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Digital Divas: Putting the Wow into Computing for Girls
The geek is male. Or so it seems. As is well documented, there is a distinct under-representation of girls studying computing at high school level and, correspondingly, going on to have careers in IT. To address this problem, in 2007 the authors of this book, with backgrounds in secondary teaching or IT, trialled a new and revolutionary program in schools: "Digital Divas." The Digital Divas pro…
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Bastard or Playmate?
Artistic media seem to be in a permanent condition of mutation and transformation. Contemporary artists often investigate the limits and possibilities of the media they use and experiment with their crossing, upgrading and mutilation. Others explicitly explore the unknown space between existing media, searching for the hybrid beings that occupy these in-betweens. This fascinating volume explore…
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Stories of Women: Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation
Elleke Boehmer's work on the crucial intersections between independence, nationalism and gender has already proved canonical in the field. 'Stories of women' combines her keynote essays on the mother figure and the postcolonial nation, with incisive new work on male autobiography, 'daughter' writers, the colonial body, the trauma of the post-colony, and the nation in a transnational context. Fo…
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Globalisation Vs Europeanisation: A Human-centric Interaction
The book offers an innovating, interdisciplinary analysis of the relation between globalisation and Europeanisation from a value-driven and human-centric perspective. The approach goes beyond the traditional analysis and applies the proposed conceptual framework to various interconnected policy fields and issues, crucial to Europe's future.
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Materializing Memory in Art and Popular Culture
Memory matters. It matters because memory brings the past into the present, and opens it up to the future. But it also matters literally, because memory is mediated materially. Materiality is the stuff of memory. Meaningful objects that we love (or hate) function not only as aide-mémoire but are integral to memory. Drawing on previous scholarship on the interrelation of memory and materiality,…
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Branding Books Across the Ages: Strategies and Key Concepts in Literary Branding
As marketing specialists know all too well, our experience of products is prefigured by brands: trademarks that identify a product and differentiate it from its competitors. This process of branding has hitherto gained little academic discussion in the field of literary studies. Literary authors and the texts they produce, though, are constantly 'branded': from the early modern period onwards, …
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Cultural Dynamics in a Globalized World: Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Rese…
The book contains essays on current issues in arts and humanities in which peoples and cultures compete as well as collaborate in globalizing the world while maintaining their uniqueness as viewed from cross- and interdisciplinary perspectives. The book covers areas such as literature, cultural studies, archaeology, philosophy, history, language studies, information and literacy studies, and ar…
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Die Neustrukturierung von Studiengängen "Deutsch als Fremdsprache" - Problem…
he Bologna Process, whose objective is the creation of an „European Higher Education Area“, should be concluded in 2010. In the last years the reactions ranged from total rejection over a more temporising attitude to clear and unambiguous affirmation. Hence, the „Fachverband Deutsch als Fremdsprache“ (FaDaF – association for German as a foreign language) has accepted the challenge to …
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