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The world's most difficult books: how many have you read?
'Fantastically convoluted' … Nightwood by Djuna Barnes. Photograph: Oscar White/Corbis Two and a half. I have read two and a half of the 10 most difficult books ever written, as selected by Emily Colette Wilkinson and Garth Risk Hallberg of the Millions after three years' research. The pair started their quest to identify the toughest books out there back in 2009, looking for "books that are hard to read for their length, or their syntax and style, or their structural and generic strangeness, or their odd experimental techniques, or their abstraction". Anyway, they've now picked the most difficult of the most difficult – the 10 "literary Mount Everests waiting out there for you to climb, should you be so bold" – and have laid them out for discussion at Publishers Weekly. The titles? There are a few other books I might include in the list – Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, and if I was going to choose Woolf, I'd go for The Waves. How about you?
Plus d’autonomie pour les enseignants
Connexion Érick Falardeau|Suzanne Richard 25 juin 2014 Société / ÉducationPlus d’autonomie pour les enseignants Un avis fort important du Conseil supérieur de l’éducation, publié le 3 juin dernier, concernant le développement professionnel des enseignants a malheureusement été occulté par le budget provincial et d’autres faits divers funestes. Cet avis réaffirme la nécessité de développer une culture de la formation continue et l’importance de chercher à parfaire ses compétences tout au long de sa carrière. Il réitère la volonté de renforcer l’autonomie professionnelle des enseignants, intention qui était au coeur de la réforme de la formation des enseignants en 1995 avec l’instauration du baccalauréat de quatre ans. Vingt ans plus tard, peut-on dire que cette autonomie s’est réalisée ? Les enseignants du primaire et du secondaire sont de moins en moins considérés comme des professionnels. Pour un ordre professionnel Site complet
Psychologists Find a Surprising Thing Happens to Kids Who Read Harry Potter
The news: Harry Potter's greatest feat might not have been defeating Voldemort, but teaching young people around the world to battle prejudice. At least that's the finding of a new paper in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, which claims reading the Harry Potter series significantly improved young peoples' perception of stigmatized groups like immigrants, homosexuals or refugees. The studies: The Pacific Standard broke down the three studies used in this paper. The first took 34 Italian fifth-graders and plunged them into a six-week course on Potter. A second study with 117 Italian high school students found that a reader's emotional identification with Harry was associated with more positive perceptions of LGBT people in general. In all three studies, the researchers credited the books with improving the readers' ability to assume the perspective of marginalized groups. Image Credit: AP Tom McKay
Unusual, Neglected and/or Lost Literature
[ home ] Major update during Aug.-Oct. 2014. Quite a bit of new material that's of course not marked in any way as the newer stuff so you'll just have to poke around. Major update during Nov. 2008 including reformatting (e.g. what was I thinking using all those HTML lists?), many new entries, and adding new material to old entries (although I've not yet found the motivation to check for all the dead links). Contained herein are links and books in my personal collection (well, a few aren't...yet) in the general category of unusual literature, for which the best definition I can come up with at the moment is: stuff I like that's a little or a lot different than most of the stuff you'll find down at the local Books'R'Us. I've chosen/pinched/pilfered reviews basedly almost entirely on their informational content rather than their opinion of the book, on the theory that the more you know about the author and the book the more you'll be able to appreciate it. Enjoy. Meta, i.e. Meta-Books Authors
Virtual Domicile of Steven K. Baum
Retour sur le 2e Sommet sur l’iPad en éducation : la parole aux élèves!
Retour sur les activités ayant mis en vedette des élèves à l’occasion du 2e Sommet sur l’iPad en éducation. Rafraîchissants à souhait, impliqués et authentiques, ils ont su démontrer que, plus que jamais, ils ont leur place dans les rencontres en éducation. Les 1er et 2 mai derniers se tenait la 2e édition du Sommet de l’iPad en éducation, à Montréal. Enseignants, conseillers pédagogiques et gestionnaires étaient réunis pendant ces deux jours bien remplis afin d’assister à des dizaines de présentations, d’ateliers pratiques et de conférences traitant de l’utilisation des tablettes en classe, des innovations vécues dans diverses écoles et des changements souhaités en éducation. Les élèves étant au coeur de cette rencontre, on leur a, comme l’an dernier, donné la parole lors d’un panel d’élèves utilisant l’iPad ainsi que dans les ateliers « L’iPad et l’iClasse » et « L’utilisation de l’iPad en classe : un speed dating d’applications ». Bien installés aux côtés de M. Pour suivre l'auteur :
Don't Date A Girl Who Travels Unless You Can Handle Letting Her Go
If anyone’s ever told you going for the well-traveled girl was the right move, they were setting you up for failure. The fact of the matter is, you should never date the girl who travels. Aside from the obvious fact that she’s seen more of the world than you have, and has experienced a lot more than you probably ever will, it’s important to remember why these types of women are no-fly zones. First off, guys, you won’t be able to keep up with her to save your life. Second, she could get up and leave you at any moment. Third, she’s way too comfortable with letting go. If you happen to fall in love with this rare, intriguing kind of girl, run the other way — fast. Hey, a girl’s gotta travel and nothing will get in the way of that. Check out the video above, based on an article by Adi Zarsadias , for a closer look at why you should never date a girl who travels.
Umberto Eco’s Antilibrary: Why Unread Books Are More Valuable to Our Lives than Read Ones
by Maria Popova How to become an “antischolar” in a culture that treats knowledge as “an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order.” “It is our knowledge — the things we are sure of — that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning,” Lincoln Steffens wrote in his beautiful 1925 essay. Piercingly true as this may be, we’ve known at least since Plato’s famous Allegory of the Cave that “most people are not just comfortable in their ignorance, but hostile to anyone who points it out.”. Although science is driven by “thoroughly conscious ignorance” and the spiritual path paved with admonitions against the illusion of thorough understanding, we cling to our knowledge — our incomplete, imperfect, infinitesimal-in-absolute-terms knowledge — like we cling to life itself. And yet the contour of what we know is a mere silhouette cast by the infinite light of the unknown against the screen of the knowable. HT Bobulate Donating = Loving Share on Tumblr
