Historical content, historical methods and historical orientation are three aspects that may be taught in history education.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 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…
Ellen Key (1849-1926) was one of Europe's most influential thinkers on issues of motherhood and women's sexuality during the early 1900s. This anthology maps how her ideas were reformulated in Europe's five major language areas - English, German, Fr…
While most of the scholarship on populism and populist political communication is focused on Western European countries with a long tradition of populist parties' appearance on the political scene (such as Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium, or Swede…
The purpose of the book is to emphasize the role of some women writers (who lived from 19th century to the present) who have devoted a large part of their editorial production to the field of children's literature. Specifically, the research aims at…
Weltanschauungen haben zwischen 1850 und 1945 in Deutschland Konjunktur. Als philosophische, wissens- und wissenschaftshistorische Diskursangebote reagieren sie im Prozess der Moderne auf entstehende Synthesemangel, auf Ganzheitsverluste und auf das…
For more than 20 years now, the publishing industry has been highly influenced by innovations in digital technology. This is not the first time that technological changes affect the book trade. Both the printing press and industrialized production m…
The book contains essays on the heterogeneity of Polish Romantic literature and its links with Europe's cultural heritage. The essays deal with, among other topics, the idea of beauty and truth, correspondences between the arts, the role of traditio…
Das Thema dieses Tagungsbandes sind die vielf ltigen Widmungs- und Lobpraktiken in Texten der Mittleren deutschen Literatur als Zeugnisse der Rezeption einer literarischen Tradition aus dem europ ischen Raum. Die unterschiedlichen Formen von Paratex…
Nach den verheerenden Krisen im 14. Jahrhundert wuchs in Europa der Wunsch nach grundlegenden Reformen in Kirche und Gesellschaft. An dieser Suche beteiligten sich neue wie alte Krafte: Humanisten ebenso wie Mitglieder der Reformorden, Fursten und s…
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 vorliegende Einfuehrung besteht aus 16 Einheiten, die alle so konzipiert sind, dass sie auch unabhaengig voneinander gelesen werden koennen. Jedes Kapitel fuehrt in einen bestimmten Bereich der Linguistik ein: in Semantik, Sprachgeschichte, Spra…
"Zvinorwadza," a very common formulation heard among patients in the Mberengwa district, Zimbabwe, means -it is painful- or -it hurts-. This book deals with patients in a rural area of southern Africa and poses two basic questions: What does it mean…
Las transiciones democraticas en la peninsula iberica y el Cono Sur durante las decadas de 1970 y 1980 forman una gran parte de las memorias colectivas en ambos lados del Atlantico. Sin embargo, estas memorias no son solo nacionales, sino que conflu…
El Teatro Espa ol Universitario (TEU) constituy uno de los m s singulares espacios de libertad durante el franquismo. A pesar de la falta de libertades en las c tedras y de la f rrea censura sobre la escena, universidad y teatro formaron una singula…
La Guerra Civil y el franquismo provocaron victimas en toda Espana. No obstante, hasta hoy, no todas las victimas reciben la misma atencion publica. Las historias olvidadas o insuficientemente escuchadas forman parte de la literatura de la memoria e…
Esta investigacion se desarrolla en tres ambitos de imponente amplitud: la narracion autobiografica, el texto literario y la obra de Salvador Dali. El eje vertebrador es la consideracion de la autobiografia como obra artistica, lo cual conlleva un a…
The anagrams, or more generally, the mathemata and morphologically related kalophonic forms of Byzantine melopoeia, constitute the artistic creations by which Psaltic Art is known in all its splendour and becomes an object of admiration. Kalophony a…
What makes a good movie? How can one analyse a film accordingly without primarily interpreting it? Dramaturgy can enrich film understanding, for those who make films, as well as for those who want to understand better why they are made how. Film Dra…
This book presents the results of the MIDA-project - the impact of labour migra-tion from the Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries to the Danish labour market. In addition, it includes chapters that focus on labour mobility in other EU count…
Finland, South Africa and Bosnia-Herzegovina are each burdened by memories of a civil war, between either social classes, racial groups or ethnic communities. History wars have followed the conflicts and been fought on the arenas of popular rhetoric…
Menschen, die nach vormodernen Verstandnis bedurftig waren, benoetigten i.d.R. lebensnotwendige Unterstutzung durch Dritte. Neben privater Versorgung konnten Betroffene in Kloestern, Hospitalern und bei Medizinalvertretern Hilfe finden. Archaologisc…
Urban public space continues to be the focus of debate regarding its conceptualization and how it is designed, (re)produced and managed. Nowadays public spaces are facing new challenges conceptually and practically. This book focuses on two of them:…
The growing interest in the visual dimension of musical performance practice and the use of film as a medium of presentation and research in Ethnomusicology is related to the increasingly wide use of visual ethnographic methods of research and repre…
