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This paper reports on an English language teaching and learning experience with the use of Kahoot in a perspective that combines the pedagogy of multiliteracies (COPE; KALANTZIS, 2000, 2009; KRESS, 2010; LEMKE, 2010; PAESANI; ALLEN; DUPUY, 2016; ROJO, 2012) with collaborative learning (DONATO; MCCORMICK, 1994; FIGUEIREDO, 2005, 2006, 2015, 2019; LANTOLF; APPEL, 1994). This research is justified on the grounds that it is of paramount importance to learn how to deal with ongoing contemporary changes connected to the multicultural practices brought about by globalization as well as with the multimodal languages provided by technological advances. This case study was conducted in a higher education context, in Brazil, with seven students who took English as a major in the first semester of 2018. The data generated come from the description of the activity done, the students' responses to a questionnaire, and the students' learning narratives. Among the findings, we highlight principally the promotion of multimodal text reading practices and the development of collaborative dialogues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Coming along with Polanyi's ideas of fictitious commodity, this paper seeks to reveal the logical inconsistencies and silents in the economic science arguments on the labor force as a commodity. Once Marx's influence on the anti-capitalist movements is outstanding, we need to show his contribution, through his economic thought, to the scientific economism. As is well known, when proposed that the commodity sell by the worker was the 'labor force' instead the labor, as the classical economists used to say, Marx was able to built his theory on the capitalist economy theory, which relies on the concept of surplus value.. That is the reason why the paper is specially concern with the failures or weaknesses present in one of the huge Marx contribution to the economics thought: the concept of labor force. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ten years after the protests in Seattle in 1999, this article aims to conduct an evaluation of the anti-globalization movement. Our hypothesis is that during those years, the antiglobalization movement has shown an important ability to organize, mobilize and influence in the international scene, and that it is currently living a stage of crisis as an actor, but with a large part of its legacy having being made into a new framework for transnational collective action. Thus, this paper presents the movement and its features, including a brief terminological and conceptual discussion; an explanation about its origins, reviewing the main cycles and agendas; a study of the first signs of exhaustion of the anti-globalization movement, and the arguments that, beyond the movement's crisis, there is also a conceptual crisis in order to explain the new transnational activism; and, finally, a reflection on some of the challenges faced by global movements nowadays. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]