1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450292603321

Autore

Brisk Maria

Titolo

Situational context of education : a window into the world of bilingual learners / / Maria Estela Brisk, Angela Burgos, Sara Hamerla

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Mahwah, N.J. : , : L. Erlbaum Associates, , 2004

ISBN

1-135-64458-6

1-282-32109-9

9786612321092

1-4106-0984-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BurgosAngela

HamerlaSara

Disciplina

370.117/0973

Soggetti

Education, Bilingual - Social aspects - United States

Children of immigrants - Education - Social aspects - United States

Personality and situation - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; About the Authors; 1 Introduction; 2 Linguistic Context; 3 Economic Context of Education; 4 Social Context of Education; 5 Cultural Context; 6 Political Context; Appendixes; References; Author Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book gives educators important answers to the urgent question of how teachers and schools can facilitate language minority and immigrant students' progress in school. It offers an innovative and powerful method teachers and students can use to study the situational context of education, providing both the theoretical background and the practical tools to implement this approach. The situational context of education includes linguistic, economic, social, cultural, and political factors, as well as conditions, such as students' personal characteristics, family support, and qu



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910795288803321

Titolo

Monstrosity from the inside out / / edited by Teresa Cutler-Broyles, Marko Teodorski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, England : , : Inter-Disciplinary Press, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

1-84888-224-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

700.47

Soggetti

Monsters in literature

Monsters in motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / Teresa Cutler-Broyles and Marko Teodorski -- Reflecting the Monster’s Future: The Commodification of Sirens / Marko Teodorski -- The Monstrous Hermaphroditic Clone as Backward Progress: A Reading of Ralf Isau’s Thriller Die Galerie der Lügen oder Der Unachtsame Schläfer / Angelika Baier -- Postmodern Potencies: Interrogating the Monstrous Sign in Contemporary Society / Janhavi Mittal -- The Dark Defender: Dexter and Making Heroes out of Serial Killers / Joanna Ioannidou -- ‘You Need Us’: Configuring the Family in Post-9/11 Zombie Cinema / Emily Dezurick-Badran -- Haunted Communities: The Greek Vampire or the Uncanny at the Core of Nation Construction / Álvaro García Marín -- Muslim Monsters/American Heroes: Sleeper Cell and Homeland as the New Face of Fear / Teresa Cutler-Broyles -- ‘Thing without Form’: Peter Ackroyd’s Monstrous City / Marta Komsta -- A Bad Romance: Lady Gaga and the Return of the Divine Monster / Lise Dilling-Hansen -- Here Be Dragons (and Vampires, and Zombies): The Politics of Monstrous Communities / Jack Fennell.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910698216203321

Titolo

Gauging U.S.-Indian strategic cooperation [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Henry Sokolski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carlisle, PA : , : Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, , [2007]

Descrizione fisica

v, 387 pages : digital, PDF file

Altri autori (Persone)

SokolskiHenry D

Soggetti

Nuclear nonproliferation

Nuclear energy - Government policy - United States

United States Foreign relations India

India Foreign relations United States

India Strategic aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on May 24, 2007).

"March 2007."