peter lang apr 2012 (212 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -A Decolonizing Encounter examines the effects of western colonialism on historically marginalized and colonized populations living both in the West and the «third world». Specifically, it explores crucial issues such as the decolonizing of schools and communities of color; the decentralization of power of the capitalist and colonial state; globalization; democracy; and struggle for political and economic justice for all peoples. This book holds appeal particularly to committed social justice educators, as well as scholars and community activists concerned with the important issues of schooling, colonization, democracy, and the right of all students to have access to quality and democratic education. Given its interdisciplinary scope, undergraduate and graduate students majoring in or interested in disciplines such as education, colonial and postcolonial studies, history, anthropology, sociology, and ethnic studies will find this book deeply relevant to their intellectual formation and scholarly interests. 188 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Although they are typically viewed as silent witnesses in schools during the worldwide infatuation with school reform, this book, in fact, reveals young people to be active agents with something worthwhile to say about their schooling and what might be done to make learning more exciting and relevant to their lives and aspirations. The authors foreground the stories of some 100 young informants from low socioeconomic backgrounds who had been repelled by school, but found their way back in to learning through alternative education programs that offered them a sense of direction, hope, and purpose ¿ although they also presented them with some tensions and dilemmas. At a time when educational policies are bearing down heavily on schools through national testing regimes, accountability standards, and other repressive measures, it is refreshing to hear from young people about ways that schools can be made more humane and educationally rewarding places.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 146 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Disasters in today¿s globalized world are becoming not only more frequent but, often, more catastrophic. The media play a critical role in communicating and making sense of these cataclysmic events. This book offers unique insights into how news media today make disasters culturally meaningful and politically important, drawing on cutting-edge theoretical work and recent examples. It looks at how globalization is affecting the meanings of disaster but also considers the continued relevance of nations and their citizens as interpretive frameworks. It examines how journalists¿ witnessing of disasters is changing in response to new technologies, including social media, and how the ideal of objectivity might be challenged by new, more emotional and more compassionate forms of story-telling premised on an injunction to care. Ultimately, the book calls attention to the media possibilities for addressing disasters as global social, political, cultural and economic events in which we all have a stake.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 248 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -What do road infrastructures, media networks, ferry boats, cell phones, automobiles, and airplanes have in common As attempts to come to terms with the virtual and material distance separating people, objects, and information they are all technologies of mobility which deeply shape our ways of life, informing ideas, demanding new skills and practices, facilitating or impeding relationships, and restricting or enabling access to crucial resources.Mobility studies concentrate on the intersecting movements of bodies, objects, capital, and signs across time-space, dissecting how practices, experiences, representations, and political dynamics shape new networks and lifeworlds. This book aims to reflect on the simultaneously technological and cultural (hence, technocultural) processes underpinning many of these forms of mobility, concentrating in particular in the North, Central, and South American social context.Whereas in Europe the study of mobilities has begun to take a strong hold in academic units, professional research networks, and recognized publication outlets, the study of mobilities is still in its adolescence in the Americas. Yet, in contrast, mobility is very much part of the core of the social imaginary, geo-politics, and cultural life of the Americas. Indeed, to be «on the move» is among the most quintessential characteristics of what it means to be a citizen of the Americas. This book is the first to reflect on these dynamics within this large geo-cultural context.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 296 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The Red Light in the Ivory Tower: Contexts and Implications of Entrepreneurial Education critically analyzes the operational behaviors of prestigious and prestige-seeking universities, particularly within the context of budget shortfalls and increasing competition. The book challenges entrepreneurial activities within universities by exploring the costs of such ventures in terms of honoring commitments to faculty and students while maintaining integrity of institutional purpose. The book offers six case studies that illustrate the organizational behaviors influenced by prestige indicators. Ultimately, the book challenges readers to address the complex issues of leadership and power within the context of social, political, economic, and historical influences within higher education. By asking difficult questions about the entrepreneurial behaviors of prestigious and prestige-seeking universities, stakeholders can reimagine and reclaim a sense of purpose that can ultimately influence organizational identities and thus the degree to which their universities support and serve their students, faculty, and community. 