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All papers of this edition give an opportunity for reflection on the chances, challenges and difficulties associated with the long-term transformation of higher education and scientific activities. Therefore, the concept of “scientific excellence” has been perceived as a guiding idea in the academics'efforts. On the other hand, it seems to be an ideal that can never be achieved but towards which one ought to strive persistently. Furthermore, the pursuit of excellence is accompanied by contradictions which have been pointed out many times in the history of academia in Poland. This publishing series embodies the belief in the existence of the so-called invisible college, i.e., the research community, exemplified by young scientists starting their academic path inspired by recognized professors.

This volume expands the discussion on the language management (LM) framework through two themes: interests and power, which are driving forces of the LM process, observable and describable at every step. It consists of thirteen contributions analyzing diverse situations in Europe, Asia, and Africa. Authors focus on a range of topics, including the role of language ideologies in various types of institutions, such as higher education institutions and language cultivation centers, the struggle to maintain minority languages, the positions of the actors involved in the process of making policies concerning foreign language teaching, or the processes that learning and choosing to use foreign languages entail. Emergent insights into the commonalities in the ways in which interests and power guide or underlie the management of language, communication, and sociocultural problems contribute significantly to the strength of LM as a sociolinguistic framework.

The objective of this work, born within this contextual framework, is to express the concepts of digital activism and design used in terms of activism with texts from unique perspectives. It seeks to analyze the phenomenon of “Digital Activism and Design” across various sub-headings including information and communication technologies and systems, media policies, film studies, culture, visual arts, visual communication, and mass communication media. Additionally, it aims to scrutinize aspects such as interaction, control, and transformation, and to carry out a memory study that can serve as a source for further research in this field.

Der vorliegende Band bietet einen fundierten Einblick in die Freizeitpädagogik und skizziert mittels ihrer differenzierten Analyse den Entwurf einer systematischen Freizeitpädagogik. Die Autorin präsentiert nicht nur die disziplingeschichtlichen Grundlagen, interdisziplinäre Zugänge und Entwicklungen im Freizeitbereich, sondern zeigt auch Zusammenhänge und vereinnahmende Tendenzen auf.Die Arbeit regt damit dazu an, reflektiert mit der eigenen Freizeit umzugehen. Zugleich wird das Bildungspotenzial von Freizeit deutlich, das eine gesunde Ausbalancierung der unterschiedlichen Bedürfnisse und Funktionen von Freizeit erfordert. Freizeitbildung kann zur Steigerung von Autonomie, persönlichem Wachstum und sinnstiftendem Erleben beitragen. Insbesondere die soziokulturelle Animation stellt einen gesellschaftspolitisch relevanten Ansatz dar, um Integration, ziviles Engagement und Demokratie in der Freizeit erlebbar zu machen und Menschen Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe zu bieten.

Digitalization, a formative factor in the education sector, is in the interest of educational research. It also enables new teaching and learning methods and requires skills from those involved. Media competence is a key competence here. In this context, the optimization of information processes in the Austrian education system is essential and is also an important area of research. Communication with modern communication techniques and cooperation are indispensable here. This dissertation examines the main developmental steps of digitalization in the Austrian education system in a historical longitudinal section as well as their significance for teaching practice. The central areas of digital school development in the Austrian school system are examined and models of digitalization strategies are presented. In addition to comprehensive literature studies, relevant legal norms as well as meta-studies and individual case studies on the research topic were also examined.

The 21st-century story economy is grounded on the premise that everyone – from individual social media users to political parties and multinational corporations – needs to become storytellers. At the same time, we witness the erosion of borders between fact, fiction, truth and lies within the public sphere. This book by literary researchers helps different audiences understand and analyse the rhetorical uses and potential dangers of narratives and fictionality. The contributors deal with various contemporary storytelling environments, ranging from social and news media to literary autofiction, and from documentary narration to sexual fantasy. Narratives and fictionality are an asset in today's communication environments, but awareness of their rhetorical and ethical pitfalls will make us better readers.

Das Buch bietet einen Überblick über Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barres Panikherz und seine Selbst- und Werkinszenierung. Es wird die facettenreiche,eigene Geschichte‘ erfasst, die der autobiographische Roman erzählt und die der empirische Autor durch seine Inszenierung auf verschiedenen Bühnen sowie in den sozialen Medien fortschreibt. Im Zentrum stehen sowohl die Untersuchung der textuellen und poetologischen Dimension von Panikherz als auch die Analyse des autobiographischen Romans in seiner literarischen, medialen und sozialen Komplexität. Die Aufsätze widmen sich somit Text, Poetik wie Inszenierung, um den erfolgreichen autobiographischen Roman des Popliteraten und die Medienpersona Stuckrad-Barre so umfassend als möglich zu erschließen.

