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The most recent issue, Volume 7, Number 12 , of The International Journal of the Humanities includes:

• The Politics of International Education by Melville Miranda.
• Permitting Beauty in Architectural Education by Ehud Belferman and Iris Aravot.
• The Importance of Non-Government Organizations in the Corporate Social Movement in China by Maria Lai-Ling Lam, Alice Lai-Heung Lam and Lewis Hon-Chung Lam.
• A Possible Strategy for Developing and Supporting Relevant Research in the Humanities: The Case of Stellenbosch University, South Africa by Maryke Hunter-Husselmann.
• The Study on Layout Styles and Patterns of Passports in Qing Dynasty by Tun-Chih Chang.
• The Role of Technology in Creative Productions by José Moreno Arenas and Pedro Almodóvar: Keep the Change, Doll and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown by Polly J. Hodge.

The most recent issue, Volume 7, Number 11, of The International Journal of the Humanities includes:

• The Cinematic Transformation in Post-Socialist China: A Case Study of Zhang Yimou’s Curse of the Golden Flower by Lunpeng Ma.
• Is History Just a Collection of Biographies? Notes from a Military Historical Database by William Acres.
• Adolescents’ Perceptions about Coping with Stress: A Qualitative View from India by Sangeeta Chaudhary and Priya Mary Joseph.
• Globalization and Teaching The Contemporary: Including Important Avant-garde Contributions to the International Art Arena from the People’s Republic of China by Jean Ippolito.
• Not Understanding Everyday Life: Remaining an Outsider in Enigmatic Modern China by Lili Hernández.

The most recent issue, Volume 7, Number 10, of The International Journal of the Humanities includes:

• Women and Marriage in Bollywood and Diasporic Cinema: Impact of Indian Cinema on the Role of Women and Marriage in Urban India by Reshmi Lahiri-Roy.
• A Study of the Effective Factors on Research Experiences of Graduate Students in Islamic Azad University_Tabriz Branch by Khorshid Padashi Asl and Farough Amin Mozaffari.
• A Case Study of Conservation in a Developing Area by Chun-Jen Liang, Shang-Chia Chiou and Ya-Chieh Lee.
• Understanding Diaspora Cultures in the Context of Globalization by Kuo Huang and Fei Jiang.
• The Value of Political Participation in the Development Process in Uganda: A Case of Pallisa District by Sultan Juma Kakuba.
• Reconnecting with Family and Community through Design Communication by Jesvin Puayhwa Yeo.
• Interethnic Accommodation: An Insight into the Malaysian Scenario by Faisal Ibrahim and Abdul Mua’ti @ Zamri Ahmad.

Congratulations to all of the International Award for Excellence finalists:

The ninth issue of Volume 7 of The International Journal of the Humanities has now been published.

Volume 7, Number 9 contains:

• History in the Balance: The Marginalisation of History in the Secondary School Curriculum in England by Gary Clemitshaw.
• Haitian crime fiction: Re-interpreting Haitian History through Vodou by Françoise Cévaër.
• Voicing the Censored Self: Reinscriptions of Un-Freedom in Suchen Christine Lim’s “Fistful of Colours” by Grace V. S. Chin.
• The Charmed Realm in the 21st Century: Onmyoji, the “Nightmare-eater”, and Humanities Education by Amy W.S. Lee.
• Women Entrepreneurs in the Music Industry by James Kimo Williams.
• The Syntax of Determination in a Corpus of Oral Productions of Jamaican Learners of French: Word Order and Agreement Patterns in Nominal Phrases by Hugues Peters and Michele Stewart.

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The seventh issue of Volume 7 of The International Journal of the Humanities has now been published.

Volume 7, Number 7 contains:

• Is Game Technique Suitable for Teaching Writing and Reading? by Asmawati Suhid, Aminuddin Hassan, Lukman Abdul Mutalib and Mohd Aderi Che Noh.
• Telling Sexual Identity through Dramatic Performance: A Look on a Male Homosexual Character in the Contemporary Thai Play, “From Sauna ’09” by Jatuporn Boon-Long.
• Virginia Woolf in Contemporary Chinese Media: An Investigation by Xiaoqin Cao.
• Intercultural Language Socialization through Volunteering: Blending Local and Global Programs of Action by James Michael Perren.
• The Growth of Military Development in Southeast Asia: An Arms Race Phenomenon or a Normal Development? by Mohamad Faisol Keling, Md. Shukri Shuib and Mohd Na’eim Ajis.
• Engaging Uncertainty in Environmental Education: Postmodern/Poststructural Possibilities by Joy Hardy.

