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A sociedade tem lidado com diversas mudanças que decorrem do advento e da expansão das tecnologias digitais. No bojo do que podemos chamar de cultura digital, os processos educacionais também são compelidos à ressignificação, demandando olhares críticos daqueles que pensam e fazem a educação. Esta obra, portanto, reúne contribuições de diferentes pesquisadores e pesquisadoras que, com o olhar atento às instituições e processos, da educação básica ao ensino superior, se debruçam sobre os desafios da didática e da formação docente na cultura digital.

“And in the end, hope survives ....” Sapiens is already dreading taking on the mantle of his father’s kingdom when the safe foundations of his life begin to crumble. As ancient prophecy echoes through time, Sapiens finds himself fighting to survive secrets that threaten not only to shape his future but end it. A prince who never wanted to be king. A tutor hiding dangerous truths. A woman back from the dead with a message. A unicorn brought to life for a single mission. A vengeful duke and an elf ready to burn the world down. A kingdom on the edge, caught between political unrest and otherworldly threats. And a realm hidden from mortal eyes, where words can travel miles in a whisper and dreams hold glimpses of the future. As dark magic stirs, can Sapiens protect his country, or will his destiny prove stronger than duty?

A Lei no 98/2009, de 4 de setembro, estabeleceu o regime jurídico aplicável aos acidentes de trabalho e às doenças profissionais. As presentes anotações destinam-se a auxiliar todos aqueles que, no exercício da sua profissão ou vida académica, se deparam com a necessidade de aplicar este regime jurídico a casos concretos, dando exemplos práticos referentes aos cálculos das quantias indemnizatórias e salientando a interligação entre este conjunto de normas jurídicas e outras que se mostram relevantes para a apreciação destas situações, bem como opiniões doutrinárias e decisões jurisprudenciais que contribuem para a sua interpretação.

Navigate barriers and take actional steps toward equity The principles of Cultural Proficiency have guided our drive toward equitable schools for decades. Leaders who apply this framework to scrutinize the beliefs and practices that have caused disproportionate harm to children of color and other marginalized students are frequently left with the question: "Now What?" Using their unique insights and life experiences as Latina superintendents, the authors of Now What? Confronting Uncomfortable Truths About Inequity in Schools present a guide to navigating barriers, managing differences, and creating an actionable equity plan. Readers will find: a "What Next" guide for leaders at all levels to leverage Cultural Proficiency a Culturally Proficient Leadership Rubric for promoting growth an 8-Step Process to help educators gauge status and progress of their equity plan a discussion of the impact of COVID-19 on educational transformation, as well as heightened awareness of injustice, including the Black Lives Matter movement and mistreatment of immigrant children and families Cultural Proficiency begins with us. By focusing on our beliefs and biases, and taking actionable steps, we can become more proficient at eliminating barriers.

Selected Papers from the Proceedings of the First International Conference Vilamoura, Portugal, September 3-6, 1991. The 54 papers in this volume establish the first in a series of biannual benchmarks for technologies that maximize energy conversion while minimizing undesirable emissions. Covering the entire range of industrial and transport combustion as well as strategies for energy R&D, these contributions will be useful to mechanical and chemical engineers in academia and industry, and technical personnel in military, energy and environmental agencies of government. Among topics covered in the book are: strategies: now and in the future; pulverised coal combustion; oil combustion; gas combustion; gas fired systems, biomass combustion; fluidized bed combustion; incinerators; internal combustion; engines and reaction kinetics.

Pool your collective wisdom in support of your English learners! English Learners (ELs) and multilingual learners (MLs) have double the work of their English-speaking peers as they are required to master language and content simultaneously. To support this dynamic academic and language development process, all teachers need to have an understanding of language acquisition and EL/ML-specific methodologies along with offering social-emotional support to ELs/MLs and work in tandem with each other. Bestselling authors Andrea Honigsfeld and Maria G. Dove have returned with this new resource that complements and expands on their previous titles on co-teaching and collaboration by addressing collaborative planning in greater depth. Co-planning is positioned as the first step toward integrative language and content instruction as regular and purposeful collaboration ensures that Els/MLs have access to core content. Key features include: • Practical, step-by-step guidance to starting and sustaining collaborative planning for integrated language, literacy, and social-emotional development • An array of checklists, templates, and protocols for immediate implementation • Snapshots from the Field provide real-life examples of co-planning in action • Beautiful full-color design with original sketch notes to bring concepts to life • QR codes that link to author interviews elaborating on key ideas This substantial guide will assist novice and seasoned educators alike in their move away from isolated practices and help them engage in collaborative planning and professional dialogue about asset-based, best practices for ELs/MLs.

