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From the magazines and newspapers of the mid-1800s to movies and apps of the twenty-first century, popular culture and media in the United States provide prolific representations of higher education. This report positions artifacts of popular culture as pedagogic texts able to (mis)educate viewers and consumers regarding the purpose, values, and people of higher education. It:Discusses scholarly literature across disciplinesExamines a diverse array of cross-media artifactsReveals pedagogical messages embedded in popular culture texts to prompt thinking about the multiple ways higher education

"Postcolonial Literatures of Climate Change investigates the evolving nature of postcolonial literary criticism in response to global, regional, and local environmental transformations brought about by climate change. It builds upon, and extends, previous studies in postcolonial ecocriticism to demonstrate how the growing awareness of human-caused global warming has begun to permeate literary consciousness, praxis and analysis. The breadth of the volume's coverage - the diversity of its focal locations, cultures, genres and texts - serves as a salient reminder that, while climate change is global, its impacts vary, effecting peoples from place to place unequally, and often in accordance with their particular historical experience of colonialism and neo-colonialism, as well as their ongoing marginalisations. "Demonstrating the urgency of invoking novel epistemological approaches combining the scientific and the imaginative, this book is a "must read" for those concerned about the present and potential impacts of climate change on formerly colonised areas of the world. The comprehensive and illuminating Introduction offers a crucial history and current state of postcolonial ecocriticism as it has been and is addressing climate crises." - Helen Tiffin, University of Wollongong "The broad focus on the polar regions, the Pacific and the Caribbean - with added essays on environmental justice/activism in India and Egypt - opens up rich terrain for examination under the rubric of postcolonial and ecocritical analysis, not only expanding recent studies in this field but also enabling new comparisons and conceptual linkages." - Helen Gilbert, Royal Holloway, University of London "The subject is topical and vital and will become even more so as the problem of how to reconcile the demands of climate change with the effects on regions and individual nations already damaged by the economic effects of colonisation and the subsequent inequalities resulting from neo-colonialism continues to grow." - Gareth Griffiths, Em. Prof. University of Western Australia"--

This book explores popular media depictions of higher education from an American perspective. Each chapter in this book investigates the portrait of higher education in an exciting array of media - including novels, television, film, comic books and video games - revealing the ways anti-intelelctualism manifests through time. The authors provide incisive commentary on the role of the university as well as the life of students, faculty, and staff in fictional college campuses

The title of this book translates as A History of Tahiti: from its origins to today. Written entirely in French, it is a compilation of essays by eight teachers and researchers. According to the editor, Éric Conte, this volume was inspired by the absence of a concise up-to-date history book of Tahiti and her islands - and therefore is primarily aimed at an audience of teachers and students, as well as the general public. The book spans around a thousand years of history from the settlement of Tahiti and her islands by ocean-going Polynesians through to 2004 which heralded the beginning of a turbulent political period not included in the book. In this review I have translated the chapter titles into English.