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The Alternative Library
Much time and effort has been devoted to designing and developing library Web sites that are easy to navigate by both new students and experienced researchers. In a review of the Southampton Institute Library it was decided that in addition to updating the existing homepage an alternative would be offered. Drawing on theory relating to user interface design,learning styles and creative thinking, an Alternative Library navigation system was added to the more traditional library homepage. The aim was to provide students with a different way to explore and discover the wide range of information resources available by taking a less formal approach to navigation based on the metaphor of physical space and playful exploration
Negotiating cultural identity through the arts: Fitting in, third space and cultural memory
The article examines ways in which arts-based educational approaches were applied to a group of African descendant youth in Western Australia, as a way of understanding challenges to their bicultural socialization and means to developing their bicultural competence. Drawing on African cultural memory as a cultural resource enabled participants to discover the relevance of African cultural memory and embodied knowledge to their bicultural socialization and bicultural competence. The article challenges the argument that successful integration into dominant culture is only possible when migrants remain focused on acquisition of dominant cultural values â âFitting inâ. The African Cultural Memory Youth Arts Festival (ACMYAF) offered an alternative conception of successive integration as a process inclusive of creative appropriation and revaluation of ancestral culture through cultural memory. The festival became a third space through which the participants explored embodied knowledge and African cultural memory towards a positive self-concept and bicultural competence
The inverted postnational constellation: Identitarian populism in context
As exemplified by the panâEuropean âIdentitarian movementâ (IM), contemporary farâright populism defies the habitual matrix within which rightâwing radicalism has been criticised as a negation of liberal cosmopolitanism. The IM's political stance amalgamates features of cultural liberalism and racialist xenophobia into a defence of âEuropean way of life.â We offer an alternative decoding of the phenomenon by drawing on JĂŒrgen Habermas's âpostnational constellation.â It casts the IM's protectionist qua chauvinistic populism as âinvertedâ postnationalism, engendered through territorial and ethnic appropriation of universal political values. As such, inclusionary ideals of cosmopolitan liberalism and democracy purporting humanistic postnationalism have been transformed by Identitarians into elements of a privileged civilisational lifeâstyle to be protected from âintruders.â Remaining within the remit of the grammar of the postnational constellation, transâEuropean chauvinism, we contend, is susceptible to inclusive articulation. Foregrounding radical emancipatory social transformation would however require not more democracy, but a principled critique of capitalism
Resilience, moorings and international student mobilities - exploring biographical narratives of social science students in the UK
Whilst research into the changing landscape of the UK Higher Education (HE) has produced a burgeoning literature on âinternationalisationâ and âtransnational student mobilityâ over the past few years, still fairly little is known about international studentsâ experiences on their way to and through the UK higher and further education. Frequently approaching inter- and transnational education as âneutralâ by-products of neoliberal globalisation, elitism and power flows, much HE policy and scholarly debate tend to operate with simplistic classifications of âinternational studentsâ and therefore fail to account for the multifaceted nature of studentsâ aspirations, mobilities and life experiences. Drawing on the notion of âresilienceâ and insights from the ânew mobilities paradigmâ, this paper envisages alternative student mobilities which run parallel or counter to the dominant flows of power, financial and human capital commonly associated with an emerging global knowledge economy. Engaging with âresilientâ biographies of social science students studying at three UK HE institutions, the paper challenges narrow student classification regimes and calls for a critical re-evaluation of the relationship between international student mobility and other contemporary forms of migration, displacement and diaspora
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