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Productive Remembering and Social Agency (Transgressions)

Productive Remembering and Social Agency examines how memory can be understood, used and interpreted in forward-looking directions in education to support agency and social change. The edited collection features contributions from established and new scholars who take up the idea of productive remembering across diverse contexts, positioning the work at the cutting edge of research and practice. Contexts range across geographical locations (Canada, China, Rwanda, South Africa) and across critical social issues, from HIV & AIDS to the legacy of genocide and Indian residential schools, from issues of belonging, place, and media to interrogations of identity. This interdisciplinary collection is relevant not only to education itself but also to memory studies and related disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.

Productivity in Higher Education (National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report)

How do the benefits of higher education compare with its costs, and how does this comparison vary across individuals and institutions? These questions are fundamental to quantifying the productivity of the education sector. The studies in Productivity in Higher Education use rich and novel administrative data, modern econometric methods, and careful institutional analysis to explore productivity issues. The authors examine the returns to undergraduate education, differences in costs by major, the productivity of for-profit schools, the productivity of various types of faculty and of outcomes, the effects of online education on the higher education market, and the ways in which the productivity of different institutions responds to market forces. The analyses recognize five key challenges to assessing productivity in higher education: the potential for multiple student outcomes in terms of skills, earnings, invention, and employment; the fact that colleges and universities are “multiproduct” firms that conduct varied activities across many domains; the fact that students select which school to attend based in part on their aptitude; the difficulty of attributing outcomes to individual institutions when students attend more than one; and the possibility that some of the benefits of higher education may arise from the system as a whole rather than from a single institution. The findings and the approaches illustrated can facilitate decision-making processes in higher education.

Productivity in Higher Education (National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report)

How do the benefits of higher education compare with its costs, and how does this comparison vary across individuals and institutions? These questions are fundamental to quantifying the productivity of the education sector. The studies in Productivity in Higher Education use rich and novel administrative data, modern econometric methods, and careful institutional analysis to explore productivity issues. The authors examine the returns to undergraduate education, differences in costs by major, the productivity of for-profit schools, the productivity of various types of faculty and of outcomes, the effects of online education on the higher education market, and the ways in which the productivity of different institutions responds to market forces. The analyses recognize five key challenges to assessing productivity in higher education: the potential for multiple student outcomes in terms of skills, earnings, invention, and employment; the fact that colleges and universities are “multiproduct” firms that conduct varied activities across many domains; the fact that students select which school to attend based in part on their aptitude; the difficulty of attributing outcomes to individual institutions when students attend more than one; and the possibility that some of the benefits of higher education may arise from the system as a whole rather than from a single institution. The findings and the approaches illustrated can facilitate decision-making processes in higher education.

Productivity in Higher Education (National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report)

How do the benefits of higher education compare with its costs, and how does this comparison vary across individuals and institutions? These questions are fundamental to quantifying the productivity of the education sector. The studies in Productivity in Higher Education use rich and novel administrative data, modern econometric methods, and careful institutional analysis to explore productivity issues. The authors examine the returns to undergraduate education, differences in costs by major, the productivity of for-profit schools, the productivity of various types of faculty and of outcomes, the effects of online education on the higher education market, and the ways in which the productivity of different institutions responds to market forces. The analyses recognize five key challenges to assessing productivity in higher education: the potential for multiple student outcomes in terms of skills, earnings, invention, and employment; the fact that colleges and universities are “multiproduct” firms that conduct varied activities across many domains; the fact that students select which school to attend based in part on their aptitude; the difficulty of attributing outcomes to individual institutions when students attend more than one; and the possibility that some of the benefits of higher education may arise from the system as a whole rather than from a single institution. The findings and the approaches illustrated can facilitate decision-making processes in higher education.

