Below, we exclusively present a Chinese translation of the introduction to Gerhard Roth’s book “Education Needs Personality” on mediastudies.asia. We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to Professor Roth, J. Klett-Cotta Verlag represented by Mrs. Helen Gorman, and the translator, Zheng Jingwen, as well
The question how to optimise education has preoccupied mankind for thousands of years. Already the question of what is meant by ‘optimising’ is not without controversy. Is it primarily about training memory? Or about teaching the skill called ‘thinking’ – in the concentrated version: reflection?
In this new episode of our virtual classroom series, students of UIC’s 2021 “Entertainment Journalism” class talk to Bernhard Zand – long time DER SPIEGEL correspondent, linguistic miracle (who effortlessly switches between several languages in a single sentence), passionate jogger, and last but not least:
Hi everybody! My name is Ben. I am the author of Entertainment Journalism – Making Your Career and the same journalist. So I want to say hello to everybody. Thank you so much for asking me such interesting questions. I’ll do my very best to
During a class on international communication at Xiamen University Malaysia in this winter semester, three students presented on Emily Erikson’s book “Between Monopoly and Free Trade” – a fresh look at the English East India Company that tries to explain the company’s success. Emily’s thesis:
This is the first episode of our new series ‘Virtual Classroom’. It consists of a Q & A between Karl-Heinz Pohl, author of a text on “Chinese and Western values”, and 21 students from Xiamen University Malaysia, who have been carefully studying it – most
At The Cooler Lumpur Festival, they believe that discussion and dialogue is the hallmark of any great society. Hear, hear! They trust in “the irresistible and contagious power of a great idea and the latent potential it holds to inspire awareness, change and transformation” –
This video interview with Stanford’s Thomas Blom Hansen, Danish anthropologist and one of the leading commentators on religious and political violence in India, was produced by Habib University’s media club, Purple Lion Productions. It was meant as the first episode of a series called ‘Statementors’