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UNINA9910467019403321 |
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Autore |
Stagg Lesley |
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Titolo |
International Mindedness [[electronic resource] ] : Global Perspectives for Learners and Educators |
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Urbane Publications Limited, 2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (432 p.) |
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Computer-assisted instruction |
Computers and literacy |
Globalization |
Multicultural education |
Teaching |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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""Acknowledgements""; ""Foreword""; ""1. International Mindedness: Sounds Good But What Is It?""; ""WALTER PLOTKIN""; ""2. Rediscovering International Mindedness Through the Humanities""; ""ISOBEL MORGADO""; ""3. Achieving International Mindedness""; ""MICHAEL BELL""; ""4. Sowing the Seeds of International Mindedness in the Early Years""; ""CHRIS BAYLISS""; ""5. What is the Global Dimension?""; ""RICHARD BRISTOWE""; ""6. Bringing International Mindedness into the Classroom""; ""CATHERINE LOCKHART""; ""7. International Mindedness Moving from the Abstract to Implementation"" |
""MARGARET ALVAREZ""""8. The International View""; ""EMMA HALL""; ""9. Growing Up in a Shrinking World""; ""ORMOND FANNON""; ""10. International Mindedness at the Institutional Level in India""; ""GRAHAM RANGER""; ""11. International Mindedness: Connecting Concepts to Practice""; ""MARY HAYDEN AND JEFF THOMPSON""; ""12. Schools of the Future: Rooted Education for the Unrooted""; ""DAVID DUWYN""; ""13. Internationalism in an International School: What Does the Future Hold?""; ""LESLEY P. STAGG (with Dan Young)""; ""Contributor Biographies"" |
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The world is constantly evolving, continuing globalisation creating a globally mobile workforce and their families who are international both in outlook and in their educational needs. Schools are growing exponentially and parents are seeking the best international learning opportunities for their children. Many schools are similarly recognising that old practices are not sufficient to create the twenty first century learners, or learning, that the world seeks. But how do you make international mindedness a central purpose of your teaching and philosophy? Brought together for the first time b |
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UNINA9910810600203321 |
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Autore |
Insoll Timothy |
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Titolo |
Material explorations in African archaeology / / Timothy Insoll |
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New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 |
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[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (488 p.) |
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Archaeology - Africa - History |
Africa Antiquities |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover ; Material Explorations in African Archaeology ; Copyright ; Dedication ; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables ; 1: Introduction: Material Explorations in African Archaeology ; 1.1 RATIONALE; 1.2 MATERIAL EXPLORATIONS; 1.2.1 Materiality; 1.2.2 Agency; 1.2.3 Relational Archaeology, Entanglement, and Bundling ; 1.3 RECURRING THEMES; 1.3.1 Memory; 1.3.2 Anomaly and the Exotic; 1.3.3 Metaphor and Metonym; 1.4 CONTENTS; 2: Bodies and Persons ; 2.1 INTRODUCTION; 2.2 THE CARVED BODY; 2.2.1 Scarification and Cicatrization |
2.2.2 Archaeological Implications of Scarification and Cicatrization 2.2.3 Dental Modification; 2.2.4 Lip and Other Piercing; 2.3 THE DECORATED BODY; 2.3.1 Body-Painting; 2.3.2 Hair-Styles; 2.3.3 Beads and Cowry Shells; 2.4 FIGURINES, BODIES, AGENCY, AND POWER; 2.4.1 |
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Anomaly; 2.4.2 Internal Bodies and Figurine Agency; 2.4.3 Figurines as 'Fetishes'/Power Objects; 2.5 FIGURINES, FRAGMENTATION, AND PERSONHOOD ; 2.6 HUMAN BODY PARTS, HUMAN SACRIFICE, AND CANNIBALISM ; 2.7 HUMAN LIFE CYCLE; 2.7.1 The Archaeology of Birth, Infancy, and Childhood; 2.7.1.1 Birth; 2.7.1.2 Childhood |
2.7.2 The Archaeology of Initiation2.7.2.1 Location and Structures; 2.7.2.2 Figurines; 2.7.2.3 Rock Art and Initiation; 2.8 CONCLUSIONS; 3: The Dead and the Ancestors ; 3.1 INTRODUCTION; 3.2 ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ANCESTOR CONCEPTS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; 3.3 'GOOD' AND 'BAD' DEATH; 3.3.1 'Good' Death; 3.3.2 'Bad' Death; 3.4 MIDDENS AND 'POT CHILDREN; 3.4.1 Middens; 3.4.2 'Pot Children'; 3.5 CONSTRUCTING ANCESTORS; 3.6 BURIAL; 3.7 GRAVE GOODS; 3.8 DESICCATION; 3.9 EXPOSURE; 3.10 TRANSFORMATIVE STATES; 3.11 SECONDARY TREATMENT; 3.12 CURATION; 3.12.1 Wrapping |
3.12.2 Comparative Wrapping3.12.3 Curation of Teeth; 3.13 SKULL CURATION AND TREATMENT; 3.13.1 Why Skulls?; 3.13.2 Skulls, Ritual, and Fragmentation; 3.14 ANCESTORS AND THE LIVING; 3.15 CONCLUSIONS; 4: Animals ; 4.1 INTRODUCTION; 4.2 THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ANIMALS; 4.3 THE CULTURAL APPROPRIATION OF ANIMALS; 4.3.1 Perception, Metaphor, Metonym; 4.3.2 'Totem' and Taboo; 4.3.3 Anomaly; 4.3.4 Protective and Efficacious Properties; 4.3.5 Mythological Focus; 4.3.5.1 The Hippopotamus and the Songhai; 4.3.5.2 An Alternative Interpretation?; 4.4 THE TRANSFORMATION OF ANIMALS; 4.4.1 Sacrifice |
4.4.1.1 Definition4.4.1.2 Sacrificial Division; 4.4.1.3 The Archaeology of Animal Sacrifice; 4.4.2 Animal (Cattle) Modification; 4.4.3 Archaeological Implications of Animal Modification; 4.5 CONCLUSIONS; 5: Stone ; 5.1 INTRODUCTION; 5.2 STANDING STONES AND MEGALITHIC STRUCTURES ; 5.2.1 Distribution; 5.2.2 Standing Stones, Megalithic Structures, Ancestors, and the Dead ; 5.2.2.1 Stone and the Dead; 5.2.2.2 Stones as Ancestors; 5.2.3 Standing Stones and the Living; 5.2.4 Standing Stones as Utilitarian Phenomena; 5.3 RAIN-MAKING AND RAIN-STONES |
5.4 UNUSUAL PROPERTIES, FORMS, AND QUALITIES OF STONE |
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