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Kompetenz- und Persönlichkeitsbildung: Phänomenologischer Zugang zu einem personenorientierten Kompetenzverständnis
by Markus Arthur HoltiSeit der Wende hin zur Kompetenzorientierung wurden Stimmen laut, die bezweifeln, dass der heutige Kompetenzbegriff alle Bereiche eines umfassenden Bildungsverständnisses abdecken könne. Bildung dürfe nicht nur als Vorbereitung für eine (Leistungs-)Gesellschaft verstanden werden. Gemäss ihrem Doppelcharakter müsse Bildung auch das zweckfreie Ziel der Persönlichkeitsentwicklung und der Selbstbestimmung anstreben. Mit dieser Untersuchung wird geklärt, inwieweit der heutige Kompetenzbegriff einem mehrdimensionalen Bildungsverständnis gerecht wird und inwiefern einer Erweiterung bedarf. Mittels einer phänomenologisch-anthropologischen Analyse wird ein personenorientiertes Kompetenzverständnis und daran anschließend ein komplementäres Fördermodel erarbeitet. Die Phänomenologie von Edith Stein ist dabei leitend und lässt sich innerhalb einer phänomenologischen Erziehungswissenschaft einordnen. Es wird ein Weg aufgezeigt, wie gesellschaftliche Bildungserwartungen mit Persönlichkeitsbildung verbunden werden können.
Bragg Fibers: From Optical Properties to Applications
by Ritesh Kumar Chourasia Aavishkar KattiThis book highlights the guiding mechanisms as well as the most current and important results in the field of innovative, bio-inspired Bragg fibers. While conventional optical fibers (COF) have several advantages over traditional waveguides, they also suffer from a number of disadvantages which are not present in Bragg fibers due to their minimal nonlinearities, lack of polarization or birefringence effect, lack of Fresnel reflections at the open fiber end, and absence of material or cladding losses. A natural platform for biological and chemical sensing, and with potential to boost communication systems' speed and bandwidth, the primary goal of this book is to apprise readers in academia and industry of properties of EM wave propagation in Bragg fibers with a defect layer. Their major applications in bio/chemical sensing, fuel adulteration sensing, high-temperature sensing, optical dual-channel inline filtering, optical de-multiplexers, optical couplers, and nonlinear soliton generation are presented in detail, along with comparisons of Bragg fibers with alternative structures and their relative pros and cons.
Proceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Industry Development (Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research #861)
This is an open access book. 2024 International Conference on Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Industry Development (HACID 2024) was held in Qingdao, China, during May 24-26, 2024. The conference mainly focuses on research fields such as humanities, arts and cultural industry development. It aims to provide a platform for experts and scholars engaged in related research to exchange scientific research results and cutting-edge technologies, understand academic development trends, broaden research ideas, strengthen academic research and discussions, and promote Cooperation in the industrialization of academic achievements in the cultural industry.
Vernetztes Lernen: Ein maschinell generierter Forschungsüberblick
by Henning SchoenenbergerDieses Buch ist ein automatisch generierter und kuratierter Literaturüberblick über die aktuelle Forschung in den Bereichen Connected Learning, Networked Learning, Digital Badges, Micro-Credentials und Lifelong Learning.Das Konzept des vernetzten Lernens – Connected Learning – holt Lernende dort ab, wo sie sind, und das ist längst nicht mehr nur der Klassen- oder Seminarraum. Connected Learning versucht, den Kontext des Lernens und die Motivation der Lernenden zu verstehen, um eine zeitgemäße und effektivere Lernerfahrung zu designen. Darin spielt die Einsicht eine zentrale Rolle, dass Connected Learning kollaborativ ist und in Peer-to-Peer-Netzwerken stattfindet, dass es auf Partizipation, Problemorientierung und Anwendung beruht und dass die Lernenden desto interessierter sind, je personalisierter das Lernen ausgestaltet ist. Die maschinelle Auswahl und Verdichtung der Artikel in diesem Band ermöglicht es Lesern mit begrenzter Zeit, sich einen schnellen Überblick über dasForschungsgebiet zu verschaffen und gleichzeitig bei Bedarf in die englischsprachigen Originalartikel durchzuklicken, um weiter in die Tiefe zu gehen. Zur gleichen Zeit dient das Buch als Inspirationsquelle für die eigene Forschung und hilft dabei, sich eine Übersicht über aktuelle Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler in diesen Forschungsfeldern zu verschaffen.