164 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Time on TV examines the massive aesthetic and structural changes happening across today¿s television programs. Time travel, flash forwards, fake memories: Paul Booth¿s analysis reveals the theory and practices that are changing television and online media as we know them. His engaging examination of the mashup of television and social media uncovers a temporal complexity at the heart of our own lives. The characteristically enigmatic television narrative becomes emblematic of a very human interaction with social and digital media. A perfect book for twenty-first century television studies, media studies, or anyone who wants to know why there¿s so much time travel on television, Time on TV answers questions you didn¿t even know you had about today¿s television, digital technology, and our daily lives.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 270 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book offers students, academics and professional researchers a broad survey of ways to popularize research. Although each chapter discusses unique experiences, each follows a standard format, touching upon common elements: outlining what the research popularized was about, why the decision to popularize it was made, why certain media and genres were employed, what lessons researchers learned in the process, and how audiences responded. Throughout the book, readers are directed to the book¿s accompanying website, an excellent resource for highlighting how examples in the book come to life, what they sound like, and what they look like. Written in a clear and accessible style, this volume avoids specialized terminology and instead employs basic language that any student, academic, and professional across the social sciences and humanities will understand.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 230 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The diffusion of the Internet has considerably changed the basic principles of information exchange into a structure that is now enabling user-driven information propagation across most markets that was not possible in the previous era of unidirectional mass communication. This study focuses on the submitters¿ social networks to explain these new propagation processes. Large datasets from a social news site are used to show that it is the size, structure and activity of such networks that mainly influence whether or not certain content achieves a prominent level. Message and content-related factors seem of only marginal importance ¿ at least until the respective content exceeds a threshold of public attention. 132 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Historiquement, le sport s¿est construit sur les valeurs de bourgeoisies qui entendaient reproduire dans ce domaine de la vie sociale une vision patriarcale des rapports entre les sexes, comme en témoigne l¿exclusion organisée des femmes qui y a longtemps prévalu. Le sport, que l¿on peut considérer comme une institution de référence du point de vue des dynamiques de production du genre, a été interrogé précisément quant à cette permanence par les auteur.e.s de ce livre. Par quels processus l¿institution sportive contribue-t-elle à organiser la pratique des individus selon leur sexe Comment s¿y transmettent normes de genre, types de masculinité et de féminité conduisant à perpétuer des rapports de pouvoir genré avec le masculin comme référence Mais aussi quels signes de retournement de cette domination hégémonique sont identifiables Tels sont les axes de réflexion portés par l¿apport du paradigme du genre qui ont organisé cet ouvrage collectif, fruit d¿une collaboration internationale de sociologues et d¿historiens désireux de contribuer à l¿étude des engagements corporels dans divers contextes de la vie sportive et dans des périodes historiques différenciées. Les auteur.e.s se sont appliqué.e.s à déconstruire et révéler ces problématiques dans des activités telles que le twirling-bâton, le gouren breton, la capoeira, la gymnastique, l¿athlétisme ou le parachutisme.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 184 pp. Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Intercultural dialogue is a concept and discourse that dates back to the 1980s. It is the major means for managing diversity and strengthening democracy within Europe and beyond. It has been adopted by the United Nations, UNESCO and the Council of Europe as the basis for interreligious and interfaith initiatives and has become increasingly associated with a liberal theory of modernity and internationalism that presupposes freedom, democracy, human rights and tolerance. It is now the dominant paradigm for ¿cultural policy¿ and the educational basis for the development of intercultural understanding. Governments have placed their hope in intercultural education as the way to avoid the worst excesses of globalization, especially exclusion and marginalization, and the problems of xenophobia and racism that afflict European societies. Interculturalism, Education and Dialogue is an international collection by renowned scholars who examine the ideological underpinnings of the European model and its global applications. It explores the historical, philosophical and educational dimensions of intercultural dialogue.