Tag: Times

April 26, 2024

Political Education in Times of Populism Towards a Radical Democratic Education

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Free Download Edda Sant, "Political Education in Times of Populism: Towards a Radical Democratic Education"
English | ISBN: 303076298X | 2021 | 257 pages | PDF | 3 MB
"In professional and academic contexts nothing is more important than helping people to understand and engage with democratic society. Sant has written an excellent book which helps greatly towards that end. She has developed incisive new arguments about the nature of contemporary politics and education. Using the most recent as well as classic literature, she explores key ideas and issues. Through wide ranging discussions and by referring to her own valuable empirical work she characterizes and creates thoughtful insights and innovative pedagogical approaches. This book achieves the very difficult task of illuminating complex ideas at the same time as helping to determine practical ways to achieve social justice through education. Political education has been neglected for too long. This book is a bold new step in its achievement."

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April 25, 2024

A Tibetan revolutionary the political life and times of Bapa Phüntso Wangye

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Free Download A Tibetan revolutionary : the political life and times of Bapa Phüntso Wangye By Phun-tshogs-dba?n-rgyal, Sgo-ra-na?n-pa; ʼBa-pa Phun-tshogs-dbaṅ-rgyal; Sherap, Dawei; Phun-tshogs-dbaṅ-rgyal, Sgo-ra-naṅ-pa; Goldstein, Melvyn C.; ʼBa-pa Phun-tshogs-dbaṅ-rgyal; Siebenschuh, William R
2004 | 371 Pages | ISBN: 0520240898 | PDF | 3 MB
This is the as-told-to political autobiography of Phüntso Wangye (Phünwang), one of the most important Tibetan revolutionary figures of the twentieth century. Phünwang began his activism in school, where he founded a secret Tibetan Communist Party. He was expelled in 1940, and for the next nine years he worked to organize a guerrilla uprising against the Chinese who controlled his homeland. In 1949, he merged his Tibetan Communist Party with Mao’s Chinese Communist Party. He played an important role in the party’s administrative organization in Lhasa and was the translator for the young Dalai Lama during his famous 1954-55 meetings with Mao Zedong. In the 1950s, Phünwang was the highest-ranking Tibetan official within the Communist Party in Tibet. Though he was fluent in Chinese, comfortable with Chinese culture, and devoted to socialism and the Communist Party, Phünwang’s deep commitment to the welfare of Tibetans made him suspect to powerful Han colleagues. In 1958 he was secretly detained; three years later, he was imprisoned in solitary confinement in Beijing’s equivalent of the Bastille for the next eighteen years.Informed by vivid firsthand accounts of the relations between the Dalai Lama, the Nationalist Chinese government, and the People’s Republic of China, this absorbing chronicle illuminates one of the world’s most tragic and dangerous ethnic conflicts at the same time that it relates the fascinating details of a stormy life spent in the quest for a new Tibet.

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March 7, 2024

52 Times Britain Was a Bellend The History You Didn’t Get Taught at School [Audiobook]

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Free Download 52 Times Britain Was a Bellend: The History You Didn’t Get Taught at School (Audiobook)
English | October 17, 2019 | ASIN: B07W81HPCV | M4B@128 kbps | 2h 59m | 165 MB
Author: James Felton | Narrator: Mathew Baynton
Twitter hero James Felton brings you the painfully funny history of Britain you were never taught at school, chronicling 52 of the most ludicrous, weird and downright ‘baddie’ things we Brits* have done to the world since time immemorial – before conveniently forgetting all about them, of course. Including:

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