In October 1781, American independence was achieved on the battlefields of Yorktown, Virginia--a glorious event that the Continental Congress determined was worthy of a monument. Moving at the speed of government, it took one hundred years to act on this resolution. In that time, Yorktown had to come to terms with its role as a site of preservation rather than a center of industry or commerce. The story of the development and preservation of The Monument to Alliance and Victory at Yorktown is a tangle of government, military, artists, historians and forces of nature. Local author Maria Hepner explores the story of this monument and the town that surrounds it.

Your Greatest Assets are Right Before Your Eyes: Your Multilingual Learners! Equity for multilingual learners (MLLs) means that students’ cultural and linguistic identities, backgrounds, and experiences are recognized as valued, rich sources of knowledge and their academic, linguistic, literacy, and social–emotional growth is ensured to the fullest potential. This ready-to-use guide offers practical, classroom-level strategies for educators seeking thoughtful, research-informed, and accessible information on how to champion equity for MLLs in a post-COVID era. Focused on the deliberate daily actions that all teachers of multilingual learners can take, this resource guide captures a compelling advocacy framework for culturally and linguistically responsive equity work, including Authentic examples of how educators understand and support MLLs through an equity lens Student portraits of multilingual learners’ experiences Accessible answers to essential how-to questions Robust professional learning activities Access to print and online resources for additional information Thoughtful probes throughout the guide help teachers develop student agency and foster pathways in their own practice and communication with multilingual learners.

Carolina Marconi è una criminologa di fama internazionale ma con un passato. L''ultimo caso, seguito tre anni addietro negli States, l''ha quasi uccisa - a causa di una leggerezza commessa in parte dai media, in parte da lei stessa e dalla sua squadra. Dopo il fatto, decide di tornare a casa, a Varese, e ritirarsi a fare vita principalmente accademica. Ma la sua professione l''ha spesso posta davanti a scelte non facili. Quando scopre che il cadavere decapitato e stuprato che hanno ritrovato in provincia – Daniela Federici - potrebbe non essere un caso isolato, sente il dovere di andare a parlarne con il Questore, Carmine Cottarelli, suo amico di gioventù. Insieme a Carolina, anche l''agente Sergio De Angelis ha questo sospetto. Cottarelli decide, appoggiato dal PM Cantoreggi, di affidarle l''incarico di verifica, mettendole De Angelis a disposizione. Carolina dovrà affrontare i suoi fantasmi. Tra chi parla con la stampa senza averne diritto e una serie di indizi che porteranno più vicino all''assassino, la criminologa e l''agente provano a dipanare il mistero prima che il serial killer torni a colpire.

Por muitos anos, os conhecimentos neurocientíficos desenvolveram-se paralelamente aos do campo da educação, bem como os seus respectivos avanços tecnológicos. A aproximação entre estes saberes é bem recente e vem se mostrando útil e necessária para ambas as áreas. De fato, a educação precisa das bases neurofisiológicas, que se encontram associadas aos processos de aprendizagem humano. Por outro lado, a neurociência necessita compreender sobre o modo como se dá o processo de aprendizagem e, as técnicas que embasam tal processo. Tal integração é promissora e abre novas perspectivas a respeito dos transtornos de aprendizagem, do aprimoramento de métodos para um ensino ainda mais eficiente, bem como de uma atuação profissional consistente com as mais atuais informações sobre o funcionamento cerebral. A formação de professores, pedagogos e educadores mostrou-se incompleta. Por isso, em vários cursos de graduação, disciplinas associadas com as neurociências estão sendo oferecidas. Do mesmo modo, neurocientistas se interessaram pelas ciências humanas e têm estabelecido um produtivo diálogo com educadores, fundamentados em uma concepção humanizada e, também dialética, respectivamente, sobre os processos cognitivos, que sustentam a aprendizagem e sobre as relações entre mente e cérebro. Na psicologia, também se estuda como a mente e o comportamento interagem e de que forma estruturam e são influenciados pelos processos cognitivos. Assim, há uma convergência de disciplinas em que se investiga, por meio do método científico as associações e complexas inter-relações entre mente, cérebro e comportamento (normal ou patológico). Um outro traço em comum entre elas é o fato de que, as questões pesquisadas surgiram há muitos séculos atrás, com os filósofos da antiguidade. Por isso, a importância da história, assim como das relações sociais, com base em uma compreensão abrangente e humana. É sob este enfoque multi e interdisciplinar que este livro se originou. Nele se encontram autores e abordagens teóricas consistentes com esta perspectiva do ser humano.

