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Complexity, Multi-Disciplinarity, and Beyond addresses the issue of complexity mainly in the fields of humanities and social sciences. It is a continuation of Interdisciplinarity: Toward the Definition of a Metadiscipline? (Lang, 2001) in which the main question is related to the role of interdisciplinarity and disciplinarian thinking in confronting complexity in general. The present book focuses on complexity in the humanities but also revisits some of the ideas brought forth in Interdisciplinarity, concerning the limitations of disciplinarian thinking and interdisciplinarity in their confrontations with complexity. The development of conceptual tools, as well as theories and models for complexity outside the realm of «hard» sciences, is still in its infancy. Nevertheless, it is essential to learn to cope with complexity, and every effort in this area must be encouraged.

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Information communication technologies (ICT) permeate almost every facet of our daily business and have become an important priority for formal and informal education. This places an enormous responsibility to achieve equitable deployment of ICT on governments, education systems, and communities. Important equity issues examined in this book include gender issues, disability, digital divide, hardware and software developments, and knowledge transfer. Previous books have tended to concentrate on single aspects of equity and computer use; this book fills the pressing need for a comprehensive look at the issues. Equity and Information Communication Technology (ICT) in Education is an essential book for professionals involved in this emerging area of study, and a useful text for undergraduate and graduate classrooms.

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L'eau: source d'une ecriture dans les litteratures feminines francophones est un recueil d'essais sur la composante de l'eau dans les textes d'ecrivains contemporains d'Afrique Noire, d'Afrique du Nord, du Quebec, de France, de Suisse, de Belgique et des Caraibes. Partant de l'hypothese selon laquelle l'eau constitue une matiere qui donnerait a la creativite feminine une specificite propre, ces essais examinent la maniere dont cet element sous-tend l'imaginaire feminin. Le recueil souligne ainsi la constance du retour aux sources profondes dans le processus de la creation litteraire.

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El texto ejerce un control sobre la expresion poetica por el que se puede hablar de una jerarquia del texto. La seleccion de las obras,Eternidades de Juan Ramon Jimenez y O Guardador de Rebanhos de Alberto Caeiro, este ultimo uno de los heteronimos de Fernando Pessoa, responde a tres razones principales: Cronologia, semejanzas tematicas y la necesidad de comparar expresiones poeticas desarrolladas en paises diferentes. La afirmacion de que existe una jerarquia del texto se fundamenta en las conexiones que se establecen entre las obras estudiadas y el movimiento formalista ruso desarrollado a principios des siglo XX. Todos ellos reconocen como unica realidad poetica el lenguaje y defienden un planteamiento objetivo y formal en la expresion poetica por el que el texto adquiere una autonomia respecto del autor e impone su propia jerarquia a traves de las mismas leyes literarias que lo constituyen.

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