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21 Feb 2022
"An opportunity is simply a possibility, but a crucial point in time that signifies the beginning of change demands action. It demands urgency for adaptation or change. In this particular crisis it demands adaptation on a global scale."
#IAFOR #COVID19
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16 Nov 2018
Read in THINK: “What Peace Linguistics can do is to make us more sensitive to the ways in which some of the most powerful people in the world use language to manipulate people, spreading fear and hate, based on myriad lies.” #PresidentTrump
Now published in @ThinkIAFOR, Dr Andy Curtis unpicks the linguistic quirks of Donald Trump. He describes how the 45th President of the United States uses "the language of lies" for manipulation.
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#Trump #IAFOR #linguistics #manipulation #TESOL #DonaldTrump
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24 Aug 2018
In THINK: Dr Katie Fitzpatrick discusses Thoreau’s rare moral vision in his essay ‘On the Duty of Civil Disobedience’. Yet according to Fitzpatrick, it's Arendt’s account of the practice of civil disobedience that is ultimately more promising. #protest think.iafor.org/change-the-w…
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17 Aug 2018
Dr Paul Lowe opines in THINK:
“Photographs are temporal objects, they project forwards and backwards; they re-present the past into the present.” #IAFOR #photojournalism #documentaryphotography think.iafor.org/testimonies-…
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10 Aug 2018
From Daniel Reast in THINK: “US satire wants to change things, whereas the British know that nothing ever will change”. #TV #comedy #humour #goldenage #Netflix think.iafor.org/us-televisio…
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8 May 2018
In THINK, Sara Legrandjacques discusses Vietnam's tertiary education, its historical legacy, and how this has impacted Vietnamese higher education from the colonial period to the present day. #Colonial #Vietnam #VNU #Education think.iafor.org/to-hanoi-uni…
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23 Feb 2018
In THINK, Edward Kolla, a historian at Georgetown University, Qatar, discusses self-determination, as well as the controversy it can engender, and its links back to the French Revolution. #REVOLUTION #history #rights think.iafor.org/the-french-r…
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19 Feb 2018
Less than two weeks left to send in your submission! #haikupoem #words #haikus #creativewriting #prose x.com/IAFORHaikuAward/status…
19 Feb 2018
Have you sent in your entry to this year's IAFOR Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award yet? Submissions close: March 1
#haiku #poetry #japan #haikuaward
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2 Feb 2018
"While sleep-learning, also referred to as hypnopaedia, has been debunked, neuroscientists in my lab and others are now discovering ways to use stimuli such as sound cues during sleep to strengthen memories." #sleep think.iafor.org/how-sound-an…
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27 Jan 2018
Read Volume 3 – Issue 2 of the IAFOR Journal of Language Learning. #secondlanguage #students #classroom #TEFL #Linguistics x.com/iafor/status/956041880…
IAFOR Journal of Language Learning: Volume 3 – Issue 2 now published. Thanks to Guest Editor, Dr Bernard Montoneri. #Languages #Education #LanguageLearning #EFL #multilingual iafor.org/journal/iafor-jour…
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20 Jan 2018
"The American model of hard-boiled fiction has been enormously influential around the world ... There are, no doubt, thickets of fictional detectives gumshoeing the streets of every city on Earth." #fiction #Rankin #SherlockHolmes think.iafor.org/crime-fictio…
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29 Nov 2017
"Is it really important to know that booty is funnier than hooter? The answer is a resounding yes. People often say that laughter is the best medicine, but medicine for what?" #Psychology #humour #Freud #Plato think.iafor.org/porridge-is-…
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6 Oct 2017
"Documentary journalism: The preeminent home for investigative journalism in our modern era." #MesAynak think.iafor.org/brent-e-huff…
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2 Oct 2017
The IAFOR Vladimir Devidé Haiku Award, now in its eighth year, is open for submissions. Have you started writing yours yet? #poetry #haiku x.com/IAFORHaikuAward/status…
2 Oct 2017
We're delighted to announce that the IAFOR Vladimir Devidé #Haiku Award is now accepting submissions: iaforhaikuaward.org/ #haikucontest
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28 Sep 2017
"The #comedy of discrimination made fun of separations in British #society and was as a marker of #identity" #UKTV
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14 Sep 2017
“Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica have come a long way since their debuts in the 1960s and 1970s.” #StarTrek think.iafor.org/star-trek-ba…
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7 Sep 2017
“Teacher is almighty God, Tsar and Ruler. Student is a humble believer, a subordinate, a slave.” #language #russia think.iafor.org/the-three-ba…
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4 Sep 2017
Read Volume 5 Issue 2 of the IAFOR Journal of #Education #highereducation #ICT #adultlearning #narrativeidentity iafor.org/journal/iafor-jour… x.com/iafor/status/904516237…
IAFOR Journal of #Education Volume 5 Issue 2 now published #highereducation #ict #teachers Thanks to Ed Dr Montoneri iafor.org/journal/iafor-jour…
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29 Aug 2017
Kenneth Houston & Jason Briggs on (re-)interpreting US & UK domestic-international politics #populism #globalization think.iafor.org/interpreting…
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