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 428 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book examines welfare effects of gender-related inequalities in Korean households and labor markets. It uses subjective well-being data to show that reductions of excessive levels of working hours did improve family well-being in the past decade. Moreover, benefits from major life events like marriage can differ greatly by sex if traditional gender roles dominate and women contribute much less than men to household earnings. Furthermore, the study examines dynamics in rural East Asian economies and their impact on individual welfare outcomes. Both land redistribution and productivity-enhancing reforms are found to have been highly beneficial for Korean development. The Indonesian case study demonstrates the importance of cash-crop decisions and the growing non-farm sector for rural development.Peter Lang Group AG Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaft, Place de la gare 12, 1003 LAUSANNE 160 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The legal and political significance of human rights has increased enormously all over the world. The Italian Yearbook of Human Rights 2011 provides a dynamic picture of laws, institutions, policies and case law that have implemented international human rights norms in Italy over the past few years, particularly in 2010. The volume has four main sections, which concern respectively: Italy¿s adaptation to international human rights law; the human rights infrastructure both at national and sub-national levels; Italy in dialogue with the international machinery; and national, European and international case law.The Yearbook is the first volume in a series edited by the Centre for Human Rights and the Rights of Peoples of the University of Padua, in cooperation with the UNESCO Chair in Human Rights, Democracy and Peace at the same University. The Centre, founded in 1982 with the support of the Region of Veneto, carries out research and training programmes according to an interdisciplinary approach. It hosts the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on intercultural dialogue and human rights and edits the quarterly journal Pace diritti umani/Peace human rights. The Centre also works in cooperation with the European Commission, the Council of Europe, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and UNESCO, as well as with civic organizations, schools and local authorities.The editors of the Italian Yearbook of Human Rights 2011 include Andrea Cofelice, Pietro De Perini, Paola Degani, Paolo De Stefani, Marco Mascia, Antonio Papisca (coordinator) and Claudia Pividori. 324 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book documents and disseminates a number of educational and technological approaches to renewable energy, with a special emphasis on European and Latin American experiences, but also presenting experiences from other parts of the world. It was prepared as part of the project JELARE (Joint European-Latin American Universities Renewable Energy Project), undertaken as part of the ALFA III Programme of the European Commission involving countries in Latin America (e.g. Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Guatemala) as well as in Europe (Germany and Latvia). Thanks to its approach and structure, this book will prove useful to all those dedicated to the development of the renewable energy sector, especially those concerned with the problems posed by lack of expertise and lack of training in this field. 236 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Offering new perspectives on the role of broadcasting in the construction of cultural memory, this book analyses selected instances in relation to questions of French identity at the BBC during the Second World War. The influence of policy and ideology on the musical and the poetic is addressed by drawing on theoretical frameworks of the archive, memory, trauma and testimony. Case studies investigate cultural memories constructed through three contrasting soundscapes. The first focuses on the translation of ¿Frenchness¿ to the BBC¿s domestic audiences; the second examines the use of slogans on the margins of propaganda broadcasts. In the third, the implications of the marriage of poetry and music in the BBC¿s 1945 premier of Francis Poulenc¿s cantata setting of resistance poems by the surrealist poet Paul Éluard in Figure humaine are assessed. Concentrating on the role of the archive as both narrative source and theoretical frame, this study offers a new approach to the understanding of soundscapes and demonstrates the processes involved in the creation of sonic cultural memory in the context of global conflict.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 232 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book pursues principal aims. First it describes and reviews current concerns in regard to the conditions of labour markets, production organizations, working conditions, and industrial and employment relations. Prominent among these concerns are the crisis in trade unions and in democratic labour market institutions, and the rise of what many critics regard as technocratic administrative powers in the displacement of democratic practices. Furthermore the book explores aspects of the search for socio-cultural innovation in the wide areas of work, industrial, organizational, management, and employment relations. It therefore deals with participatory democratic practices in the world of work and production, with citizenship, social cohesion, wider participation in education and training, as well as with cultural interests in identity, solidarity and non-market values. 