On the basis of the research and dissecting of particular circumstances in Slovenia the book “A Defense of Reading: Reader and Literature in the 21st Century” offers possibilities both for organized dealing with various of literary texts that would develop effective reading literacy and in those forms of criticial thinking required in current circumstances of every educated individual .
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The book “Razsežnosti branja” (“Dimensions of Reading”) contains studies from the area of reading comprehension and the development of reading literacy. The studies are aimed at informing teachers at all levels about the importance of reading literature, especially from an intercultural viewpoint. The collection of studies was presented specially to Slovenian teachers in Italy, where the author dealt with the specialness of intercultural contact in a bilingual environment. There was also widespread press coverage.
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The book “The Colours of Tolerance, the Words of Differentness, The forms of Foreignness: Education for Tolerance and Accepting Differentness through Youth Literature” arose through the encouragement of the editor Neva Šlibar who created the theoretical frame for dealing with the theme. It is analysed, illustrated, applied and, above all, illuminated from various viewpoints in the other 9 contributions to the monograph. The first chapter attempts to answer the question of why and how literature can cultivate tolerance, the acceptance of differentness and foreignness.
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Translation theory has taken quite some time to deal with the taboo subject of translating into non-mother tongues. The topics of the papers range from basic issues of translation practice, such as English as a lingua franca, to specific linguistic and cultural issues. The collection of papers can be used in teaching literary translation and translation into a foreign language. Due to its success it has been reprinted recently.
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The International Conference on EUROPE, WORLD AND HUMANITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY. Dialogue in Culture, Dialogue between Cultures took place in Ljubljana from April 10-12 2008. It was organized by the Institute of Nova Revija in occasion of the presidency od Slovenia to the European Union and in honour of the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue. Its speakers were prominent thinkers such as Waldenfels, Geremek, Michnik, Dalos, Galimberti in Khoury. It was coorganized by one of the research team's members, Mira Miladinović Zalaznik, who is also an editor of the conference proceedings.
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
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