Looking for Shakespeare: The global and the local in Mauritian Shakespeare adaptation and classroom practice

2022 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-43
Author(s):  
Angela Ramsoondur ◽  
Sheila Wong Kong Luong
Keyword(s):  
Classroom Practice ◽  
Music Videos ◽  
Tertiary Level ◽  
The University ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
Point Of Reference

This article considers manifestations of both  global and local Shakespeares in Mauritius. It starts with Dev Virahsawmy’s Shakespeare adaptations – Toufann (1991) in particular – as a well-known point of reference, placing the globalisation of Shakespeare in a localised (Mauritian) space into perspective via a discussion of language and context. The authors then reflect on the use of YouTube in the teaching of Shakespeare in undergraduate classes at the University of Mauritius, with selected adverts and music videos exemplifying a new ‘mash-up’ form of Shakespeare. Both Shakespeare and YouTube are carriers/channels of culture; while Shakespeare remains an emblematic figure, however, tertiary level classroom practice challenges the notion that his works are ‘timeless’ and ‘universal’.

scholarly journals Global‐ and Local‐Scale High‐Resolution Event Catalogs for Algorithm Testing

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Linville ◽  
Ronald Chip Brogan ◽  
Christopher Young ◽  
Katherine Anderson Aur
Keyword(s):  
Global Scale ◽  
Local Scale ◽  
Algorithm Performance ◽  
Directional Information ◽  
Event Sequences ◽  
University Of Utah ◽  
International Monitoring ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The University ◽  
Global And Local

ABSTRACT During the development of new seismic data processing methods, the verification of potential events and associated signals can present a nontrivial obstacle to the assessment of algorithm performance, especially as detection thresholds are lowered, resulting in the inclusion of significantly more anthropogenic signals. Here, we present two 14 day seismic event catalogs, a local‐scale catalog developed using data from the University of Utah Seismograph Stations network, and a global‐scale catalog developed using data from the International Monitoring System. Each catalog was built manually to comprehensively identify events from all sources that were locatable using phase arrival timing and directional information from seismic network stations, resulting in significant increases compared to existing catalogs. The new catalogs additionally contain challenging event sequences (prolific aftershocks and small events at the detection and location threshold) and novel event types and sources (e.g., infrasound only events and long‐wall mining events) that make them useful for algorithm testing and development, as well as valuable for the unique tectonic and anthropogenic event sequences they contain.

scholarly journals Inquality and the Future of Global History: A Round Table Discussion

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-81
Author(s):  
Julia McClure ◽  
Amitava Chowdhury ◽  
Sarah Easterby-Smith ◽  
Norberto Ferreras ◽  
Omar Gueye ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Round Table ◽  
Round Table Discussion ◽  
Global History ◽  
New Directions ◽  
The University ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
North And South America ◽  
North And South ◽  
Local Levels

The following is an edited transcript of a roundtable that took place at the University of Glasgow in September 2018. The roundtable was organized by Dr. Julia McClure in conjunction with the Poverty Research Network’s conference - Beyond Development: The Local Visions of Global Poverty. That conference brought into focus the ways in which the global and local levels meet at the site of poverty and highlighted the different conceptions on the global are generated from the perspective of poverty. The roundtable brought together leading scholars from Europe, Africa, Asia and North and South America to take stock of global history as a field, to consider the role of existing centres of knowledge production, and to assess new directions for the field.

scholarly journals Stakeholder attitudes towards employability in a Sino-British university

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Speight ◽  
Natasa Lackovic ◽  
Lucy Cooker
Keyword(s):  
Research Literature ◽  
Branch Campus ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Graduate Employability ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The University ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
Support Students ◽  
Stakeholder Attitudes

In 2004 the University of Nottingham opened its branch campus, the University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC). Degree-awarding powers for UNNC remain with the UK, but there is recognition that Nottingham must understand the specific context of its Chinese branch; provision therefore operates according to the principal of equivalence rather than of replication. This paper explores stakeholder attitudes towards the university's Nottingham Advantage Award. This is an extra-curricular programme designed to support students in the development of their 'employability'. Launched in the UK in 2008, it was piloted at UNNC in 2010-11 and is now nearing the end of its first full year of operation. Twenty-three interviews were conducted with staff and students at UNNC. These were analysed alongside interviews carried out in the UK and with reference to the research literature. This provided an understanding of the role of the Award overall and in the UNNC context. The study shows that while stakeholders hold broadly similar views in the UK and China, there are subtle differences of emphasis concerning the understanding of, and responsibility for, learning for employability. In addition, a group of China-specific themes emerged from the UNNC interviews that indicated recognition of the need to differentiate priorities and provision for each site. The paper concludes that the challenge for the Award at UNNC is to serve both global and local agendas and that it should strive to reduce the 'information asymmetry' existing between stakeholders to promote effective graduate employability.