Verhalten von Libellen
by Georg Rüppell Dagmar Hilfert-RüppellDieses Buch lässt Sie beim Betrachten der vielen einmaligen Kurzzeitfotos und Bildfolgen zum ersten Mal Einzelheiten aus dem ultraschnellen Leben der Libellen, dieser großen, wunderschönen Fluginsekten erfahren. Libellen sind Flugweltmeister, bionische Wunder und verraten Ihnen viel über die Geheimnisse der Evolution, ihr Zusammenleben und ihren Erfolg seit dreihundert Millionen Jahren. Diese großen - im Englischen Drachenfliegen (dragonflies) genannten Insekten - lassen sich, auch von Anfängern, sehr gut beobachten. In Deutschland leben nur etwa 80 Arten und an jedem Gewässer sind einige Arten zu Hause. Sie sind nicht scheu, stechen nicht und kommen oft ganz dicht heran. Vielleicht verfallen Sie den Libellen genauso wie die beiden Autor:innen, die seit über 30 Jahren bei ihnen auf Entdeckungsreise sind. Mit dem Wissen aus diesem Buch werden Sie den Blicken aus den großen Libellenaugen ganz anders begegnen als zuvor.
Advanced Materials and Conversion Technologies for Personal Protective Equipment Used in the COVID-19 Pandemic (Materials Horizons: From Nature to Nanomaterials)
by Suresh Sundaramurthy Sarika Verma Avanish Kumar SrivastavaThis book provides an overview of the latest research on COVID-19 antiviral personal protective equipment (PPE), including safety, handling, and disposal. It also examines a range of durable, energy-efficient, and next-generation construction and building materials and energy fuel storage applications produced from PPE wastes. The topics covered include impact of PPE waste generation during COVID-19 pandemic on the environmental sustainability and its economic aspects, circular economy for advanced materials from used PPEs, conversion technologies, sustainability, reuse, and end of life materials from PPEs used in COVID-19 pandemic and microwave and plasma conversion technologies for used PPEs. The book also discusses thermo-chemical conversion technologies, various properties, and performance attributes. The book is a valuable reference for researchers and professionals in the areas of material science. It also proves as a valuable resource for policymakers and administrators involved in regulatory aspects of PPE kits.
Waste to Biofuel Technology: Future Energy (Sustainable Materials and Technology)
by Anish Khan Abdullah Asiri Showkat BhawaniThis book gives an overview of the latest technologies in the conversion of wastes products to biofuel or chemicals which are more eco-friendly and sustainable as compared to the ordinary petroleum derivatives. It describes a variety of technology such as combustion, gasification, paralysis, anaerobic digestion, and fermentation, which are used in the processing of solid/liquid waste produced by the different residential and industrial sectors into more economically useful by-products. The content of this book resonates with researchers, industrial practitioners, and government policymakers who are looking into developing more sustainable practices in dealing with waste products and looking into waste to energy technologies.
Heiner Eichner: Band I: Indoeuropäisch – Ostindoeuropäische Sprachräume – Varia
by Heiner EichnerDie Ausgabe der gesammelten Schriften Heiner Eichners umfasst den weit verstreuten wissenschaftlichen Ertrag aus fast sechs Jahrzehnten. Beinahe jeder Sprachzweig der indoeuropäischen Sprachfamilie sowie einige Nachbarsprachen und die Plansprachen wurden in fast einhundert Aufsätzen und größeren Arbeiten erforscht. Die Erkenntnisse verlieren weder ihre Aktualität noch Bedeutsamkeit im Fach. Zum ersten Mal kommt mit wenigen Ausnahmen das Gesamtwerk Heiner Eichners gebündelt heraus. Die Bände beinhalten die kleinen Schriften aus dem Zeitraum 1970 bis 2022, die neu gesetzt, nach Notwendigkeit aktualisiert bzw. in der originalen ungekürzten Fassung erscheinen, sowie einige bislang unveröffentlichte Arbeiten inklusive Heiner Eichners umfangreiche Habilitationsschrift von 1982. Band I beinhaltet Beiträge zur indoeuropäischen Sprach- und Kulturgeschichte, Untersuchungen zu Sprachen des ostindoeuropäischen Sprachraums, zu den Plansprachen, sowie ausgewählte biographische Porträts.
