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...Shaobo Xie; Fengzhen Wang © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Unless otherwise indicated, all translations are our own. Chinese Education in the Era of Capitalist Globalization Shaobo Xie and Fengzhen Wang After a long century...

...Wang Hui; Lennet Daigle The focus of rural education work should shift from upgrading infrastructure to improving the quality of education, especially in weak rural schools. This proposal contains four primary suggestions: accessible preschool education, improved on-the-job professional development...

...Ibrahim Abu Lughod Duke University Press 2000 5983 b2 27:1 / sheet 81 of 237 Palestinian Higher Education: National Identity, Liberation, and Globalization...

...Daniel T. O'Hara Duke University Press 2000 5983 b2 27:1 / sheet 181 of 237 Not ‘‘Too Good to Be True A Late Freudian Phantasy of Self-Education Daniel T...

...Henry A. Giroux Duke University Press 2001 Mis/Education and Zero Tolerance: Disposable Youth and the Politics of Domestic Militarization Henry A. Giroux There is growing evidence in American life that citizenship is being...

... diversity work higher education Medieval. Medi. Medium Aevum. The Middle Ages. A period defined as between the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Renaissance. Between the classics and the early modern. To be in the middle, to be in a middle. To be defined...

...Élise Derroitte Modern pedagogy, as distinguished particularly from Enlightenment theories, is characterized by an effort to reconnect the content of education (what is taught) to the particular experience of individuals who learn. From Dilthey to Dewey, the notion of experience ( Erlebnis ) has...

... : Cambridge University Press . Depaepe Marc . 2012 . Between Educationalization and Appropriation: Selected Writings on the History of Modern Educational Systems . Leuven, Belgium : Leuven University Press . Depaepe Marc Herman Frederick Surmount Melanie Gorp Angelo Van...

...Howard Eiland Walter Benjamin’s theory of education was first produced in conjunction with the theory of experience he developed in the years immediately preceding World War I, the period of his student activism. Integral to the discourse of both learning and experiencing in Benjamin is the idea...

...James Martel In “Critique of Violence,” Benjamin writes that the “educative power, which in its perfected form stands outside the law, is one of [divine violence’s] manifestations.” To recognize the connection Benjamin makes between a messianic power and acts of pedagogy allows us to revisit...

...Arif Dirlik This article discusses the impact of transnationalization on higher education, drawing primarily on material related to US universities. Transnationalization refers here both to the effort of universities to branch out globally, following corporate models, and to their search at home...

..., to teaching all the world's languages and literatures) under the Malthusian market conditions that govern an enrollment-driven modern education. While there may be no ready solutions to the problems posed by the planetary imperative, one place to look for them is in the substantive discussions of translation...

...Jeffrey J. Williams Jeffrey Williams interviews the British critic and intellectual historian Stefan Collini about his career as well as his criticism of recent policy shifts in British higher education. Collini discusses the development of his work from more academic histories of British social...

...Paul North Philosophical truth is universal; yet, if what is true for all is actually to be understood by all, an educator of unparalleled breadth and flexibility is needed. Peter Sloterdijk, German philosophical writer, cultural critic, operatic jester, with thirty years of national fame and more...

...Frank Pasquale Though artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare and education now accomplishes diverse tasks, there are two features that tend to unite the information processing behind efforts to substitute it for professionals in these fields: reductionism and functionalism. True believers...

...Martin Ryle In making aesthetic performance and aesthetic education central to his dialectical evaluation of social democracy, Kazuo Ishiguro especially addresses teachers of culture. The Unconsoled and Never Let Me Go explore the position of art in European social-democratic society since 1945...

... the opportunity to engage in a contestatory dialogic encounter where something is at stake for them and for him, Spanos practices a pedagogy geared toward the activation and renewal of critical consciousness through an ethical practice of care. Throughout his work but particularly in his book The End of Education...

..., scholars often do not ask whether this multifaceted student activism had any effect on his later thought and writing. This dossier proposes to investigate the early writings on youth and educational reform and their discernible afterlife in the better known historical-materialist phase of Benjamin’s career...

...-gardes will define themselves. After examining a typical “hybrid” poem, the essay proceeds to discuss Craig Dworkin's Parse (2008), a sample of twenty-first century “conceptual poetics.” Dworkin suggests that the U.S. avant-garde, in its next phase, will aggressively target educational methods...

...; from Germany’s coming to terms with its Nazi past to contemporary memory studies; from world literature and globalization to the humanities education today; from his intellectual debt to Martin Heidegger and Michel Foucault to his first exposure to the work of Theodor Adorno, and his relationship...