The goal of the book is to investigate mediating practices used in translation of children's and young adults' fiction, focusing on transfer of contents considered controversial or unsuitable for young audiences. It shows how the macabre and cruelty…
The volume proposes a comprehensive collection of carefully selected studies investigating some of the most intriguing problems explored in the field of literary translation. The contributions authored by an international group of scholars and profe…
The aim of the book is to present a collection of studies in the role of humanism in Polish culture from the 15th to the 20th century. Humanism was one important and constitutive element of Polish culture. The present authors discuss following probl…
This book offers a concise introduction to synchronic English linguistics. Following an introduction to language and linguistics as such, it provides detailed descriptions of the different language levels: phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax…
This book reexamines the origins and growth of the medieval inquisition which provided a framework for the large-scale operations against religious dissidents. In the last quarter of the twelfth century, the papacy launched concerted efforts to hunt…
This volume takes a broad outlook on the concept of transculturality. Contributions from 19 authors and specialists, of almost as many diverse origins, grapple with this concept, each in their own way. How can transculturality be described? How can…
Political actors from many different countries locate their home country as a unique transition point between "the East" and "the West". The terms "east" and "west" have become highly symbolic, yet also have a relative meaning, since every place is…
This book analyzes the literature that emerged from World War II. It also examines the literature that resulted from the two major earthquakes that have struck Japan over the course of over the last hundred years. The small number of volumes previou…
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…
In the last few years we have witnessed the widespread proliferation of video camcorders as a powerful and sophisticated instrument for data collection. Video is increasingly used in broad areas of research throughout the social sciences. It allows…
The anthology departs from the fundamental idea that the university is deeply connected to the ideal of "Bildung" and to democratic values. If the university should serve as an open space to develop democracy and to meet today's social, cultural and…
Recent years have seen the topic of victims and victimhood brought to the fore on the island of Ireland, both in the North with the publication of the controversial Eames/Bradley report dealing with victims of the Troubles, and in the Republic with…
What is the role and position of Russophone/Russian culture in Ukraine today? How can the dynamics of Ukrainian culture lend insight into the possibility of a global Russian culture, or multiple Russian cultures, in the contemporary world? The autho…
Die Sprachlehrmethode "Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling" (TPRS) setzt sich zum Ziel, das fliessende Sprechen und Verstehen einer Sprache zu ermoeglichen. Der Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf der Vermittlung einiger hundert haufig ver…
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…
In sub-Saharan Africa, mobile technology has developed at a rapid pace and the numbers of mobile users have increased faster than those in the rest of the world. The underlying question of how mobile journalism and social media may support African c…
Dieser Band dokumentiert eine Reihe von Beitragen der XVIII. Internationalen wissenschaftlichen Konferenz Bildungsreform und Lehrerausbildung zum Thema Bildungswissenschaft auf der Suche nach globaler Identitat, die vom Ministerium fur Bildung und W…
Sempre presenti nella storia dell'umanita, le migrazioni sono divenute negli ultimi anni un tema centrale della politica e della cultura europee. Attraverso i contributi di studiosi di paesi e discipline differenti, il volume indaga su come sia cost…
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This book expands the notion of sexual fantasies from the field of psychology into the realms of cultural studies, anthropology, philosophy, and sociology. So far, much research on sexual fantasies has dealt with issues of gender differences, the ef…
Der Band dokumentiert eine Reihe von Beitragen der XX. Internationalen wissenschaftlichen Konferenz Bildungsreform und Lehrerausbildung, die vom Ministerium fur Bildung und Wissenschaft der Republik Litauen, der Litauischen Universitat fur Bildungsw…
While unappreciated and controversial during most of his life, Anton Bruckner is today regarded as the greatest symphonist between Beethoven and Gustav Mahler - in terms of originality, boldness and monumentality of his music. The image of Bruckner…
Das Buch stellt eine linguistisch-didaktische Auseinandersetzung mit dem Begriff des authentischen Textes und seiner Einbettung in einen Diskurs dar. Im Fokus der sich stark an die deutschsprachige Text- und Soziolinguistik sowie Fremdsprachendidakt…
The volume comprises adaptation studies of ten selected utopian/dystopian fictions written and filmed in Europe and America during the 20th and 21st centuries: Things to Come, Lost Horizon, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Lord of the Flies, The Andromeda Nebu…
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…
