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Creating Effective Teaching and Learning Environments: First Results from TALIS
This survey aims to help countries review and develop policies to make the teaching profession more attractive and more effective.
The Changing Face of the “Native Speaker”
The notion of the native speaker and its undertones of ultimate language competence, language ownership and social status has been problematized by various researchers, arguing that the ensuing monolingual norms and assumptions are flawed or inequitable in a global super-diverse world. However, such norms are still ubiquitous in educational, institutional and social settings, in political structures and in research paradigms. This collection offers voices from various contexts and corners of the world and further challenges the native speaker construct adopting poststructuralist and postcolonial perspectives. It includes conceptual, methodological, educational and practice-oriented contribut...
Front Lines of Community
Based on the premise that a society’s sense of commonality depends upon media practices, this study examines how Hollywood responded to the crisis of democracy during the Second World War by creating a new genre - the war film. Developing an affective theory of genre cinema, the study’s focus on the sense of commonality offers a new characterization of the relationship between politics and poetics. It shows how the diverse ramifications of genre poetics can be explored as a network of experiental modalities that make history graspable as a continuous process of delineating the limits of community.
Monitoring Student Achievement in the 21st Century
This book draws together leading student assessment academics from across Europe exploring student monitoring policies and practices in a range of countries across 22 chapters. The chapters in the first part offer a broad overview on student assessment covering history and current status, aims and approaches as well as methodological challenges of international student assessment. The second part presents country specific chapters provide an in depth look examining country specific policy and practices and findings of national and/or international assessments. Findings are critically discussed and recommendations are made for further development of each country's assessment context. The book shows similarities and differences within the educational assessment landscape as well as complexity and similarities in assessment policy documents and strategies, Given the globalized world we live in today, this book fills a need in the higher educational context and is intended for for policy makers in different countries as well.
Improving Inclusive Education through Universal Design for Learning
This open access international scientific study provides an analysis of how the educational strategy of Universal Design for Learning can stimulate the process of inclusive education in different educational-cultural contexts and different areas of the educational system. The findings of the research deepen the conception of inclusive education and present an analysis of factors that are significant for developing the educational system as well as providing evidence-based recommendations for educational practice. The research for this work was done in four European countries with various historical-cultural contexts: Lithuania and Poland underwent a transformation of the educational systems ...
Beyond Gumbo
From the critically acclaimed author of "The Africa Cookbook" come 175 vibrant recipes that redefine Creole cooking, the original fusion food. Two-color throughout. 25 photos.
The Bonn Handbook of Globality
This two-volume handbook provides readers with a comprehensive interpretation of globality through the multifaceted prism of the humanities and social sciences. Key concepts and symbolizations rooted in and shaped by European academic traditions are discussed and reinterpreted under the conditions of the global turn. Highlighting consistent anthropological features and socio-cultural realities, the handbook gathers coherently structured articles written by 110 professors in the humanities and social sciences at Bonn University, Germany, who initiate a global dialogue on meaningful and sustainable notions of human life in the age of globality. Volume 1 introduces readers to various interpretations of globality, and discusses notions of human development, communication and aesthetics. Volume 2 covers notions of technical meaning, of political and moral order, and reflections on the shaping of globality.
Futures Literacy
Die UNESCO hat Futures Literacy zur essenziellen Kompetenz des 21. Jahrhunderts erklärt. Jede*r Einzelne soll befähigt werden, Strategien zur Bewältigung einer unsicheren Zukunft im Zeichen des Klimawandels zu entwickeln. Futures Literacy umfasst die Antizipation und Imagination alternativer Zukünfte, die Akzeptanz von Komplexität und ein neues Verständnis unserer Handlungsfähigkeiten, um vorausschauend konkrete Vorstellungen, positive Bilder und kreative Lösungen mitverantwortlich zu entwickeln. Was genau ist das: Zukunftsgestaltungskompetenz? Welche Bildungsinhalte fokussieren die gesellschaftlichen Herausforderungen? Wie können die digitalen Umbrüche für die Transformation genu...