scholarly journals Aftershocks: Globalism and the Future of Democracy

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Social Resilience ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The University ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
The City ◽  
Selection Of

This digital publication consists of a selection of 56 papers presented at the 16th International Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), held at the University of Zaragoza, 2-5 July 2019, the general theme of which was ‘Aftershocks: Globalism and the Future of Democracy’. Sponsored by The Aragonese Association of Sociology, the conference was well-attended – 170 participants from 28 countries met to discuss a wide variety of topics in 29 workshops. The feedback we received from participants confirmed that they had greatly enjoyed the venue of the conference, that they appreciated the warm welcome they had received and the congenial social atmosphere and opportunity to attend workshops on subjects that were not only in their own field of expertise. No one, of course, could have predicted that our world – our work and life as individuals, as communities and as nations – would change so suddenly and radically eighteen months after the conference, with the rapid and devastating spread of the Convid-19 pandemic. The current deepening global crisis along with the challenge of climate change and growing international tensions are a stark reminder of how vulnerable our societies, our civilization, and our species are. The shocks and aftershocks of these crises are felt today in every corner of the world and in every aspect of our global and local economies, and most obviously in the sociopolitical arena. As several of the conference workshops on the multiple crises Europe and the world face today – from the migrant crisis to the rise of populism and deepening inequality between rich and poor – showed – and as the Covid-19 pandemic has so cruelly brought home to us – we simply cannot take the achievements of human civilization for granted and must find ways to meet the fundamental social and political needs of human beings not only in our own neighborhoods, cities and countries, but ultimately in the world as a whole: their living conditions, livelihoods, social services, education and healthcare, human rights and political representation. Several of the workshops, as I mentioned, directly addressed these issues and emphasized the need for building social resilience based on tolerance, solidarity and equity. This too is why, as academics, we should continue to initiate and engage in collective reflection and debate on how to foster and strengthen human communities and human solidarity. Finally, I want to thank the participants and workshop chairs for their contribution to the success of the conference. It was a pleasure for me to work with the university organizing team and with ISSEI’s team in bringing this about, and I am particularly proud that my university and the city of Zaragoza hosted this conference.

Social Media in the Canadian Post-Secondary Classroom

2015 ◽  
pp. 1098-1122
Author(s):  
Linda Pardy ◽  
David Thomson ◽  
Samantha Pattridge
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Classroom Practice ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
Student Privacy ◽  
Secondary Classroom ◽  
Instructional Use ◽  
Public Sharing ◽  
The Government ◽  
The University

In Canada, the use of Social Networking Sites (SNS) for instructional purposes at post-secondary institutions is constrained by students' legislated rights to privacy. Some universities have explored ways to obtain the advantages of cloud computing while still meeting mandated obligations to protect student privacy. The government of British Columbia maintains the strictest standards in Canada regarding access to and storage of personal information, hampering instructional use of SNS. The University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) decided to work within this legislation and challenge faculty to modify their classroom practice. At UFV the most significant SNS-related teachable moments come from education towards informed consent to public sharing of information through SNS. While our ability to teach students how to use SNS resources is restricted, working within the legislation encourages educators to evaluate their central purpose for using SNS. Students acquire digital skills through various forms of informal learning; therefore, the formal instructional setting becomes an opportunity to foster development of digital citizens.

Ecological Approach to Learning and Communication

2019 ◽  
pp. 167-183
Author(s):  
Lilian Rata ◽  
Nina Birnaz ◽  
Butnari Nadejda
Keyword(s):  
Communication Theory ◽  
General System ◽  
Local Environment ◽  
University Education ◽  
Ecological Approach ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Approach To Learning ◽  
The University ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
Global And Local