An Ethnographic Chiefdom: Epistemic Arrest and Knowledge Production in Czechoslovak Ethnography (1969–1989) (Methodology & History in Anthropology #49)
by Nikola BalašThe Czechoslovak academic discipline called ‘Ethnography and Folklore Studies’ was impacted and influenced by the daily realities of state socialism in 1969–1989. This book examines the role of the planned economy, Marxist–Leninist ideology, disciplinary hierarchies and clientelist networks, ultimately showing how state socialist features together brought about the discipline’s epistemic stalling. It offers a fresh perspective on the long-standing debates purporting to capture the differences between the Central and Eastern European tradition of ethnology and Western sociocultural anthropology.
Tactical Citizenships: Encounters with Everyday State in the Republic of Cyprus (New Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations #8)
by Theodoros KourosThe idea of citizenship is formed through a dynamic and flexible set of relationships that go beyond a sequence of formal rights and duties. It is recurring in everyday social contexts—in practices that play out in the real world, in the everyday exercises or refusals of citizenship rights, in the purposeful defiance of norms, and in the tactical evasions of duties. This book explores the troubled relationship between a state and its citizens across four different kinds of social spaces in Limassol, Cyprus. Tactical Citizenships is a testament to the tenacity and resourcefulness of marginalized individuals in directing their relations with the state.
Subjectivity at Latin America's Urban Margins (Urban Anthropology Unbound #2)
by Moisés Kopper Matthew A. RichmondExtreme inequalities, uneven planning, and unruly environments have long shaped individual and collective subjectivities at Latin America’s urban margins. Yet these same margins have frequently given rise to new forms of community organization, cultural practice, and social mobilization. This volumeframes the urban margins as complex and multi-layered sites where ongoing translocal histories of exploitation and marginalization meet distinctly local and interpersonal forms of sociability, subjective belonging, and political agency. Through nuanced ethnographic work and cross-disciplinary theoretical insights, Subjectivity at Latin America’s Urban Margins unpacks this complexity, investigating how margins are upheld, negotiated, and challenged.
Shakespeare and the Modern Novel (Shakespeare & #11)
by Graham HoldernessThe Shakespearean novel is undergoing a renaissance as the long prose narrative form becomes reinvigorated through new forms of media such as television, film, and the internet. Shakespeare and the Modern Novel explores the history of the novel as a literary form, suggesting that the form can trace its strongest roots beyond the eighteenth-century work of Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding and Samuel Richardson to Shakespeare’s plays. Within this collection, well-established Shakespeare critics demonstrate that the diversity and flexibility of interactions between Shakespeare and the modern novel are very much alive.
Mobile Pastoralist Households: Archaeological and Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives
by Jean-Luc HouleMobile pastoralist activities occur at different scales across the landscape, including local, regional, and supra-regional scales. Most archaeological studies of mobile pastoralist social organization have focused on the latter two scales via the extant monumental and herding landscapes. Household levels of analysis figure much less in these studies. This volume brings together the work of archaeologists currently engaged in mobile pastoralist household research in different regions of the world to highlight the importance of household studies and the utility of both archaeological and ethnoarchaeological approaches in understanding mobile pastoralist household formation, continuity, and adaptation to environmental, social, economic, and political change.
Subjectivity at Latin America's Urban Margins (Urban Anthropology Unbound #2)
by Moisés Kopper Matthew A. RichmondExtreme inequalities, uneven planning, and unruly environments have long shaped individual and collective subjectivities at Latin America’s urban margins. Yet these same margins have frequently given rise to new forms of community organization, cultural practice, and social mobilization. This volumeframes the urban margins as complex and multi-layered sites where ongoing translocal histories of exploitation and marginalization meet distinctly local and interpersonal forms of sociability, subjective belonging, and political agency. Through nuanced ethnographic work and cross-disciplinary theoretical insights, Subjectivity at Latin America’s Urban Margins unpacks this complexity, investigating how margins are upheld, negotiated, and challenged.
