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Byzantium and the Pechenegs
The author traces 150 years of the study of relations between Byzantium and various North Pontic nomads, with particular attention to how colonialist or national aspirations often triggered, hampered, biased, or otherwise influenced scholarship.
Effects of Radiation on Materials
Symposium held in Nashville, Tennessee, June 1990. Almost two-thirds of these 91 papers are authored by researchers outside of the US (including information on research in the former USSR, Japan, and Europe). Topics include: current commercial power reactor systems; microstructural characterization
A Critical Companion to the 'Mirrors for Princes' Literature
Why devote a Companion to the "mirrors for princes", whose very existence is debated? These texts offer key insights into political thoughts of the past. Their ambiguous, problematic status further enhances their interest. And although recent research has fundamentally challenged established views of these texts, until now there has been no critical introduction to the genre. This volume therefore fills this important gap, while promoting a global historical perspective of different “mirrors for princes” traditions from antiquity to humanism, via Byzantium, Persia, Islam, and the medieval West. This Companion also proposes new avenues of reflection on the anchoring of these texts in their historical realities. Contributors are Makram Abbès, Denise Aigle, Olivier Biaggini, Hugo Bizzarri, Charles F. Briggs, Sylvène Edouard, Jean-Philippe Genet, John R. Lenz, Louise Marlow, Cary J. Nederman, Corinne Peneau, Stéphane Péquignot, Noëlle-Laetitia Perret, Günter Prinzing, Volker Reinhardt, Hans-Joachim Schmidt, Tom Stevenson, Karl Ubl, and Steven J. Williams.
Education in a Society uncertain of its Values
In recent decades the life circumstances of most people around the world have changed enormously. We are again expecting scarcity and economic crisis, the danger of war, terrorism and environmental destruction. However, people’s tendencies toward selfishness and the misuse of freedom, uprooting, dissoluteness and crime are also increasingly being seen as threats to society and individual citizens. The decline of support-giving religious, worldview and moral traditions has given rise to great uncertainty about values. Citizens increasingly experience this as a burden, and are becoming more receptive to a reassessment. More of us are seeking a new orientation. Those responsible for children ...
Citizenship Education in Germany
This volume focuses on cross-curricular and extra-curricular activities within the broader context of citizenship education in secondary schools in Germany. It sets out the background and history of citizenship education in Germany before moving on to selected case studies of specific activities in secondary schools in different federal states in eastern and western Germany. These case studies focus on activities centred on two main topics – intercultural education and the National Socialist period in Germany. These activities are not part of formal schooling, but rather represent examples of young people and teachers engaging in citizenship education beyond the classroom – or, in a positive sense, 'not doing it by the book'.
Schule in Deutschland
Erstmals seit langem wieder wird hier eine umfassende und kritische Bestandsaufnahme des deutschen Schulwesens vorgelegt. Entgegen dem verengten Blick der PISA-Studien zeigt sie die wirklichen Probleme der Schule in Deutschland: Die Schule hat keine klare Vorstellung mehr von ihrer eigentlichen Aufgabe, die sie fur den Bildungsweg des Einzelnen wie fur den Zusammenhalt der Gesellschaft erbringen muss. Die aktuellen Reformmassnahmen - vom "offenen Unterricht" uber die "Schlusselqualifikationen" bis zur "Ganztagsschule" und zur "selbstandigen Schule" - losen die Probleme nicht, sondern vervielfaltigen sie. Abseits von den gangigen Trends in der Bildungsdiskussion pladiert das Buch fur eine Schule, in der Unterricht erteilt, Wissen vermittelt und zivilisiertes Verhalten eingeubt wird. Es pladiert aber auch fur eine Schule, die fur alle da sein muss: fur die Starken wie die Schwachen, die Begabten wie die weniger Begabten. Und schliesslich erinnert es daran, dass sich die Zukunft nur gestalten lasst mit einer Schule, die kulturelle Traditionen zu bewahren und soziale Bindekrafte zu starken weiss.
