CRITICAL LITERACIES AND LANGUAGE EDUCATION: GLOBAL AND LOCAL PERSPECTIVES

2005 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 151-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Morgan ◽  
Vaidehi Ramanathan
Keyword(s):  
Critical Literacy ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Language Education ◽  
English For Academic Purposes ◽  
Critical Literacies ◽  
Group Identities ◽  
Critical Turn ◽  
Ideological Tensions ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
Local Perspectives

Increasingly aware of the “critical” turn in our disciplines, we offer a partial survey of scholarship in two key realms—English for academic purposes (EAP) and globalization—where the term “critical literacy” has particular relevance. We begin by addressing some key concepts and ideological tensions latent beneath the term “critical.” We then address the pedagogical priorities that arise from this conceptualization, in particular, the use of texts to distance individual and group identities from powerful discourses. Next, we review studies that demonstrate how different teachers and researchers have engaged in unraveling and cross-questioning the rhetorical influences of various texts types, including multimodal ones. In the final section, we discuss the intertwined processes of homogenization and diversification arising from the economic, cultural, and political strains of globalization with particular emphasis on their implications for critical literacies and language education.

Concordant Exploration of the Kinetics of RNA Folding from Global and Local Perspectives

2006 ◽  
Vol 355 (2) ◽  
pp. 282-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa W. Kwok ◽  
Inna Shcherbakova ◽  
Jessica S. Lamb ◽  
Hye Yoon Park ◽  
Kurt Andresen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rna Folding ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
Kinetics Of ◽  
Local Perspectives

The dialectic between global and local perspectives in archaeological theory, heritage and publications

2008 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristian Kristiansen
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
The Other ◽  
Archaeological Theory ◽  
Common Trends ◽  
Archaeological Practice ◽  
The Past ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Legislative Framework ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
Local Perspectives

When I agreed to present the article as a vehicle for discussion at a session at the EAA's annual meeting in Zadar, Croatia, I decided to approach the question of a European archaeology from what I considered to be the three organizing pillars of archaeological practice: heritage, theory and publications. Heritage is the dominant organizational/legislative framework for archaeological practice, and it is where most of the money is spent. Theory, on the other hand, organizes most of our interpretations of the past, while publications are still the most common way of presenting the results of both heritage work (mostly excavations) and interpretations of that work. In this way I hoped to have encircled the dominant parameters for a diagnosis of the archaeological landscapes in Europe. I assumed that there might be some correlation between the three, and that such observed common trends within two or more variables would strengthen the argument, to paraphrase processual jargon.

Analyzing China’s Provincial Environmental Emissions and Its Influencing Factors: A Spatial Analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xing Wang ◽  
Dequn Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Analysis ◽  
Spatial Dependence ◽  
Transmission Mechanism ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Environmental Emissions ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
Province Level ◽  
Local Perspectives ◽  
Spatial Transmission

Abstract In-depth analyses of the spatial heterogeneity in environmental emissions, and the causes of differences are of great importance for contributing to provide reference for reduction policies. However, a spatial analysis of the existence and mechanism of China’s environmental emissions is still ignored. Using the province-level data of thirty provinces in China over 2005-2017, this paper constructs a spatial Durbin model (SDM) to empirically address the existence and spatial transmission mechanism of environmental emissions. The main results are as follows: first, China’s environmental emissions show significant characteristics of spatial dependence and clustering from global and local perspectives, indicating that the existence of spatial autocorrelation in environmental emissions across regions. Second, both per capita GDP and urbanization have positive impacts on environmental emissions, but the impacts of environmental regulation and FDI are insignificant. Third, urbanization not only directly influences environmental emissions, but also indirectly influences environmental emissions. Our analysis provides valuable information for developing policies to effectively alleviate pollution.

Analysis of influential factors on air quality from global and local perspectives in China

2019 ◽  
Vol 248 ◽  
pp. 965-979 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaodan Han ◽  
Huajiao Li ◽  
Qian Liu ◽  
Fuzhen Liu ◽  
Asma Arif
Keyword(s):  
Air Quality ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
Local Perspectives

scholarly journals Late Antiquity and World History

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Humphries
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Final Section ◽  
World History ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Historical Progress ◽  
Local Perspectives ◽  
Evolutionary Interpretation

The flourishing of late-antique studies in the last half-century has coincided with the rise of “world history” as an area of academic research. To an extent, some overlap has occurred, particularly with Sasanian Persia being considered alongside the late Roman Empire as constituting an essential component in what we think of in terms of the “shape” of late antiquity. Yet it is still the case that many approaches to late antiquity are bound up with conventional western narratives of historical progress, as defined in Jack Goody's The Theft of History (2006). Indeed, the debate about whether late antiquity was an age of dynamic transformation (as argued by Peter Brown and his disciples) or one of catastrophic disruption (as asserted, most recently, by Bryan Ward-Perkins) can be regarded as representing two different faces of an essentially evolutionary interpretation of western historical development. This article argues, however, that we can challenge such conventional narrative frameworks by taking a world historical perspective on late antiquity. It shows, first, that our interpretation of late antiquity depends on sources that themselves are representative of myriad local perspectives. Secondly, it argues that since Gibbon's time these sources have been made to serve an essentially western construct of and debate about history. The final section considers how taking a more global perspective allows us to challenge conventional approaches to and narratives of late antiquity.

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