Multicultural Information Quests

Author : Marie Rodgers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2000-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780313079863

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Multicultural Information Quests by Marie Rodgers Pdf

If you're searching for research activities or multicultural topics for a diverse student population, this is the book for you. Reproducible quizzes guide students through subjects that range from holidays and food to sports heroes and literature. Cultural searches are related to Hispanics, Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, and other U.S. immigrant groups. For each quest, the author provides an annotated reference list, search questions, and an answer key. This is a fun and inspirational approach to building research skills while fostering an appreciation of diversity.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1020 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015021468817

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Resources in Education by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Cultural pluralism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132675062

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MultiCultural Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Philippe G. Le Prestre
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 077351533X

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Role Quests in the Post-Cold War Era by Philippe G. Le Prestre Pdf

Role Quests in the Post-Cold War Era examines the question of foreign policy change through a comparative analysis of the Great Powers' reactions to the transformations in international relations after the Cold War. Contributors describe and explain the efforts of the United States, the Soviet Union/Russia, China, Japan, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and Canada to redefine the role they play in an environment that has become internally and externally more uncertain.

Author : Youngmi Kim
Publisher : Springer
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319570662

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Korea’s Quest for Economic Democratization by Youngmi Kim Pdf

This book studies the sources of inequality in contemporary South Korea and the social and political contention this engenders. Korean society is becoming more polarized. Demands for ‘economic democratization’ and a fairer redistribution of wealth occupy centre-stage of political campaigns, debates and discourse. The contributions offer perspectives on this wide-ranging socio-political change by examining the transformation of organized labour, civil society, the emergence of new cleavages in society, and the growing ethnic diversity of Korea’s population. Bringing together a team of scholars on Korea’s transition and democratization, the story the books tells is one of a society acutely divided by the neo-liberal policies that accompanied and followed the Asian financial crisis. Taken together, the contributions argue that tackling inequalities are challenges that Korean policy-makers can no longer postpone. The solution, however, cannot be imposed, once again, from the top down, but needs to arise from a broader conversation including all segments of Korean society. The book is intended for a readership interested in South Korean politics specifically, and global experiences in transition more generally.

Author : Dustin Gish,Chris Constas,J. Scott Lee
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780761868132

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The Quest for Excellence by Dustin Gish,Chris Constas,J. Scott Lee Pdf

Liberal education aspires to excellence through the cultivation of free human beings who excel in thought, word, and deed. But what exactly is excellence, and why do we admire it? How do we conceive of what is excellent? What constitutes excellence—either for human beings, or in the realms of philosophy, literature, science, and politics? Why is excellence an aim of liberal education? What kinds of texts, courses, and inquiries contribute to achieving this end? Such questions animate the studies herein. The essays in this volume reflect on the idea of excellence embedded within core texts, as well as how such texts influence and ennoble higher education. In its chapters, we consider rival forms of excellence from ancient Greece and Rome, through modern Europe and America, and beyond. The world of antiquity and its accounts of excellence, as represented in the works of Euripides, Aristotle, Plato, Archimedes, and Cicero, are here brought into dialogue with diverse modern perspectives on excellence, as articulated by Shakespeare, Descartes, Newton, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Austen, Darwin, Lincoln, Tennyson, and Nietzsche, as well as (more recently) by John Dewey, Martin Luther King Jr., Cardinal Newman, and Eboo Patel. Our desire to seek and understand excellence transcends borders, and the purpose of this volume is to help perpetuate in contemporary higher education the study of core texts essential to the cultivation of excellence in the liberal arts and sciences.

Author : Marie Rodgers
Publisher : Libraries Unlimited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2000-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781563086861

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Multicultural Information Quests by Marie Rodgers Pdf

If you're searching for research activities or multicultural topics for a diverse student population, this is the book for you. Reproducible quizzes guide students through subjects that range from holidays and food to sports heroes and literature. Cultural searches are related to Hispanics, Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, and other U.S. immigrant groups. For each quest, the author provides an annotated reference list, search questions, and an answer key. This is a fun and inspirational approach to building research skills while fostering an appreciation of diversity.

Author : Jacek Mydla,Małgorzata Poks,Leszek Drong
Publisher : Springer
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319610498

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Multiculturalism, Multilingualism and the Self: Literature and Culture Studies by Jacek Mydla,Małgorzata Poks,Leszek Drong Pdf

This edited collection explores the conjunction of multiculturalism and the self in literature and culture studies, and brings together essays by prominent researchers interested in literature and culture whose critical perspectives inform discussions of specific examples of multicultural contexts in which individuals and communities strive to maintain their identities. The book is divided into two major parts, the first of which comprises literary representations of multiculturalism and discussions of its impasses and impacts in fictional circumstances. In turn, the second part primarily focuses on culture at large and real-life consequences. Taken together, the two complementary parts offer an illuminating and well-rounded overview of representations of multiculturalism in literature and contemporary culture from a variety of critical perspectives.