This chapter applies an ecological approach to learning and communication to analyze the impact of rhetoric communication on oratory competence. In the introductory section, it is analyzed the evolution and future trends of rhetoric and oratory as well as the importance of planning and management the university didactical processes from the perspectives of ecosphere, ecosystem, ecology, rhetoric situation, etc. It is pointed that in our current, globalized world, university education serves as the focal focus on verbal communication. The university education cannot escape from the pressure of their global and local environment. In the background, the authors analyze the evolution of rhetoric in accordance with general system theory and communication theory. The focus of the chapter is devoted to the development of the oratory competence. A novel model of rhetoric communication is described in detail. The chapter finishes with conclusions and future research regarding the applicability of the proposed model.

scholarly journals Increasing Public Access to University Qualifications: Evolution of The University of the West Indies Open Campus

2009 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael L. Thomas ◽  
Judith Soares
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
Public Access ◽  
Tertiary Level ◽  
The West ◽  
Developmental Needs ◽  
Education Centre ◽  
Physical Presence ◽  
The University ◽  
Open Campus ◽  
And Training

This paper traces the evolution of The University of the West Indies’ Open Campus (UWIOC), which is expected to expand service and increase access to the underserved communities of the Eastern Caribbean. At present, UWI, which caters to the needs of the 16 far flung countries of the Commonwealth Caribbean, has not been able to fully serve these countries, the UWI-12, in a way that is commensurate with their developmental needs. Historically, the institution has been dominated by campus-based education, and its three campuses have been poles of attraction for scholars and scholarship to the significant advantage of the countries in which they are located: Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and Barbados. The University’s creation of an open campus, a fourth campus, enables it to expand its scope, enhance its appeal, and improve the efficiency of its services to individuals, communities, and countries. This new campus, a merger of UWI’s Outreach sector, which comprises the School of Continuing Studies, the Tertiary Level Institute Unit, and The UWI Distance Education Centre, will have a physical presence in each contributing country and will function as a network of real and virtual modes to deliver education and training to anyone with access to Internet facilities.

scholarly journals Towards Sustainopreneurship Development at the Tertiary Level Education: A Case study on Southern University Bangladesh

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Kazi Nazmul Huda
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Potential Model ◽  
Tertiary Level ◽  
Entrepreneurship Development ◽  
Entrepreneurial Skills ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
University Level ◽  
The University ◽  
Southern University

The concept of sustainopreneurship demands entrepreneurial actions to promote sustainable development goals and principles in business activities. The study understands the necessity of an academic curriculum that aids the business gradates to enhance their entrepreneurial skills in the light of sustainopreneurship development concepts. Key objective of the study is to propose an action-oriented model of sustainopreneurship that may enrich the existing curriculum of entrepreneurship development courses taught at the university level. The current study is based on classroom experiences at Southern University Bangladesh. The paper tries to offer a potential model of embedding sustainopreneurship in the entrepreneurship development curriculum that opens the possibility in attaining the goals of the said concept. The methodology of the study is based on qualitative research conducted through exploratory analysis. Results of the study are based on observation and the opinions of the direct stakeholders specially the students, faculties, and the management of the university. 

scholarly journals Dancing in Music Videos, or How I Learned to Dance Like Janet . . . Miss Jackson

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Blanco Borelli
Keyword(s):  
Music Videos ◽  
Kind Permission ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
The University

No abstract availableThis article was originally published by Parallel Press, an imprint of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, as part of The International Journal of Screendance, Volume 2 (2012), Parallel Press. It is made available here with the kind permission of Parallel Press.

scholarly journals Max Horkheimer: The struggle against Total Bureaucratization

2014 ◽  
pp. 81-96
Author(s):  
Ferrarotti Franco
Keyword(s):  
Social Research ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Frankfurt School ◽  
First Year ◽  
Strict Sense ◽  
Basic Point ◽  
Max Horkheimer ◽  
Practical Reality ◽  
The University ◽  
Point Of Reference

In July 1973, at the age of 78, Max Horkheimer passed away In the Swiss town of Montagnola. If not the founder, he has at least the most important director of the Institute of Social Research at the University of Frankfurt, from which the famous name “Frankfurt School” is derived. Actually, if we can believe Habermas, who began his academic career as Adorno’s assistant, there was never a Frankfurt ‘’school’’ in the strict sense of the word, except of course in its first year in exile from Germany after the escape from Nazism. At any rate, Horkheimer, more than Adorno and with grater incisiveness than Marcuse and Fromm, represents a basic point of reference for an intellectual climate that has had, despite obvious limitation, a crucial influence on both Marxist and non-Marxist thought. More rigorous than Adorno, and more open to economic and practical reality than Marcuse, the cautious Horkheimer was throughout the secure point of reference, especially after his return in Frankfurt.

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