Drawing on the ethnographic experience of the contributors, this volume explores the Cultural Models of Nature found in a range of food-producing communities located in climate-change affected areas. These Cultural Models represent specific organizations of the etic categories underlying the concept of Nature (i.e. plants, animals, the physical environment, the weather, humans, and the supernat…
ABSTRACT African sexualities are dynamic, multi-faceted and resilient. However, people with non-heterosexual sexualities and gender variant identities are often involved in struggles for survival, self-definition, and erotic rights. Queer in Africa forms an entry point for understanding the vulnerabilities of queer Africans as shaped by social, cultural and political processes, aiming to pr…
Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Contributors; Series Editors' Introduction; Preface; PART I: Theory and Context; 1. Sociolinguistic and Linguistic Foundations of Codeswitching Research; Codeswitching as Language Use; Codeswitching as Language Structure; Codeswitching, Mental Grammars, and Linguistic Repertoires; Codeswitching…
Transforming teacher education through innovation / Ida K. Riksaasen Hatlevik, Rachel Jakhelln, and Doris Jorde -- Quality in teacher education programs / Ida K. Riksaasen Hatlevik -- Five-year integrated research-based teacher education for primary and secondary school / Ida K. Riksaasen Hatlevik, Rachel Jakhelln, and Doris Jorde -- Coherence in teacher education : a case of research-based ref…
Introduction: Japanese Diplomacy and Interwar East Asia's "Four Waves of International Change" -- The First Wave of International Change and Hara Diplomacy: September 1918 to November 1921 -- The Hara Government -- The Creation of the Washington System and the Second Wave of International Change: November 1921 to January 1924 -- The Takahashi, Katō Tomosaburō, and Yamamoto Governments -- Ne…
Theoretical perspectives -- Introductory reflections on new educational theory through ethnography / Jürgen Budde -- Educational ethnography in an age of technoculture: Exploring noise and glitch instead of fetishizing the new / Felicitas Macilchrist -- Using netnography for educational research in an age of technoculture: Rich, intimate and immersive / Rosetta Gambetti, Rob Kozinets -- Old a…