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Cultures / Languages related eBooks
Cultures / Languages related eBooks

STEM Education in the Junior Secondary: The State of Play By Robyn Jorgensen, Kevin Larkin
Early Career Academics in New Zealand: Challenges and Prospects in Comparative Perspective By Dr. Kathryn A. Sutherland
Raymond Waddington, "Aretino's Satyr: Sexuality, Satire, and Self-Projection in Sixteenth-Century Literature and Art"
Jason Reza Jorjani "World State of Emergency"
Lenore Manderson, "Surface Tensions: Surgery, Bodily Boundaries, and the Social Self"

STEM Education in the Junior Secondary: The State of Play By Robyn Jorgensen, Kevin Larkin
English | PDF | 2017 (2018 Edition) | 295 Pages | ISBN : 9811054479 | 5.53 MB
This book brings together a collection of internationally renowned authors in the STEM field to share innovations in the teaching of STEM. It focuses on the junior secondary years of education (students aged 11-15), since this is the age range in which students choose whether or not to formally opt out of STEM education. It is here that the book makes a significant contribution to the field by integrating the STEM area and focusing on the junior years of schooling. While developing this book, the editors drew on two main premises: Firstly, STEM is seen as the integrated study of science, technology, engineering and mathematics in a coherent learning paradigm that is based on real-world applications. Secondly, it is important to integrate digital technologies into STEM education beyond the superficial use of ICTs seen in many schools.
The book also addresses the challenges within STEM education – many of which are long-standing. To this end, it includes chapters on marginalised and diverse communities, ensuring that a broad range of perspectives on STEM education is included.

Early Career Academics in New Zealand: Challenges and Prospects in Comparative Perspective By Dr. Kathryn A. Sutherland
English | PDF | 2017 (2018 Edition) | 210 Pages | ISBN : 3319618296 | 2.87 MB
What does it mean to be starting an academic career in the twenty first century? What challenges and prospects are new academics facing and how are they dealing with these? This book provides answers to these questions through an investigation of the experiences of early career academics in New Zealand universities.
Filling a gap in the international literature on the academic profession by providing a comprehensive overview of the experiences of New Zealand academics, the book includes research findings from a national survey covering all eight New Zealand universities. This research is also compared with various findings from the 2007 Changing Academic Profession survey in 19 other countries. The book encourages readers to think about the early career academic experience in New Zealand in relation to their own experiences of the academic profession internationally.
Key areas of focus in the nine chapters include: the teaching, research, and service preferences and activities of early career academics; work-life balance; satisfaction; the experiences of Māori academics; and professional development and support for all early career academics. Underpinning the book is the issue of the socialisation of early career academics into the academic profession in the twenty first century, and how structure and agency interact to affect that socialisation. Suggestions are made, and links to freely available online resources are provided, for improving socialisation at the individual, departmental, institutional, and national levels.

Raymond Waddington, "Aretino's Satyr: Sexuality, Satire, and Self-Projection in Sixteenth-Century Literature and Art"
English | 2004 | ISBN: 0802088147 | PDF | pages: 358 | 20.4 mb
Pietro Aretino's literary influence was felt throughout most of Europe during the sixteenth-century, yet English-language criticism of this writer's work and persona has hitherto been sparse. Raymond B. Waddington's study redresses this oversight, drawing together literary and visual arts criticism in its examination of Aretino's carefully cultivated scandalous persona - a persona created through his writings, his behaviour and through a wide variety of visual arts and crafts.In the Renaissance, it was believed that satire originated from satyrs. The satirist Aretino promoted himself as a satyr, the natural being whose sexuality guarantees its truthfulness. Waddington shows how Aretino's own construction of his public identity came to eclipse the value of his writings, causing him to be denigrated as a pornographer and blackmailer. Arguing that Aretino's deployment of an artistic network for self-promotional ends was so successful that for a period his face was possibly the most famous in Western Europe, Waddington also defends Aretino, describing his involvement in the larger sphere of the production and promotion of the visual arts of the period.
Aretino's Satyr is richly illustrated with examples of the visual media used by the writer to create his persona. These include portraits by major artists, and arti minori: engravings, portrait medals and woodcuts.

Jason Reza Jorjani "World State of Emergency"
2017 | Artkos Media | ePUB | English | 240 pages | ISBN: 9781912079919. 1912079917 | 749 KB
It is not a question of incremental change. The technological apocalypse that we are entering is a Singularity that will bring about a qualitative transformation in our way of being. Modern socio-political systems such as universal human rights and liberal democracy are woefully inadequate for dealing with the challenges posed by these developments. The technological apocalypse represents a world state of emergency, which is my concept for a state of emergency of global scope that also demands the establishment of a world state.
An analysis of the internal incoherence of both universal human rights and liberal democracy, especially in light of the societal and geopolitical implications of these technologies, reveals that they are not proper political concepts for grounding this world state. Rather, the planetary emergency calls for worldwide socio-political unification on the basis of a deeply rooted tradition with maximal evolutionary potential. This living heritage that is to form the ethos or constitutional order of the world state is the Aryan or Indo-European tradition shared by the majority of Earth's great nations – from Europe and the Americas, to Eurasia, Greater Iran, Hindu India, and the Buddhist East.

Lenore Manderson, "Surface Tensions: Surgery, Bodily Boundaries, and the Social Self"
2011 | pages: 296 | ISBN: 1611320984 | PDF | 2,4 mb
Surface Tensions is an expansive, yet intimate study of how people remake themselves after catastrophic bodily change―the loss of limbs, the loss of function, the loss or replacement of organs. Against a sweeping cultural backdrop of art, popular culture, and the history of science and medicine, Manderson uses narrative epistemology based on in-depth interviews with over 300 individuals to show how they re-establish the coherence of their bodies, identities, and biographies. In addition to offering important new insights into the care, rehabilitation, and rehabituation of post-trauma patients, Manderson’s work challenges conventional ideas about the nature of embodiment and is an important contribution to medical anthropology, disability studies, and cultural studies.