224 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -In this book modality and its learner variety in Japanese are investigated from the perspective of grammaticalization in the functional framework. It describes the grammatical system of modality in Japanese in terms of the form-function relationship within the scope of a framework based on the European school of modality. Accordingly, it deals with the modal system and its constituents in Japanese, accommodating all the grammatical means of modariti (modality) in the Nihongo bunpou (Japanese grammar system). This study also casts light on the learner variety of modality, which is comprised of two core systems, epistemic and deontic, both of which are evident at the utterance level and the morphosyntactic level. The learner variety of modality elucidated here is presented as a proto-modality, which is viewed as a system in its own right rather than as an improvised or distorted version of the native modal system in Japanese.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 242 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2012.This volume of transformed research utilizes an activist approach to examine the notion that nothing is apolitical. Research projects themselves are critically examined for power orientations, even as they are used to address curricular problems and educational or societal issues. Philosophical perspectives that have facilitated an understanding of issues of power are used to conceptualize research problems as well as determine methodologies. These life-experience perspectives include, but are not limited to, postcolonial and subaltern studies, feminisms, poststructuralism, cultural studies, and critical race theory. The book also examines the use of language, discourse practices, and power relations that prevent more socially just transformations. The Critical Qualitative Research Reader is an invaluable text for undergraduate and graduate classrooms as well as an important volume for researchers.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 598 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Das Thema «Spiritualität und Gesundheit» ist in den USA in Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft gut etabliert und gewinnt auch in Europa zunehmend an Aktualität. Kongresse, Lehrstühle, wissenschaftliche Publikationen und spirituelle Behandlungsansätze zeugen davon.Die Schwierigkeit einer einheitlichen und operationalisierbaren Definition von Spiritualität ist ein wesentlicher Grund für die Zurückhaltung der empirischen Wissenschaften, spirituelle Aspekte in die Gesundheitsforschung mit einzubeziehen. Wie eine zunehmende Anzahl von Studien belegt, stellen Religiosität und Spiritualität für viele Menschen jedoch eine wichtige Ressource in der Krankheitsbewältigung dar.Mit den vorliegenden Beiträgen (in Deutsch und Englisch) aus den Europäischen Kongressen für Religion, Spiritualität und Gesundheit (ECRSH) 2008 und 2010 soll der wichtige und notwendige wissenschaftliche Diskurs zwischen unterschiedlichen Standpunkten, anthropologischen Konzepten, empirischen Befunden und klinischen Erfahrungen gefördert werden.The topic of spirituality and health is well established in science and society in the USA and is becoming increasingly significant in Europe as well. Conferences, university chairs and spiritual treatment methods are evidence of this development.The difficulty of finding a consistent and practicable definition of spirituality is one main reason why there are reservations in the area of empirical sciences about including spiritual aspects in health research. As an increasing number of studies show, religiousness and spirituality represent an important resource for many people coping with illness.The purpose of these articles in German and English from the European Conferences on Religion, Spirituality and Health (ECRSH) 2008 and 2010 is to promote the important and necessary scientific discussion between various standpoints, anthropological concepts, empirical findings and clinical experience.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 242 pp. Englisch, Deutsch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book offers a significant, original and timely contribution to the study of one of the most important and notorious Latin American authors of the twentieth century: Reinaldo Arenas. The text engages with the many extraordinary intersections created between Arenas¿ writing, the autobiographical construction of the literary subject and the exilic condition.Through focusing on texts written on the island of Cuba and in exile, the author analyses the ways in which Arenas¿ writing emblemises a complex process of identification with, and rejection of, his homeland ¿ always an imagined place and which is, as the place of his origins, intrinsically related to the maternal. She examines how the maternal and the motherland are conflated and how the narrator-protagonists¿ identification is always in relation to, and dependent upon, this dominant motif. The book also explores the extent to which Arenas¿ writing is a tortuous attempt to escape from this dominance and to free himself and his writing from the ties that bind him to the mother and the motherland, and shows that Arenas suffered the exilic condition long before his move to the United States in 1980 as part of the Mariel exodus. 