The use of ICT in EFL classes: What would be the ideal situation?

Information and communication technologies, broadly known as ITCs, have undergone several changes to become the powerful tools that are today. Their impact on every area and domain is undeniable, especially within the field of education regarding the teaching and learning of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). The benefits of using such technologies in Secondary schools as an improvement for the traditional skills in the subject of English, as well as their drawbacks and impediments, are thoroughly discussed in the following dissertation. The portrayal of how should be an ideal situation to work with ICTs within an academic environment, particularly in English classes, is contrasted with the real, not so idealistic circumstances. Furthermore, a practical case that took place at a Secondary school with students of Bachillerato, is also explained in detail with the purpose of observing students’ participation, motivation, and engagement with the subject using the available ICTs.Las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación, ampliamente conocidas como TICs, han sufrido varios cambios para convertirse en las poderosas herramientas que son hoy en día. Su impacto en cada área y dominio es innegable, especialmente dentro del campo de la educación en la enseñanza y el aprendizaje del inglés como Lengua Extranjera (EFL). Los beneficios de usar estas tecnologías en los institutos de Educación Secundaria como una mejora de las destrezas tradicionales conocidas en inglés, así como sus inconvenientes e impedimentos, se discuten a fondo en el siguiente trabajo. La representación de cómo debe ser una situación ideal para trabajar con las TICs dentro de un entorno académico, concretamente en las clases de inglés, se contrasta con las circunstancias reales, no tan idealistas. Asimismo, se explica en detalle un caso práctico llevado a cabo en un instituto de Secundaria con estudiantes de Bachillerato, con el propósito de observar la participación del alumnado, la motivación, y el compromiso con la materia utilizando las TICs que había disponibles

Skills on the Move: Rethinking the Relationship Between Human Capital and Immigrant Economic Mobility

Studies of immigrant labor market incorporation in the unregulated sector of the US economy either assume that immigrant workers are trapped in low-wage jobs because of low human capital, or paint a picture of blocked mobility because of exploitation and discrimination. In this paper we offer a third sociological alternative to understand processes of occupational mobility and skill learning. Drawing on work histories of 111 immigrant construction workers, we find that many immigrants are skilled, having come to their jobs with technical skill sets acquired in their home communities and their previous U.S. jobs. We further find that these less-educated immigrants, who rank low on traditional human capital attributes but high on work experience may circumvent exploitation and build mobility pathways through skill transference, on- the- job reskilling, and brincando (job jumping)

Accounting for Judaism in the Study of American Messianic Judaism

abstract: Since its modern renaissance in the mid-1970s, the Messianic Jewish movement in America has grown from a handful of house churches to a network of hundreds of synagogues and congregations. Mainline American Judaism has unanimously rejected the argument that Jews who believe in Jesus continue to be members of the Jewish community or that their religion is a form of contemporary Judaism. Scholars have accounted for Messianic Judaism as a new religious movement but no consensus has formed on whether to classify Messianic Jewish religion as a sectarian form of Protestant Christianity or American Judaism. This dissertation uses a polythetic approach to defining Judaism and a comparative approach to studying religions in order to make sense of Hashivenu, a newly emergent community of Messianic Jews, and the claim that their religion is “truly” Judaism and not Christianity. It addresses the question of how scholars of religion can account for Messianic Judaism in the mapping of American religion without succumbing to essentialist definitions of Judaism that religious communities use to set boundaries and differentiate themselves from competing groups. Following the lead set by Bruce Lincoln on defining religion in four domains and Michael Satlow on defining Judaism through the use of conceptual maps, research on Messianic Judaism suggests that individual beliefs about whether Jesus is or is not the Messiah or part of a Trinitarian theology are less important to the academic classificatory project than is the authorizing religious discourse of the New Testament to which all Messianic Jews, including the Hashivenu group, appeal for creating community, legitimating practice, and constructing a Messianic Jewish worldview. Since Messianic Judaism properly contributes simultaneously to maps of both Judaism and Christianity, Hashivenu’s prescriptive approach to creating Judaism out of characteristics from two historically competitive, even antithetical religious traditions challenges scholars to contend with the limitations of defining Judaism and Christianity within the parameters of an unpopular but still regnant World Religions discourse predicated on the presumption that the two religions have long ago permanently parted ways.Dissertation/ThesisDoctoral Dissertation Religious Studies 201

