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Stephanie Leite deposited United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Map—Mastery Project in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months ago[COMPLETE OPEN-ACCESS CURRICULUM INCLUDED] In April 2017, the world population topped 7.5 billion people. As our population continues to grow, natural resources are dwindling due to human consumption, and the resources that remain are unequally distributed. More than ever, our world needs thoughtful, engaged, global citizens to address the…[Read more]
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Maria Papadopoulou deposited Digital Humanities Doctoral Seminar (online): 3-4 August / 3-4 September, 2020 in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoDue to the great interest for the first two sessions of the Digital Humanities Doctoral Seminar, we are very happy to announce two new online sessions on August 3rd & 4th and on September 3rd & 4th. This doctoral seminar is an introduction to Digital Humanities defined as the application of methods and tools from Information and Communication…[Read more]
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Sherri Barnes replied to the topic Meet the members of the Open Access Books Network in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoI became involved with OA books when I was the Coordinator of the Humanities Collection Group (Huma) at the UC Santa Barbara Library. Open access publishing and scholarly communication librarianship were just beginning to trend in academic libraries. It was 2009, and it was mostly about journal publishing in STEM fields. I asked Huma members (…[Read more]
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Tom Mosterd replied to the topic Meet the members of the Open Access Books Network in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoReading books is something I personally enjoy. Books, whether these are scholarly books or non-scholarly books provide readers with an extensive and rich resource that can go into a level of detail and explore connections other formats cannot.
Books provide the author with an opportunity to tell an elaborate story, provide much needed context…[Read more]
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Stephanie Leite deposited Rescue Mission: Planet Earth 2002—a young people’s assessment of progress on the implementation of Agenda 21 and the outcomes of the other major UN summits in the ten years between 1992-2002 in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoExcerpt of Foreword by Kofi Annan: “Ten years have passed since a group of young editors published the original Rescue Mission: Planet Earth—a children’s version of Agenda 21. Agenda 21 is the blueprint for sustainable development adopted at the ‘Earth Summit’ in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. Rescue Mission was a wake-up call to ‘stop senseless war…[Read more]
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Dr Rahul K Gairola started the topic Global Renderings in the Queer Digital Humanities in the discussion
Global Renderings in the Queer Digital Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoProvacateurs:
Dr Rahul K Gairola, Murdoch University
Dr Tully Barnett, Flinders University
Dr Tyne Daile Sumner, University of Melbourne
Megan Cytron, The Complutense University of Madrid
How might Digtal Humanities textual scholars respond to urgent calls to queer digital humanities practices, methodologies, theory, and projects in a…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic Meet the members of the Open Access Books Network in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoBooks have always mattered to me — as places to escape to, as ways to experience other points of view, and as treasure troves of knowledge and insight. Open Access is important because it enables so many more readers to engage with scholarly books. If done well — without flipping the costs from reader to author — Open Access has the capacity to…[Read more]
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Alexander Henschel deposited Was heißt hier Vermittlung? Kunstvermittlung und ihr umstrittener Begriff (reading sample) in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoMit dem Begriff der Kunstvermittlung wird Politik gemacht und er wird mit gegenläufigen Verständnissen verknüpft. Das Buch “Was heißt hier Vermittlung?” arbeitet heraus, dass die Bedeutungskonkurrenz bereits im Streitbegriff der Vermittlung angelegt ist. Der unternommene Gang durch sozialhistorische und philosophische Begriffsgeschichten wird mit…[Read more]
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Alexander Henschel deposited Kunstpädagogische Komplexität – Logiken und Begriffe der Selbstbeschreibung in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoSelbstbeschreibungen der Kunstpädagogik greifen oft auf binäre Logiken zurück – sei es, um eindeutige Ein- und Ausgrenzungen vornehmen zu können oder um spannungsvolle Zweierverhältnisse zum Ausgangspunkt kunstpädagogischer Überlegungen zu machen. Kunstpädagogische Komplexität ist ein Angebot, das sich neben solche Logiken stellt, wirbt dafür, Kun…[Read more]
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Robin Rolfhamre deposited Embellishing lute music: Using the Renaissance Italian passaggi practice as a model and pedagogical tool for an increased improvisation vocabulary in the French Baroque style in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoEarly seventeenth century lute improvisation — a phrase that by its mere utterance may cause debates full of uncertainties, fears and fantasies. What is proper improvisa-tion? How did they do it 360 years ago? In this article I seek to revive a systematic prac-tice of teaching ornamentation and improvisation from the Renaissance scholars — i.e…[Read more]
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Robin Rolfhamre deposited Through the Eyes of an Entangled Teacher: When Classical Musical Instrument Performance Tuition in Higher Education is Subject to Quality Assurance in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoWhat happens when a classical music instrument performance course at a Norwegian state university study programme is assessed for quality following a standardized procedure? The article explores frictions and negotiations between managerial quality assurance and classical music performance education in a contextual sense, focusing particularly on…[Read more]
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Robin Rolfhamre deposited Informed Play: Approaching a Concept and Biology of Tone Production on Early Modern Lute Instruments in the group
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoInformed Play presents a conceptual understanding of tone production based on extensive historical research on primary sources, modern literature and handbook reviews, physical and psychological perspectives as well as on technology. As the first volume in English to discuss and contextualise the topic of tone production on Early Modern lute…[Read more]
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Ronald Snijder replied to the topic Meet the members of the Open Access Books Network in the discussion
Open Access Books Network via email on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoBooks have always played an important role in my life as windows into the world. My work at the OAPEN Foundation is an extension of that: I hope that others also have the same experience.
Kind regards,
Ronald Snijder, PhDOAPEN Foundation
Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 5
PO Box 90407
2509 LK The Hague
The Netherlandsemail:…[Read more]
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Agata Morka replied to the topic Meet the members of the Open Access Books Network in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoBooks in general are important to me: they have shaped who I am, from gruesome Grimm’s tales to Ocean Vuong’s hauntingly melancholic nail salon stories. My background is in HSS, in art and architectural history, which are disciplines heavily depending on monographs as research outputs. I strongly believe that making scholarly books, especially in…[Read more]
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