China's Ascent: New Superpower or New Global System? Keynote
Professor David Shambaugh, Elliot School of International Affairs, George Washington University presents the keynote speech "China's Global Identities: the Schizophrenic Superpower?". 45th Otago Foreign Policy School - Salmond Hall, Dunedin, New Zealand. Friday 25 June to Sunday 25 June 2010.
1.2.4 Scottish literature
This unit is intended to be of interest not only to people living in Scotland but to anyone wishing to know more about Scottish society and culture. It brings together a collection of free educational resources relevant to Scotland. The resources within this unit cover a wide range of subject areas, including education, environment, technology, history, law, literature, politics, social care and social sciences.
1.2.3 Scottish history
This unit is intended to be of interest not only to people living in Scotland but to anyone wishing to know more about Scottish society and culture. It brings together a collection of free educational resources relevant to Scotland. The resources within this unit cover a wide range of subject areas, including education, environment, technology, history, law, literature, politics, social care and social sciences.
Playing Between Elephants (Trailer)
This is a trailer for Playing Between Elephants, a film about the people’s housing process in Geunteng Timur. This is a trailer for Playing Between Elephants, a film about the people’s housing process in Geunteng Timur. The full version can be found at: http://www.forcedmigration.org/video/playing-between-elephants/. There is an Indonesian saying that when the elephants are locked in a fight, the mousedeer would die in the middle. But in this documentary, the mousedeer does not die - instead
KS3/4 Modern Foreign Languages - Pupil as Teacher
This resource is a 15 minute Teachers TV programme filmed in 2006 in Holyhead School, in which year 9 pupils deliver a module of 6 introductory French lessons to Year 6 pupils from a local feeder primary school.
Reforming and developing the school workforce
This report from Ofsted evaluates the reform of the workforce in schools. It is based on inspections of 51 primary schools, three special schools and 45 secondary schools, carried out between September 2005 and March 2007. It is supplemented by visits to seven local authorities. They claim there has been ‘a revolutionary shift in workforce culture, with clear benefits for many schools,’ p5.
The Hall of Four: politics, faith and daily life in a northern Chinese village
Second lecture in the Martin D'Arcy Memorial lecture series on contemporary Chinese perspectives on Christianity in China. In this lecture, Dr Wu looks at the spread of christianity in china despite persecutions in the 18th and 19th century
Using Teach Global
Teaching with a global perspective is becoming increasingly important as the world becomes a smaller place. This unit provides a resource for teachers in both primary and secondary schools to understand why the inclusion of the global dimension in the primary school curriculum is important.
The UN's role in Overcoming Development Challenges
Special Lecture given by former Prime Minister of New Zealand and now Administrator of the United Nations Development Program the Rt Hon. Helen Clark. She is introduced by Director of the Global Economic Governance Program, Professor Ngaire Woods
1.3. Moving forward Language is constantly changing: words come and go and human history is caught like a fly in amber in words we use without thinking every day. By developing in our students the awareness of links, cognates, changes in meaning, oddities of spelling and sound, we enrich not just their mother tongue and foreign languages but their knowledge of global history of the last two thousand years. The state
Consciousness, Language and Nature: Nietzsche's Philosophy of Mind and Nature
On the triangulation between consciousness, language and nature in Nietzsche's philosophy and contemporary philosophy of mind and proposes a philosophy of signs and interpretation as a basis for a philosophy of mind, language and nature.
Body beautiful
Ben Barry, a PhD student at Cambridge Judge Business School, has conducted new research into the global consumer mind set. It shows that women are more likely to purchase a fashion product when they see a model who resembles them. It all began with that famous "Dove" campaign.
Making the transition to collaborative innovation
"Collaborative innovation" is the new buzz word for global firms wanting to enlarge their share of the pie. Working closely together in an eco-system is a better bet than competing alone, says Dr Chander Velu.
4 Summary Commentators (e.g. Pijl et al., 1997) have described inclusive education as ‘a global agenda’. The persistence of the forces that marginalise individuals or groups of learners, and also the models that would categorise them in particular ways, makes the struggle for inclusion an ongoing one. You will see why at the start of this section we felt it important to define what we and others may mean when we use the term ‘inclusion’. This is because understanding what
Centenary Prestigious Lecture - Genomics - From Humans to the Environment
In this Imperial College London Centenary Prestigious Lecture, Dr Craig Venter will discuss his work at the J. Craig Venter Institute and its implications for the future of our culture, society and science.
3.4 Discussion
Global warming: are we responsible? Is our environmental impact damaging the planet? This unit examines the use of ozone depleting technology, the impact of fossil fuel use and explores how the development of technology can influence the direction of a society. From the Industrial Revolution to the present day find out how we have changed the planet.
2.3 Greenfreeze: the Greens fight back
Global warming: are we responsible? Is our environmental impact damaging the planet? This unit examines the use of ozone depleting technology, the impact of fossil fuel use and explores how the development of technology can influence the direction of a society. From the Industrial Revolution to the present day find out how we have changed the planet.
Section 4: Selling your language skills
All of us in our working lives increasingly need to work with people from other cultures or those whose native language is foreign, or we may have to go to another country and work as a foreigner ourselves. This unit is about how to understand differences in culture and how to make the most of existing language skills. It is aimed at all adult learners, whether in FE or in the workplace. The sections are independent, and can be studied in any order and any combination. They are linked to NVQ ass
Learning outcomes
Learning languages and finding out about other countries can be fun, as well as useful, and this unit is an introduction to the differences in culture and language about which we all need to be aware. There are 10 independent sections: any selection of them can be studied in any order. Some are about why knowledge of other languages and cultures can be important; others are about what it’s like to study a foreign language or to have a career using a foreign language. This unit is aimed at seco
Section 21 Sprechübungen, Hörabschnitt 7
This unit is taken from Lebensumstände, a language course that concentrates on German as a tool for communication, but it also provides some insights into German society and culture through authentic printed, audio and video materials. It will be of interest to all those who want to improve their language skills in order to communicate more easily and effectively in German. This unit focuses on German family, particularly on the role of parents.
