Aforismos

From the beginning of the sixties, Mary Kelly's works have dealth with the muddle of the language and its cultural and psychological impact. Her narrative installations question the traditional explanations of the daily life. The project The ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi comes up in 1999 after reading a piece of news published in a daily in Los Angeles, a report relating the story of Kastriot, an Albanian boy whose mother left for dead during the war in Kosovo, being rescued alive by the Serbians afterwards to meet his parents later on in good health. Based on these facts, Mary Kelly made this...

Quality assurance has been a major issue in Higher Education discourse during the past decade. Evaluations, accreditations and assessments have almost become standard procedures within the framework of translation studies. This quest for quality has not only to integrate market needs and new market requirements, but also novel strategies in training - whereby training learners and trainers has to be given equal attention. Translation quality has become a key issue in the interlinguistic and intercultural communication market as well as in the translator education environment. It has to be...

"'Genius Hour' is a name for a movement in education where students are allowed to regularly use a portion of class time to learn about whatever they want in school. Bringing "Genius Hour" to Your School Library is meant to provide information pertaining to elementary and secondary school librarians, guidance on how to initiate and manage a school-wide Passion Project program in the library, and develop the solidly coherent, meaningful library program"--

Los acontecimientos que se produjeron en Salem, Massachusetts, en 1692, durante los cuales casi doscientas personas fueron acusadas de practicar la brujería, y que terminaron con la ejecución de varios inocentes, son una manifestación perversa del pánico de las autoridades ante la pérdida de poder y su empeño por restaurarlo. Lo que empezó siendo un juego de niñas terminó convirtiéndose en un instrumento para hacer volver a los colonos al redil de la fe y las buenas costumbres, estableciendo una suerte de imperio del terror. El paralelismo entre Salem y los albores de la Guerra...