This volume brings together two core concepts that are central to understanding the social and public significance of religions and theologies within the contemporary world and are therefore of key importance to the discipline of religious education…
Self-leadership has emerged as an important theory to substitute for designated leaders through utilizing the potential of every single employee. Studies that investigate the antecedents of this concept have generally focused on dispositional factor…
This book is a philosophical analysis of knowledge in practices, focused on knowing how, tacit knowledge and expert knowledge. Knowing in action is the key concept. It covers understanding, well-functioning routines as well as successful learning pr…
Este libro presenta al estudiante de espanol una explicacion funcional de algunos de los temas centrales de la gramatica espanola que mas preocupan al aprendiente de espanol como segunda lengua y, a la vez, una introduccion a los principios basicos…
Unsere Demokratien stehen vor grossen politischen Herausforderungen, nicht zuletzt durch populistische Bewegungen und die Ruckkehr nationalistischer Trugbilder. Die Autoren des Bandes befragen das kritische philosophische, emanzipatorische Denken de…
Throughout the literature of creative learning, many assumptions and even stereotypes about the artists' creativity are nurtured, often according to myths going back to the Romanticism. The authors have been investigating and describing outstanding…
Vom 19. bis 21. Juni 2008 fand an der Universitat Innsbruck erstmalig eine Tagung statt, die ausschliesslich dem epischen Dichter Silius Italicus gewidmet war. Die einzelnen Beitrage, die in diesem Band versammelt und um einige vermehrt wurden, fass…
What do you know when you know something about history? What is important to know and how do you learn? Adolescents encounter history everywhere: at school, in the family, in media and society. But how do adolescents perceive history and in what way…
Die Studie untersucht die Rezeption der Paradies- und Sundenfallerzahlung des Buches Genesis, welche zu den wirkmachtigsten Texten des Alten Testaments zahlt. In der christlichen Literatur hat diese eine eindrucksvolle Rezeptionsgeschichte erfahren.…
Historical content, historical methods and historical orientation are three aspects that may be taught in history education. This study examines the emphases which are included in formal curricula texts and those which are included in teacher-made t…
This book analyzes the legal regime of the exploitation of the mineral resources in the Antarctic. Therefore, it elaborates on the development of the Antarctic Treaty and the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS). The author examines the history and influen…
The book describes the system of communist censorship in Poland in the years 1948-1958, as well as its effects on the development of literature. It is the first literary studies work which takes up the subject in such broad and systematic terms. The…
Today, we live in a post-truth era. Creating alternative realities, and making people believe fake realities become easier. Digital platforms tend to promote dramatic, sensational and emotional content that harms democracy. This book examines differ…
In den 1960er Jahren vollzog sich ein gesellschaftlicher Paradigmenwechsel. Dieser Transformationsprozess pragte die offentlichen Diskurse in den westlichen Industriegesellschaften. Eine Gesellschaft im Uberfluss schien sich zu realisieren. Im Zukun…
1910 fand auf der Munchner Theresienhoehe die groesste Ausstellung islamischer Kunst aller Zeiten statt. Rund 3600 Exponate aus internationalen Sammlungen und Museen wurden als "Meisterwerke muhammedanischer Kunst" gezeigt. Viele dieser Werke gelten…
Each generation brings their distinct features to classrooms, which makes teachers to rethink their instructional practices and reorganize the learning environment to accommodate students' needs. The youngest generation, called Generation Alpha, has…
Der Begriff Geistliches Lied umfasst ein weitgespanntes Bedeutungsfeld. Einstimmiges Kirchenlied, Andachtslied, geistliches Volkslied und mehrstimmiges Chorlied sind im engeren Sinne zu subsumieren. Im weiteren Sinne kommen vokale bzw. instrumentale…
This collection of essays offers a critical analysis of neoliberal transformation as it has unfolded in Sweden, long regarded as exemplary in terms of social welfare, equality and an inclusive multicultural democracy. The book presents a multidiscip…
"The Reimagined Community" is a comparative study of European cinema and the political shift from national traditions to transnational cooperation. The European peace project is reactivated with a fresh analysis of film cultures as critical history…
This book gives a critical account of various methods used in music analysis. In the first chapter, a number of current approaches such as semiotics, musical implications, Schenkerian analysis, and generative theory are demonstrated on Mozart's K. 3…
Punctuation is an integral element in writing and has been so for centuries. The present volume brings together approaches in linguistics, stylistics and other fields to highlight the rich repertoire of issues involved in the study of punctuation. T…
Within the rhetorical tradition lay an often unnoticeable, but at times marked suspicion about what was perceived to be effeminate and voluptuous language. Sensual and pleasurable language was thus understood as immoral in the same way as excessive…
This book is written for students of English who are interested in the history of the language and would like to read an accessible but also comprehensive and reasonably detailed introduction. Apart from basic information about language change and t…
Teacher education in higher education has been of great interest as a research area in recent years. The discussion focuses on topics such as tertiary pedagogies, professional development, instructional innovative practices as well as technology and…
Women Writing War focuses on the life-writing of the moudjahidate, the women veterans of the Algerian war of independence (1954-1962). The author offers close readings of memoir, testimonial, poetry and drama by Jacqueline Guerroudj, Louisette Ighil…