Arrival Cities

Exile and migration played a critical role in the diffusion and development of modernism around the globe, yet have remained largely understudied phenomena within art historiography. Focusing on the intersections of exile, artistic practice, and urban space, this volume brings together contributions by international researchers committed to revising the historiography of modern art. It pays particular attention to metropolitan areas that were settled by migrant artists in the first half of the 20th century. These arrival cities became hubs of artistic activities and transcultural contact zones where ideas circulated, collaborations emerged, and concepts developed. Taking six major cities as a starting point — Bombay (now Mumbai), Buenos Aires, Istanbul, London, New York, and Shanghai — the authors explore how urban topographies and landscapes were modified by exiled artists re-establishing their practices in these and other metropolises across the world. Questioning the established canon of Western modernism, Arrival Cities investigates how the migration of artists to different urban spaces impacted their work and the historiography of art. In doing so, it aims to encourage the discussion between scholars from different research fields, such as exile studies, art history, architectural history, design history, urban studies, and history

Escaping the honeytrap: representations and ramifications of the female spy on television since 1965

My thesis interrogates the changing nature of the espionage genre on Western television since the middle of the Cold War. It uses close textual analysis to read the progressions and regressions in the portrayal of the female spy, analyzing where her representation aligns with the achievements of the feminist movement, where it aligns with popular political culture of the time, and what happens when the two factors diverge. I ask what the female spy represents across the decades and why her image is integral to understanding the portrayal of gender on television. I explore four pairs of television shows from various eras to demonstrate the importance of the female spy to the cultural landscape. These shows represent the female spy's birth in the era of the sexual revolution, her rise as a feminist career woman, and the post-9/11 restrictions on who is allowed to serve the country. I argue that the conflation of nation and family that occurs in each show serves to elevate the primacy of the heterosexual reproductive unit, challenging the outwardly-progressive representation of the apparently feminist spy figure. Analyzed in concert, these shows reveal the conservative bent of the espionage genre despite the higher visibility of its female protagonists

Arrival Cities

The impact of migrating artists on modern art Exile and migration played a critical role in the diffusion and development of modernism around the globe, yet have remained largely understudied phenomena within art historiography. Focusing on the intersections of exile, artistic practice, and urban space, this volume brings together contributions by international researchers committed to revising the historiography of modern art. It pays particular attention to metropolitan areas that were settled by migrant artists in the first half of the 20th century. These arrival cities became hubs of artistic activities and transcultural contact zones where ideas circulated, collaborations emerged, and concepts developed. Taking six major cities as a starting point — Bombay (now Mumbai), Buenos Aires, Istanbul, London, New York, and Shanghai — the authors explore how urban topographies and landscapes were modified by exiled artists re-establishing their practices in these and other metropolises across the world. Questioning the established canon of Western modernism, Arrival Cities investigates how the migration of artists to different urban spaces impacted their work and the historiography of art. In doing so, it aims to encourage the discussion between scholars from different research fields, such as exile studies, art history, architectural history, design history, urban studies, and history. Contributors: Brian Bockelman (Ripon College), Laura Bohnenblust (Universität Bern), Margarida Brito Alves (IHA-FCSH / Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Rafael Cardoso (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro), Katarzyna Cytlak (Centro de Estudios de los Mundos Eslavos y Chinos-Universidad Nacional de San Martín), Rachel Dickson (Ben Uri Gallery and Museum), Burcu Dogramaci (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität), Margit Franz (Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz), Ya'ara Gil-Glazer (Tel-Hai Academic College), Mareike Hetschold (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität), Frauke Josenhans (Yale University Art Gallery), Daniela Kern (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul), Laura Karp Lugo (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität), Eduard Kögel (Independent scholar, Berlin), Giulia Lamoni (IHA-FCSH / Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Rachel Lee (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität), Sarah MacDougall (Ben Uri Gallery and Museum), Kathryn Milligan (University College Dublin), Partha Mitter (University of Sussex), Helene Roth (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität), Elana Shapira (Universität für Angewandte Kunst), Cristiana Tejo (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Joseph L. Underwood (Kent State University), Elvan Zabunyan (Université Rennes 2

