Unitas

Unitas
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 936
Release: 1953
Genre: Philippine periodicals
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The Handbook of Critical Literacies

The Handbook of Critical Literacies
Author: Jessica Zacher Pandya
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 674
Release: 2021-09-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000430898

The Handbook of Critical Literacies aims to answer the timely question: what are the social responsibilities of critical literacy academics, researchers, and teachers in today’s world? Critical literacies are classically understood as ways to interrogate texts and contexts to address injustices and they are an essential literacy practice. Organized into thematic and regional sections, this handbook provides substantive definitions of critical literacies across fields and geographies, surveys of critical literacy work in over 23 countries and regions, and overviews of research, practice, and conceptual connections to established and emerging theoretical frameworks. The chapters on global critical literacy practices include research on language acquisition, the teaching of literature and English language arts, Youth Participatory Action Research, environmental justice movements, and more. This pivotal handbook enables new and established researchers to position their studies within highly relevant directions in the field and engage, organize, disrupt, and build as we work for more sustainable social and material relations. A groundbreaking text, this handbook is a definitive resource and an essential companion for students, researchers, and scholars in the field.

The Skills of Document Use

The Skills of Document Use
Author: Jean-Francois Rouet
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2006-03-14
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1136747818

The Skills of Document Use: From Text Comprehension to Web-Based Learning examines functional literacy from a psychological standpoint. It offers a comprehensive discussion of the cognitive skills involved in reading, comprehending, and making use of complex documents. Understanding such skills is important at times when printed and online informat

Gore Capitalism

Gore Capitalism
Author: Sayak Valencia
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2018-04-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1635900581

An analysis of contemporary violence as the new commodity of today's hyper-consumerist stage of capitalism. “Death has become the most profitable business in existence.” —from Gore Capitalism Written by the Tijuana activist intellectual Sayak Valencia, Gore Capitalism is a crucial essay that posits a decolonial, feminist philosophical approach to the outbreak of violence in Mexico and, more broadly, across the global regions of the Third World. Valencia argues that violence itself has become a product within hyper-consumerist neoliberal capitalism, and that tortured and mutilated bodies have become commodities to be traded and utilized for profit in an age of impunity and governmental austerity. In a lucid and transgressive voice, Valencia unravels the workings of the politics of death in the context of contemporary networks of hyper-consumption, the ups and downs of capital markets, drug trafficking, narcopower, and the impunity of the neoliberal state. She looks at the global rise of authoritarian governments, the erosion of civil society, the increasing violence against women, the deterioration of human rights, and the transformation of certain cities and regions into depopulated, ghostly settings for war. She offers a trenchant critique of masculinity and gender constructions in Mexico, linking their misogynist force to the booming trade in violence. This book is essential reading for anyone seeking to analyze the new landscapes of war. It provides novel categories that allow us to deconstruct what is happening, while proposing vital epistemological tools developed in the convulsive Third World border space of Tijuana.

Artificial Respiration

Artificial Respiration
Author: Ricardo Piglia
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1994
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780822314141

A novel set in Argentina just after the military coup in 1976.

Emerging Pedagogies in the Networked Knowledge Society: Practices Integrating Social Media and Globalization

Emerging Pedagogies in the Networked Knowledge Society: Practices Integrating Social Media and Globalization
Author: Limbu, Marohang
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2013-11-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1466647582

Since the dawn of the digital era, the transfer of knowledge has shifted from analog to digital, local to global, and individual to social. Complex networked communities are a fundamental part of these new information-based societies. Emerging Pedagogies in the Networked Knowledge Society: Practices Integrating Social Media and Globalization examines the production, dissemination, and consumption of knowledge within networked communities in the wider global context of pervasive Web 2.0 and social media services. This book will offer insight for business stakeholders, researchers, scholars, and administrators by highlighting the important concepts and ideas of information- and knowledge-based economies.