Translation Studies has been in action in the Polish humanities since 1930s. The book gathers the most important contributions from Polish translation scholars working in the context of Literary and Cultural Studies as well as Linguistics. The essay…
Im Mittelpunkt des Buches steht das Erzahlen von Musikgeschichten. Exemplarisch werden an der Musikkultur der beiden >verlorenen Residenzenmultifokalen
In the field of comparative legal history, Ethiopia is still an unknown country. One of its treasures is the Fetha Nagast, a book of law which had a great influence in the history of Ethiopia and still has great consideration in the society, with it…
Although separated by language and geography, Willa Cather and Marguerite Duras both explored the lives of women and children across the tumultuous twentieth century by drawing on their own experiences. This comparative critical study of Cather, a P…
L'auteur concoit la modalite comme une categorie semantico-fonctionnelle, independante des elements qui l'expriment et du niveau de la structure grammaticale dont ils relevent. Pour definir la modalite, il tient compte egalement de ses caracteristiq…
The book studies how multiple representations of the Other are constructed, Europeanized and used in Poland and Sweden in various heritage related contexts (museums, cities, war cemeteries, commemoration sites etc.) in the second decade of the 21st…
The book gives a detailed overview of relevant traditional indigenous Sami myths, beliefs and rituals based on empirical findings. The author inquires whether and how they are related to an ecologically sustainable use of the natural environment. He…
Shortlisted for the William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or ReviewFiction plays a vital role in describing history and transmitting culture. How writers understand and use history can play an equally important role in how they navigate a novel. T…
Das Mitte der 1960er Jahre erkennbare Bestreben nach einer engagierten, dem Weltgeschehen zugewandten Kunst fand auch in Skandinavien seine literarische Entsprechung in einer Konjunktur dokumentarischen Erzahlens. In den 1990er Jahren dann stiess de…
This present work brings to light the educational project developed by the African Party for the Independence of Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde (PAIGC) during the period of the armed liberation struggle against the Portuguese colonial regime in Guinea…
Das Buch vermittelt einen Einblick in die Fulle des in der DDR auf kammermusikalischem Gebiet Geschaffenen. Es werden die tradierten kammermusikalischen Genres, Gattungen, Formen und Besetzungen untersucht und auf Neuentwicklungen aufmerksam gemacht…
-Hochtechnologie- oder -Schlusseltechnologie- pragen als Schlagworte den offentlichen Diskurs um die Frage nach der Zukunftsfahigkeit des -Standorts Deutschland-. Ein weitgehend unterschatzter Aspekt in der offentlichen Diskussion ist dabei die hist…
How does a trauma survivor communicate "what can't be said out loud" to others? In what form? How can we - readers, listeners, viewers - recognize the pain and suffering hidden behind words, pictures, or other artifacts produced by trauma survivors?…
Uniquely amongst the numerous publications to appear on the work of the French social theorist Pierre Bourdieu, this book deals with data analysis, examining a range of techniques and instruments. After an introductory chapter outlining the key prin…
Die Skalen des Gemeinsamen europaischen Referenzrahmens fur Sprachen (GeRS) kommen zunehmend etwa bei der Formulierung von Bildungsstandards oder der Erstellung von Sprachtests zum Einsatz. Dieser Entwicklung steht jedoch ein eklatanter Mangel an St…
This volume constitutes the first anthology of texts in cognitive semiotics - the new transdisciplinary study of meaning, mind and communication that combines concepts and methods from semiotics, cognitive science and linguistics - from a multitude…
How do we approach other people's pain? This question is of crucial importance to the humanities, particularly literary and cultural studies, whenever they address narratives of terror and genocide, injustice and oppression, violence and trauma. Tal…
The relationship between education policy and local practices is at the core of research pertaining to the history of education. In this volume, the authors examine this issue from a multitude of perspectives, presenting a broad and comprehensive pi…
Dieses Buch stellt funf unterschiedliche deutsch-judische Schicksale unter der Verfolgung zur Zeit Hitlers dar, die in der Dichtung gespiegelt sind: Jahes Ende und totale Vernichtung oder Flucht und Emigration als Ausweg zum UEberleben - mit der ruh…
This book explores the development of C-tests for providing efficient measures of foreign language proficiency in eight different languages: Arabic, Bangla, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, French, Portuguese, and Spanish. Researchers report on how C-test…
Mit dem Begriff "Hochmittelalter" verbindet sich ein Zeitraum etwa vom 11. bis 13. Jahrhundert. Lange als Blutezeit des deutschen Mittelalters aufgefasst, schien diese Epoche in den vergangenen Jahren zunehmend aus dem Blickfeld der Forschung geruck…
The rapid development in information technology during the last few decades has not only given us greater opportunities to freely search for information and contacts. The growth of the Internet has also created new opportunities for criminal organis…
This book presents new translations of the earliest known studies in Social Policy. Juan-Luis Vives's De Subventione Pauperum (On the Relief of the Poor) is an academic report on the organisation of social welfare, prepared for the senate of Bruges…
Roman Ingarden (1893-1970), one of Husserl's closest students and friends, ranks among the most eminent of the first generation of phenomenologists. His magisterial Controversy over the Existence of the World, written during the years of World War I…
The volume, which is a highly recommended reading for translators, translation scholars and particularly translator educators, displays an impressive array of statements on current translator education. It is both comprehensive and versatile, inspir…