Fruto das pesquisas, diálogos e vivências dos integrantes da linha de Pesquisa Educação, Filosofia e Formação Humana do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação (PPGE) da Universidade Nove de Julho (UNINOVE), este livro propõe-se a visitar os vários cenários formativos que fazem parte do cotidiano escolar e acadêmico. Entre processos, lugares e relações, vão-se formando as "turas": tessituras, rupturas, leituras e estruturas, que indicam caminhos para a aprendizagem, a descoberta e o conhecimento, elementos imprescindíveis no processo formativo. Distribuída em quatro partes, a obra assim se apresenta: (1) Tessituras: introduzimos este ponto com a reflexão sobre o processo de coisificação dos seres humanos provocado pelo uso excessivo de siglas no cotidiano, feito principalmente por instituições públicas e privadas. Para os autores, esta linguagem pode provocar massificação e fragmentação dos sujeitos, dificultando ao humano se perceber como humano. Na sequência, temos o relato das experiências simbólicas vivenciadas pelos alunos da pós-graduação em Educação no chamado "dia do cultivo", prática inspirada a partir do pensamento complexo de Edgar Morin. Os autores descrevem como é possível cultivar uma consciência valorativa, de preservação dos espaços culturais, o fortalecimento dos vínculos afetivos do grupo, que colabora a refletir e entender as ações praticadas no cotidiano, abrindo novos caminhos para a vida. Por fim, partindo de uma análise criativa sobre a família Silvassauro, da série televisiva estadunidense dos anos 1990, o texto desenvolve uma crítica sobre paradigmas e padrões sociais que atingem, sobretudo, a juventude. Com isso, são tratados diversos temas ligados à Filosofia, como por exemplo: autonomia, escolha, família e amizade. (2) Rupturas: o texto inicial analisa a implementação das práticas restaurativas para prevenção e combate ao bullying no ambiente escolar. Utilizando-se de um estudo de caso em uma escola da capital paulista, as autoras destacam que o bullying impede o desenvolvimento pleno da criança e do adolescente, sendo uma forma de violência que fere a dignidade humana. Neste cenário, a cultura da paz e as práticas restaurativas são entendidas como propostas para o combate a tal realidade. Em seguida, temos um estudo sobre o adoecimento dos docentes, que devido a isto acabam faltando ou mesmo se afastando permanentemente do trabalho. As autoras utilizam-se do portal da Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) para fazer um levantamento, das pesquisas que abordaram a saúde e o adoecimento dos professores nos últimos 20 anos, ressaltando as principais causas verificadas por meio dessas pesquisas e que contribuições a universidade pode oferecer hoje em dia. O artigo que finaliza esta parte indica que a noção de morte não é abordada de forma clara na Educação, como se faz na Filosofia, na religião e na Biologia. A partir das ideias da psicóloga Maria Julia Kovács, os autores argumentam sobre a necessidade de uma "educação para a morte" para os profissionais da área de Ciências Humanas. (3) Estruturas: o estudo introdutório argumenta que as organizações não governamentais (ONGs) destacam-se como sendo lugar de referência para os adolescentes nos mais variados aspectos, para sua formação e desenvolvimento humano. O texto tem como objetivo elucidar a educação que acontece nesses ambientes não escolares, tendo como alicerce uma investigação realizada em três ONGs da capital e Grande São Paulo nos anos de 2018 e 2019, bem como um levantamento de artigos produzidos nos últimos cinco anos, disponíveis no portal de periódicos da Capes.

This note describes a new method of accounting for funding agreement-backed securities (FABS) in the Financial Accounts of the United States.

