Louis Althusser was one of the foremost Marxist philosophers of the 20th century. His thinking laid the groundwork for critical educational theory, yet it is often misunderstood in critical pedagogy and sociology of education. In this open access book, David Backer reexamines Althusser’s philosophy of education, presents its flawed reception in…[Read more]

Social reproduction theory names at least two distinct traditions, one of which has a long history in educational research. Social reproduction theory in education emerged out of a concern with education’s relationship to capitalist inequalities. By contrast, social reproduction feminism developed out of feminist interventions regarding the role o…[Read more]

This article introduces educational human resource researchers to Minnesota’s unique tax-base sharing program in the Twin Cities metro region. It also introduces a social justice methodology called cooperation analysis for school finance research, and specif-
ically its concept of structural justice. It applies cooperation analysis to tax-base s…[Read more]

फ़रवरी, 2020 तक भारतीय अख़बारों में दुनिया में एक नये वायरस के फैलने की सूचना प्रमुखता से आने लगी थी।
अख़बारों ने हमें बताया कि कोविड-19 सबसे अधिक जानलेवा है। लेकिन यह नहीं बताया कि हमारी हिंदी पट्टी में टी.बी, चमकी बुख़ार, न्यूमोनिया, मलेरिया आदि से मरने वालों की एक विशाल संख्या है। इन बीमारियों से सिर्फ़ हिंदी पट्टी में हर साल 5 से 7 लाख…[Read more]

In the course, I give a basic introduction into some of the recent developments in the field of computational historical linguistics. While this field is predominantly represented by phylogenetic approaches with whom scholars try to infer phylogenetic trees from different kinds of language data, the approach taken here is much broader,…[Read more]

The weblog Computer-Assisted Language Comparison in Practice, published on the Hypotheses platform for scientific blogging (https://calc.hypotheses.org/), offers tutorials and discussion notes on computer-assisted approaches to the history and diversity of languages. A substantial part of its content is contributed as part of the ERC Starting…[Read more]

ऐसी कोई भी बात को जो लॉकडाउन की आवश्यकता को कम करके बताए, वह या तो सोशल-मीडिया से गायब हो गई, या फिर उनकी रीच खत्म कर दी गई। इस लेख में बताया गया है कि ऐसा क्यों हुआ और सूचना प्रौद्योगिकी के दैत्यों ने किस तरह पूरे विश्व पर कब्जा जमाया।

MAD HARRY! * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-ND

प्रभाष जोशी की बौद्धिकता आजीवन अंतत: किसके पक्ष में रही? एक आदमी जो अन्यत्र किंचित तार्किक था, क्यों सामाजिक समानता का आग्रही नहीं बन सका? वर्ण-व्यवस्था का समर्थन कर उन्होंने गांधीवाद का विकास किया उसकी अवैज्ञानिकता को ही प्रमाणित किया? भारतीय प्रभुवर्ग की गुलामी उन्होंने क्यों स्वीकार की? सिर्फ इसलिए कि वह इन्हीं के बीच पैदा हुए थे?

इस संस्म…[Read more]

इस पुस्तिका में बिहार की कोसी नदी में वर्ष 2008 में आई प्रलयंकारी बाढ़ का आंखों देखा वर्णन है। बाढ़ में हजारों लोग मारे गए थे, लेकिन बिहार में सत्ता पर काबिज पार्टी ने इस त्रासदी काे एक जाति विशेष को सबक सिखाने के अवसर के रूप में लिया था। इसका तथ्यात्मक ब्यौरा इसमें है। साथ ही इसमें बेघर हुए लोगों की मर्मांतक पीड़ा का भी चित्रण है।…[Read more]

This website provides contextual information and interpretations of the novel Texaco by Martinican writer Patrick Chamoiseau. It was started in spring 2022 as a collaborative project by students in the Honors Program at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in conjunction with the course Honors 200-008: Caribbean Crucible of Globalization…[Read more]

The study examined the effect of lease financing on the performance of quoted consumer goods companies in Nigeria for the period – 2009 to 2018. Specifically, the study assesses the effect of finance or capital lease, leveraged lease and the moderating effect of firm size on lease financing and performance of consumer goods companies. It also…[Read more]

This study focused on the effect of external debt on economic growth in Nigeria. It sought to assess the significance of external debt, and to suggest measures that could enhance its effectiveness and economic growth in Nigeria. To achieve the objective of the research, some macroeconomic indicators in the Nigerian economy, using an ex-post facto…[Read more]

This study focused on diaspora remittances and its effect on economic growth in Nigeria. It sought to assess the signification of diaspora remittances, and to suggest measures that could enhance its effectiveness and economic growth in Nigeria. To achieve the objective of the research, some macroeconomic indicators in the Nigerian economy were…[Read more]

Alaska is OURS! * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

Any memorials, monuments, historic sites, and other public facilities commemorate, celebrate and generally remind us about the landscape of the Cowpastures. In recent decades there has been a nostalgia turn in recovering the memory of the Cowpastures landscape. This is cast in terms of the pioneers and the legacy of the European settlement.
Some…[Read more]

One of the first directors of the Sydney Railway Company was colonial identity Thomas Barker who established Maryland at Bringelly in the 1850s. He developed the farm Maryland as a Sydney gentleman’s retreat and starting building his hilltop homestead in 1854. Barker was a successful Sydney businessman and philanthropist who was one of the…[Read more]

The establishment of Camden in 1840 was a private venture of James and William Macarthur, sons of colonial patriarch John Macarthur, at the Nepean River crossing on the northern edge of the family’s pastoral property of Camden Park. The town’s site was enclosed on three sides by a sweeping bend in the Nepean River and has regularly flooded the…[Read more]