This chapter attempts to analyze the historiographical debate around agency/structure, especially focused on two current historians, Mary Fulbrook and Peter Burke. Likewise, the conception and relationship of the State within the historiography of the Cold War, seen from the perspective of structure/agent, is presented as a case study. In sum,…[Read more]

Slideshow for a forthcoming invited presentation. ABSTRACT: Podcasting originated as a new form of audio broadcasting, but by 2006, issues of ease of use, proprietary technology, and finances slowed its momentum. Now podcasting is more popular than ever. This presentation therefore traces the author’s initial and current CALL podcasting p…[Read more]

This study used a quantitative research design employing a descriptive survey research method. It sought to determine the needs of Grade 6 Completers in Mathematics competencies. The respondents of this study were the 384 Grade 6 completers who are officially enrolled in Nieves Villarica National High School. The statistical tools used in this…[Read more]

Putin’s Russia suffered a bitter defeat in the first weeks of the Russian-Ukrainian war. However, the Kremlin will keep on trying to place Ukraine into its orbit, as well as project its influence further into the Western world. Unceasing and dynamic aggrandizement under strong leadership is one of the most functional approaches to statecraft in R…[Read more]

The book is a popular Polish-language monograph study in the life and works of the American novelist and painter William Wharton (Albert du Aime, 1925-2008). William Wharton gained international fame and popularity with his first awarded novel ‘Birdy’ (1979), his popularity was furthered strengthened by such books as ‘Dad’ and ‘Midnight Clear’,…[Read more]

Russian military aggression and diplomatic pressure against Ukraine stems from the neo-imperial thinking of Russian elites and ordinary citizens. This thinking requires reproduction of expansionist patterns that once led Russia to its “historical greatness”: construction of a territorially large state, rich in resources and demographically div…[Read more]

Book review:
Pilar Cagiao Vila (Coord.). Diplomacia y acción cultural americana en la España de Primo de Rivera. Madrid: Marcial Pons – Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, 2020.

शेती हा भारतीय अर्थव्यवस्थेचा कणा समजला जातो. सिंधु घाटी संस्कृतीपासून भारतीय कृषीचे अस्तित्व गणले जाते. स्वातंत्र्यपूर्व काळात व्यापार रोजगार व जीवन जगण्याचे एक साधन म्हणून शेतीला असणारे महत्त्व आज देखील कायम आहे. कधीकाळी पारंपारिक पद्धतीने केली जाणारी शेती, आज आधुनिकतेकडे वळण घेते आहे. भारतीय दृष्टिकोनातून या आधुनिकतेचा विचार केला तर असे दिस…[Read more]

जीडीपीमधील उद्योगातील वाटा स्थिर असला तरी त्यात लक्षणीय मूलभूत परिवर्तन झाले. या कालावधीत उत्पादन पुनर्गठनाची प्रक्रिया म्हणून, सकल मूल्य संयोजित असताना उत्पादन सध्याच्या किंमतींवर वार्षिक 8 टक्क्यांनी वाढले होते. त्यानंतर 2004-09 मध्ये सकल मूल्यवर्धित वाढीचा वेग वाढून 20 टक्के झाला. याच किंमतींवर वार्षिक परंतु लक्षणीय म्हणजे रोजगारामध्येही…[Read more]

There were six waves of regionalism in Western Europe and Russia: in the decades of the 1830s, the 1860s, the 1890s, the 1920s, the 1970s and the 1990s. Russian regions were not behind Western European ones but rather went through the same stages of development at the same time or sometimes even earlier, until after the Stalin era, when they did…[Read more]

In celebration of the tenth anniversary of the second centennial of Ākhūndzade’s birth, three Azerbaijani texts in translation by the Molière of Azerbaijan. The texts—one poem, one letter, and one prose text—reflect Ākhūndzāde’s sharp, sometimes vitriolic, take on Rūmī ’s teaching (a dangerous, incomprehensible word jumble), most poetry and po…[Read more]

The article uses Eric Voegelin’s ontology to address domestic processes in contemporary Ukraine. It explains how interpretations of experiences of history and transcendence evoke political order and justice. It also outlines the nature of political symbols deriving from these experiences. The article argues that Ukraine’s social architecture is…[Read more]

The dual curriculum model ubiquitous to Orthodox Jewish day schools in North America typically bifurcates into religious (Judaic) studies and general studies. While most classes generally fit into one of those two halves of the curriculum, some classes are not intuitively categorized as wholly belonging to one part over the other. One of those…[Read more]

This article reflects on the pedagogical legacy of bell hooks.

When it comes to internet governance, most indigenous, endangered and other low-resource and marginalized language speakers around the world face a significant challenge both in terms of amplifying their issues through participation and their languages getting benefitted in that process. As Whose Knowledge? underlines, a mere 7% of the 6,500 -…[Read more]

This article probes the history of education and current pedagogical practices among Malayali physician-teachers, vaidya-gurus, of Ayurveda in central Kerala. Considering the sources vaidya-gurus cite as the bases of their teaching styles, especially a three-part method known as mukhāmukhaṃ (‘face-to-face’ instruction), I discuss the place, produc…[Read more]

This article probes the history of education and current pedagogical practices among Malayali physician-teachers, vaidya-gurus, of Ayurveda in central Kerala. Considering the sources vaidya-gurus cite as the bases of their teaching styles, especially a three-part method known as mukhāmukhaṃ (‘face-to-face’ instruction), I discuss the place, produc…[Read more]

The article offers a detailed analysis of the debates at the All-Russian Democratic Conference and in the Provisional Council of the Russian Republic (the Pre-Parliament), which followed the proclamation of the republic on September 1, 1917, and predated the Bolshevik-led insurgency on October 25. The two assemblies were supposed to help resolve…[Read more]

आपल्या देशाने 27 जानेवारी 1950 रोजी लोकशाहीचा स्वीकार केला. बहुमताने लोकप्रतिनिधींना निवडून त्यांनी गठीत केलेली शासनप्रणाली हीच राजकीय लोकशाही होय. राजकीय लोकशाहीचा पाया जर सामाजिक लोकशाहीचा नसेल तर ती टिकूच शकणार नाही. गौतम बुद्धाचे तत्त्वज्ञान स्वातंत्र्य, समता, बंधुत्व व न्याय ही मूल्ये प्रदान करतात. या शिवाय संपूर्ण मानवाच्या विक…[Read more]