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The Rhetorical Plasticity of the Dead in Museum Displays: A Biocritique of Missing Intercultural Awareness
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Gorsevski, Ellen W.; Schuck, Raymond I.; Lin, Canchu – Western Journal of Communication, 2012
Using rhetorical analysis in the form of an autoethnographically informed biocritique, this study applies and expands the concept of rhetorical plasticity to examine the popular museum exhibit "Bodies: The Exhibition," which is arguably the most controversial of a series of contemporary museum exhibits that feature deceased human bodies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Human Body, Non Western Civilization, Death
Pioneering the Web Enhanced Learning between Taiwan and China (WELTaC) Initiative in Higher Education: Potential and Issues
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Young, Shelley S.-C.; Ku, H. H. – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2008
This study pioneered an innovative project regarding the use of ICT for creating learning resources and opportunities for faculty members and adult learners on both sides of the Taiwan Straits--Taiwan and mainland China--that would not have been possible during the past five decades. This paper is based on a one-year in-depth study of an ICT…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students
Shuang Yu: Vertical and Horizontal Dimensions of China's Extraordinary Learning Village
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Boshier, Roger; Huang, Yan – Studies in Continuing Education, 2007
The Chinese Communist Party has invoked the Faure report as part of a large-scale learning initiative involving 61 cities and numerous streets, neighbourhoods and villages. By embracing western ideas and infusing them with Chinese characteristics, the Central School of the Communist Party has embarked on what looks increasingly like the 5th…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Social Change, Foreign Countries, Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Proceedings of the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA) (Fort Worth, Texas, October 22-24, 2013)
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Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Spector, J. Michael, Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2013
These proceedings contain the papers of the IADIS International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2013), October 22-24, 2013, which has been organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), co-organized by The University of North Texas (UNT), sponsored by the…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Cognitive Processes, Learning Processes, Short Term Memory