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Jenne Schmidt – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2022
This project uses critical place inquiry (Tuck & McKenzie, 2015) to examine the Hanford Site to demonstrate the potential in wild pedagogies to engage not just immaculate and inspiring wildness places but also sites of ruin. Attending to places of ruin can illuminate the ways that the social, historical, and political are intimately…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Critical Theory, Place Based Education, Ideology
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Azodi, Javad; Salmani, Bahloul – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
Translation has always undergone the impact of various metalinguistic factors which impose their impact during the process of translation and rendering its final linguistic product. News stories or better to say political discourses are among those linguistic materials that more than other textual materials undergo the impact of factors such as…
Descriptors: Ideology, Translation, News Writing, News Reporting
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Homayounzadeh, Maryam; Mehrpour, Saeed – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2013
Based on the principles of critical discourse analysis this contrastive study sought to investigate the effect of culture on the journalistic style and the strategies used to report news in the American and Persian newspaper editorials. To this end, articles were selected from the New York Times, the Washington Post, Kayhan and Ettelaat, taking…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, English, Indo European Languages, Journalism
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Meekosha, Helen – Disability & Society, 2011
This paper argues that the dominance of the global North in the universalising and totalising tendencies of writings about disability has resulted in the marginalisation of these experiences in the global South. This constitutes an intellectual crisis for disability studies in the periphery. The experience of colonisation and colonialism in the…
Descriptors: Attitudes toward Disabilities, Social Attitudes, Disabilities, Geographic Location
Blair, Elizabeth E., Ed.; Miller, Rebecca B., Ed.; Tieken, Mara Casey, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2009
This book examines the complex and varied relations between educational institutions and societies at war. Drawn from the pages of the "Harvard Educational Review," the essays provide multiple perspectives on how educational institutions support and oppose wartime efforts. As the editors of the volume note, the book reveals how people…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, War, Institutional Role, Role of Education