272 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Cet ouvrage se concentre d¿abord sur les évènements qui, en Belgique et en Afrique centrale, marquent la période de mai 1955 à novembre 1965, en ménageant une place aux témoins. Il invite ensuite à visiter ou à revisiter des sources qui n¿ont pas encore livré toutes leurs richesses (cinéma, télévision, archives dont certaines demeurent totalement inexploitées).En¿n, tandis que le Congo, à l¿instar de la plupart des anciennes colonies de l¿Afrique sub-saharienne, devient indépendant, « le Tiers Monde ignoré, exploité, méprisé comme le Tiers État » (Alfred Sauvy) fait l¿objet de la sollicitude d¿instances internationales et européennes.Ce qüen style Nations unies on appelle les pays sous-développés constitue un enjeu considérable dont les facettes politiques, économiques, sociales et culturelles sont multiples. Les politiques d¿aide au développement qui voient le jour, notamment dans le cadre de l¿Europe des Six, interfèrent avec les politiques nationales que d¿aucuns quali¿ent de néo-colonialistes.Phénomène transnational comme l¿avait été la colonisation, la décolonisation ouvre la voie à des pratiques voyant coexister la survivance plus ou moins dense de liens bilatéraux entre anciennes colonies et anciennes métropoles avec une européisation de celles-ci. 378 pp. Französisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -In Other Words: Dialogizing Postcoloniality, Race, and Ethnicity is a collection of essays by scholars and Americanists who labor under the conviction that the dynamically evolving field of postcolonial studies facilitates the development of new ways of conceptualizing race and ethnic studies. On guard against reductive statements and aware of the danger of blurring historical differences, the book encourages the reader to enter the dialogue between postcolonial studies and discourses on race and ethnicity. It demonstrates rhetorical and conceptual affinities between the fields and examines counter-narratives of resistance to imperial narratives and the politics of dominance. Concurrently the anthology challenges the reader to engage in the broader and trans-global reading of cultures marked by the experience of political exploitation and erasure. 256 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Ce volume rassemble les communications de la section « Pragmatique historique et syntaxe » qui ont été tenues dans le cadre du XXXI Romanistentag allemand à l¿Université de Bonn. L¿objectif principal portait sur l¿analyse de textes romans anciens dans une perspective pragmatique/de pragmatique du discours. Celle-ci se consacre à la reconstruction des procédés au moyen desquels les scripteurs ou locuteurs (fictifs) « manipulate the resources of their language to accomplish particular communicative objectives » (Fleischman/Waugh). La grande variété des contributions présentées ici offre un aperçu des différentes approches théoriques de ce domaine de recherche actuel. Ce livre contient des contributions en français, en italien, en espagnol et en anglais.Dieser Band vereinigt die Vorträge der Sektion «Historische Pragmatik und Syntax», die im Rahmen des XXXI. Deutschen Romanistentags im September 2009 an der Universität Bonn gehalten wurden. Im Mittelpunkt stand dabei die Analyse älterer romanischer Texte in pragmatischer/diskurs-pragmatischer Perspektive. Diese interessiert sich für die Rekonstruktion von Verfahren, durch die die Schreibenden oder (fiktiven) Sprecher «manipulate the resources of their language to accomplish particular communicative objectives» (Fleischman/Waugh). Das weite Spektrum der Beiträge erlaubt einen Einblick in unterschiedliche theoretische Ansätze dieses aktuellen Forschungsgebiets. Der Band enthält Beiträge auf Französisch, Italienisch, Spanisch und Englisch. 350 pp. Englisch, Französisch, Deutsch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The thesis empirically investigates two conflicting views on the accounting treatment of R&D outlays according to IAS 38. Proponents of a capitalization of R&D outlays argue that this accounting policy provides relevant information to investors. In contrast, those opposing such a capitalization state that the resulting asset is too uncertain. The findings demonstrate that the arguments of both supporters and opponents basically remain valid and are therefore to some extent incompatible. However, given this incompatibility a discussion of the empirical findings in context with the arguments brought forward within the political debate surrounding IAS 38 illustrates that IAS 38 eventually pursues a reasonable approach to balance these conflicting views. 252 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This study aimed at analysing the impact of two different land reform strategies on rural poverty in CIS countries, particularly in Georgia and Moldova. While Georgia distributed agricultural land parcels directly to the population at the beginning of the 1990ies, Moldova transferred land via paper shares for undemarcated land parcels. This study is based on household data, which were collected during household surveys in Georgia and Moldova in 2007 and 2008. The data had been used in order to analyse the impact of land reform on the endowment with land and other capital, the use of capital and the access to markets and credits as well as the importance of agricultural employment for rural households. A logit analysis had been run in order to detect the determinants of poverty. 250 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Miscommunication has always intrigued researchers in and outside linguistics. This book takes a different perspective from what has been proposed so far and postulates a case for intercultural miscommunication as a linguistically-based phenomenon in various intercultural milieus. The contributions address cases of intercultural miscommunication in potentially confrontational contexts, like professional communities of practice, intercultural differences in various English-speaking countries, political discourse, classroom discourse, or the discourse of the past. The frameworks employed include cultural scripts, critical discourse analysis, lexicographic analysis, glosses of untranslatable terms, and diachronic pragmatics. The book shows the omnipresence of miscommunication, ranging from everyday exchanges through classroom discourse, professional encounters, to literary contexts and political debates, past and present. 