A bimonthly magazine for the learners of English at intermediate and upper intermediate levels. Some articles accompanied by audio. All texts followed by wordlists. Features current events, culture, biographies, ecology, travel, and leisure.
With applications throughout the social sciences, culture and psychology is a rapidly growing field that has experienced a surge in publications over the last decade. From this proliferation of books, chapters, and journal articles, exciting developments have emerged in the relationship of culture to cognitive processes, human development, psychopathology, social behavior, organizational behavior, neuroscience, language, marketing, and other topics. In recognition of this exponential growth, Advances in Culture and Psychology is the first annual series to offer state-of-the-art reviews of scholarly research in the growing field of culture and psychology.
In this companion course to Famous Greeks, Professor Fears retells the lives of the remarkable individuals, the statesmen, thinkers, warriors, and writers, who shaped the history of the Roman Empire and, by extension, our own history and culture. 24 lectures of 30 minutes - 150 mb - mp3 REUPLOAD NEEDED
24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture) Taught by Lloyd Kramer University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Ph.D., Cornell University
With this sequel to his recent series on European Thought and Culture in the 19th Century, Professor Lloyd Kramer introduces the major intellectual themes and debates that decisively shaped 20th-century European culture and which still define our world today. An award-winning teacher at The University of North Carolina, Professor Kramer's approach is incisive, balanced, and scrupulously fair. REUPLOAD NEEDED
Implementing Cross-Culture Pedagogies: Cooperative Learning at Confucian Heritage Cultures
During the last two decades Confucian heritage culture countries have widely promoted teaching and learning reforms to advance their educational systems. To skip the painfully long research stage, Confucian heritage culture educators have borrowed Western philosophies and practices with the assumption that what has been done successfully in the West will produce similar outcomes in the East. The wide importation of cooperative learning practices to Confucian heritage culture classrooms recently is an example. However, cooperative learning has been documented in many studies not to work effectively in Confucian heritage culture classrooms.
24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture) Taught by Lloyd Kramer
