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Tidman, Gemma – Oxford University Press, 2023
The "emergence of literature in eighteenth-century France" changes our understanding of when, how and why modern ideas of literature emerged in France. Using a unique blend of literary and digital methods, it argues that it was in the mid eighteenth century, rather than the nineteenth (as many have claimed), that the word littrature…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Colleges, French
Freeman, Kassie, Ed.; Johnson, Ethan, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
This volume gathers scholars from around the world in a comparative approach to the various educational struggles of people of African descent, advancing the search for solutions and bringing to light new facets of the experiences of black people in the era of globalization. This book begins with "Black Populations in the Diaspora:…
Descriptors: Blacks, African Americans, Latin Americans, Children
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Stewart, Miranda – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2012
This article draws on interactional pragmatics and a cross-cultural approach (UK, France, Spain) to investigate the negotiation of individual and group identities in two different speech events, parliamentary debates and editorial meetings. The cross-cultural examination of the use of linguistic resources for signalling "social role,…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice, Pragmatics
Gutel, Heather – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2008
A home stay is typically defined as a period of time in which a person resides with a family in a home located outside his or her country of residence. Living with a host family is frequently connected to learning a language and immersion in a foreign culture. Study abroad students often participate in home stays, but there is little academic…
Descriptors: Foreign Culture, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, Gender Differences
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Salm, Luke – Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice, 2007
The Brothers of the Christian Schools, popularly known in the United States as Christian Brothers, have made numerous significant contributions to the development of Catholic education. Building and staffing schools, colleges, and orphanages, producing textbooks and catechetical materials, advocating for the poor, and creating new models of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Catholics, Males, Catholic Educators
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Dei, George Sefa; Kempf, Arlo – International Education, 2006
Professor George Sefa Dei has written and taught extensively in the fields of anti-colonialism and anti-racism. His latest work on the subject is "Anti-Colonialism and Education: The Politics of Resistance," co-edited with Arlo Kempf for Sense Publishers (2006). Dei and Kempf are also co-authoring a forthcoming volume on anti-colonial…
Descriptors: Historiography, Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy, African Studies