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Modeling and Measuring Competencies in Higher Education
This publication focuses on competency orientation in higher education, illustrating international assessment practices for measuring student learning outcomes. For Germany, the Modeling and Measuring Competencies in Higher Education (KoKoHs) research program contributes exemplary approaches, and solutions to current challenges in higher education. KoKoHs models and tests can be used for entrance examination, formative and summative assessment of domain-specific and generic competencies and as a basis for developing new teaching-and-learning tools and formats promoting these competencies.
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Reimagining US Colombianidades: Transnational subjectivities, cultural expressions, and political contestations
This book focuses our attention on yet another community that has been scantily represented in Latino/a/x studies scholarship. US Colombians are no longer content to be characterized as “the other Latinos,” and the editors of this special issue make the case that study of US Colombianidades enhances and productively troubles Latino/a/x studies. This engaging set of essays highlights the rich diversity of US Colombianidades as well as the group’s similarities and differences with other Latino/a/x groups. With its innovative cultural studies and social sciences perspectives and interpretive theories, this volume offers a deep dive into issues such as how racial, gender, sexual, and socio...
Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning
Over the past century, educational psychologists and researchers have posited many theories to explain how individuals learn, i.e. how they acquire, organize and deploy knowledge and skills. The 20th century can be considered the century of psychology on learning and related fields of interest (such as motivation, cognition, metacognition etc.) and it is fascinating to see the various mainstreams of learning, remembered and forgotten over the 20th century and note that basic assumptions of early theories survived several paradigm shifts of psychology and epistemology. Beyond folk psychology and its naïve theories of learning, psychological learning theories can be grouped into some basic ca...
Latinidad at the Crossroads
Latinidad at the Crossroad: Insights into Latinx identity in the Twenty-First Century encompasses an interdisciplinary perspective on the complex range of latinidades and simultaneously advocates a more flexible (re)definition of the term that may overcome static collective representations of identity, ethnicity and belonging.
The Palgrave Handbook of Literary Translation
This Handbook offers a comprehensive and engaging overview of contemporary issues in Literary Translation research through in-depth investigations of actual case studies of particular works, authors or translators. Leading researchers from across the globe discuss best practice, problems, and possibilities in the translation of poetry, novels, memoir and theatre. Divided into three sections, these illuminating analyses also address broad themes including translation style, the author-translator-reader relationship, and relationships between national identity and literary translation. The case studies are drawn from languages and language varieties, such as Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, English, F...
The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean: Volume 1, The Pacific Ocean to 1800
Volume I of The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean provides a wide-ranging survey of Pacific history to 1800. It focuses on varied concepts of the Pacific environment and its impact on human history, as well as tracing the early exploration and colonization of the Pacific, the evolution of Indigenous maritime cultures after colonization, and the disruptive arrival of Europeans. Bringing together a diversity of subjects and viewpoints, this volume introduces a broad variety of topics, engaging fully with emerging environmental and political conflicts over Pacific Ocean spaces. These essays emphasize the impact of the deep history of interactions on and across the Pacific to the present day.
Von der Arbeitsanalyse zur Diagnose beruflicher Kompetenzen
Die Berufsbildungsforschung ist herausgefordert, den Zusammenhang zwischen beruflicher Arbeit, den hierfür erforderlichen beruflichen Kompetenzen und den zur Entwicklung der Kompetenzen notwendigen Berufsbildungsprozessen aufzuklären. Die Beiträge des Buches «Von der Arbeitsanalyse zur Diagnose beruflicher Kompetenzen» klären theoretische Hintergründe, diskutieren aktuelle Fragestellungen und stellen Methoden vor, mit denen Facharbeit unter berufswissenschaftlicher und berufspädagogischer Perspektive untersucht werden kann. Im Mittelpunkt steht dabei die Ausrichtung einer berufspädagogischen Diagnostik, die angesichts der Entwicklungen hin zu einem Berufsbildungs-PISA bzw. zu Large-...
Ancestors of John Mathias Zwaska and Margaret Schill Zwaska
John Mathias Zwaschka, son of John N. Zwaschka and Anna Trautman, was born 1 June 1882, in Kewaskum, Washington County, Wisconsin. He married Margaret Schill, daughter of Nicholas Schill and Catherine Leisses, on 17 May 1904. They had 12 children. John died 10 Mar 1968 in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. Margaret died 1 July 1970, also in Stevens Point. Their ancestors came from Germany. Their descendants have lived in Wisconsin, Connecticut, Ohio, Oklahoma, and other areas in the United States.