Mobile Pastoralist Households: Archaeological and Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives
by Jean-Luc HouleMobile pastoralist activities occur at different scales across the landscape, including local, regional, and supra-regional scales. Most archaeological studies of mobile pastoralist social organization have focused on the latter two scales via the extant monumental and herding landscapes. Household levels of analysis figure much less in these studies. This volume brings together the work of archaeologists currently engaged in mobile pastoralist household research in different regions of the world to highlight the importance of household studies and the utility of both archaeological and ethnoarchaeological approaches in understanding mobile pastoralist household formation, continuity, and adaptation to environmental, social, economic, and political change.
An Ethnographic Chiefdom: Epistemic Arrest and Knowledge Production in Czechoslovak Ethnography (1969–1989) (Methodology & History in Anthropology #49)
by Nikola BalašThe Czechoslovak academic discipline called ‘Ethnography and Folklore Studies’ was impacted and influenced by the daily realities of state socialism in 1969–1989. This book examines the role of the planned economy, Marxist–Leninist ideology, disciplinary hierarchies and clientelist networks, ultimately showing how state socialist features together brought about the discipline’s epistemic stalling. It offers a fresh perspective on the long-standing debates purporting to capture the differences between the Central and Eastern European tradition of ethnology and Western sociocultural anthropology.
Tactical Citizenships: Encounters with Everyday State in the Republic of Cyprus (New Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations #8)
by Theodoros KourosThe idea of citizenship is formed through a dynamic and flexible set of relationships that go beyond a sequence of formal rights and duties. It is recurring in everyday social contexts—in practices that play out in the real world, in the everyday exercises or refusals of citizenship rights, in the purposeful defiance of norms, and in the tactical evasion of duties. This book explores the troubled relationship between a state and its citizens across four different kinds of social spaces in Limassol, Cyprus. Tactical Citizenships is a testament to the tenacity and resourcefulness of citizens of unfair states in directing their relations with the government.
The 1840 Rhodes Blood Libel: Ottoman Jews at the Dawn of the Tanzimat Era (Mediterranean Counterpoints #1)
by Olga BorovayaThe Rhodes blood libel of 1840, an outbreak of anti-Jewish violence, was initiated by the island’s governor in collusion with Levantine merchants, who charged the local Jewish community with murdering a Christian boy for ritual purposes. An episode in the shared histories of Ottomans and Jews, it was forgotten by the former and, even if remembered, misunderstood by the latter. The 1840 Rhodes Blood Libel aims to restore the place of this event in Sephardi and Ottoman history. Based on newly discovered Ottoman and Jewish sources it argues that the acquittal of Rhodian Jews is adequately understood only in the context of the Tanzimat and the Sublime Porte’s foreign relations. Contrary to the common view that Ottoman Jews did not experience the impact of the Tanzimat reforms until the mid-1850s, this study shows that their effects were felt as early as 1840. Furthermore, this book offers a window onto life and intercommunal relations in the Eastern Mediterranean during the late Ottoman era.
Peak Injustice: Solving Britain’s Inequality Crisis
by Danny DorlingBy 2024 a majority of parents in the UK with three or more children were going hungry to feed their families. Children in the UK are becoming shorter and childhood mortality has been rising. What part does living with high inequality play in understanding how we have got to the point of peak injustice, when surely the situation cannot become worse? Although 2018 was a year of peak income and wealth inequality in the UK, absolute deprivation has continued to grow since then, especially after the pandemic. Peak Injustice follows up the best-selling Peak Inequality (2018), offering a carefully curated selection of Danny Dorling’s latest published writing with brand new content looking to the future, including challenges for a new government in 2024/25, the impact of Jeremy Corbyn’s legacy, and the implications of Keir Starmer’s many blind spots. An essential addition to readers’ Dorling collections.