Der Band versammelt ausgewählte Vorträge und Aufsätze aus dem Werk von Alfred Schirlbauer (1948-2022), die zwischen 1981 und 2018 entstanden sind. Die Texte spannen den Bogen ins Heute und sind hinsichtlich ihrer Aktualität bestechend. Systematisch und kritisch nimmt sich Schirlbauer Innovationen und Reform-Pakete mit skeptischem Blick vor und bringt deren Widersprüchlichkeiten pointiert zum Vorschein. Die dabei vorfindlichen Transformationen betreffen Gesellschaft, Politik, Schule und Bildung. Da viele Aufsätze und Reden von Schirlbauer nicht mehr zugänglich sind, wurden in diesem Band die wichtigsten zusammengestellt.

Die Theologie ringt mit ihrer digitalen Zukunft. Wie weit kann sie sich auf den digitalen Logos einlassen, ohne ihren eigenen Logos aus den Augen zu verlieren? Die Beiträge dieses Buches versuchen, darauf eine Antwort zu geben, indem sie in interdisziplinärer Breite aktuelle Debatten um die Digitalisierung aus einer jungen Perspektive reflektieren. Das Verhältnis von Theologie und Digitalität wird unter anderem aus einem (religions)philosophischen, ethischen, systematisch-theologischen und ökumenischen Blickwinkel thematisiert. Ein besonderes Kennzeichen dieses Buches sind die kreativen Köpfe dahinter: die Mehrheit der AutorInnen sind NachwuchswissenschaftlerInnen, die als Digital Natives im wissenschaftlichen Diskurs noch (zu) wenig wahrgenommen werden. Damit richtet sich das Buch aber nicht allein an das junge akademische Publikum. Es soll vielmehr ein Impulsgeber für die Theologie insgesamt werden.

¿Qué ha sucedido durante el confinamiento causado por la COVID-19 en la enseñanza de lenguas extranjeras en la Educación Superior? ¿Qué prácticas educativas se han llevado a cabo y deben seguirse replicando tras la pandemia? El presente volumen presenta, en la primera parte, una investigación realizada en 12 universidades españolas sobre cómo ha sido el impacto del confinamiento en la enseñanza de lenguas extranjeras. En la segunda parte se recogen investigaciones y buenas prácticas docentes que han dado respuesta a las dificultades vividas durante el confinamiento y que pueden seguir llevándose a la práctica tras la pandemia. Se trata, por tanto, de un libro dirigido no solo a investigadores, sino también a todos aquellos docentes que pretenden mejorar día a día en su desempeño docente.

Virtual standard setting became more popular since the global outbreak of Covid-19 in 2020. Standard setting practitioners needed to conduct either cut score studies and/or linking studies online. The research presented in this book predates Covid-19 and explores virtual standard setting in two e-communication media (audio and video) and then compares them to the face-to-face environment. The interplay of quantitative methods [i.e., classical test theory (CTT) and Rasch measurement theory (RMT)] and qualitative methods [(i.e., constant comparative method (CCM), and media naturalness theory (MNT)] unravel Ariadne's thread into the labyrinth of virtual standard setting. Illustrative examples of how to conduct and evaluate a virtual workshop are offered to stimulate standard setting practitioners to embrace the opportunities of the virtual environment.

We live in a rapidly changing world, called VUCA, with its unique challenges and opportunities for growth and innovation. To be able to adjust changes and navigate complexities, leaders need to be prepared for the crises and opportunities that await them. That is why this book provides current information on the new leadership skills and the ways for enhancing VUCA readiness of educational leaders. This book is thought to be a comprehensive guide to help today's educational leaders thrive in VUCA by addressing the topics such as managing change and complexity, authentic leadership, agility, resilience and digital transformation. Thus, the book addresses all practitioners, leaders and teachers who need a practical guide on how to expand their vision, enhance their skills to lead in constantly changing educational environments.

