http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/handle/123456789/3493 2026-04-04T00:07:53Z 2026-04-04T00:07:53Z Haque, Muhammed Shahriar Joher, Umme Hani M. http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/handle/123456789/3503 2022-04-13T05:18:49Z 2018-12-12T00:00:00Z

Is blended learning the future of higher education?: Stakeholders’ Perspectives from Bangladesh Haque, Muhammed Shahriar; Joher, Umme Hani M. Government higher education is extremely cheap in Bangladesh, in comparison to private education. To cover the cost of private higher education, graduate students of private universities who work and study at the same time, face an uphill struggle in finding the right balance. In dire circumstances, they are forced to make a critical life changing choice— either to completely become immersed in work, or leave and pursue fulltime higher studies. In such a situation, blended learning can apparently be the answer, as this will enable graduate students to work and study at the same time. However, as hardly any research has been carried out in this field in Bangladesh up until 2018, it seems too naive to jump to conclusions. This paper specifically looks at the implication of blended learning from the perspectives of stakeholders like students pursuing graduate studies, academics, employers, and housewives. Data was gathered from 10 private universities, six corporate sectors, and dropout housewives, and analysedby employing two theories (Social-constructivism and Dual coding) and multimodal model of blended learning (enriched virtual model and flipped classroom). Findings proved to be interesting. The implementation of online classes on the one hand may help learners to balance the work and study equilibrium, as well as decrease dropouts from higher education, on the other hand would be quite costly due to virtual infrastructural development and teacher training.

2018-12-12T00:00:00Z Ahmed, Fatema Johera http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/handle/123456789/3502 2022-04-13T05:11:27Z 2018-12-12T00:00:00Z

‘Still I Am Not Tragic’: Indigenous Australian Women’s Sovereignty in Marie Munkara’s Every Secret Thing and A Most Peculiar Act Ahmed, Fatema Johera In this paper, I examine the representation of the Indigenous women characters in two novels by Indigenous Australian writer Marie Munkara, namely Every Secret Thing (2009) and A Most Peculiar Act (2014). Munkara’s novels are set in the early phase of the colonisation of Australia and trace the takeover of Indigenous lands and lives by the Catholic Church and bureaucrats employed by the office of the Chief Protector of Aborigines. I argue that colonial constructions of white femininity disempowered both settler and Indigenous women. Despite being doubly colonised because of their race and gender, Munkara’s female characters maintain their sovereignty by engaging in decolonising practices. Indigenous women’s resistant subjectivity works in tandem with their connection to their lands to expose white ways of knowing as not the universals they are taken to be. They reveal that acquiring the coloniser’s language and imitating white cultural practices do not take away from their Indigeneity. Rather these are signs of Indigenous people’s dynamism and syncretism; they are means by which Indigenous women survive colonisation, maintain their sovereignty, and even creatively counter the colonial imposition.

2018-12-12T00:00:00Z Saba, Anika http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/handle/123456789/3501 2022-04-13T05:09:54Z 2018-12-12T00:00:00Z

Dionysus Meets the Caribbean: A Study of London Notting Hill Carnival in the Light of Samuel Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners Saba, Anika Samuel Selvon’s iconic novel The Lonely Londoners (1956) captures the struggles of black Caribbean immigrants in the eponymous megacity. The setting of his novel is around the neighborhood of Notting Hill which has become synonymous with the Notting Hill Carnival that takes place in London every summer. This extravaganza, though has financial benefits for its participants, is an opportunity of social inclusion for the immigrants and subversion of British authority. This paper will trace the historical background of the London Notting Hill Carnival and the role of its main organizers, the Caribbean immigrants, in the light of Selvon’s novel which is based on fictional representations of this marginalized group. In doing so, the paper will refer to Richard Lehan’s argument of how the marginalized embody the Dionysian spirit in urban spaces, and Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophical explanation of the age-old conflict between rationality and sensuality symbolized by the Apollonian and Dionysian myths in Western tradition. The purpose of this paper is to show how the black Caribbean immigrants of Selvon’s work embody the spirit of Dionysius in this modern-day Bacchanalia which takes place on the streets of London, and in extension, make an argument for the contribution of all marginalized immigrants in the repressed but vital spirit of Dionysus in the city.

2018-12-12T00:00:00Z Ferdoush, Jannatul http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/handle/123456789/3500 2022-04-13T05:08:13Z 2018-12-12T00:00:00Z

Edna’s “Moments of Being” and “Wild Zone” of Female Sexuality: A Gynocritical Study of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening Ferdoush, Jannatul This paper studies Kate Chopin’s reinterpretation of female sexuality and personal autonomy in The Awakening through the lens of Elaine Showalter’s Gynocriticism. It argues that Edna’s struggle with the traditional idea of female sexual abstention, self-sacrifice, and silence symbolizes her insatiable desire to redefine female identity. The articulation of her overt sexuality in the novella offers a new gateway of understanding a ‘female self ’. Edna’s physical autonomy awakens her to a subversive, compelling, dynamic and liberating “wild” female self within. Edna in her journey into the untamed zone of sexuality through “moments of being” catches a glimpse of the forbidden trajectory of self-knowledge. She yearns to reach her selfhood through these utterly individual moments of awareness, intense power, beauty and personal significance. The unfolding of her female interiority reveals a strong connection between wildness of female eros and creativity. Chopin identifies this so called evil, unrestraint sexuality as an elixir of woman empowerment. Edna’s wandering into her sexual wilderness embodies a new female archetype who writes her own story of resistance and power through her body. Edna’s gradual alienation from androcentric idea of chastity, marriage, motherhood, her celebration of female body, and the final rejection of ‘happy-ever-after reality’ evoke a volcanic eruption of a new femininity in the female literary tradition.

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