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Record Nr.

UNINA9910477143203321

Autore

Washbourne Kelly

Titolo

The self-directed learner : intentionality in translator training and education / / Kelly Washbourne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified] : , : Taylor & Francis, , 2005

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (373 pages)

Disciplina

158.1

Soggetti

Self-reliance

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This study seeks to bring educational theory on self-directedness to bear on translator training, and to document ways intentional learning for autonomy are being fostered, or could be. Our project connects to ongoing scholarly efforts toward establishing learner autonomy and empowerment as a priority goal in translator training and education. However, here we also wish to take stock of, and reflect more on, what autonomy means in principle, its connection to student development (intra- and inter-) personally and pre-professionally, self-directed learning's (SDL) relationship to current learning methods, supports and role definitions we can use in our instruction, and the learning behaviors, motivations and outcomes we can expect. In the process, we will examine the extent to which related self-directedness practices now emerging can be integrated into awareness and thus help translation learners advance toward intentionality.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910970192103321

Autore

Modena Letizia

Titolo

Italo Calvino's architecture of lightness : the utopian imagination in an age of urban crisis / / Letizia Modena

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2011

New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-73059-1

1-136-73060-5

1-283-15112-X

9786613151124

0-203-81764-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; ; 17

Disciplina

853/.914

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

The inner city of the imagination: utopia and the ethical charge of fiction -- Retroterra: urban planners, architects, and the city in crisis -- Memos for the city of the next millennium: invisible cities as embodiment of urban renewal -- Architectures of lightness.

Sommario/riassunto

This study recovers Italo Calvino's central place in a lost history of interdisciplinary thought, politics, and literary philosophy in the 1960s. Drawing on his letters, essays, critical reviews, and fiction, as well as a wide range of works--primarily urban planning and design theory and history--circulating among his primary interlocutors, this book takes as its point of departure a sweeping reinterpretation of Invisible Cities. Passages from Calvino's most famous novel routinely appear as aphorisms in calendars, posters, and the popular literature of inspiration and self-help, r