This book examines various aspects of the business world from the perspective of communication. After all, no business is possible without communication. A statement that ought to be an axiom because communication is central to the interaction of people; hence, also interactions at the workplace, amongst business partners, and with customers. And when the people come from different cultures, then the role of culture assumes an important role as well. But instead of pursuing a typical management perspective, the authors in this book examine various business and work-related contexts from an intercultural, general communication, and linguistic perspective. A perspective that is often not in the focus of classic management literature – probably because it is assumed that everyone can communicate. But what if the communicative efforts are ineffective? And what if the interactors are unaware of this? That is why communication needs to be considered and understood so as to be more effective and more productive. This book follows an interdisciplinary approach to communication and, thus, offers some useful insights to such interactions and contexts. The contributing authors provide literally a global perspective because they come from different parts of the world and from different scientific disciplines. The book is divided into six parts: The first five chapters offer a general introduction to culture and communication. This is followed by four chapters examining various aspects of worldview and perception. Next come six chapters dealing with a selection of topics revolving around the meaning of messages. The next five chapters take a closer look at communication at the workplace. This is followed by three chapters exploring politeness and emotion at work. The book ends with five chapters considering communication competence and cultural adaptation. The book, thus, offers some unique insights to the world of business from the perspective of culture and communication.

Giuseppe Lombardo Radice (1879-1938) was one of the main figures in Italian pedagogy in the first half of the 20th century and collaborated with the philosopher Giovanni Gentile on the 1923 reform of the Italian school system. However, his work ‘for'and ‘with'many elementary school teachers also left important and long-lasting traces beyond Italy's borders, in Switzerland, Spain, Central Europe, and the North Adriatic, thanks to his intense international contacts with several scholars, foremost among them Adolphe Ferrière and Lorenzo Luzuriaga. A rediscovery of Lombardo Radice will open up new research avenues in different fields of the History of Education, History of Elementary Schools, and History of Teacher Education, because his original thinking about the primacy of the educational relationship between teacher and pupils, a new concept of school discipline and his idea of the scuola serena also accorded him a unique role in the international movement of New School Education. Moreover, his research among previously unknown popular elementary schools in Italy and the Italian-speaking Tessin region in Switzerland adopted a heuristic perspective, comparable to current studies on the material culture of schools.

The problems of people with disabilities are determined by the dynamics of interactions between them and the social environment in which they live. Therefore, the bio-psycho-socio-spiritual model of health is linked to the civilian model, accentuating the active participation in the social life of a particular community. The convergence of these models is present in the transdisciplinary content of the publication, which examines the quality of life of pupils in inclusive education in the Central European region. The authors identified specific limits and possibilities of the educational environment and its impact on the quality of life of children with disabilities. They explained the evidence-based practice and enhanced the competency-based approach to the persons involved in education, their relatives and multidisciplinary school teams.

Die Reihe »Berlin-Brandenburger Beiträge zur Bildungsforschung« bietet ein Forum zur Veröffentlichung von Studien aus der empirischen Bildungsforschung. Der Fokus liegt auf Arbeiten mit besonderem Bezug zum Raum Berlin und Brandenburg. Dabei finden qualitative und quantitative Zugänge gleichermaßen Berücksichtigung.

Los objetivos del proyecto son: realizar un estudio comparado de la formación recibida por los profesores españoles, franceses, italianos y griegos de Educación Primaria en metodología para la didáctica de L2 y en competencias multiculturales y plurilingües; determinar su percepción y actitud ante la diversidad del alumnado y contrastarlas con el estado de la cuestión; alcanzar conclusiones sobre el contexto en esa etapa educativa que permitan elaborar propuestas metodológicas adecuadas a sus necesidades. El método empleado es cuantitativo, comparatista y de revisión teórica y epistemológica. El instrumento utilizado es una escala Likert, con una gradación desde ‘Muy en desacuerdo'hasta ‘Muy de acuerdo'correspondiéndoles los números del 1 al 4 respectivamente. Los resultados evidencian la necesidad de revisar la formación inicial y continua del profesorado en cuanto a multiculturalidad y plurilingüismo en los cuatro países participantes en el proyecto.

The book explores the potential of learning outside the traditional classroom when students gain real-world experiences in a variety of contexts and public spaces such as built, natural and virtual landscapes, museums, heritage sites, science centres and community venues. The authors of the book promote and put the flexible and ‘plastic'concept of a place of learning into action by including physical geographical location, digital, virtual and textual spaces into the analysis. The book illuminates the importance of innovative educational strategies in connecting formal, non-formal and informal education – experiential learning in museums, heritage places and communities, inquiry-based pedagogy, digital storytelling, environmental online games, narrative geographies, and the use of geospatial technologies.

