Chinese trade and investment and its impacts on forests: A scoping study in the miombo woodlands

German, Laura; Schoneveld, G.C.; Wertz-Kanounnikoff, S.; Gumbo, Davison

doi:10.17528/cifor/003729

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“…13 The Policy has had both economic and political objectives, such as Zimbabwe's striving to draw much-needed investment and projecting itself as the defender of independence and sovereignty. 14 After Mugabe visited the Far East in 2001, Zimbabwe opted to look to the East to diversify its trade and investment partners away from traditional Western partners.…”

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Mugabe’s Look East Policy in the Context of Iran: Afrocentricity and Mugabeism

Maphaka

2023

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Zimbabwe’s Look East Policy particularly the country’s relations with China has drawn the attention of the media, academics, and scholarly literature. The introduction of the unwritten Look East Policy in 2003 saw the deepening of relations between Zimbabwe and countries in Southeast Asia, the Far East, and the Middle East. However, the literature focuses largely on Zimbabwe-China relations that were boosted by the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation at the broader level. Leaning on the Afrocentric theoretical framework the article analysed Mugabe’s Look East Policy in the context of Iran. The paper also leaned on Mugabeism which represents the ideology and personality of Mugabe as an influential political figure that dominated Zimbabwe’s political landscape and shaped the country’s policy direction at the domestic and international levels. Methodologically, the paper used desktop qualitative research that relied on primary and secondary sources. The article adopted Foreign Policy Analysis as an analytical tool and drew from Afrocentricity and Mugabeism as conceptual frameworks to shape the understanding of Zimbabwe’s foreign policy towards Iran. It contributes to the discourse on Mugabe’s Look East Foreign Policy which had focused largely on the challenges, failures and success of the Policy in the context of Zimbabwe-China relations. Alternatively, the paper analysed the role played by Mugabe as an individual decision-maker on the Policy in the context of Zimbabwe-Iran relations. It established that Zimbabwe-Iran relations were driven by Mugabe as an individual decision-maker. The Policy was informed by Mugabe’s disdain towards neoliberalism, his bad history with the West and as a proponent of an economy that is driven by Africans based on their historical and material conditions. The Policy is also attributed to Mugabe’s stubbornness and authoritarian characteristics. Keywords: Mugabe, Look East Policy, Iran, Afrocentricity, Mugabeism

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Mugabe’s Look East Policy in the Context of Iran: Afrocentricity and Mugabeism

Maphaka

2023

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“…The ground floor is a Drama Lab which is currently under construction. There is also a Roof Garden for holding conferences and other activities., The tree could be developed on an even bigger scale, with different branches for different subjects or different functions; the development possibilities are endless within SL, limited really only be resources (Li et al, 2012).…”

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Interactive and Collaborative Learning in Virtual English Classes

2013

Journal of Cases on Information Technology

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARYThis paper reports the tactile learning experience with simulated 3D learning environments in an English Department at a Hong Kong university. With the belief that multimedia instruction and multimedia learning help the learner's construction of knowledge (Mayer 2005, p.2), sections of Second Life were embedded into three separately taught English subjects. Various student activities were carefully designed, such as knowledge hunting, intercultural communication, peer assessment and assimilation of workplace tasks. In order to find out if students are motivated to use SL and if learning through a virtual environment is more effective than a traditional classroom or a 2D online environment, a questionnaire survey was conducted among the students. Student feedback was also retrieved from the reflective essays on the virtual learning activities. Positive feedback asserts that SL is an interesting, interactive and entertaining environment for both independent and collaborative learning. SL can be used for the placement of teaching materials, the demonstration of certain functions, initiating instant communication and enabling peer assessment in the learning process. The main difficulties according to the students are motivation, complications with technology and time consumption. On the whole, we regard Second Life as having future promise for facilitating linguistic development. However, usage of the platform requires substantial resource investment in order to ensure adequate design of interfaces and appropriate virtual activities for learning purposes.

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Chinese trade and investment and its impacts on forests: A scoping study in the miombo woodlands

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Mugabe’s Look East Policy in the Context of Iran: Afrocentricity and Mugabeism

Mugabe’s Look East Policy in the Context of Iran: Afrocentricity and Mugabeism

Interactive and Collaborative Learning in Virtual English Classes

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