In 1961 South Korea was mired in poverty. By 1979 it had a powerful industrial economy and a vibrant civil society in the making, which would lead to a democratic breakthrough eight years later. The transformation took place during the years of Park Chung Hee's presidency. Park seized power in a coup in 1961 and ruled as a virtual dictator until his assassination in October 1979. He is credited with modernizing South Korea, but at a huge political and social cost.South Korea's poli...

This volume culls scholarship on both what high literacy is and how it is developed. It embraces the call put forth by Langer and Applebee (2016) that high literacy must continue to be our aim and to see more research analyzing and identifying how teachers might promote literacy practices that promote deep thinking around important content. The editors offer a conceptual framework for high literacy that explicates how each component (i.e. reading, writing, dialogic engagement, and epistemi...

The main characters in the story, Lam, Hong, and Thu, are shocked to find the Hai-Phong beach in Vietnam, full of plastic wastes. The three Musketeers heard the story of a plastic witch from a cat grandmother and think about how to solve the curse of the grandmother, who turned into a cat. Can the Three Musketeers solve the curse and be heros?

Bờ biển ngập tràn đồ nhựa chia sẻ giá trị của ‘việc sản xuất và tiêu dùng bền vững thông qua ‘hạn chế sử dụng đồ nhựa’, thuộc mục tiêu phát triển bền vững số 12 của UN.