Drawing on recent research perspectives, the book discusses how social investment policies could be responsive to territorial inequalities in terms of better policy coordination, capacities, and institutional infrastructures'adaptability to territorial needs. By combining theoretical notions about territorial cohesion, territorial development, and social investment, the book provides an argument for the “territorialization of social investment policy” in the case of Lithuania. The contributions of various authors encourage a different way of looking at the territorial sensitivity of welfare policy strategies implemented in advantaged developing areas and those which are disadvantaged peripheral territories.

Berichte über Flucht•Migration waren im Jahr 2015 sehr präsent in deutschen Medien. Als Diskursanalyse untersucht der Beitrag die Titelbilder der Wochenzeitung Die Zeit aus dem Jahr 2015, die dieses Thema behandelten. Es werden die Fragen verfolgt, wie ‚Flüchtlings-‘ und Nationalstaatskonstruktionen repräsentiert wurden, in welchem Verhältnis diese Repräsentationen zueinanderstehen und inwieweit die gewählten Repräsentationen geeignet sind, soziale Ungleichheit von geflüchteten•migrierten Personen zu legitimieren. Ziel der Arbeit ist es, herauszuarbeiten, inwieweit die medialen Repräsentationen exkludierend wirken. Diskutiert wird, welche Schlussfolgerungen sich daraus für (sozial-)pädagogische Handlungsfelder ergeben. Die Arbeit leistet einen Beitrag zu einer kritischen Medienpädagogik.

Issues of cultural identity and cultural heritage are at the heart of contemporary discourses in many parts of the world. They are used to identify and address the inequalities by marginalized groups; however, they also feed the re-nationalization and ethno-purist fantasies. But what exactly is culture? In this volume, the authors explore how culture is conceptualized and practised by young people in eight countries in numerous and very diverse contexts – schools, interest clubs, organizations and informal youth groups. The chapters show that concepts of culture vary widely within and across sites, regions and countries, highlighting the common, as well as particular, challenges that notions of identity and heritage pose for young people who often aspire to an inclusive and open society

This book has been prepared to help researchers who are interested in gaining amulti-dimensional perspective on different approaches to teaching English as aforeign language (EFL). The content of the book will help the readers gain perspectiveabout making a comparative analysis on how English is taught in different partsof the world.

This book illuminates the educational potential of nuclear tourism and learning about nuclear power in informal and non-formal learning settings. The authors present a case of elaboration of the educational virtual nuclear route in the Ignalina Power Plant Region, Lithuania. Nuclear tourism takes its shape at the junction of several types of tourism – energy, industrial, cultural, and heritage and it becomes a site of outdoor and place-based education, promotes STEM, energy literacy, critical thinking, and environmental skills, and creates a valuable source for virtual learning. The book reveals peculiarities of learning and experience at nuclear power plants and disaster tourism destinations such as the Chernobyl Museum and the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.

Die Didaktik der beruflichen Fachrichtung Informationstechnik/Informatik steht historisch, berufswissenschaftlich und ordnungspolitisch in einem Spannungsverhältnis. Eine auch nur in Ansätzen geschlossene Theoriebildung zu einer Didaktik der Informationstechnik liegt nicht vor. Ausgehend von diesem Desiderat soll mit dieser Veröffentlichung eine erste Lücke geschlossen werden. Ziel dieses Buches ist es, Gegenstandsbereiche vorzustellen, die für eine Theoriebildung einer Didaktik der beruflichen Fachrichtung Informationstechnik/Informatik von Bedeutung sind. Dazu sind Beiträge eingeholt worden, die eine theoretische Einordnung auf verschiedenen Analyseebenen ermöglichen. Band 1 „Theoriebildung'schafft somit ein erstes Fundament, das im Weiteren ausgebaut werden wird. Ziel ist es, der beruflichen Fachrichtung Informationstechnik/Informatik und deren Didaktik ein eigenständiges Profil zu geben, damit sie sich gegenüber dem Status quo emanzipieren kann.

This book presents the comprehensive investigation of critical thinking in higher education from the perspectives of the study and labor market. It looks for an answer to the vibrant question of what and to whom critical thinking is. The study brings together findings from systematic literature review, analysis of descriptions of higher education study programs and study subjects, phenomenographical research and survey and supplements the existing perceptions of critical thinking with novel data-driven insights. The book reveals how critical thinking manifests itself in the contexts of higher education and the labor market and advocates for the significance of the critical thinking at personal, interpersonal, and social levels.

