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Teaching & Research: Learning's Twin Poles
(2nd Canadian Summit on the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning, 2006)One reason I wanted to be here today is because I have a nagging concern about the drive to incorporate research more explicitly into teaching. It’s reminiscent of the drive for "quality" education in schools, which ... -
The Teaching Imaginary: Collective Identity in a Post-Prefixed Age
(Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002)Every society up to now has attempted to give an answer to a few fundamental questions: Who are we as a collectivity? What are we for one another? Where and in what are we? What do we want; what do we desire; what are ... -
Techno, Frankenstein and copyright
(Cambridge Journals, Cambridge University Press, 2007)This essay argues that the widespread but not widely recognised adaptation of Frankenstein in contemporary dance music problematises the ‘technological’ constitution of modern copyright law as an instrument wielded by ... -
Time for a Change? The Alberta Historical Resources Act
(Legacy Magazine, 2000-01)The Alberta Historical Resources Act was a product of several well-attended hearings during 1970-71, chaired by Richard G. Forbis, a leading archaeologist and professor at the University of Calgary. Intended to preserve ... -
Time to Move Webwards
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Transatlantic Troubadours: Pete Seeger, John Hasted and the English Folk Song Revival
(The Canadian Folk Music Bulletin, 1999) -
The Truth Is That Which Runs After the Truth
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Twenty Years of Change: The Paradox of Italian-Canadian Writers
(Strange Peregrinations, 2006)The most significant development which has taken place among Italian-Canadian writers since 1986 is the great amount of writing and publication. This was not supposed to happen according to most opinions. I recall that for ... -
Two Seminal New Books: The English Traditional Ballad & Rainbow Quest
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The University, Accountability, and Market Discipline in the Late 1990s
(Electronic Journal of Sociology, 1998)The academy, like many public and private institutions before it, has been colonised by the discourses of consumerism, efficiency, and market discipline. By now it is a familiar trend and, as many countries have experienced ... -
Untranslatable Texts and Literary Problems
(Canadian Comparative Literature Association, 2021-03-01)Over the past decade, debates about the role of translations in studies focused on Comparative Literature have grown. Questions of self-translation and untranslatable texts have also been added to this discourse. The aim ... -
Vaclav Havel, Post-Modernism, and Modernity: The Implications for Adult Education in the West
(University of Saskatchewan., 1992) -
Vernacular Song, Cultural Identity, and Nationalism in Newfoundland, 1920-1955
(Canadian Folk Music/Musique folklorique canadienne, 2006)Although a force in Newfoundland politics and culture, nationalist sentiment was not strong enough in 1948 to prevent confederation with Canada. The absence among many Newfoundlanders of a strong sense of belonging to an ... -
Walking the Walk: George Elliott Clarke's Creative Practice
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"We should have brought a poetry grad student": Higher education and organised labour in The Expanse
(Red Futures, 2023-07-06)From the introduction: “'We should have brought a poetry grad student' explores class in the series in relation to both higher education and organised labour. In particular, they draw out the representation of higher ... -
The Well-being of Adults who were Raised by Grandparents.
(2013-11-09)Presented in Poster Session 12 on "Parenting and Grandparenting" at the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) 75th Conference, San Antonio, November 6-9, 2013. -
Who matters? Public history and the invention of the Canadian past
(Acadiensis, 2000)There is no longer any real dispute that the past, as distinct from traditions, is an invention based on a careful selection of apparently empirical evidence. Historians now accept that there is no "ultimate" truth; there ...