Global Citizenship Education
Global Citizenship Education

Author: Abdeljalil Akkari

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-08-18

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 3030446174

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This open access book takes a critical and international perspective to the mainstreaming of the Global Citizenship Concept and analyses the key issues regarding global citizenship education across the world. In that respect, it addresses a pressing need to provide further conceptual input and to open global citizenship agendas to diversity and indigeneity. Social and political changes brought by globalisation, migration and technological advances of the 21st century have generated a rise in the popularity of the utopian and philosophical idea of global citizenship. In response to the challenges of today’s globalised and interconnected world, such as inequality, human rights violations and poverty, global citizenship education has been invoked as a means of preparing youth for an inclusive and sustainable world. In recent years, the development of global citizenship education and the building of students’ global citizenship competencies have become a focal point in global agendas for education, international educational assessments and international organisations. However, the concept of global citizenship education still remains highly contested and subject to multiple interpretations, and its operationalisation in national educational policies proves to be challenging. This volume aims to contribute to the debate, question the relevancy of global citizenship education’s policy objectives and to enhance understanding of local perspectives, ideologies, conceptions and issues related to citizenship education on a local, national and global level. To this end, the book provides a comprehensive and geographically based overview of the challenges citizenship education faces in a rapidly changing global world through the lens of diversity and inclusiveness.

Aziza the Warrior Princess
Aziza the Warrior Princess

Author: Favour Usifo

Publisher:

Published: 2021-04-16

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13:

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"Aziza the Warrior Princess is one book I wish I read as a child." - Mary L. "The storybook is a blend of Western and African cultures. I love it!" - Alex V. While some people said that princess Aziza's strength was from Kalakuta, the god of war, others said her powers were rooted in her dark skin. Princess Aziza's strength was the product of determination. Every night, she trained tirelessly with her closest servant, Mustafa, in the art of war. Until her father took her training sessions to the next level. Little did she know that her last fight with her beloved trainer, Azaka, would determine if she kept her crown. The book features and celebrates cultures from some of the greatest kingdoms in Africa. From cultural elements like the rich Kente fabric of Ghana to the royal Oba attire from the Benin kingdom in Nigeria, it is a great way for African kids to stay connected to their roots. Kids from other cultures will enjoy the uniqueness of the African fairytale.

The Summer Queen
The Summer Queen

Author: Rochelle Hassan

Publisher: Roaring Brook Press

Published: 2024-01-23

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1250822246

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This captivating sequel to The Buried and the Bound draws readers into the twisted and irresistible world of the Fair Folk—perfect for fans of The Cruel Prince and The Hazel Wood. As a new coven, Aziza, Leo, and Tristan faced evil and triumphed. All that’s left is to put their lives back together, a process complicated by the fallout from painful secrets, the emotional and physical scars they now carry, and the mysteries that still haunt them. But with the approach of the solstice comes the arrival of strange new visitors to Blackthorn: the Summer Court, a nomadic community of Fair Folk from deep in Elphame. They’ve journeyed to the border between the human world and fairyland, far from their usual caravan route, to take back something that belongs to them—something Leo’s not willing to lose. Refusing to give up without a fight, he makes a risky deal with the Summer Court’s princess and regent. The challenge she proposes sends Coven Blackthorn into the farthest, wildest reaches of Elphame. But when you play games with the Fair Folk, even winning has a cost.

The Eternalists
The Eternalists

Author: Scott Kirkland

Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.

Published: 2018-03-09

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 1633385469

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The Eternalists is about seven high school teenagers from New York City’s metropolitan area recruited by an advanced educational program by a lottery to help further their education so they can attend college. Unbeknownst to the teens, there’s a lot going on beneath the surface of this program. Before long, the teens are thrust into a world of mysticism, magic, and the underworld in order to help their teachers, the enigmatic but charismatic Dr. Maximillian and the lovely

The Digital Humanities and Islamic & Middle East Studies
The Digital Humanities and Islamic & Middle East Studies

Author: Elias Muhanna

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2016-03-21

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 3110376512

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Over the past few decades, humanistic inquiry has been problematized and invigorated by the emergence of what is referred to as the digital humanities. Across multiple disciplines, from history to literature, religious studies to philosophy, archaeology to music, scholars are tapping the extraordinary power of digital technologies to preserve, curate, analyze, visualize, and reconstruct their research objects. The study of the Middle East and the broader Islamic world has been no less impacted by this new paradigm. Scholars are making daily use of digital tools and repositories including private and state-sponsored archives of textual sources, digitized manuscript collections, densitometrical imaging, visualization and modeling software, and various forms of data mining and analysis. This collection of essays explores the state of the art in digital scholarship pertaining to Islamic & Middle Eastern studies, addressing areas such as digitization, visualization, text mining, databases, mapping, and e-publication. It is of relevance to any researcher interested in the opportunities and challenges engendered by this changing scholarly ecosystem.