Peak Injustice: Solving Britain’s Inequality Crisis
by Danny DorlingBy 2024 a majority of parents in the UK with three or more children were going hungry to feed their families. Children in the UK are becoming shorter and childhood mortality has been rising. What part does living with high inequality play in understanding how we have got to the point of peak injustice, when surely the situation cannot become worse? Although 2018 was a year of peak income and wealth inequality in the UK, absolute deprivation has continued to grow since then, especially after the pandemic. Peak Injustice follows up the best-selling Peak Inequality (2018), offering a carefully curated selection of Danny Dorling’s latest published writing with brand new content looking to the future, including challenges for a new government in 2024/25, the impact of Jeremy Corbyn’s legacy, and the implications of Keir Starmer’s many blind spots. An essential addition to readers’ Dorling collections.
Bismillah, Let's Eat!: Fresh and Vibrant Recipes from my Family to Yours
by Zehra AllibhaiWelcome to Zehra&’s kitchen, where good food, family, and nutrition meet! Muslims from all around the world start each meal by saying "Bismillah" which means &“I begin in the name of God&”. Similar to the practice of saying grace before you eat, it is like a short practice of gratitude. In her first cookbook, beloved Toronto-based hijabi fitness influencer and coach Zehra Allibhai welcomes everyone to her table, sharing a new way to think about family food. Zehra&’s own cooking evolution started in the kitchen with her Indian Kenyan family, expanded through culinary adventures with her husband, and grew again as a mother and fitness influencer. Her style of cooking is flavorful, accessible, wholesome–and above all–meant to be shared with joy. From her healthy spin on traditional dishes such as shakshuka and chaat to sumac chicken and lamb karahi, her renowned hearty salads, and treats such as the perfect one-bowl chocolate cake, Zehra makes being in the kitchen fun, easy—and incredibly delicious! With more than 130 recipes for every meal, and a healthy Ramadan guide for those who observe, Bismillah is a go-to for everyday dishes to satisfy the whole family.
The Vietnam War: A Military History
by Geoffrey WawroThe first comprehensive military history of the war in Vietnam The Vietnam War cast a shadow over the American psyche from the moment it began. In its time it sparked budget deficits, campus protests, and an erosion of US influence around the world. Long after the last helicopter evacuated Saigon, Americans have continued to battle over whether it was ever a winnable war. Based on thousands of pages of military, diplomatic, and intelligence documents, Geoffrey Wawro&’s The Vietnam War offers a definitive account of a war of choice that was doomed from its inception. In devastating detail, Wawro narrates campaigns where US troops struggled even to find the enemy in the South Vietnamese wilderness, let alone kill sufficient numbers to turn the tide in their favor. Yet the war dragged on, prolonged by presidents and military leaders who feared the political consequences of accepting defeat. In the end, no number of young lives lost or bombs dropped could prevent America&’s ally, the corrupt South Vietnamese regime, from collapsing the moment US troops retreated. Broad, definitive, and illuminating, The Vietnam War offers an unsettling, resonant story of the limitations of American power.