264 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book paints a picture of poor older people¿s life-worlds in Beijing, China. Instead of viewing them as pitiful recipients of vulnerabilities and deprivations, this book sheds light on how poor older people exert their active agency to live through their life difficulties ¿ i.e. how they negotiate resources within and outside of family to pursue the kind of lives they have reason to value. Based on a prolonged period of ethnographic fieldwork in Beijing, the researcher highlights the experiences, perspectives, and strategies of these people developed in the context of their economic hardships against the background of massive social reform and demographic ageing in China.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 232 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This book focuses on interpretation corpora which is one of the major subjects of research in interpreting studies. It explores key issues such as corpus design and representativeness, as well as aims and challenges of the application of corpus-linguistics principles and methods to interpreting. Interpreting corpora represent a real challenge because of the very nature of the items they are composed of. The oral dimension, the unavoidable stage of transcription and the difficulties in relying on authentic data are only some of the aspects that make the creation of interpreting corpora a complex, challenging and time-consuming activity. The book discusses the theoretical problems and presents the working phases leading to the collection of five different interpreting corpora. The variety of approaches adopted by each research team highlights the fact that aims, interrogation methods and corpus design are intertwined. A survey of the studies carried out so far using these five interpreting corpora identifies data comparability as the core issue of corpus-based interpreting studies.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 268 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -In many parts of the world the language education scenario is increasingly dynamic, as demographic, economic and social changes powerfully influence socio-political agendas in the sphere of language education. These in turn impact on complex issues such as linguistic pluralism, multiculturalism, and marginalization. This is especially so in the sphere of second language education where local, national and regional concerns often dominate the objectives underpinning policy choice and prioritisation.This volume brings together scholars and researchers from a wide range of different educational contexts and turns a sociolinguistic lens on some of the key areas of concern for researchers in language education: critical awareness of power and identity issues; competence in dealing with new sociolinguistic repertoires, modalities and literacies; ethical concerns for all who are involved. The ¿case study¿ approach enables the reader to reflect on and critically engage with these issues in a rich variety of contextual situations, and the volume as a whole provides a useful overview of (second) language education in the world today.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 276 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -This collection of essays aims to revive the sociological debate on the unintended, unanticipated and unexpected consequences of social action, as started by Robert K. Merton in a classic study of 1936. The contributing authors provide insights on both Merton¿s work and the reception it received in the academia. They also go beyond his original formulations to encompass new theoretical perspectives and empirical interests that have emerged in the intellectual circumstances different from, or opposed to, his functionalist theory. The contributing authors delve into fields as diverse as education, law, politics, financial markets, consumption, risks and accidents, systemic transformation, organizations and institutional work, innovations, and Polish studies. 388 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Ireland is in the grip of a postmodern cultural deconstruction on many levels. The traditional ¿grand narratives¿ are increasingly viewed with suspicion and disenchantment as Ireland struggles to understand its evolving identity. There is a growing need for comprehensive interdisciplinary research that will facilitate teaching and learning in this rapidly changing cultural and societal context.This book brings a fresh approach to Irish educational debates, in which qualified educational specialists engage collaboratively in interdisciplinary reflection on their own teaching and learning. The volume addresses a multiplicity of key issues in Irish education (with a particular focus on the primary sector), including teacher formation, curriculum development, teaching and learning methods, educational policy, philosophy, history, religious education, ethics, special needs education and transformative education. The book aims both to critique new educational policy and practice and to identify the key challenges in providing innovative, imaginative and cutting-edge teaching and learning in contemporary Irish schools.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 402 pp. Englisch.