Following mounting political and social pressures to increase public accessibility to higher education in Israel, in 1994 Israel's academic arena was transformed from a monolithic system consisting exclusively of research universities to a binary one comprised of both research universities and academic colleges. Within the system's expansions plans, Israel's Council for Higher Education prioritized the increased accessibility of higher education to peripheral populations, defining this as a central aim. This transformation was achieved in a short period of time through regional colleges that operated in the periphery and offered professional academic courses. In addition to these institutions, a number of University Extensions operated in Israel, founded based on the American Protestant Colleges model, introduced in Israel in the 1960's by Bar Ilan University. In 2000 all these institutions were officially included in the country's higher education system, resulting in a huge increase in the total number of students in academia, with higher education becoming accessible to the country's social and geographic periphery. This book reviews the evolution of Israel's academic system and examines the ways in which it has met the national aims defined by the Council for Higher Education in its plans.

The subsequent volume revolves around the Social-Fields-Approach (SOFIA) as anapproach to conceptualization and operationalisation for the purpose of empiricalresearch. It contributes a new perspective and approach in research on innovation.We believe that SOFIA can have implications for both academic research and practicalapplications in reshaping the existing instruments and governance arrangementsin innovation policy. Whilst applying SOFIA, we urge researchers to leveragethe plurality of different qualitative, quantitative and mixed-method approachesin innovation studies, including less conventional methods, such as QCA (Ragin,2008). Diligent application of SOFIA can also subsequently lead to the developmentof high-level theoretical contributions.

The monograph Social Clustering: Paradigm of Trust combines smart education strategies, social clustering and innovative educational practices. Networking and intersectoral empowerment help leaders operate the multifunctional, multicriterion, multisector approach and develop trust-based family, community, and regional and national prosperity. Aspiration for common objective; consensus on the most important priorities of the public interest; successful social partnership between the public, private, civic (NGO) sector; and scientific organizations and stakeholders help us create a modern and sustainable society. Trust-based social economy, smart education and social partnership research, and services models have been developed by university researchers together with social partners.

Jugendliche mit unterschiedlichen sprachlichen und kulturellen Hintergründen besuchen fünf deutsche Schulen in Brasilien, Rumänien und Venezuela. Der Band untersucht die Durchlässigkeit dieser Begegnungsflächen. Die kritische Analyse institutioneller Diskurse bringt sprachliche Einstellungen ans Licht, während Schülerinnen und Schüler Briefe wechseln und unabhängige Zwischenräume aufbauen. Inwieweit vereinbaren sich politisch-pädagogische Leitsätze für den binationalen Dialog mit dem organischen Identitätsaustausch und der Entwicklung von interkultureller und mehrsprachiger Kompetenz? Die ausgetauschten Texte ermöglichen die Beobachtung des Annäherungsprozesses sowie die Verhandlung und Neuausarbeitung von Zeichen, die die Begegnungssprache Deutsch durchlässiger und hybrider machen.

During the struggles for independence in the global south, education became an important motor of emancipation. The postcolonial countries put the development of a democratic and de-racialized educational system on the agenda of urgent problems to be solved. In the course of this development, many cooperative education projects were undertaken between established socialist countries, including the Soviet Union, East Germany and Cuba, and African countries, Southern and Northern Asian countries, countries of the Middle East, and Latin American countries. Socialist Educational Cooperation and the Global South brings together a variety of topics, perspectives, and research approaches in this heterogeneous field, integrating for the first time a very broad interdisciplinary discourse and offering new insights into this important component of socialist globalization.

Universities are pressed to compete within the global scene of international higher education. What is the status of the national or local language in higher education when the dominance of English in the academic world increases? Universities have become an interesting field for research on sociolinguistic and language policy aspects. How can the global edge and the local function of universities be effectively combined?This book combines case study contributions from countries within and outside Europe in order to underline the key language policy challenges universities around the world face in their attempt to remain nationally leading and interna-tionally competitive institutions. The grouping of different countries and contexts leads to the scrutiny of a variety of scopes that complement each other.

