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Massih Zekavat deposited Satire, Humor, and Environmental Crises in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoSatire, Humor, and Environmental Crises explores how satire and humor can be employed to address and mitigate ecological crises at individual and collective levels.
Besides scientific and technological endeavors, solutions to ecological crises must entail social and communicative reform to persuade citizens, corporations, organizations, and…[Read more]
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Steve McCarty deposited Bilingual Perspectives on Language Teaching: The View from the Goal in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoA goal for language learners is to function in plural languages according to their own needs and purposes. A bilingual perspective starts from that attainable goal. Learners in Japan tend to idealize L2 mastery or becoming bilingual, so it becomes other people’s business. Monolingual teachers tell students by their example, “go where I have not…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic Job Announcement: USC Teaching-Track Position in EALC in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThe Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and the East Asian Studies Center in the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California, invite applications for a full-time teaching-track faculty position in East Asian cultural studies, with a preferred focus on…[Read more]
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Samuel Adu-Gyamfi deposited Contemporary History of the Increasing Use of Traditional Medicine among the Asante of Ghana: A Focus on Afigya Kwabre South District in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoUsing a qualitative method of research, the study investigated the increasing use of traditional medicine in Ghana, focusing on Afigya Kwabre South District. Traditional medicine has gone through various stages since time immemorial, especially with regard to how its patronage has evolved over time. The period ranges from the pre-colonial era,…[Read more]
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S. Harlin/Hayley Steele deposited The Maker Turn in Classroom Games: An Articulation of Gamemaking in Education in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThis paper offers an articulation of a teaching methodology that I call Gamemaking in Education (GME). This educational approach emphasizes student gamemaking rather than gameplay. In this paper, I discuss what GME is, review some cases in which other educators have used what might be called GME in college classrooms, and situate GME as an…[Read more]
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