Arrival Cities. Migrating Artists and New Metropolitan Topographies in the 20th Century

Exile and migration played a critical role in the diffusion and development of modernism around the globe, yet have remained largely understudied phenomena within art historiography. Focusing on the intersections of exile, artistic practice, and urban space, this volume brings together contributions by international researchers committed to revising the historiography of modern art. It pays particular attention to metropolitan areas that were settled by migrant artists in the first half of the 20th century. These arrival cities became hubs of artistic activities and transcultural contact zones where ideas circulated, collaborations emerged, and concepts developed. Taking six major cities as a starting point — Bombay (now Mumbai), Buenos Aires, Istanbul, London, New York, and Shanghai — the authors explore how urban topographies and landscapes were modified by exiled artists re-establishing their practices in these and other metropolises across the world. Questioning the established canon of Western modernism, Arrival Cities investigates how the migration of artists to different urban spaces impacted their work and the historiography of art. In doing so, it aims to encourage the discussion between scholars from different research fields, such as exile studies, art history, architectural history, design history, urban studies, and history

Martialing Latinidad : Latina/os re-making the military from Vietnam to the Global War on Terror, 1969-2003

This dissertation considers the political and cultural import of Latina/os within the U.S. Armed Forces over the last four decades, from the latter years of the Vietnam War (1969) to the contemporary “Global War on Terror” (GWOT), to examine the productive tensions between U.S. military expansion and liberal racial inclusion. This study examines how the cultural meaning of race, specifically Latinidad, accrued meaning for the USAF from 1969-2006. Beginning just before the creation of the All-Volunteer Force (AVF) in 1973, Department of Defense officials, responding to intense racial turmoil and accusations of discrimination by African Americans, turned their attention towards the emerging Latina/o populace. The USAF began foregrounding Latina/o desires for national belonging, racial inclusion, and social prestige into Spanish language recruitment materials and national promotional campaigns presenting the Armed Forces as a desirable site of upward mobility, cultural recognition, and enfranchised citizenship. More broadly, I suggest that centering the racial, ethnic, and juridical identity of Latina/o participants in the military offers productive ways of interrogating the project of U.S. empire and global military hegemony after 1973. Martialing Latinidad employs multi-archival research methodologies, moving between congressional hearings, oral histories, and recently de-classified records in military archives. Martialing Latinidad argues that military authorities demonstrated a surprising interest in various Latina/o social movements, turning programmatic statements by the UFW, the Young Lords, MAYO, and land grant movements into the basis of new syllabi and ethnic studies programming for officers and NCO’s. Focusing on research reports, government studies, memos, Congressional hearings, personal and official correspondence, military periodicals, and military authored race relations training guides/ teaching syllabi demonstrate the vast transformation of military policies towards Latina/os from ancillary figures to a central role in public discussion of the future of military recruitment under the AVF. Martialing Latinidad argues for the prominent place of US military recruitment efforts in establishing the emerging visibility of Latina/os as a pan-ethnic political formation.American Studie

Arrival Cities

Exile and migration played a critical role in the diffusion and development of modernism around the globe, yet have remained largely understudied phenomena within art historiography. Focusing on the intersections of exile, artistic practice, and urban space, this volume brings together contributions by international researchers committed to revising the historiography of modern art. It pays particular attention to metropolitan areas that were settled by migrant artists in the first half of the 20th century. These arrival cities became hubs of artistic activities and transcultural contact zones where ideas circulated, collaborations emerged, and concepts developed. Taking six major cities as a starting point — Bombay (now Mumbai), Buenos Aires, Istanbul, London, New York, and Shanghai — the authors explore how urban topographies and landscapes were modified by exiled artists re-establishing their practices in these and other metropolises across the world. Questioning the established canon of Western modernism, Arrival Cities investigates how the migration of artists to different urban spaces impacted their work and the historiography of art. In doing so, it aims to encourage the discussion between scholars from different research fields, such as exile studies, art history, architectural history, design history, urban studies, and history