The customer was conceptualized as an individual who was surrounded by products and messages and could make a choice between these products and messages, but now the customer can shape the products and messages that are directed to him with engagement by producing content. The customer not only participates in co-production in visible business processes but also through consumption produces identity, image, meaning, value and experience in the marketplace. This book hereby emerged out of the requirement of collecting theories about researching customer and its behaviors which changes with the interaction social media has created, which has a place to stay in relationship within the distances and timelessness created by speed incident to digitalization.

Insights into Language Education Policies is of particular interest to academic researchers, policymakers, and teaching professionals interested in language education. It aims to provide the reader with critical insights into language education policies in diverse countries around the world. The chapters examine from different perspectives (for instance, migration and minority languages, indigenous languages, and content and language integrated learning [CLIL] instruction) the measures adopted in these settings to foster (modern) language learning, underlining their strengths and weaknesses and suggesting future avenues and courses of action to enhance plurilingual education in these particular contexts and beyond.

Many factors have impact on the development of inclusive education, including social, cultural, economic context and the advancement of educational sciences. Analysing and comparing these issues provides a basis for understanding the problems of inclusion of learners with disabilities in mainstream education. The book familiarises readers with the historical and cultural conditions for the development of inclusive education. It presents concepts and everyday practices (financing, preparation of teachers and institutions). The book also takes a challenge to discuss the development prospects of inclusive education. The structure of the book allows for comparing the situation of learners with disability and the structural solutions of inclusive education in the countries of the study.

Each generation brings their distinct features to classrooms, which makes teachers to rethink their instructional practices and reorganize the learning environment to accommodate students'needs. The youngest generation, called Generation Alpha, has its own traits that makes it unique and worth considering. We have prepared this book in attempt to help teachers gain a multi-dimensional perspective about effective teaching, creative thinking, handling individual differences, managing classrooms, testing, leveraging digital intelligence, and gaining data literacy skills while dealing with Generation Alpha. The book addresses all teachers, teaching any level or grade, regardless of their branch

Dieser Band vereinigt Beiträge verschiedener Autoren aus Deutschland, Russland und Schottland zu den öffentlichen, militärischen, kirchlichen und akademischen russischen Bibliotheken in Deutschland von der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts bis auf unsere Tage. Am Beginn dieser Darstellungen steht eine systematische Einleitung des Herausgebers, auch mit Hinweis aufneue Funde.

The term “cyberspace” that entered into our lives towards the end of the 20th century isdefined as: “a global platform that consists of the network containing the infrastructuresof information technologies with Internet, communication networks, computer systems,embedded processors and controllers”. When this term is analysed, it is seen thatnearly all informatics systems minimize the human control and at many platforms,they are connected to each other. Although the term “cyberspace” is very new, it is likea living organism that is coordinated with scientific disciplines such as finance, defence,health, education, transportation and security, in all manned and unmanned areas. Ourinteraction with this organism covers almost all our lifespan. When looked closer, it isseen that cyberspace must be researched not only from technology side but also fromsociology and psychology sides. So, welcome to the cyberspace journey that we preparedfor you in our book What's Happening in Cyberspace?

The author of the book discusses the essence and social consequences of the postmodern era in the field of psychology of work and technology. He describes the relationship between the human being and the goals achieved through the use of technical tools, which is of interest to the industrial and engineering psychology. The second chapter provides a detailed classification of operator-machine system models: technocentric, anthropocentric, and operator–machine interface. In the third chapter, the author focuses on psychological characteristics of the operator–machine–interface system based on the example of jet plane pilot's activity. The fourth chapter focuses on learning new operator activities and training of operator's action in comprehensive simulators as analogues of work experience. In the fifth chapter the author examines occupational safety and reliability of the operator-machine system. In the sixth chapter, the author discusses the computer as a virtual operator serving the optimization of the quality of life.

Im Rahmen des aktuell diskutierten Fachkräftemangels im Elementarbereich beleuchtet der Band die Betreuungsrelation in bayerischen Kindertagesstätten. Mithilfe einer Forschungstrias zeigt die Autorin einen Abriss über die Rahmenbedingungen in Kindertagesstätten sowie deren Auswirkungen auf das Personal auf. Die Forschung ergibt eine Differenz zwischen der formalen und realen Betreuungsrelation. Die Annahme, dass die Qualifikation des Personals den wichtigsten Faktor für die Qualität der Kinderbetreuung darstellt, bestätigt sich aus Sicht des Personals nicht. Die individuellen Qualitätsansprüche beeinflussen eine gelingende Teamarbeit und eine gute Betreuungsrelation. Auch das subjektive Erleben der Mitarbeiter_innen stellt einen wichtigen Faktor dar.