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The fifth issue of Volume 7 of The International Journal of the Humanities has now been published.

Volume 7, Number 5 contains:

• Reading for an Interpersonal Maladjustment in a Career by Ching-Huang Wang, Miao-jen Chang and Ya-mei Chang.
• Governance on the Production of Identity: Consuming Western High-culture in Contemporary Shanghai by Fang Xu.
• The Real Terrorist: Muslim? by Cameron Iqbal.
• A 30 Years After the Taiwan Relations Act (TRA): A Legal Analysis of Taiwan under U.S. Laws by M. Dujon Johnson.
• Leaving the Safe Harbor: Musical, Social, and Ensemble Explorations Beyond the Known by Cynthia Johnston Turner.
• The War on Carbon: Polity and Scientific Literacy by Geoffrey W. Lummis.

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The third issue of Volume 7 of The International Journal of the Humanities has now been published.

Volume 7, Number 3 contains:

• The Foundation of Educational Values in Malaysia from Islamic Perspective by Nik Rosila Nik Yaacob.
• Keywords in the Integration of the Humanities and the Social Sciences by L.A. Duhs.
• Communication in a Cultural and Creative Design Team by Ming-Chyuan Ho and Ya-Chieh Lee.
• Cultural Diversity among Students in Malaysian Secondary Schools by Najeemah Mohd Yusof.
• A Bird’s Eye View on Muslim Scholarship in Southeast Asia by Rahmah Ahmad Osman and Khaled Ahmad Mohd Muhedat.
• Relationships between Sense of Community and Academic Achievement: A Comparison among High School Students by Mervyn Wighting, Deanna Nisbet and Lucinda Spaulding. Continue reading ‘Humanities Journal, Volume 7, Number 3 published’
  

The first issue of Volume 7 of The International Journal of the Humanities has now been published.

Volume 7, Number 1 contains:

• The Funhouse Mirror: U.S. Soap Opera Images Abroad by Marilyn J. Matelski.
• Practising Creative Innovation across Cultures by Donna Wright.
• Social Transformation and Gender Roles in Contemporary China: An Introduction to My Current PhD Project by Jiaran Zheng.
• Nonreductive Physicalism and the Supervenience/Exclusion Argument by Neil Campbell.
• Domestic Violence Beliefs and Perceptions across the Lifespan by John Chapin.
• Outline of a Theory of the Person for Historical-Biographical Study by Admir Skodo.
• Primary School Children and their Preferences towards Playing and Toys: Research in Northern Greece by Aggeliki Tsapakidou, Nektaria Palaiologou, John Papadelis and Chrysie Papadeli.
• The Analysis of Senator Barack Obama’s Speech on Race by Kenneth Burke’s Idea of Dramatism by Liu Xiaoyan and Nancy L. Street.
• How Confident are Vocational Trainees in Making Career Decisions? by Ab. Rahim Bakar, Shamsiah Mohamed and Fitri Kazilan.
• Transformat?on of Social Life in Turkey During the Early-kemalist Era by Ahmed Baran Dural. Continue reading ‘Humanities Journal, Volume 7, Number 1 published’
  

Congratulations to Dr Judy Lattas, the winner of the International Award for Excellence in the area of the area of new directions in the humanities for her paper Dear Learner: Shame and the Dialectics of Enquiry

Paper abstract: In this paper I contemplate the potential of Enquiry Based Learning (EBL) to lead the teaching of humanities in Australian universities. Are there internal constraints on its happy unfolding for a future of the humanities, true to its intellectual and political projects? In its favour, the proponents of EBL cite an Enlightenment ideal of ‘enquiry’ that puts the highest value on creative, open ended and self-determined thought – a pursuit of knowledge that is not limited by the interests of any professional or economic class. These same proponents of EBL, however, are often in university positions assigned the task of bringing a more instrumentalist approach to the pursuit of knowledge. Is it all just a case of Orwellian double-speak? Probyn (2005) writes about shame as a powerful and productive state that enables us to reappraise our actions and our values. In my paper I call up two moments of shame in the recent pursuit of learning and teaching excellence at my university, in order to explore the politics of an emerging rhetoric in this arena: that of ‘learning without teaching.’