Author : Paul T. P. Wong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781136508097

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The Human Quest for Meaning by Paul T. P. Wong Pdf

The first edition of The Human Quest for Meaning was a major publication on the empirical research of meaning in life and its vital role in well-being, resilience, and psychotherapy. This new edition continues that quest and seeks to answer the questions, what is the meaning of life? How do we explain what constitutes meaningful relationships, work, and living? The answers, as the eminent scholars and practitioners who contributed to this text find, are neither simple nor straightforward. While seeking to clarify subjective vs. objective meaning in 21 new and 7 revised chapters, the authors also address the differences in cultural contexts, and identify 8 different sources of meaning, as well as at least 6 different stages in the process of the search for meaning. They also address different perspectives, including positive psychology, self-determination, integrative, narrative, and relational perspectives, to ensure that readers obtain the most thorough information possible. Mental health practitioners will find the numerous meaning-centered interventions, such as the PURE and ABCDE methods, highly useful in their own work with facilitating healing and personal growth in their clients. The Human Quest for Meaning represents a bold new vision for the future of meaning-oriented research and applications. No one seeking to truly understand the human condition should be without it.

Author : Chor-yung Cheung
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781845406813

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The Quest for Civil Order by Chor-yung Cheung Pdf

Examines four notable thinkers in the field of modern social and political theory, with a view to determining how far it is possible to create and maintain a non-coercive but sustainable political order under conditions of diversity in contemporary Western democracies.

Author : Jackie Hogan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442274570

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Roots Quest by Jackie Hogan Pdf

In Roots Quest, sociologist Jackie Hogan digs into our current genealogy boom to ask why we are so interested in our family history. She shows how the surging popularity of genealogy is a response to large-scale social changes, and she explores the way our increasingly rootless society fuels the quest for an elemental sense of belonging—for roots.

Author : Luqman Nul Hakim
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789811996610

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Islamism and the Quest for Hegemony in Indonesia by Luqman Nul Hakim Pdf

This book examines the failure of Islamic politics in becoming a hegemonic force in Indonesia and the far-reaching consequences for current practices of democracy and of Islam itself. In contrast to the thesis of compatibility between Islam and democracy following the dominant discourse of the Global War on Terror (GWOT) and neoliberal democracy, this study situates Islamic politics in broader social settings by examining its nature and trajectories throughout Indonesia’s modern political history. The book thus investigates how the practices of Islamic politics, or Islamism, have shaped and been transformed through political contestations and the formation of coalitions of multiple forces in constructing Indonesia’s socio-political landscape. Using the concept of hegemony from poststructuralist discourse theory, the analytical framework applied in this book goes beyond liberal epistemologies of Islamism that prescribe the separation of religion from politics and treat Islamism as an object of intervention. Instead, the book is premised on the contention that Indonesia is a political construction, in which Islam has become one of the major discourses that have defined and transformed Indonesia’s nation-state throughout history. In this view, it is argued that the nature and dynamics of Islamism are not driven primarily by different interpretations of religious doctrines, cultural norms or by the imperative of institutions. Rather, the struggles of different Islamist projects in their quest for hegemony are contingent on the outcomes of socio-political changes and contestations that involve multiple political forces, both within and beyond the Islamists, in specific historical conjunctures.

Author : Elke Murdock
Publisher : Springer
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137596796

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Multiculturalism, Identity and Difference by Elke Murdock Pdf

Multicultural societies are a phenomenon that can be increasingly observed worldwide. This book focuses on the question of how individuals living within a multicultural society experience the meeting of cultures. Murdock combines both a thorough review of the theoretical body of research concerning multiculturalism and related concepts such as globalization, acculturation and biculturalism with specific empirical research evidence, providing new insights into factors which shape our openness towards a plurally composed society. Multiculturalism, Identity and Difference contains original research conducted within the ‘natural laboratory’ that multilingual, multicultural Luxembourg provides. This is a country where the foreign population makes up nearly half of the total population. In the era of globalization, culture contact is a daily occurrence and this book makes a contribution to the questions of if and how culture contact can be experienced as an opportunity rather than a threat by individuals.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 918 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Information science
ISBN : UOM:39015081495429

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Library Literature & Information Science by Anonim Pdf

An index to library and information science literature.

Author : Cristina Santos
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0820469173

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Bending the Rules in the Quest for an Authentic Female Identity by Cristina Santos Pdf

The narrative style of both Clarice Lispector and Carmen Boullosa is characterized by a postmodern tendency toward an increased reader participation. This is accomplished by a process of liberalizing a pre-established socio-cultural repertoire with respect to female identity. The female protagonists, created by Lispector and Boullosa and examined in this book, struggle to find their true voices and their real life experiences. The resulting literary style of both these authors parallels this struggle, subverting traditional narrative structure and utilizing a dialogue that is particularly suited to describe this feminine process of conscientization.