VOLUME 5(2) • 2013
DIMENSIONS OF NATIONALISM AND RELIGION IN FRANCE, POLAND AND THE UNITED KINGDOM: TOWARDS A RENEWED SYNCRETISM?
ABSTRACT. In the past decades, we have witnessed the global re-emergence of the political meaning of both nationalism and religion. This paper explores contemporary fragments of this trend across three European countries: France, Poland and the United Kingdom. The discursive occurrences brought into..
THE EMERGENCE OF ICTS AS LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES
ABSTRACT. Scholarship about the value of engaging teachers in learning and in- struction with ICT, the introduction of technology into practice-based learning, the factors affecting the quality of interactive learning experience, and the quality of learning in interactive educational courseware has ..
RECENT CHINA-LAC TRADE RELATIONS: IMPLICATIONS FOR INEQUALITY?
ABSTRACT. In the last decade, the socioeconomic relationship between Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and the People’s Republic of China has increased massively. How has this new qualitative relationship between LAC and China affected inequality in LAC? This paper highlights the degrees of conc..
THE MENA SAGA AND LADY GAGA (SAME DILEMMA FROM THE MENA)
ABSTRACT. How could any social cohesion indispensable for the MENA democrat- ization possibly work where primary loyalties are (returned) to sect, tribe or ethnicity? This dilemma relates not only to democracy, but also to the very quest of secularism – for the one presupposes the other – ever since..
ORDER AND CHANGE IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
ABSTRACT. The main objective of this paper is to explore and describe the liberal understanding of international order, the resurgence of great-power politics, and the absence of a global institution that could facilitate and implement democratic ideals. The theory that I shall seek to elaborate her..
WHO RULES SINGAPORE? THE ONLY TRUE MERCANTILE STATE IN THE WORLD
ABSTRACT. This article looks at the question of who rules Singapore? This question is considered historically, through corporate development, the role of government, the media, the national narrative, the judiciary, the military, the banks, and the People’s Action party’s (PAP) structure itself. The..
THE SOCIAL ASPECTS OF TECHNOLOGY-ENHANCED LEARNING SITUATIONS
ABSTRACT. The purpose of this article is to gain a deeper understanding of difficulties experienced in using ICT for learning, the importance of self-efficacy in relation to positive learning outcomes, the future development of games that leverage emerging social media platforms and mobile technolog..
COSMOPOLITANISM, EMANCIPATION AND EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY (CYPRUS IN CRISIS): A CONVERSATION WITH MARIANNA PAPASTEPHANOU
Marianna Papastephanouhas studied Philosophy at the University of Cardiff (Wales) and Berlin (Germany). She has taught in the department of Philosophy at Cardiff and she is currently teaching Philosophy of Education at the University of Cyprus. Her research interests include educational utopianism, ..