Productivity in Higher Education (National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report)

How do the benefits of higher education compare with its costs, and how does this comparison vary across individuals and institutions? These questions are fundamental to quantifying the productivity of the education sector. The studies in Productivity in Higher Education use rich and novel administrative data, modern econometric methods, and careful institutional analysis to explore productivity issues. The authors examine the returns to undergraduate education, differences in costs by major, the productivity of for-profit schools, the productivity of various types of faculty and of outcomes, the effects of online education on the higher education market, and the ways in which the productivity of different institutions responds to market forces. The analyses recognize five key challenges to assessing productivity in higher education: the potential for multiple student outcomes in terms of skills, earnings, invention, and employment; the fact that colleges and universities are “multiproduct” firms that conduct varied activities across many domains; the fact that students select which school to attend based in part on their aptitude; the difficulty of attributing outcomes to individual institutions when students attend more than one; and the possibility that some of the benefits of higher education may arise from the system as a whole rather than from a single institution. The findings and the approaches illustrated can facilitate decision-making processes in higher education.

Produktdesign: Konzeption – Entwurf – Technologie (Bibliothek der Mediengestaltung)

Dieses Produktdesign-Buch vermittelt Methoden und Praxiswissen Mit diesem Buch über die Produktgestaltung entwickeln Sie tiefgreifendes Verständnis über das Produktdesign. Als Teil der „Bibliothek der Mediengestaltung“ zeichnet es die einzelnen Schritte des Designprozesses genau und verständlich nach – von der Konzeption und dem Entwurf bis hin zum finalen Produkt. Dieser Band berüksichtigt aktuelle Entwicklungen in der Medien- und Werbeindustrie. Er behandelt gängige Technologien, Fertigungsverfahren und Werkstoffe und widmet sich gleichzeitig aktuellen Entwicklungen wie dem 3D-Druck. Mit diesem Buch über Produktdesign sind Rapid Prototyping und generative Fertigung für Sie schon bald keine Fremdwörter mehr. Vertiefen Sie Ihr Wissen mit Hilfe von Übungsaufgaben Nach einer kurzen Begriffsdefinition bringt Ihnen dieses Produktdesign-Buch z. B. folgende Themenaspekte näher: • Produktleben • Produktsprache • Produktanalyse • Mechanische Bearbeitungsverfahren • Modellbautechniken • Produkte und die Digitalisierung Zudem erfahren Sie in diesem Werk mehr über die Eigenschaften verschiedener Werkstoffe wie Metalle, Kunststoffe, Verbundwerkstoffe u. v. m. Testen Sie Ihr Wissen am Ende jedes Kapitels mit praktischen Übungsaufgaben. Als Teil der „Bibliothek der Mediengestaltung“ erfüllt dieses Produktdesign-Buch die Rahmen- und Prüfungsordnungen von Studien- und Ausbildungsgängen und eignet sich bestens als Lehr- und Arbeitsbuch oder zum Lernen im Selbststudium.

Produktionsleitsysteme in der Automobilfertigung (VDI-Buch)

Das Buch zeigt, wie die Produktionsleittechnik in der Automobilfertigung vom Presswerk bis zur Endmontage effizienter gestaltet werden kann. Beschrieben werden Motivationen für die Einführung von Produktionsleitsystemen (PLS) und der mögliche Return on Investment. Methoden für die Einführung, Prozesse, Benutzerschnittstellen, IT- und Datenstrukturen werden erläutert. Darüber hinaus diskutiert der Autor Basistechnologien und deren Einfluss auf die Auslegung von PLS. Das Thema wurde erstmals speziell für die Automobilindustrie aufbereitet.

PRODUKTiver im Homeoffice: Innovative Methoden zum besseren Arbeiten im Homeoffice: Psychologisch fundiert (essentials)

Aufgrund der heutigen Arbeit in einer digitalisierten und globalisierten Welt ist auch das Homeoffice als eine Form von Telearbeit relevant. Um ein besseres Arbeiten im Homeoffice zu ermöglichen, werden in diesem essential Herausforderungen beim Arbeiten im Homeoffice adressiert und basierend auf psychologischen Modellen, Theorien und Forschungskenntnissen Produktideen für die Praxis vorgestellt. Die Ideen sollen innovative Problemlöseprozesse aufzeigen und Anstoß zu eigenen Ideen bieten.

