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Bienvenue dans la machine: enseigner à l'ère numérique (Collection Polémos)
Par Eric Martin. 2023
La présence croissante du numérique dans l'enseignement a des impacts négatifs majeurs, alertent deux professeurs de philosophie. Dans une critique…
sans concession de l'informatisation de 'école, Bienvenue dans la machine en expose les risques très préoccupants sur les élèves, les étudiant.e.s, les profs et les systèmes scolaires, notamment au niveau cognitif et social des jeunes. L'offensive numérique à l'école met à mal l'autonomie des enseignant.e.s et nous mène vers la dissolution des institutions d'enseignement comme lieux de transmission du savoir et de la culture. Devant une école qui sert avant tout à former du "capital humain", ce cri d'alarme est un éloge du métier de professeurDe l'amour des étranges chevaux (Poésie)
Par Nathalie Handal. 2023
Une des grandes voix de la poésie contemporaine palestinienne, Nathalie Handal invoque la sensualité et le désir dans De l'amour…
des étranges chevaux. Ancrée dans les mythes et la musique de la Méditerranée, la poésie de Handal dessine l'amour à la fois comme sens et quête absolueSonnets pour Hélène (Textes littéraires français)
Par Pierre De Ronsard. 1997
Twenty-four essays from a wide range of publications. Many of the essays center around the theme of family and relationships…
with parents. Includes Gay Talese's journey with Muhammad Ali to Cuba, Cynthia Ozick's remembrances of her family's drugstore in the Bronx, and Lukie Chapman Reilly's fear of her alcoholic father. Some strong language and some violenceAn international selection of more than forty poets presented in chronological order. Includes Sappho of ancient Greece, Charles Baudelaire of…
France, Pablo Neruda of Chile, and J.E. Wei of Taiwan. Editor chose poems that "shook" her. For junior and senior high readersAn annual collection of short stories, essays, and poetry published in magazines and by small presses. In "Grounded," a mother…
joins her son, who is running away from home. In "Oxygen," a man recalls one summer he spent delivering oxygen tanks to dying people. Descriptions of sex and strong languageExamines the ubiquitous appeal of violent imagery and its depiction in popular entertainment. Traces the history of this phenomenon from…
bloody gladiatorial games of ancient Rome to graphic films, sports, and video games of the 1990s. Explores the effects of such brutality on societyWhat have you lost?
1999
Selections from 140 contemporary poets expressing their thoughts and observations in free verse on the theme of loss--of objects, people,…
places, or concepts. Many of the poems are first-time publications. Biographical notes on the contributors are included. For junior and senior high readers. 1999Collection of poems spanning the stages of emotional recovery from heartbreak. Selected mainly from the work of such twentieth-century poets…
as Margaret Atwood, Louise Glück, Billy Collins, and Robert Frost, the sequence of topics takes us through rage, sadness, self-hatred, false hope, resolve, relapse, real hope, and moving on. 2002Smoke from this altar
Par Louis L'Amour. 1990
In 1939, Louis L’Amour first gave public voice to his now-celebrated spirit of wanderlust in SMOKE FROM THIS ALTAR. Like…
many of his stories, the poems in this book are inspired by his experiences and memories of his journeys across oceans and continents. It is vintage L’Amour storytelling — in verse — about nature, the land, and the people who loved and braved it.Reinventing education: entrepreneurship in America's public schools
Par Louis V. Gerstner, Roger D. Semerad, Denis Philip Doyle. 1994
Reports the accomplishments of the RJR Nabisco Foundation's Next Century Schools program and outlines plans for the future. The authors…
assert that the principles of quality management that they believe contribute to success in the business world are applicable to the field of educationSixty-five selections of short fiction, essays, and poetry published first by noncommercial American presses and magazines. "My Father, Dancing" by…
Bliss Broyard is her first published work. "A Thousand Buddhas," an essay about giving and receiving a massage, is by Brenda Miller, who once worked as a massage therapist. "Night Singing" is by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, W.S. Merwin. Some strong languageLooking for your name: a collection of contemporary poems
Par Paul B. Janeczko. 1993
Anthology of poems by contemporary writers. Focusing on conflict in a range of situations, the poems are designed to evoke…
strong emotions. The opening poem recalls a first-grader's eagerness in raising his hand to be called on for the answer. Other poems deal with such topics as suicide, AIDS, nuclear accidents, and the swift passage of life. Some strong language. For high school and older readersThe Best American poetry, 1996
Par David Lehman. 1996
Seventy-five poems by American writers. Includes Sherman Alexie's thoughts on the death penalty in "Capital Punishment"; Margaret Atwood's reflections on…
her youth amidst the torched remains of a home in "Morning in the Burned House"; and Jane Kenyon's meditation on mortality in "Reading Aloud to My Father." Some strong languageExtensive collection of poetry featuring the work of fifteen poets, such as Annie Dillard and Daniel Berrigan. Poems are divided…
into the following sections: The Cross, Transformation, Death, Injustice, Presence, God's Body, Fools, Wayfarers, Love, The Dark, Grace, Praise, The Mystical Body, Sacrament, The Leap, and HolyA collection of essays written since World War II by more than two dozen Polish writers. Topics range from aspects…
of literature and culture to science fiction and political oppression and exile. The editor, and one of the contributors, suggests that he "tried to avoid specifically Polish subjects in the narrow sense," but the theme of exile and the "wound of history" runs throughout these essays. Includes Milosz's 1980 Nobel Prize lectureIn this classic narrative poem, written in late-eighteenth-century Vietnam, six common domestic animals--the water buffalo, the dog, the horse, the…
goat, the rooster, and the pig-each brags of the service it performs for its master and is contemptuous of some other beast as useless or harmful. This edition includes the original poem in Vietnamese language with a translation, introduction, and notes in English. Bilingual titleThis anthology of 140 essays, written over four centuries by American and English practitioners of the art, covers topics large…
and small--truth, getting up on cold mornings, wasps, the departure of a guest, being the right size, symmetry and repetition, Gandhi, and movies on television. And each somehow fits Dr. Johnson's definition of an essay as a "loose sally of the mind."An anthology of lies dating back to Biblical times. From minor deceits to monumental falsehoods, Kerr selects examples and adds…
commentary from the same period. He discusses the deceitfulness of answering machines and covers necessary, political, and governmental lies. As an editor, he neither passes judgment nor defines a lie. His choices favor the most amusing, celebrated, and evil specimensMark Strand, 1990 poet laureate of the United States, served as guest editor of a collection of the best poems…
published that year. His choices range from dramatic monologues to sonnets, and the subjects and settings are equally diverse. When he narrows his selection to the allotted seventy-five poems, both newcomers and established poets are represented in titles such as "Celestial Music" and "Desire."