The Walking Drum
The Walking Drum

Author: Louis L'Amour

Publisher: Bantam

Published: 2005-04-26

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 0553900161

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Louis L’Amour has been best known for his ability to capture the spirit and drama of the authentic American West. Now he guides his readers to an even more distant frontier—the enthralling lands of the twelfth century. Warrior, lover, and scholar, Kerbouchard is a daring seeker of knowledge and fortune bound on a journey of enormous challenge, danger, and revenge. Across Europe, over the Russian steppes, and through the Byzantine wonders of Constantinople, Kerbouchard is thrust into the treacheries, passions, violence, and dazzling wonders of a magnificent time. From castle to slave galley, from sword-racked battlefields to a princess’s secret chamber, and ultimately, to the impregnable fortress of the Valley of Assassins, The Walking Drum is a powerful adventure in an ancient world that you will find every bit as riveting as Louis L’Amour’s stories of the American West.

Descended from Hercules
Descended from Hercules

Author: Robert A. Rushing

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2016-10-15

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 0253022584

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Muscles, six-pack abs, skin, and sweat fill the screen in the tawdry and tantalizing peplum films associated with epic Italian cinema of the 1950s and 1960s. Using techniques like slow motion and stopped time, these films instill the hero's vitality with timeless admiration and immerse the hero's body in a world that is lavishly eroticized but without sexual desire. These "sword and sandal" films represent a century-long cinematic biopolitical intervention that offers the spectator an imagined form of the male body—one free of illness, degeneracy, and the burdens of poverty—that defends goodness with brute strength and perseverance, and serves as a model of ideal citizenry. Robert A. Rushing traces these epic heroes from Maciste in Cabiria in the early silent era to contemporary transnational figures like Arnold Schwarzenegger in Conan the Barbarian, and to films such as Zach Snyder's 300. Rushing explores how the very tactile modes of representation cement the genre's ideological grip on the viewer.

Warriors of Myth
Warriors of Myth

Author: The Rhythmsoldier

Publisher:

Published: 2009-03-01

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9781438959917

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The book takes you on an excited adventure of a life time with three warrior friends, Thor the Norse god of thunder, Agorem the Elf king, and Zavegun the mighty war elf. Perils await them all and not only with Loki, but with giants, trolls, hideous creatures that none has ever seen before and unknown and unseen villians. A great conflict is at hand by someone that is dead or alive, that is what they must find out. Secrets are revealed enemies form alliances and the outcome is uncertain.

Occidentalism
Occidentalism

Author: Smail Salhi Zahia Smail Salhi

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2019-06-12

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 1474453236

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Maghrebi literature published in the first half of the twentieth century is a subject that seldom receives focused scholarly treatment. This is partly due to limited availability of the books, some of which were printed in as few as fifty copies. Zahia Smail Salhi tracked down these rare works and put them in the spotlight for the first time here. Through close textual analysis and in-depth engagement with religious and socio-political contexts, Smail Salhi determines whether these texts belong to a collective formation we may call 'Occidentalism'. In so doing, this book reintegrates the pre-1945 Maghrebi novels into the history and study of modern Arabic literature.

Court of Lions
Court of Lions

Author: Somaiya Daud

Publisher: Flatiron Books

Published: 2020-08-04

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1250126479

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Court of Lions is the long-awaited second and final installment in the “smart, sexy, and devilishly clever” Mirage series by Somaiya Daud (Renée Ahdieh, New York Times bestselling author of The Beautiful)! On a planet on the brink of revolution, Amani has been forced into isolation. She’s been torn from the boy she loves and has given up contact with her fellow rebels to protect her family. In taking risks for the rebel cause, Amani may have lost Maram’s trust forever. But the princess is more complex than she seems, and now Amani is once more at her capricious nature. One wrong move could see her executed for high treason. On the eve of Maram’s marriage to Idris comes an unexpected proposal: in exchange for taking her place in the festivities, Maram will keep Amani’s rebel associations a secret. Alone and desperate, Amani is thrust into the center of the court, navigating the dangerous factions on the princess's behalf. But the court is not what she expects. As a risky plan grows in her mind, and with the rebels poised to make their stand, Amani begins to believe her world might have a future. But every choice she makes comes with a cost. Can Amani risk the ones she loves the most for a war she's not sure she can win?