By Elizabeth Royte
Out of sight, out of brain ... Into our trash cans pass lifeless batteries, soiled diapers, bygone burritos, damaged toys, tattered socks, eight-track cassettes, scratched CDs, banana peels.... yet the place do this stuff move subsequent? In a rustic that consumes after which casts off progressively more, what really occurs to the issues we throw away? In rubbish Land, acclaimed technological know-how author Elizabeth Royte leads us at the wild event that starts as soon as our trash hits the ground of the can. alongside the way in which, we meet an scent chemist who explains why trash smells so undesirable; rubbish fairies and recycling experts; acquaintances of huge waste dumps; CEOs making fortunes through encouraging waste or encouraging recycling-often either while; scientists attempting to revive our such a lot polluted areas; fertilizer fans and adventurers who kayak amid sewage; paper humans, metal humans, aluminum humans, plastic humans, or even a man who swears by way of recycling human waste. With a wink and a nod and a tightly clasped nostril, Royte takes us on a extraordinary cultural journey via slime, stench, and heat-in different phrases, throughout the again finish of our ever-more supersized life. via displaying us what occurs to the issues we've "disposed of," Royte reminds us that our judgements approximately intake and waste have a truly actual impact-and that except we adopt radical switch, the rubbish we create will constantly be with us: within the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the nutrients we eat. Radiantly written and boldly said, rubbish Land is a superb exploration into the dirty middle of the yankee trash can.
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Calvi et al. ), CALL, Culture and the Language Curriculum © Springer-Verlag London Limited 1998 24 opportunity to use language productively, in 'real communicative settings' was stressed. Language learning is language use. Essential in this communicative tum in education is a special interest in motivation, pupil-centeredness, co-operative and collaborative learning, learner-autonomy. This communicative trend in language teaching fits in a more encompassing 'communicative tum' in education in general, in philosophy, in literary theory, etc.
At the same time, there was a flood of complaints about the general amnesia in our culture. 3 Excursion: Literature and Culture Of course, culture in language teaching is more than 'literature'. Culture also refers to background knowledge concerning the people using the language: 'Landeskunde' or American, English, European studies. ). Among all the (authentic) reading materials very often literature was and is considered a major genre. We are deeply aware of the fact that 'Landeskunde' and 'intercultural theory' are inevitable ingredients of 'foreign language teaching'.
Bloom especially thinks that American purity is being threatened by the nefarious influence of European thinkers. In the aforementioned cultural literacy project of Hirsch (supported by the conservative Reagan administration) the focus is on the national literacy, and the accompanying 'list' is about "what every American needs to know" [9] (our italics). At the same time, the concept of Europe - after the political and economic unification - itself is propagated as a new (super)nation requiring a new identity.
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