1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990003207920403321

Titolo

Strategies Against Poverty in America / John B. Williamson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass. : Schenkman, \c\\1975

ISBN

0-470-94883-3

Descrizione fisica

XII, 242 p. ; 24 cm

Disciplina

20140

20210

Locazione

DECTS

SES

Collocazione

I3.417

20210 WIL

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463491703321

Autore

Keller Daniel <1977->

Titolo

Chasing literacy : reading and writing in an age of acceleration / / Daniel Keller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boulder, Colorado : , : Utah State University Press, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

1-4920-0064-7

0-87421-933-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (204 p.)

Disciplina

428.4

Soggetti

Reading

Information technology

Literacy

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

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Locating Reading in Composition Studies; 2. Perceptions of Literacy; 3. Reading in a Culture of Acceleration; 4. Directing Attention: Multitasking, Foraging, Oscillating; 5. Reading-Writing Connections; Conclusion; Appendix; References; About the Author; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"Arguing that composition should renew its interest in reading pedagogy and research, Chasing Literacy offers writing instructors and literacy scholars a framework for understanding and responding to the challenges posed by the proliferation of interactive and multimodal communication technologies in the twenty-first century. Employing case-study research of student reading practices, Keller explores reading-writing connections in new media contexts. He identifies a culture of acceleration--a gathering of social, educational, economic, and technological forces that reinforce the values of speed, efficiency, and change--and challenges educators to balance new "faster" literacies with traditional "slower" literacies. In addition, Keller details four significant features of contemporary literacy that emerged from his research: accumulation and curricular choices; literacy perceptions;



speeds of rhetoric; and speeds of reading. Chasing Literacy outlines a new reading pedagogy that will help students gain versatile, dexterous approaches to both reading and writing and makes a significant contribution to this emerging area of interest in composition theory and practice"--

"Arguing that composition should renew its interest in reading pedagogy and research, Chasing Literacy offers writing instructors and literacy scholars a framework for understanding and responding to the challenges posed by the proliferation of interactive and multimodal communication technologies in the twenty-first century.Employing case-study research of student reading practices, Keller explores reading-writing connections in new media contexts. He identifies a culture of acceleration--a gathering of social, educational, economic, and technological forces that reinforce the values of speed, efficiency, and change--and challenges educators to balance new "faster" literacies with traditional "slower" literacies. In addition, Keller details four significant features of contemporary literacy that emerged from his research: accumulation and curricular choices; literacy perceptions; speeds of rhetoric; and speeds of reading.Chasing Literacy outlines a new reading pedagogy that will help students gain versatile, dexterous approaches to both reading and writing and makes a significant contribution to this emerging area of interest in composition theory and practice"--



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910961939303321

Autore

Dirks Nicholas B. <1950->

Titolo

The scandal of empire : India and the creation of imperial Britain / / Nicholas B. Dirks

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006

ISBN

9780674034266

0674034260

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 389 p. ) : ill., ports

Classificazione

MH 14000

Disciplina

954.02/98092

Soggetti

Political corruption - India - History - 18th century

India Colonization History 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 2006.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Prologue -- 1. Scandal -- 2. Corruption -- 3. Spectacle -- 4. Economy -- 5. Sovereignty -- 6. State -- 7. History -- 8. Tradition -- 9. Empire -- Notes. Illustration Credits. Index -- Notes -- Illustration Credits -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Scandal of Empire reveals that the conquests and exploitations of the East India Company were critical to England's development in the eighteenth century and beyond. In this powerfully written critique, Nicholas Dirks shows how the empire projected its own scandalous behavior onto India itself. By returning to the moment when the scandal of empire became acceptable, we gain a new understanding of the modern culture of the colonizer and the colonized and the manifold implications for Britain, India, and the world.