Winner of the 2020 Robert E. Park Award for Best Book from the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association Winner of the 2020 Distinguished Contribution to Research Award from the Latino/a Section of the American Sociological Association Honorable Mention for the 2020 Thomas and Znaniecki Award from the International Migration Section of the American Sociological Associationu200bu200bu200bu200bu200bu200bu200b A quarter of young adults in the U.S. today are the children of immigrants, and Latinos are the largest minority group. In Stagnant Dreamers, sociologist and social policy expert María Rendón follows 42 young men from two high-poverty Los Angeles neighborhoods as they transition into adulthood. Based on in-depth interviews and ethnographic observations with them and their immigrant parents, Stagnant Dreamers describes the challenges they face coming of age in the inner city and accessing higher education and good jobs, and demonstrates how family-based social ties and community institutions can serve as buffers against neighborhood violence, chronic poverty, incarceration, and other negative outcomes. Neighborhoods in East and South Central Los Angeles were sites of acute gang violence that peaked in the 1990s, shattering any romantic notions of American life held by the immigrant parents. Yet, Rendón finds that their children are generally optimistic about their life chances and determined to make good on their parents’ sacrifices. Most are strongly oriented towards work. But despite high rates of employment, most earn modest wages and rely on kinship networks for labor market connections. Those who made social connections outside of their family and neighborhood contexts, more often found higher quality jobs. However, a middle-class lifestyle remains elusive for most, even for college graduates. Rendón debunks fears of downward assimilation among second-generation Latinos, noting that most of her subjects were employed and many had gone on to college. She questions the ability of institutions of higher education to fully integrate low-income students of color. She shares the story of one Ivy League college graduate who finds himself working in the same low-wage jobs as his parents and peers who did not attend college. Ironically, students who leave their neighborhoods to pursue higher education are often the most exposed to racism, discrimination, and classism. Rendón demonstrates the importance of social supports in helping second-generation immigrant youth succeed. To further the integration of second-generation Latinos, she suggests investing in community organizations, combating criminalization of Latino youth, and fully integrating them into higher education institutions. Stagnant Dreamers presents a realistic yet hopeful account of how the Latino second generation is attempting to realize its vision of the American dream.

Cohan, Honigsfeld, and Dove bring together current research, authentic examples of best practices, and voices from the field to champion the power of purposeful collaboration and provide educators with resources that will empower them to support English learners (ELs) and their families. Guided by four core principles (common purpose, shared mindset, diverse team membership, supportive environment), the authors explain how to meet the challenges of collaborating with ELs and help all stakeholders—administrators, teachers, students, parents, community leaders—develop new and effective ways of working together for the success of each learner.

It was a dark and stormy night in Santa Barbara. January 19, 2017. The next day’s inauguration drumroll played on the evening news. Huddled around a table were nine Corwin authors and their publisher, who together have devoted their careers to equity in education. They couldn’t change the weather, they couldn’t heal a fractured country, but they did have the power to put their collective wisdom about EL education upon the page to ensure our multilingual learners reach their highest potential. Proudly, we introduce you now to the fruit of that effort: Breaking Down the Wall: Essential Shifts for English Learners’ Success. In this first-of-a-kind collaboration, teachers and leaders, whether in small towns or large urban centers, finally have both the research and the practical strategies to take those first steps toward excellence in educating our culturally and linguistically diverse children. It’s a book to be celebrated because it means we can throw away the dark glasses of deficit-based approaches and see children who come to school speaking a different home language for what they really are: learners with tremendous assets. The authors’ contributions are arranged in nine chapters that become nine tenets for teachers and administrators to use as calls to actions in their own efforts to realize our English learners’ potential: 1. From Deficit-Based to Asset-Based 2. From Compliance to Excellence 3. From Watering Down to Challenging 4. From Isolation to Collaboration 5. From Silence to Conversation 6. From Language to Language, Literacy, and Content 7. From Assessment of Learning to Assessment for and as Learning 8. From Monolingualism to Multilingualism 9. From Nobody Cares to Everyone/Every Community Cares Read this book; the chapters speak to one another, a melodic echo of expertise, classroom vignettes, and steps to take. To shift the status quo is neither fast nor easy, but there is a clear process, and it’s laid out here in Breaking Down the Wall. To distill it into a single line would go something like this: if we can assume mutual ownership, if we can connect instruction to all children’s personal, social, cultural, and linguistic identities, then all students will achieve.

