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From the Prologue My mother Martha Karanicolas emigrated to Canada in 1954 from Sellasia after the Greek civil war to join her sister, Aphroditi, and her brother, Lefteri, in Toronto. It was a chance to make a new life. In 1958, she paid the way for Panagiotis Trifonas to come from the village and be her husband. A year later in, 1959 they married.I had been going to Sellasia since I was a young boy of 4 years. The little I knew of the village...

The research comprising this book was originally undertaken in the early 1990s before the notion of multimodality. Rather than reconstitute well-worn analytical approaches to the picture book, it was and still is necessary to step back from traditional paradigms and take another vantage point that in itself would "fuse" the sometimes disparate pedagogical, literary, and aesthetic aspects of the genre. To explain the levels of semiotic interact...

CounterTexts: Reading Culture identifies and analyzes the ideological coding of media representations as cultural signs that we learn through, about, and from. It engages how we participate in and actualize the performative ground of the culture industry. CounterTexts: Reading Culture will present various readings of cultural signs, objects and practices as means of countering the media focus on narrowing the subjective desire of citizens and ...

This handbook examines key issues and debates, theories and practices in the context of culture studies in education. It brings together a multiplicity of voices in a collective and converging manner that ask critical questions about the meanings of diverse forms of Cultural Studies in Education. Examining case studies of individuals, groups, collectives and social institutions, this handbook focuses on Cultural Studies in Education as theoriz...

This book provides an extensive overview and analysis of current work on semiotics that is being pursued globally in the areas of literature, the visual arts, cultural studies, media, the humanities, natural sciences and social sciences. Semiotics—also known as structuralism—is one of the major theoretical movements of the 20th century and its influence as a way to conduct analyses of cultural products and human practices has been immense.This...

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The varying interests of competing minority groups often part company with regard to how to achieve an equitable community. Worlds of Difference rethinks the traditional interpretation of the principle of educational equity in light of this difficulty. Theorists and educational practitioners influenced by many disparate schools of thought reflect upon the possibilities of a curriculum of difference in relation to questions of language, culture...

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This edited collection presents international perspectives on a wide range of issues, and each chapter combines upper-level theory with real-world practice, making this essential reading for all those interested in digital media and education.

Learning the Virtual Life offers ways to consider the local and global effects of digital media on educational environments, as well as the cultural transformations of how we now define learning and literacy.

This book provides an extensive overview and analysis of current work on semiotics that is being pursued globally in the areas of literature, the visual arts, cultural studies, media, the humanities, natural sciences and social sciences. Semiotics—also known as structuralism—is one of the major theoretical movements of the 20th century and its influence as a way to conduct analyses of cultural products and human practices has been immense.This...

Peter Pericles Trifonas has assembled internationally acclaimed theorists and educational practitioners whose essays explore various constructions, representations, and uses of difference in educational contexts. These essays strive to bridge competing discourses of difference--for instance, feminist or anti-racist pedagogical models--to create a more inclusive education that adheres to principles of equity and social justice.

Peter Pericles Trifonas has assembled internationally acclaimed theorists and educational practitioners whose essays explore various constructions, representations, and uses of difference in educational contexts. These essays strive to bridge competing discourses of difference--for instance, feminist or anti-racist pedagogical models--to create a more inclusive education that adheres to principles of equity and social justice.

In this compelling and timely treatise, cultural theorist and educator Peter Trifonas puts forth the first book-length study of Jacques Derrida's _educational texts:_ that is, those writings most explicitly concerned with the ethics and politics of the historico-philosophical structures constituting the scene of teaching. The text examines how deconstruction allows us to re-think the socio-historical and ethico-philosophical aspects of pedagog...

A collection of original essays exploring the significance of Derrida's thought for education, pedagogy and the ethics of teaching and research.A collection of original essays exploring the significance of Derrida's thought for education, pedagogy, and the ethics of teaching and researchRecognises that Derrida is a profound educational thinker, concerned with questions of pedagogyWritten by a team of international scholars

A collaborative series with the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education highlighting leading-edge research across Teacher Education, International Education Reform and Language Education.

In this compelling and timely treatise, cultural theorist and educator Peter Trifonas puts forth the first book-length study of Jacques Derrida's 'educational texts: ' that is, those writings most explicitly concerned with the ethics and politics of the historico-philosophical structures constituting the scene of teaching. The text examines how deconstruction allows us to re-think the socio-historical and ethico-philosophical aspects of pedago...