Produktiver Umgang mit Spannungsfeldern und Grenzen in der Projektarbeit: Handlungsempfehlungen aus der Praxis (essentials)

Projektleitende erleben vielfältige Spannungsfelder in ihrer Arbeit und sind dabei besonders exponiert. Das Buch erklärt die verschiedenen Spannungsfelder, denen Projektverantwortliche ausgesetzt sind und zeigt, wie ein nachhaltiger Umgang über Grenzmanagement gelingen kann, damit die anspruchsvolle Aufgabe mit Freude, Erfolg und bleibender Gesundheit erledigt werden kann. Praktische Hinweise zur produktiven und nachhaltigen Gestaltung der Projektleitungsrolle werden aus Sicht der Praxis vorgestellt.

Profaning Paul (Class 200: New Studies in Religion)

A critical reconsideration of the repeated use of the biblical letters of Paul. The letters of Paul have been used to support and condone a host of evils over the span of more than two millennia: racism, slavery, imperialism, misogyny, and anti-Semitism, to name a few. Despite, or in some cases because of, this history, readers of Paul have felt compelled to reappropriate his letters to fit liberal or radical politics, seeking to set right the evils done in Paul’s name. Starting with the language of excrement, refuse, and waste in Paul’s letters, Profaning Paul looks at how Paul’s “shit” is recycled and reconfigured. It asks why readers, from liberal Christians to academic biblical scholars to political theorists and philosophers, feel compelled to make Paul into a hero, mining his words for wisdom. Following the lead of feminist, queer, and minoritized scholarship, Profaning Paul asks what would happen if we stopped recycling Paul’s writings. By profaning the status of his letters as sacred texts, we might open up new avenues for imagining political figurations to meet our current and coming political, economic, and ecological challenges.

Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study

A sociological history of literary study—both as a discipline and as a profession. As the humanities in higher education struggle with a labor crisis and with declining enrollments, the travails of literary study are especially profound. No scholar has analyzed the discipline’s contradictions as authoritatively as John Guillory. In this much-anticipated new book, Guillory shows how the study of literature has been organized, both historically and in the modern era, both before and after its professionalization. The traces of this volatile history, he reveals, have solidified into permanent features of the university. Literary study continues to be troubled by the relation between discipline and profession, both in its ambivalence about the literary object and in its anxious embrace of a professionalism that betrays the discipline’s relation to its amateur precursor: criticism. In a series of timely essays, Professing Criticism offers an incisive explanation for the perennial churn in literary study, the constant revolutionizing of its methods and objects, and the permanent crisis of its professional identification. It closes with a robust outline of five key rationales for literary study, offering a credible account of the aims of the discipline and a reminder to the professoriate of what they already do, and often do well.

Professing Literature: An Institutional History, Twentieth Anniversary Edition

Widely considered the standard history of the profession of literary studies, Professing Literature unearths the long-forgotten ideas and debates that created the literature department as we know it today. In a readable and often-amusing narrative, Gerald Graff shows that the heated conflicts of our recent culture wars echo—and often recycle—controversies over how literature should be taught that began more than a century ago. Updated with a new preface by the author that addresses many of the provocative arguments raised by its initial publication, Professing Literature remains an essential history of literary pedagogy and a critical classic. “Graff’s history. . . is a pathbreaking investigation showing how our institutions shape literary thought and proposing how they might be changed.”— The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism

Professing Literature: An Institutional History, Twentieth Anniversary Edition

Widely considered the standard history of the profession of literary studies, Professing Literature unearths the long-forgotten ideas and debates that created the literature department as we know it today. In a readable and often-amusing narrative, Gerald Graff shows that the heated conflicts of our recent culture wars echo—and often recycle—controversies over how literature should be taught that began more than a century ago. Updated with a new preface by the author that addresses many of the provocative arguments raised by its initial publication, Professing Literature remains an essential history of literary pedagogy and a critical classic. “Graff’s history. . . is a pathbreaking investigation showing how our institutions shape literary thought and proposing how they might be changed.”— The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism

