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Entries from January 2006

Racial encounter book

January 10th, 2006 · Comments Off

My co-author on this blog, Kevin Durrheim, has just published another book (written together with John Dixon) - Racial encounter: The social psychology of contact and desegregation. It’s published by Psychology Press and available on amazon.com. Kevin and John have over the years written a large number of really fascinating academic papers on race and [...]

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Textbooks as wikis

January 3rd, 2006 · 1 Comment

The idea of producing school and university textbooks as wikis (i.e. as free and editable online texts) is slowly starting to gain momentum. Dave Cornier lists some pros and cons. The great thing about publishing a textbook as a wiki is that users (e.g. students and lecturers) can contribute to the text and so help [...]

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Tags: Participation · Publishers · Students