Rapture: ‘Spectacular . . . It enthralled me’ Jessie Burton, bestselling author of The Miniaturist and The House of Fortune
by Emily MaguireThe legend is only the beginning . . .'A spectacular story of shape-shifting, love and faith . . . It enthralled me'Jessie Burton, multi-million bestselling author of The Miniaturist and The House of Fortune'Astonishing . . . a scorching vision of a book'Charlotte Wood, Booker-shortlisted author of Stone Yard Devotional'What an incredible book Rapture is. It has all the hallmarks of a great thriller - such tension - mixed with the quiet, confident beauty of Agnes' voice - her fury and her love'Evie Wyld, author of The Echoes 'Bold and unexpected, Rapture buzzes with life and energy . . . Extraordinary'Rosanna Pike, instant Sunday Times bestselling author of A Little Trickerie'Emily Maguire has created an earthy, visceral, and sensual tale, full of devotion, intrigue and passion . . . A stunning novel'Victoria MacKenzie, award-winning author of For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little PainNinth-century Mainz, in the heart of the Holy Roman Empire.Agnes is the motherless child of an English priest - a wild and brilliant girl with a deep, visceral love of God. But when tragedy strikes, she is suddenly forced to choose between what is expected of her and the life she has always dreamed of. Determined to find her own freedom, she disguises herself as a man, securing a place at the revered Fulda monastery and forever altering the course of her existence.Thus begins the life of John the Englishman: a matchless scholar and scribe of Fulda, then a charismatic heretic in an Athens commune and, by her middle years, a celebrated teacher in Rome. There, she dazzles the Church hierarchy with her knowledge of the old and new languages of Europe, theology and Church law, and finds herself at the heart of political intrigue in a city where gossip is a powerful - and deadly - currency.And when the only person who knows her identity arrives in Rome, she will risk everything to once again feel what it is to be known - and loved.A note from the author'Rapture is inspired by a thousand year-old story about a clever girl who dresses as a man to follow her lover to a monastery where she becomes a brilliant scholar and teacher, and eventually ends up - still in careful disguise - the most powerful person in Rome. I feel like this is the book I've been working towards for my whole writing life. The story of an ambitious woman in a world where women are supposed to be modest. A woman whose mind refuses to accept a small life, and whose body is reviled while remaining, for her, a source of great joy. A woman, who, like so many oppressed people throughout history, finds a way to subvert and resist. To be who she is without permission or approval.In Rapture this legendary, much-argued over figure is a flesh-and-blood woman of ingenuity, purpose and passion. Her name is Agnes, and I'm excited for you to meet her.'
Queer Mythology: Epic Legends from Around the World
by Guido A. SanchezSpanning the globe and thousands of years, Queer Mythology highlights the legends and tales of LGBTQIA+ gods, heroes, spirits and more. Myths and legends tell our stories. They connect us and show us not only who we are, but also reflect the people during the time the stories were first told. And LGBTQIA+ people have been a part of every community since the dawn of storytelling. From Tu&’er Shen, the Chinese rabbit god who protected those yearning to come out in an unaccepting world, to Ghede Nibo, the Haitian spirit who performed drag in the realm of the dead, the twenty myths told in this collection capture one irrefutable fact—even as labels, language, and definitions have changed, LGBTQIA+ people have always existed. Some of these myths are not widely known. Others are myths that you may think you know, but over time their inherent queerness has been erased. Queer Mythology offers fresh retellings, paired with beautiful illustrations, to give new life and celebrate the inspirational and resilient LGBTQIA+ community in some of humanity&’s earliest tales.
Sidney Poitier: The Great Speeches of an Icon Who Moved Us Forward
by Sidney Poitier Joanna PoitierThe speeches of film legend Sidney Poitier—given at commencement addresses, awards shows, memorials, and more, on topics ranging from entertainment history to filmmaking, civil rights, and parenthood—come to vibrant life in this inspirational and stunningly packaged volume from the Poitier estate that sheds new light on the trailblazing artist's life and culture of the past century. Sidney Poitier represented strength, good looks, and above all dignity at a time when Black representation on the screen was so often relegated to servile parts. He broke ground as the top box-office draw in Hollywood at the peak of his career, and was the first Black actor to win the Best Actor Oscar, for his performance in Lillies of the Field (1963). Poitier—who narrowly escaped illiteracy after rising up from an impoverished childhood and the massive obstacles he faced as a Black man in mid-twentieth century America—was also one of the most articulate and sought-after speakers of his day. This book is a one-of-a-kind collection showcasing the wise, witty, and deeply personal speeches Poitier gave at awards ceremonies, family events, memorials, and more. His salutes to artists such as Dorothy Dandridge, Spencer Tracy, Stanley Kramer, and Denzel Washington offer fresh insight on icons of our time. Poitier's unforgettable cadence and voice are clear as day on the page, sometimes with careful edits and additions written in his own hand. Compiled by his wife, Joanna Poitier, and illustrated by dozens of professional and family photos, this collection stunningly captures all that was remarkable about the man through his own words; archives moments in the history of entertainment, culture, and civil rights; and offers a uniquely inspirational perspective on career, family, art, and life.