This research and practice looks to (re) conceptualize the relations between the natural and the social, and between the biological and the cultural. Nature, culture, bodies, texts all unravel into a limitless ‘force field of differentiation’, a complex interaction of phenomena. In consequence, I have chosen to tackle and combine the exploration of nature and technology while mainly focusing on...

in recent years, the teaching of grammar and the importance attached to it has become a bone of contention among language teaching professionals. the emergence of the communicative approach (ca) in second or foreign language teaching has been one of the most important factors leading to this controversy. since the advent of ca in the second half of the 1970's grammar which had always occup...

Abstract The impending climate emergency, the Paris agreement and Sustainable Development Goals demand significant transformations in economies societies. Science funders, innovation agencies, scholars have explored new rationales processes for policymaking, such as transformative policy (TIP). Here, we address question of how to orient efforts science, technology, actors enable transformations...

This study was an attempt to examine the effect of using comic strips on improving grammar recognition and performance among Iranian young EFL learners. To this end, one experimental and one control groups were formed, each having 45 preintermediate participants chosen via convenience sampling. The researcher-made pretests of grammar and speaking assured the researchers that the participants di...

While the beneficial effects on mental health of spirituality and creativity as separate entities have been well documented, little attention has been given to the interactive effect of the two constructs in coping. Recently, the theory of transformative coping and associated Transformative Coping Model have been developed and examined from both theoretical and quantitative perspectives. To ext...

Since 1978 the theory of transformative learning, as defined by Jack Mezirow (1978a,b; 1981; 1989; 1990; 1991a,b; 1992; 1994a,b; 1995; 1996, 1997), has stimulated much discussion and analysis in the field of adult education. This scrutiny has generally manifested itself in two forms, that of theoretical critique and empirical study. Unfortunately, most of the published discussion of Mezirow’s w...

P behavioral research has suggested that advertising can influence a consumer’s quality evaluation through informative and transformative effects. The informative effect acts directly to inform a consumer of product attributes and hence shapes her evaluations of brand quality. The transformative effect affects the consumer’s evaluation of brand quality by enhancing her assessment of her subsequ...