1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451453603321

Autore

Savin-Baden Maggi <1960->

Titolo

Learning spaces [[electronic resource] ] : creating opportunities for knowledge creation in academic life / / Maggi Savin-Baden

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Maidenhead, : Open University Press, 2008

ISBN

9786611331252

1-281-33125-2

0-335-23525-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p.)

Disciplina

378

Soggetti

Education, Higher - Philosophy

Education, Higher - Aims and objectives

Universities and colleges - Faculty

College teachers - Workload

Personal space

College buildings

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 index.

Nota di contenuto

Front cover; Half title; Imprint page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part 1: Re-viewing the Landscape; Chapter 1 Forms of Learning Spaces; Chapter 2 Creating Learning Spaces; Part 2: Engaging Possibilities; Chapter 3 Writing Spaces; Chapter 4 Dialogic Spaces; Chapter 5 Reflective Spaces; Chapter 6 Digital Spaces; Chapter 7 Troublesome Spaces; Part 3 : Transforming Locations; Chapter 8 Boundary Spaces; Chapter 9 Spatial Identities; Chapter 10 Re-positioning Learning Spaces; Glossary; References; Index; Back cover

Sommario/riassunto

Introduces readers to forms of learning spaces that need to be (re) captured in a academic life. This book suggests that the ability to have or to find space in academic life seems to be increasingly difficult since we seem to be consumed by teaching and bidding, overwhelmed by emails and underwhelmed by long arduous meetings.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910960151903321

Titolo

Experiences of freedom in postcolonial literatures and cultures / / edited by Annalisa Oboe and Shaul Bassi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-81172-9

1-283-10397-4

9786613103970

1-136-81173-7

0-203-82892-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (385 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BassiShaul

OboeAnnalisa

Disciplina

809/.933581

Soggetti

Liberty in literature

Postcolonialism in literature

Postcolonialism and the arts

Human rights and globalization

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 index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Resisting history and colonialism -- pt. 2. The right to move and to belong -- pt. 3. The right to (believe in) free futures -- pt. 4. Imaginative freedom and critical engagement.

Sommario/riassunto

Modern ideas of freedom and human rights have been repeatedly contested and are hotly debated at the beginning of the third millennium in response to new theories, needs, and challenges in contemporary life.This volume offers culturally diverse contributions to the debate on freedom from the literatures and arts of the postcolonial world, exploring experiences that evoke, desire, imagine, and perform freedom across five continents and two centuries of history.Experiences of Freedom opens with an introductory philosophical essay by Achille Mbembe and is d