Internationalisation, indigenisation and educational research in China.
Intimations of globality are challenging old ways of doing things in the social sciences. The new phase of reflexive thinking has seen many turning their thoughts to indigenous thinking. Within today's world of knowledge, one pressing task is to capture as many voices as possible to reaffirm a moral...

ESL Library Skills: an information literacy program for adults with low levels of English literacy.
This paper introduces the ESL Information Literacy Project (ESLILP) at the University of Ballarat. It describes the development, implementation and evaluation of a library orientation course designed in a TAFE context for adult, non-academic students who speak English as a Second Language (ESL). The paper seeks to raise awareness...

Pensions at work; socially responsible investment of union-based pension funds.
9780802093103 Pensions at work; socially responsible investment of union-based pension funds. Ed. by Jack Quarter et al. U. of Toronto Press 2008 291 pages $75.00 Hardcover HD7105 The editors (all of...

East & West: textiles and fashion in early modern Europe.
Fashion underpinned the 4ommercial growth and cultural transformation of western society. (1) From at least the sixteenth century, fashion's demotic stimuliunleashed desires across European social ranks. Never just a folly, fashion was integral to the expression of consumer preference, the structuring of markets and the reordering of society. Its...

Father of neoconservatives: nowadays, the truest disciples of the liberal theologian Reinhold Niebuhr are conservatives.
This is the one-hundredth year (centesimus annus) since the birth of Reinhold Niebuhr. There is no one on the Christian Left who fills his shoes today. Indeed, a significant number of Christians who have become disillusioned with the Left (as Niebuhr was with "liberals" in his time) call him...

Oxford Illustrated History of Christianity.
Mr. Aeschliman is a lecturer in English literature at the University of Virginia. ALTHOUGH he could not finish his studies there because of poverty, Dr. Johnson later remarked that Oxford University was "a monument to the excellence of the Christian tradition." The beautifully produced Oxford Illustrated History...

Social Science and Humanities Research Council: 613-992-0691.
Daniel Grace, Aileen D. Ross Fellowship to pursue his doctoral work at the University of Victoria on women's social networks in South India, which are destigmatizing issues such as HIV/AIDS. $10,000 Augmentative Communication Community Partnerships-Canada, Toronto, ON. $178,644 BC Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres, Victoria, BC. $130,500...

Social Science and Humanities Research Council.
613-992-0691 Emanuela Cardia, Universite de Montreal. Effects of technology, institutions and policies on households and women's labor market decisions. $45,000 Ellen B. Moss, Universite du Quebec a Montreal et al. Attachment and school performance at early adolescence: a longitudinal study. $165,000 Josiane Le...

Different majors--different epistemological beliefs?
Abstract The development of epistemological beliefs and connected intellectual development are key functions of education and the last years showed an increase in research of how epistemological beliefs can get scaffolded by instruction. At the same time learning science as a discipline moves away from a General...

Models of Institutional Resource Allocation Mission, Market, and Gender.
In an era when expansion is no longer the obvious solution for dealing with curricular change in research universities, the question of how and why institutions allocate resources among departments, the organizational units that deliver curricula, should become increasingly important. Resource constraint has caused widespread restructuring in public research...