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UNINA9910819923803321 |
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Korkka Janne |
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Ethical encounters : spaces and selves in the writings of Rudy Wiebe / / Janne Korkka |
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Amsterdam : , : Rodopi, , 2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (315 p.) |
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Cross cultures : readings in post/colonial literatures and cultures in English ; ; 166 |
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Canadian literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographic references (pages 287-297) and index. |
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Preliminary Material -- The Ethics of Knowing -- Encountering Mennonite Alterity in Wiebe’s Writing -- Representing the First Nations: Encounters with Totality of Knowledge -- People and Prairie Space: Knowledge of the Self and Knowledge of Space -- Alterity of Space: Where is the North? -- The Dissolution of the Self’s Knowledge: ‘Being in the North’ -- Space and the Limits of the Self’s Knowledge -- Works Cited -- Index. |
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The problems of knowing and representing the other are acute every time we encounter a text as writers or readers. Ethical Encounters engages with the representation of encounters with alterity in the writings of the Canadian author Rudy Wiebe. Drawing on Emmanuel Levinas’s philosophy on the ethics of encountering the other, the book argues that Wiebe’s writings show that the self’s knowledge offers an inadequate basis for ethically valid representations of those encounters. In the search for ethical ways of engaging with alterity, Wiebe’s writings offer new ways of employing silence and the presence of the unknowable as means to explore encounters with alterity. Ethical Encounters shows that dividing Wiebe’s work into two sharply distinct categories of ‘Mennonite’ and ‘First Nations’ writings overlooks important connections between the author’s central works and may seriously hinder the interrogation of narrative engagement with alterity. While such human encounters resonate against ethical strategies of representation, the greatest challenge for the ethics of encounter in |
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Wiebe’s texts arises in encounters with the alterity of space. Ethical Encounters engages with both physical and narrative spaces which are not permanently fixed in landscape or geography, or in human perceptions of place, arguing that the most radical expressions of alterity in Wiebe’s writings emerge in encounters with the spaces of the Canadian North. The study raises questions about the relationship between the self and the other as they concern knowing: what does the self know when it claims to know another person or space? How does the narrating self negotiate the seeming collapse of its own knowledge when it encounters others whose stories cannot be known? Ethical Encounters casts new light not just on Wiebe’s writings but also on how we as authors and readers engage with expressions of alterity which refuse to be transformed into familiar, knowable forms. |
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UNINA9910818684203321 |
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Autore |
Beveridge Colin |
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Teachers' skills tests for dummies / / by Colin Beveridge and Andrew Green |
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Chichester : , : John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., , 2014 |
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1-118-67359-X |
1-118-67357-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (363 p.) |
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Teaching - Examinations |
Teachers - Certification |
examination study guides. |
Study guides. |
Guides de l'étudiant |
Great Britain |
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Contents at a Glance; Table of Contents; Introduction; About This Book; Foolish Assumptions; Icons Used in This Book; Beyond the Book; Where |
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to go from Here; Part I: Getting Started with the Skills Tests; Chapter 1: Receiving Your Ticket to the Classroom; Tracing the Routes to Becoming a Teacher; Introducing the Professional Skills Tests; Chapter 2: Scoping out the Skills Tests; Discovering the Test Basics; Limbering up for Your Literacy Test; Nailing down the Numeracy Test; Chapter 3: Studying to Succeed; Setting Yourself up Physically; Preparing Yourself Mentally |
Acing your Exam: Tips for Exam Technique Revising for Success; Part II: Literacy Skills; Chapter 4: Falling Under the Spell of Spelling; Breaking Words Up; Looking at Patterns and Rules; Considering Other Spelling Approaches; Having a Go: Practice Tests; Checking out the Practice Test Answers; Chapter 5: Punching above Your Weight at Punctuation; Discovering the Need for Pace; Looking at Beginnings: Capital Letters; Pausing for Breath: Commas; Finishing off with Separators; Speaking Up; Pondering Other Punctuation Marks; Having a Go: Practice Tests; Checking out the Practice Test Answers |
Chapter 6: Getting to Grips with Grammar Introducing Standard English; Meeting the Different Parts of Speech; Working with Sentences; Having a Go: Practice Tests; Checking out the Practice Test Answers; Chapter 7: Considering the Comprehension Test; Meeting the Comprehension Test; Having a Go: Practice Tests; Checking out the Practice Test Answers; Part III: Numeracy Skills; Chapter 8: Making Sense of Mental Maths; Blitzing through the Basic Arithmetic Processes; Working with Parts of the Whole; Answering Real-life Maths Problems; Having a Go: Practice Tests |
Checking out the Practice Test Answers Chapter 9: Stepping up to the Screen: Arithmetic Review; Playing with Parts of the Whole: Percentages; Mastering Measures; Reeling in the Ranges (and Averages); Tracking Trends; Chapter 10: Get ting on Top of On-Screen Tests with Tables and Graphs; Dealing with Data Tables; Sussing out Simple Graphs; Grafting Away at Complex Graphs; Chapter 11: Trying out Your Numeracy Skills: On-Screen Practice Questions; Having a Go Yourself: The Tests; Checking How You Did: Test Answers; Part IV: Timed Practice Tests |
Chapter 12: Practising Literacy Tests under Timed Conditions Putting Your Literacy Skills to the Test; Checking Your Answers; Chapter 13: Tackling the Timed Numeracy Test; Practising Numeracy Questions; Checking Your Answers; Part V: The Part of Tens; Chapter 14: Ten Top T ips for Keeping Your Head; Breathing Well; Sitting up Straight; Talking Kindly To Yourself; Making Studying a Habit; Knowing What's Coming; Using a Last-Minute Cheat Sheet; Thinking Creatively; Keeping Your Notes Neat; Pressing the Reset Button; Focusing on the Result; Chapter 15: Ten Tricks for Acing Your Numeracy Test |
Reading the Exam Question Properly |
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If you're preparing for the newly revised Numeracy and Literacy Skills Tests, Teacher's Skills Tests For Dummies is your one-stop for both exams, providing you with subject-matter review, revision and practice tests you need to tackle the tests with confidence and succeed. Written by expert authors in Maths, English, and Education (with the credentials to prove it), Teacher's Skills Tests For Dummies provides you with:- A review of the key maths and English concepts you need to know to do well- Full length practice tests and tons of additional practice quest |
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