This interdisciplinary book is written for government and industry professionals who need a comprehensive, accessible guide to modern energy security. Introducing the ten predominant energy types, both renewable and non-renewable, the book illustrates the modern energy landscape from a geopolitical, commercial, economic and technological perspective. Energy is presented as the powerhouse of global economic activities. To ensure the uninterrupted supply of energy, nations, industries and consumers need to have options. Efficient energy security planning ensures that when a primary energy source is depleted, compromised or interrupted, an alternative energy source must be readily available. For this reason, the foundations of energy security are built upon the five pillars of Sustainability, Independence, Efficiency, Affordability and Accessibility. The numerous case studies presented in this book demonstrate that energy security may be compromised in the absence of one out of these five ingredients. The book also entertains the Triple-E notion of Energy Efficiency, Environmental integrity and Economies of scale, used by governments and corporations for energy optimization. One of the key strengths of the book is its ability effectively to cover various scientific disciplines, and several energy types, while remaining comprehensible. This book will be of much interest to security or logistics professionals, economists and engineers, as well as policymakers.

Have you been trying to celebrate holidays in your Spanish classes? Are you a parent looking for a way to practice Spanish vocabulary related to holidays with your children at home? This book, "Estaciones y Celebraciones 4" (Seasons and Celebrations 4) can help you! You and your students/children can learn about and enjoy winter holidays celebrated in the United States and Spanish-speaking countries. The book begins with an activity that introduces students to winter and its related Spanish vocabulary. Then, holidays are presented in order, including their history, flash cards to introduce Spanish vocabulary, a detailed description of the activities or games, and their worksheets or patterns.

Looking for a silver bullet to accelerate EL achievement? There is none. But this, we promise: when EL specialists and general ed teachers pool their expertise, your ELs’ language development and content mastery will improve exponentially. Just ask the tens of thousands of Collaboration and Co-Teaching users and now, a new generation of educators, thanks to this all-new second edition: Collaborating for English Learners. Why this new edition? Because more than a decade of implementation has generated for Andrea Honigsfeld and Maria Dove new insight into what exemplary teacher collaboration looks like, which essential frameworks must be established, and how integrated approaches to ELD services benefit all stakeholders. Essentially a roadmap to the many different ways we can all work together, this second edition of Collaborating for English Learners features: All-new examples, case studies, illustrative video, and policy updates In-depth coverage of the full range of strategies and configurations for determining the best model to adopt Templates, planning guides, and other practical tools to put collaboration into practice Guidelines, self-assessments, and questionnaires for evaluating the strategies’ effectiveness By this time, the big benefits of teacher collaboration are well documented. Where teachers and schools struggle still is determining the best way to do so, especially when working with our ELs. That’s where Andrea Honigsfeld, Maria Dove, and their second edition of Collaborating for English Learners will prove absolutely indispensable. After all, there are no two better authorities.

We are all happy and grateful for Santa’s existence. Every Christmas Eve he sneaks into people’s houses and leaves gifts under their Christmas trees. That’s really amazing, isn’t it? Yes, it is, but do you know how he came to do this every Christmas? Before things were as we know them now, lots of other things occurred that helped Santa to be able to make all these amazing gifts for us at Christmas. Even though Santa has lots of magic, one person’s magic is not always good enough to make all the things happen. Sometimes help is required. It can be magic too, or it can be simple help from normal beings. Let’s discover the story of sharing gifts at Christmas and how Santa met Rudolph.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

With 80 percent of the world’s commodities being transported by water, ports are the pillars of the global economy. Port Management and Operations offers readers the opportunity to enhance their strategic thinking and problem-solving skills, while developing market foresight. It examines global port management practices at the regulatory, commercial, technological, operational, financial, and sociopolitical levels. This powerful sourcebook describes how seaports are being affected by the changes occurring nationally, regionally, and globally. Evaluating the new regulatory framework, it pinpoints the industry’s implementation readiness and identifies potential problem areas. The book classifies the spectrum of interrelated port management principles, strategies, and activities in a logical sequence and under four cornerstones—Port Strategy and Structure, Legal and Regulatory Framework, Input: Factors of Production, and Output and Economic Framework. Detailing best practices and the latest industry developments, the book highlights emerging challenges for port managers and identifies opportunities to develop forward-thinking strategies. It examines the effectiveness of current strategies, tactics, tools, and resources of numerous global ports and highlights the necessity of adopting a proactive stance in harmonizing the laws, regulations, and policies pertaining to the maritime, oil, and gas industries. The shipping industry has myriad complexities and this book provides maritime managers and professionals with the wide-ranging and up-to-date understanding required to thrive in today’s highly competitive and evolving environment.

