escalating ecological turmoil, we must teach environmental values earlier, equipping our students to navigate a world that will pit them against others in the ferocious fight over diminishing natural resources. To prepare them for the future, we need to make the mechanisms by which the world works—as one country exploits another and the wealthy live off the poor—visible, so they can make inform...

A traditional approach to contrastive rhetoric has emphasized cultural difference in rhetorical patterns among various languages. Despite its laudable pedagogical intentions to raise teachers’ and students’ cultural and rhetorical awareness in second language writing, traditional contrastive rhetoric has perpetuated static binaries between English and other languages and viewed students as cult...

Party politics in the former Soviet Union is fundamentally different from party politics in Western democracies in many ways. Since 1991, two crucial aspects of party politics in the less-than-democratic former Soviet republics have been the impact of authoritarian practices on party politics and the volatile nature of party politics. Starting with the observation that the creation and operatio...

At present, the programming courses in colleges and universities focus on theoretical practical teaching, integration of curriculum thinking politics with teaching content is low, which cannot shape students' values cultural outlook process professional courses. In response to this problem, paper proposes a systematic framing method cases under mixed mode based project-based college courses, ca...

Recent contributions by Collins, Evans, Jasanoff and Wynne to the discussion of how science and technology studies (STS) might contribute to understanding ‘subpolitics’ – the complex, expert knowledge-intensive and distributed political issues technological societies have to deal with – and involvement of STS scholars in experiments to extend public participation in decision-making about scienc...