Professing Literature: An Institutional History, Twentieth Anniversary Edition

Widely considered the standard history of the profession of literary studies, Professing Literature unearths the long-forgotten ideas and debates that created the literature department as we know it today. In a readable and often-amusing narrative, Gerald Graff shows that the heated conflicts of our recent culture wars echo—and often recycle—controversies over how literature should be taught that began more than a century ago. Updated with a new preface by the author that addresses many of the provocative arguments raised by its initial publication, Professing Literature remains an essential history of literary pedagogy and a critical classic. “Graff’s history. . . is a pathbreaking investigation showing how our institutions shape literary thought and proposing how they might be changed.”— The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism

Professing Literature: An Institutional History, Twentieth Anniversary Edition

Widely considered the standard history of the profession of literary studies, Professing Literature unearths the long-forgotten ideas and debates that created the literature department as we know it today. In a readable and often-amusing narrative, Gerald Graff shows that the heated conflicts of our recent culture wars echo—and often recycle—controversies over how literature should be taught that began more than a century ago. Updated with a new preface by the author that addresses many of the provocative arguments raised by its initial publication, Professing Literature remains an essential history of literary pedagogy and a critical classic. “Graff’s history. . . is a pathbreaking investigation showing how our institutions shape literary thought and proposing how they might be changed.”— The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism

Professing to Learn: Creating Tenured Lives and Careers in the American Research University

Research, teaching, service, and public outreach—all are aspects of being a tenured professor. But this list of responsibilities is missing a central component: actual scholarly learning—disciplinary knowledge that faculty teach, explore in research, and share with the academic community. How do professors pursue such learning when they must give their attention as well to administrative and other obligations? Professing to Learn explores university professors’ scholarly growth and learning in the years immediately following the award of tenure, a crucial period that has a lasting impact on the academic career. Some launch from this point to multiple accomplishments and accolades, while others falter, their academic pursuits stalled. What contributes to these different outcomes? Drawing on interviews with seventy-eight professors in diverse disciplines and fields at five major American research universities, Anna Neumann describes how tenured faculty shape and disseminate their own disciplinary knowledge while attending committee meetings, grading exams, holding office hours, administering programs and departments, and negotiating with colleagues. By exploring the intellectual activities pursued by these faculty and their ongoing efforts to develop and define their academic interests, Professing to Learn directs the attention of higher education professionals and policy makers to the core aim of higher education: the creation of academic knowledge through research, teaching, and service.

The Profession and Practice of Adult Education: An Introduction (Coursesmart Ser.)

The Profession and Practice of Adult Education is a timely book and an excellent introduction to the field. Drawing from an extensive volume of literature, it provides comprehensive coverage and a clear guide. Graduate students will benefit from it and practitioners will be kept abreast of changes that are occurring. --Peter Jarvis, professor of continuing education and senior research professor, University of Surrey, United Kingdom

The Profession and Practice of Adult Education: An Introduction

The Profession and Practice of Adult Education is a timely book and an excellent introduction to the field. Drawing from an extensive volume of literature, it provides comprehensive coverage and a clear guide. Graduate students will benefit from it and practitioners will be kept abreast of changes that are occurring. --Peter Jarvis, professor of continuing education and senior research professor, University of Surrey, United Kingdom

Profession Schulsozialarbeit: Beiträge zu Qualifikation und Praxis der sozialpädagogischen Arbeit an Schulen

Ziel des Buches ist es, den Diskussionsprozess um die Schulsozialarbeit und deren Professionalisierung seit 2004 anhand der zentralen Veröffentlichungen des 'Kooperationsverbundes Schulsozialarbeit' nachzuzeichnen. Aus dem laufenden Diskurs kann inzwischen ein erstes Fazit gezogen und eine neue Perspektive für die Ausbildung von SchulsozialarbeiterInnen entwickelt werden. Erstmalig werden in dieser Veröffentlichung des 'Kooperationsverbundes Schulsozialarbeit' gegenwärtige Möglichkeiten und Grenzen des Handlungsfeldes und des Berufsbildes zusammengefasst.

