It is important to begin this essay with a note about language. The international scope of Quintilian studies is evidenced by the number of European languages used to discuss him—German, French, Sp...

This article presents an innovative manner to supplement history and foreign language classes with a 3D modeling of ancient Rome by the widely played video game Minecraft. Assuming the persona of an ancient architect, students select a building, research it in primary a...

Jusque dans les années 1950, les hommes noirs de Montréal travaillaient pour des compagnies ferroviaires comme porteurs et employés de wagons-lits et de wagons-restaurants. La communauté anglophone noire de la ville s’était installée dans le quartier de la Petite Bourgo...

This article provides a detailed analysis of the data from a range of official sources that have been used to enumerate the number of people who can be described as totally or functionally illiterate and estimates whether illiteracy in South Africa can be reduced in the...

A growing body of research literature indicates that writing retreats for academics are conducive for the development of writer confidence and competence, and for increasing participants’ rate of research publication. Can writing retreats also restore a sense of communi...

An introductory Astronomy survey course is often taken to satisfy a college graduation requirement for non-science majors at colleges around the United States. In this course, material that can be broadly categorized into topics related to "the sky", "the Solar System",...

AbstractBy the end of the nineteenth century, the relationship between the state, language and schooling had become extremely close: a state was supposed to be “national”, and a real nation was supposed to be monolingual. Following the literature on nation-building, it ...