deposited Personal and Political: A Micro-history of the “Red Column” Collective Farm, 1935-36 in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months agoThis article investigates the confluence of personal interests and official policy on collective farms in the mid-1930s, a period that has received far less scholarly attention than the collectivization drive. The current historiography on collective farmers’ relationship with the state is one-sided, presenting peasants either as passive victims o…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate created the group
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Pei-Sze Chow deposited The Landmark on Film: Representations of Place and Identity in the group
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months agoThis paper examines two documentary essays focusing on landmark architecture in the transnational Øresund region comprising Copenhagen and Malmö. I argue that the motif of construction and deconstruction is congruous to our understanding of the ways identities are negotiated vis-à-vis spatial experience. In the lms, the multiple trajectories of…[Read more]
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Louise Freeman deposited The Wonder of empathy: Using Palacio’s novel to teach perspective-taking. in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 8 years, 9 months agoR. J. Palacio’s Wonder offers an engaging look at the challenges a child with facial deformities encounters when attending school for the first time. Told from multiple perspectives, the novel emphasizes kindness, acceptance of differences and the common anxieties associated with fitting into a social group. Narrative fiction has been shown to p…[Read more]
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Andrea Pagnes deposited RECONFIGURING THINK TANKS AS A DISCURSIVE, SOCIAL MODEL IN CONTEMPORARY ART | Artist-in-Residencies as places of continuity, mutuality, free thinking and independent research in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 8 years, 11 months agoFunded with support from the European Commission | Education and Culture DG, The RE-TOOLING RESIDENCIES project is addressed to both arts communities and art institutions looking to create arts residency centres in Eastern Europe and to cooperate with existing centres of this kind.
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Andrea Pagnes deposited RECONFIGURING THINK TANKS AS A DISCURSIVE, SOCIAL MODEL IN CONTEMPORARY ART | Artist-in-Residencies as places of continuity, mutuality, free thinking and independent research in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 8 years, 11 months agoFunded with support from the European Commission | Education and Culture DG, The RE-TOOLING RESIDENCIES project is addressed to both arts communities and art institutions looking to create arts residency centres in Eastern Europe and to cooperate with existing centres of this kind.
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Andrea Pagnes deposited RECONFIGURING THINK TANKS AS A DISCURSIVE, SOCIAL MODEL IN CONTEMPORARY ART | Artist-in-Residencies as places of continuity, mutuality, free thinking and independent research in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 8 years, 11 months agoFunded with support from the European Commission | Education and Culture DG, The RE-TOOLING RESIDENCIES project is addressed to both arts communities and art institutions looking to create arts residency centres in Eastern Europe and to cooperate with existing centres of this kind.
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Andrea Pagnes deposited MayDay: VestAndPage Workshop Concept, Theory and Practice in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 8 years, 11 months agoConsiderations on how VestAndPage facilitate a workshop on Performance art.
Text published in: “How We Teach Performance Art: University Courses and Workshop Syllabus”, Edited by Valentin Torrens. Outskirts Press, July 2014.
The book offers 42 different approaches to transmit the generative source of creativity in live action by…[Read more]
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Samantha Gibson started the topic Application for 2017-2018 Education Advisory Committee Now Open in the discussion
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 8 years, 11 months agoHello, I thought the following opportunity might be of interest to members of this group.
The Digital Public Library of America is looking for excellent instructors in higher education to join its Education Advisory Committee for 2017-2018. We recently announced a new grant from the Teagle Foundation that funds the creation of a professional…[Read more]
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David I. Backer created the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 9 years ago -
Nicola Leoni deposited Le tumbe del Riminese in the group
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 9 years agoThe article deals with the tumba (or tomba) and with the diffusion of this building type in the medieval rural territory of Rimini. By tumba we normally mean a fortified settling of modest dimensions, built on high ground in order to protect cultivated areas: its characteristics are well described into the De Agricoltura, a treatise written by…[Read more]
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Daniel Sherer deposited “Heidi on the Loos: Ornament and Crime in Mike Kelley’s and Paul McCarthy’s Heidi (1992),” Adolf Loos: Our Contemporary, ed. Yehuda E. Safran (New York: Columbia GSAPP Publications, 2012), 213-221. in the group
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 9 years agoConference paper on Loos