Singapore’s skyline along the Singapore River (2011),
reproduced with permission from Dr Francis Oen
Details: Image taken with Canon S95, shutter speed 1/25,
f2.2, ISO 640.
If I had long been reading the face of the world with the eyes of a writer, I now read it anew with even greater intensity. Nothing was too petty to escape my attention. If I went for a walk -- and I was constantly seeking excuses to take a walk, “to explore,” as I put it -- it was for the deliberate purpose of transforming myself into an enormous eye. Seeing the common, everyday things in this new light I was often transfixed. The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnified world in itself. Almost an “unrecognizable” world.
Miller, H. (1964). Henry Miller on writing. Selected by Thomas H. Moore. New York: New Directions.
Editorial
Erle LIM Chuen Hian, Johan GEERTSEMA JNUSTA: A journal to facilitate inter-disciplinary learning PDF | ePUB Recommended citation: Lim, E. C. H. & Geertsema, J. (2011). JNUSTA: A journal to facilitate inter-disciplinary learning. Journal of the NUS Teaching Academy, 1 (1), 1-4.
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TAN Chorh Chuan Some thoughts on global education PDF | ePUB Recommended citation: Tan, C. C. (2011). Some thoughts on global education. Journal of the NUS Teaching Academy, 1 (1), 5-9.
Constructively engaging diversity on a global campus
‘Global citizenship’ and ‘global education’ are two terms that get tossed around a lot these days.
But what exactly do they mean?
Do they simply refer to the increased diversity of the student and staff population in our universities, or to our efforts to provide students with international exposure by studying and working overseas?
Is travel good for student development, or is that just ‘academic tourism’?
How do we provide a truly enriching global education -- and with what kind of global attributes do we want to imbue our students?
It seems clear that as educators and administrators, we have an important role to play in helping to maximize diversity on our own campus, and more importantly, to build on the richness and strengths that diversity brings through a constructive engagement with difference.
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