Last week, we asked the editors of Reflections on the Learning Sciences how to leverage digital media to create innovative environments This week, we ask: What are some misconceptions about learning sciences? Participants: Michael A. Evans, North Carolina State University Martin J. Packer, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia R. Keith Sawyer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Michael A. […]
Read MoreIn Discourse on Leadership, I identify a 1977 article by Harvard psychologist Abraham Zaleznik as a seminal work in our interpretation of leadership. Leaders, he argued, are folks who “develop fresh approaches to long-standing problems and open issues for new options.” In their disinclination to be constrained by the status quo, they are generators of […]
Read MoreWe find out more about the recent Japanese translation of The Cambridge History of Canadian Literature. You can also read this interview with editors Coral Ann Howells and Eva-Marie Kröller about the original motivations for the Cambridge History.
Read MoreChristoph Kalter is the author of a new book,The Discovery of the Third World,which charts the parallel emergence of the 'Third World' concept and a new radical Left in France. In this article, he explores how the Third World concept has changed through history and what it means today.
Read MoreTim Dixon, author of Curbing Catastrophe is a Professor of Geology and Geophysics at the University of South Florida, In his second blog Tim considers the relative risk of Terrorist attacks
Read More*The views expressed here are those of Sara Bannerman in her capacity as a guest blogger and do not represent the views of Cambridge University Press or the University of Cambridge.* In September, the Delhi High Court handed down a groundbreaking judgement dismissing Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and other academic publishers’ copyright […]
Read MoreRichard Sobel, author of Citizenship as Foundation of Rights (2016) discusses immigration and the 2016 election.
Read MoreAlex J. Kay explores the victim mentality of one of Hitler's most radical henchmen.
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