This book presents the findings of three studies on the use of diagrams in civic education. The first study presents an international comparison of textbook diagrams promoting national unity in diversity, with examples from ten countries. The second focuses on the depiction of migration in diagrammatic form in German textbooks, The final study was conducted in collaboration with teachers in Swedish social science classrooms, and focuses on teaching comprehension of flow charts and scatterp...

English Medium Instruction in Multilingual and Multicultural Universities analyses the issues related to EMI at both a local and international level and provides a broad perspective on this topic. Drawing on field studies from a Northern European context and based primarily on research carried out at the University of Copenhagen, this book:introduces a topical global issue that is central to the higher education research agenda;identifies the iss...

Yttrandefriheten har inte varit så här hotad på länge. En mänsklig rättighet och själva fundamentet för demokratin påstås vara för fri, folk måste skyddas från ord.Bakom hoten lurar många olika slags makthavare: den mäktiga mediebranschen som ser makt, pengar och inte minst tolkningsföreträde försvinna allt mer då sociala medier revolutionerat det fria ordet, radikala islamister, upphovsrättsindustrin, olika minoritetsgrupper och människor som tycker att rätten inte att bli kränkt ...

Using data from multilingual settings in universities and adjacent learning contexts in East Asia, North Africa, Central and North America and Europe, this book provides examples of the heuristic value of translanguaging and epistemological decentring. Despite this and other theoretical and empirical work, and ever stronger calls for the inclusion of other languages, epistemologies and constructions of culture in higher education, decentring and translanguaging practices are often relegate...