Go local: morality and international activism

Forms and functions of International and Local EFL Workbook Activities

English language teaching market (ELT) inundated with course book packages containing astudent’s book, a teacher’s guide, workbooks, CD’s, videos, and test materials. A host ofresearchers have focused on course book evaluation and analysis and considered the selectionand evaluation of materials as an essential procedure in order to enhance out comes for thelearners who use them. This study thru...

Transnational Human Rights and Local Activism: Mapping the Middle

How do transnational ideas such as human rights approaches to violence against women become meaningful in local social settings? How do they move across the gap between a cosmopolitan awareness of human rights and local sociocultural understandings of gender and family? Intermediaries such as community leaders, nongovernmental organization participants, and social movement activists play a crit...

Morality, Rationality and Impartiality

Morality as somehow involving rationality and impartiality received classic expression in philosophy of Kant who frankly speaks of “rational and impartial spectator” in contemplating the universal law. The overall aim of this paper is to show (1) that the idea of morality implies rationality and this will be reached at in refuting the moral scepticism; but (2) it does not necessarily indicates ...

Local Move Prediction in Go

Go-kart related injuries: a local scene

Objectives: To study the characteristics and nature of injuries relating to go-kart in the local setting and to compare the findings with those reported in the medical literature. Methods: A prospective survey of patients with go-kart related injuries attending the accident and emergency department of a public district hospital in Hong Kong within the year 2002. The data were analysed and compa...