1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911103175903321

Titolo

Contemporary Caribbean cultures and societies in a global context / / edited by Franklin W. Knight and Teresita Martinez-Vergne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2005

ISBN

9798890878977

9780807876909

0807876909

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KnightFranklin W

Martínez VergneTeresita

Disciplina

972.905/3

Soggetti

Globalization

Antilles, Greater Civilization 21st century

Caribbean Area

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 (p. [263]-280) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Teresita Martinez-Vergne and Franklin W. Knight -- Challenges to Caribbean economies in the era of globalization / Helen McBain -- Globalization, the World Bank, and the Haitian economy / Alex Dupuy -- Creolization in Havana: the oldest form of globalization / Antonio Benitez-Rojo -- Showing face: Boxing and nation building in contemporary Puerto Rico / Frances Negron-Muntaner -- Creolite in the hood: diaspora as source and challenge / Juan Flores -- Glocal spirituality: consumerism and heritage in a Puerto Rican Afro-Latin folk religion / Raquel Romberg -- Women's grass-roots organizations in the Dominican Republic: real and imagined female figures / Valentina Peguero -- Race and politics in Cuba / Aline Helg -- Jamaican reggae and the articulation of social and historical consciousness in musical discourse / Jorge L. Giovannetti -- Rum, revolution, and globalization: past, present, and future of a Caribbean product / Anthony P. Maingot.

Sommario/riassunto

Provides a measure of, as well as a model for, scholarship on globalization in the Caribbean. Highlighting social and cultural aspects of the region, these essays examine cultural phenomena in their creolized forms - from sports and religion to music and drink, from



racial inequality and feminist activism to indebtedness and economic uncertainty.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911139792203321

Titolo

Basic education at a distance / / edited by Chris Yates and Jo Bradley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : RoutledgeFalmer, 2000

ISBN

1-134-55800-7

1-134-55801-5

1-280-40228-8

0-203-24414-1

0-203-18762-8

9780203187623

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xv, 256 p

Collana

World review of distance education and open learning ; ; v. 2

Altri autori (Persone)

BradleyJo

YatesChris <1953->

Disciplina

371.35

Soggetti

Distance education

Open learning

Basic education

Literacy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

chapter PART 1 Introduction -- chapter 1 Basic education at a distance -- An introduction / Chris Yates -- chapter 2 The elusiveness of integration -- Policy discourses on open and distance learning in the 1990s / Elaine Unterhalter -- chapter 3 Audiences for basic education at a distance / Lynette Anderson -- chapter 4 Basic education curriculum -- Contexts and contests / Richard Siaciwena and Jennifer O'Rourke -- chapter 5 Organisational and delivery structures / Tony Dodds -- chapter 6 Evaluation and quality / Judith Calder -- chapter 7 The use of technologies in basic education / Keith Harry -- chapter 8 Finance, costs and economics / Fran�ois Orivel -- chapter 9 Literacy



and adult education through distance and open learning / Usha Reddi -- chapter 10 Basic education for refugees and nomads / Jason Pennells -- chapter 11 The power of open and distance learning in basic education for health and the environment / Pat Pridmore -- chapter 12 Open schooling at basic level / Janet Jenkins -- chapter 13 Outcomes: what have we learned? / Chris Yates.

Sommario/riassunto

Open and distance learning has been used in many ways in the recent past to provide both primary education and adult education. The Commonwealth of Learning works with governments, schools and universities with the aim of strengthening the capacities of Commonwealth member countries in developing human resources required for their economic and social development. Many existing policy documents link distance education with new information and communication technologies, portraying them as a promising universal access and exponential growth of learning. This book answers the key questions to these issues and assesses the impact and effect of the experience of basic education at a distance all over the world and in a wide variety of forms. This is the first major overview of this topic for twenty years.