文档介绍：Constructing Development
Bjorn Harald Nordtveit
Constructing Development
Civil Society and Literacy in a Time
of Globalization
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Dr. Bjorn Harald Nordtveit
University of Hong Kong
Fac. Education
Pokfulam Road
Hong Kong
Hong Kong/PR China
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And then it became known that the white man’s fetish
had unbelievable power. It was said he wore glasses on
his eyes so that he could see and talk to evil spirits. Not
long after, he won his three first converts.
Achebe.
When the farthest corner of the world has been con-
quered technologically and can be exploited econom-
ically; when any incident you like, in any place you
like, at any time you like, es accessible as fast
as you like; when you simultaneously “experience” an
assassination attempt against a king in France and a sym-
phony concert in Tokyo; when time is nothing but speed,
instantaneity, and simultaneity, and time as history has
vanished from all Dasein of all peoples; when a boxer
counts as the great man of a people; when the tallies of
millions at mass meetings are a triumph; then, yes then,
there still looms like a specter over all this uproar the
question: what for? – where to? – and what then?
Heidegger.
My mom can write her name now and she is telephoning
by herself. That helps to keep her occupied. At home,
when we are watching the African Fo