This pioneering book is the first to present the postwar phenomenon of the New York Group of Ukrainian émigré poets as a case study for exploring cultural and aesthetic ramifications of exile. It focuses on the poets'' diasporic and transnational connections both with their country of origin and their adopted homelands, underscoring the group''s role in the shaping of the cultural and literary image of Ukraine abroad. Displacements, forced or voluntary, engender states of alterity, states of living in-between, living in the interstices of different cultures and different linguistic realities. The poetry of the founding members of the New York Group reflects these states admirably. The poets accepted their exilic condition with no grudges and nurtured the link with their homeland via texts written in the mother tongue. This account of the group''s output and legacy will appeal to all those eager to explore the poetry of East European nations and to those interested in larger cultural contexts for the development of European modernisms.

Physiology in extreme conditions can reveal important reactions of the human body, which help our assessment of limits emerging under healthy conditions and critical signals of transition toward disease. While many mechanisms could simply be associated with adaptations, others refer to unexpected reactions in response to internal stimuli and/or external abrupt changes.

Ogni mio libro ha preso forma da un piccolo impulso originario: un''immagine particolarmente intensa, uno scambio di battute particolarmente efficace, un brano musicale particolarmente evocativo. "La Sottana della Vergine" non fa eccezione. Si è in pratica costruito attorno a una frase (la leggerete alla fine del libro). Sempre come al solito, i personaggi hanno fatto un po'' quel che volevo io e un po'' quel che volevano loro stessi; ogni tanto uno/a di loro irrompeva nella mia mente per strillare con indignazione: "Ti pare che IO potrei dire la tal cosa o agire in quella maniera?" Così, dovevamo negoziare. Inoltre, io dovevo negoziare la mia scrittura, la mia ispirazione e i tempi relativi con una situazione personale assai difficile. E l''atto del negoziare, del discutere insieme delle esigenze e dei problemi di ciascuno è diventato un altro fulcro del romanzo. Siamo su una Terra futura, salvata in apparenza dall''autodistruzione dall''intervento di una razza aliena che "adatta" biologicamente il pianeta per potervi vivere. Agli esseri umani è offerta la scelta di ibridarsi per condividere quelli che sono divenuti spazi inospitali o di sopravvivere in piccole nicchie separate dal resto. La struttura sociale che gli umani ricreano per se stessi, nell''assoluta indifferenza degli alieni, è altrettanto compartimentalizzata e strettamente gerarchica. Le varie aggregazioni in essa presenti interagiscono in modo assai conflittuale. La vicenda si snoda attorno a un personaggio che sta al punto più basso della scala sociale, uno "schiavo sessuale" e mutante genetico il cui comportamento è controllato nei mimini dettagli e persino a livello chimico e i cui tentativi di sfuggire a precetti basati su violenza e pregiudizi sembrano destinati al fallimento in modo inevitabile. Un Signor Nessuno per eccellenza, privo di talenti specifici, di aspettative, di sogni... e quasi privo di desideri, tranne quello di incontrare di nuovo "l''alieno" in cui si è imbattuto per caso anni prima. Ma sarà un desiderio che cambierà la Storia.

Winner of the 2019 Omeljan Pritsak Book Prize in Ukrainian Studies. Ukraine''s Quest for Identity: Embracing Cultural Hybridity in Literary Imagination, 1991–2011 is the first study that looks at the literary process in post-independence Ukraine comprehensively and attempts to draw the connection between literary production and identity construction. In its quest for identity Ukraine has followed a path similar to other postcolonial societies, the main characteristics of which include a slow transition, hybridity, and identities negotiated on the center-periphery axis. This monograph concentrates on major works of literature produced during the first two decades of independence and places them against the background of clearly identifiable contexts such as regionalism, gender issues, language politics, social ills, and popular culture. It also shows that Ukrainian literary politics of that period privileges the plurality and hybridity of national and cultural identities. By engaging postcolonial discourse and insisting that literary production is socially instituted, Maria G. Rewakowicz explores the reasons behind the tendency toward cultural hybridity and plural identities in literary imagination. Ukraine’s Quest for Identity will appeal to all those keen to study cultural, social and political ramifications of the collapse of the Soviet empire in Eastern Europe and beyond.

This book offers a detailed explanation of co-teaching which has been embraced by many as a particularly powerful strategy for serving English Learners.