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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]

From the first moment the CFR (Fernández Rivero Collection) had among its objectives the formation of a collection of historical photography that would serve to understand the reality of the photographic phenomenon (especially in Spain) as a whole. From this point of view, it was clear that family photography should have its space in the…[Read more]

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Once the manufacturing powerhouse of the nation, Detroit has become emblematic of failing cities everywhere—the paradigmatic city of ruins—and the epicenter of an explosive growth in images of urban decay. In Beautiful Terrible Ruins, art historian Dora Apel explores a wide array of these images, ranging from photography, advertising, and tel…[Read more]

Interview with Thomas Hill on The Library Cafe out of Vassar

In this chapter, I am chiefly interested in articulating a theoretical claim that cooperatively run schools can educate the commons causally and reproductively. Cooperatively run schools educate the commons because going to school at a cooperative can cause commons to come about by reproducing the kinds of knowledge and skills necessary to…[Read more]

In this article, I hitch the ever-present awareness of disease in my personal life and our shared world today to a pointed and academic reflection on the ways we consume and re-present information about disease from premodern South Asia that’s contained in texts.

An overview and analysis on the Information Literacy activities and programmes organized by the Universidad de Málaga Library is offered, from their beginnings in 1991-92 to the current programmes. The goals, methodology and main outcomes are presented as well as some conclusions.

We analyse and reflect on the workshop developed in several secondary schools, under the title “Beyond copy and paste: do original works and improve your grades!” and whose objectives have been to assume the importance of gathering reliable and adequate information, knowing some sources of information and documentation useful for academic work,…[Read more]

PowerPoint of the webinar given at the Andalusian School Libraries Conference on the newest trends and proposals in relation to media and information literacy.

This article presents a detailed examination of the benefits, challenges, and purpose of conducting a doctoral-level literature review. The article analyzes both the cognitive neurolinguistic processing challenges attending the assimilation and synthesis of large volumes of new information and the metacognitive knowledge strategies needed to…[Read more]

Dire, globally high doctoral attrition rates are the result of competing impediments to the success of a doctoral aspirant who is unprepared to consistently produce scholarly doctoral-level writing, lacking the in the theoretical, philosophical, and intellectual training needed to think logically and metacognitively assimilate vast quantities of…[Read more]

Art Style | Art & Culture International Magazine is an open access, biannual, and peer-reviewed online magazine that aims to bundle cultural diversity. All values of cultures are shown in their varieties of art. Beyond the importance of the medium, form, and context in which art takes its characteristics, we also consider the significance of…[Read more]

Art Style | Art & Culture International Magazine is an open access, biannual, and peer-reviewed online magazine that aims to bundle cultural diversity. All values of cultures are shown in their varieties of art. Beyond the importance of the medium, form, and context in which art takes its characteristics, we also consider the significance of…[Read more]

This article presents biblical exegesis and parallel synthetic thematic analysis comparing the transformative journeys of Saint Paul and doctoral researchers concluding the religious conversion of Saint Paul of Tarsus and the identity-transforming journey a student undergoes from burgeoning researcher to doctoral scholar represent parallel…[Read more]

On the project pirate.care

An unknown portrait of Trinidad Grund y Cereno del Campo enriches the short iconography of this woman, a true character from the 19th century in the history of the city of Malaga (Spain). The photographer Pedro Fernández had an ephemeral studio on calle Nueva, but in this case he moved to the garden in which Trinidad posed with a young lady and a…[Read more]

In this paper, we developed a virtual exposition as a model to visualize and demonstrate the dynamic and non-linear affordances of a learning rhizome. Virtual expositions are non-linear multimodal web installations that facilitate the creation of interconnections through which the research as practice and the practice as research are highlighted…[Read more]

In the present paper, we propose a model for reflective practice in blogs based on Systems Thinking aiming to promote social-emotional learning, and we discuss its theoretical underpinnings. Reflective blogging can be an invaluable tool for peer learning and professional development, particularly in appreciative environments where people feel safe…[Read more]