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Colin Murray Turbayne (7 February 1916 – 16 May 2006) was an Australian philosopher and an internationally recognized authority on the writings of George Berkeley.He spent most of his thirty five year academic career at the University of Rochester and was noted as the author of the book The Myth of Metaphor.
Critical pedagogy. Banking model of education (Portuguese: modelo bancário de educação) is a term coined by Paulo Freire to describe and critique the established education system in his book Pedagogy of the Oppressed. [1][2] The name refers to the metaphor of students as containers into which educators must put knowledge. Freire argued that ...
Javier Gomá Lanzón (Bilbao, 24 May 1965) is a spanish philosopher, writer [1] and essayist, [2] author of the Tetralogía de la ejemplaridad (Tetralogy of exemplarity) and a theatrical trilogy. [3] He is also the Executive Director of the Juan March Foundation and, since 2024, Director of the Chair of Exemplarity | CUNEF Universidad.
Ariel is a 1900 essay by Uruguayan author José Enrique Rodó. [1] Drawn from William Shakespeare's The Tempest, in which Ariel represents the positive, and Caliban represents the negative tendencies in human nature, this essay is a debate on the future course of history, in what Rodó intended to be a secular sermon to Latin American youth, championing the cause of the classical western ...
Spanish literature generally refers to literature (Spanish poetry, prose, and drama) written in the Spanish language within the territory that presently constitutes the Kingdom of Spain. Its development coincides and frequently intersects with that of other literary traditions from regions within the same territory, particularly Catalan ...
Life Is a Dream (Spanish: La vida es sueño [la ˈβiða es ˈsweɲo]) is a Spanish-language play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. First published in 1636, in two different editions, the first in Madrid and a second one in Zaragoza. Don W. Cruickshank and a number of other critics believe that the play can be dated around 1630, thus making ...
Roque Ferriols. Rev. Fr. Roque J. Ferriols, S.J., full name Roque Angel Jamias Ferriols, (August 16, 1924 – August 15, 2021) was a Filipino Jesuit priest and philosopher known for pioneering the use of Tagalog in philosophizing. [1][2][3][4] Ferriols' efforts are intimately linked to the broader Filipinization movement of the late 1960s to ...
Language pedagogy. Language pedagogy is the discipline concerned with the theories and techniques of teaching language. It has been described as a type of teaching wherein the teacher draws from their own prior knowledge and actual experience in teaching language. [1] The approach is distinguished from research-based methodologies.