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Weblogs (or blogs) are possibly the most visible of the Web 2.0 technologies, described by some as "push-button publishing for the people". This publication is one of the outcomes of an ECML project which, over the course of three years, investigated the design of an educational blogging platform and its use in the language classroom. It is intended for the language teacher who wishes to harness the potential of the writable Web in his or her language class, the teacher trainer who promotes a social constructivist paradigm, and the educational software designer who seeks to create flexible educational tools which incorporate "subversion".The accompanying CD-Rom contains the entire corpus of blogs - warts and all - produced by project participants (over 4 000 posts and 9 000 comments), as well as the educational blogging platform prototype developed for this project, which is an open-source release under the GNU General Public License.
This book is a reflective account of the work of the European Centre for Modern Languages, Graz, during its first medium-term programme, which lasted from 2000 to 2003.It presents some of the major current issues in language education that were dealt with during this programme and provides insight into the way the projects run by the ECML tried to address these issues and to develop practical, usable approaches to dealing with them.
This book provides significant information regarding the policies and provisions for early childhood teacher education programs in universities in fourteen different countries. Early childhood education and care (ECEC) is expanding rapidly across the globe with unprecedented numbers of children attending EC centres, requiring the investment in educators to provide good quality ECEC. Yet, there is an inconsistent approach to early childhood teacher preparation and the quality of existing programs is not known. Each country’s contributing author/s is/are well known in their field for their in-depth knowledge of early childhood teacher education programs including content, structure, and prof...
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In a European context of rapidly expanding early education/ care provision for young children, the staffing of these services is a critical quality issue. What are the requirements for professional education and training? How alike or how varied are the qualification profiles and fields of work? Through detailed country reports and comparative analyses across 27 countries, this book provides answers to these questions.
In einem europäischen Kontext der rasanten Ausweitung frühkindlicher Bildungs- und Betreuungsangebote stellt sich die Qualitätsfrage immer dringlicher. Das pädagogische Fachpersonal ist dabei ein Schlüsselfaktor. Wer arbeitet in frühpädagogischen Tageseinrichtungen in den 27 Ländern der Europäischen Union? Wie sehen die Qualifikationsanforderungen aus? Welche Ausbildung haben Gruppen- und Einrichtungsleitung? Sind die Professionsprofile vergleichbar? Welche Möglichkeiten der professionellen Weiterentwicklung werden angeboten? Vor welchen aktuellen beruflichen Herausforderungen stehen die Pädagoginnen und Pädagogen? Das Projekt seepro (Systeme der Elementarerziehung und Professionalisierung in Europa) am Staatsinstitut für Frühpädagogik (IFP) in München, das durch das Bundesministerium für Familien, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend gefördert wurde, ist diesen Fragen nachgegangen. Dieses Buch stellt die Projektergebnisse vor.