Profession und Disziplin: Grundschulpädagogik im Diskurs (Jahrbuch Grundschulforschung #22)

Die Zielsetzung des Bandes liegt in der Konturierung bzw. Klärung des Selbstverständnisses der Grundschulpädagogik. Die Notwendigkeit zur Selbstvergewisserung ist in der noch jungen universitären Disziplin in gewisser Hinsicht konstitutiv angelegt. Die Beiträge thematisieren Unterschiede zwischen Profession und Disziplin, formulieren aber auch Herausforderungen, wie das Forschungs- und Handlungswissen zukünftig stärker aufeinander bezogen werden kann und gehen der Frage nach, ob und in welcher Weise aktuelle gesellschaftliche und bildungspolitische Veränderungen auf das Selbstverständnis der Grundschulpädagogik als Disziplin und auf die Grundschulpädagogik als Profession Einfluss nehmen. Reflektiert werden unter anderem die veränderten Anforderungen durch den Anspruch eines inklusiven Schulsystems und die veränderten Rahmenbedingungen und Praxen der Lehrerbildung.

Professional Accountability in Social Care and Health

Many social workers, health care staff and teachers maintain high standards of professionalism, often in stressful and challenging circumstances. However, research also reveals instances where individual practitioners and managers, or whole organisations, fail to act lawfully, ethically and/or carefully. This book addresses just those instances by providing guidance on how to maintain accountable professionalism in tricky "what if?" situations. Dilemmas are explored using case studies and the mosaic of legal rules and regulatory body requirements for accountable professionalism are also laid out. The book will appeal to students and newly qualified practitioners in teaching, health and social work and their managers.

Professional and Support Staff in Higher Education (University Development And Administration Ser.)

Professional Attributes and Practice: Meeting the QTS Standards

Drawing on the success of the first, second and third editions of Professional Values and Practice for Teachers and Student Teachers, this fully updated, comprehensive and accessible fourth edition provides practical advice to help student teachers and teachers prepare for their professional life. This new edition contains completely new chapters in response to the changing Standards and an updated chapter by the editor, Mike Cole, entitled Education and Equality: some conceptual and practical issues, which takes into account the major changes in equalities legislation. This will enable readers to situate the topics discussed in the rest of the book, which deal with the DfES Professional Attributes Standards needed to meet the 2007 Standards for the award of Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).

Professional Attributes and Practice: Meeting the QTS Standards

Drawing on the success of the first, second and third editions of Professional Values and Practice for Teachers and Student Teachers, this fully updated, comprehensive and accessible fourth edition provides practical advice to help student teachers and teachers prepare for their professional life. This new edition contains completely new chapters in response to the changing Standards and an updated chapter by the editor, Mike Cole, entitled Education and Equality: some conceptual and practical issues, which takes into account the major changes in equalities legislation. This will enable readers to situate the topics discussed in the rest of the book, which deal with the DfES Professional Attributes Standards needed to meet the 2007 Standards for the award of Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).

Professional Behaviors and Dispositions: Counseling Competencies and Lifelong Growth

Professional Behaviors and Dispositions teaches counselors in training (CITs) how to cultivate counselor competencies and critical thinking skills in support of lifelong professional development. CITs will first gain a detailed understanding of the professional behaviors and dispositions expected of all counselors. They will then learn how to evaluate themselves for these factors using a universal growth model that promotes holistic, ongoing assessment of oneself and one’s relationships. Next, CITs will be presented with concrete tools and activities that they can use to cultivate and retain counselor competencies. Finally, CITs are given a step-by-step guide for creating a professional growth plan they can use throughout their program and their clinical practice. Accompanying this text is a helpful online faculty guide for supervisors to use while working with CITs. Aligned with CACREP, ACA, and ACES standards, this textbook will be useful for all graduate students training to become counselors.