Die Frage, ob das BGB den Herausforderungen der Digitalisierung noch gerecht werden kann, steht im Mittelpunkt dieser Publikation. Um dem auf den Grund zu gehen, untersucht der Autor den Begriff »digitale Inhalte«, der seit Umsetzung der Verbraucherrechterichtlinie im BGB zu finden ist. Mithilfe einer Kategorisierung der Erscheinungsformen digitaler Inhalte ordnet er diese vertragstypologisch zu. Mit dem so gefundenen Ergebnis macht der Autor legislative Vorschläge für eine alternative rechtliche Handhabbarkeit. Dabei nimmt er auch den von der Europäischen Kommission vorgelegten Vorschlag für eine spezielle Richtlinie für digitale Inhalte in den Blick und verbindet mit ihm die Zuversicht, dass es sich dabei um ein sinnvolles Update für das BGB handeln könnte.

Die Bestände der ehemaligen Preußischen Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, die in der Jagiellonen-Bibliothek aufbewahrt werden, erwecken seit Jahren das Interesse der Forschung und der Öffentlichkeit. Diese wertvolle Sammlung kam nach Krakau aufgrund von Umständen, die aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg resultierten. Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg wurde ihre Existenz verheimlicht und erst Anfang der 1980er Jahre der Forschung zur Verfügung gestellt. Seit dieser Zeit realisierten Wissenschaftler zahlreiche Projekte zur Erschließung und Edition der genannten Bestände. Der vorliegende Band erlaubt den Lesern Einsicht in das erste groß angelegte Treffen von polnischen und deutschen Wissenschaftlern, das den als «Berlinka» bezeichneten Beständen gewidmet wurde.

Dieser Band dokumentiert eine Reihe von ausgewählten Beiträgen der XXII. Internationalen wissenschaftlichen Konferenz Bildungsreform und Lehrerausbildung zum Thema »Transkulturelle Perspektiven in der Bildung«, die vom Ministerium für Bildung und Wissenschaft der Republik Litauen und der Vilnenser Akademie für Bildungswissenschaften der Vytautas Magnus Universität in Kaunas (VDU) gemeinsam konzipiert und veranstaltet wurden. Im Fokus standen der Diskurs kulturwissenschaftlicher Bildungsforschung und der Austausch von Beispielen transkultureller pädagogischer Praxis in der Hochschul- und Schulbildung. Der Erwerb dieser interaktiven Kompetenzen in der kulturwissenschaftlichen Forschung ist Voraussetzung für die Bildung einer Identität, die den Herausforderungen unserer Gesellschaft im kommenden Jahrzehnt gerecht wird. This volume presents a series of selected contributions from the XXIInd International Scientific Conference on The Reform of Education and Teacher's Training dealing with the topic »Transcultural Perspectives in Education«, which was conceived and organized by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Lithuania together with the Vilnius Academy of Educational Science at Vytautas-Magnus-University in Kaunas (VDU). The focus of attention was the discourse on research in cultural studies and the exchange of examples of transcultural pedagogical practice in Higher and Secondary Education. The acquisition of interactive competencies in cultural research is a prerequisite for the formation of identity in order to meet the challenges our society will be facing in the coming decade.

This book is an introduction to reconstructive foreign language research using the documentary method. It contains an intensive reflection on social practices and the role of language awareness within the context of the instructional interaction in the foreign language classroom. The narrative interview can independently be used for research on language and professional biographies as well as professional dispositions, and attitudes of foreign language teachers provide valuable insights into biographical formations. Similarly, it can be deployed for research on the foreign language learner, too. The working steps of the documentary method are being illustrated on the basis of concrete examples so that the book can be used by researchers as well as by students as a methodological introduction.

Educational accountability systems have during the last decades levitated as the leading global political instrument to turn around education systems. International organizations are promoting the accountability system as key tool for enhancing the quality in all levels of the enterprise of education. The study analyses how national education policy in the age of globalization is a result of an adjustment and transformation of international education policy and trends. The author enquires how the national level in Norway comprehended the international educational accountability policy and transformed the policy to fit the Norwegian context. One of the main findings is that the international educational accountability policy was transformed in Norway in a manner that discarded the core rationale behind the policy – the policy became an imitation.

This book offers a variety of theoretical and empirical foundations regarding the development of plurilingual literacy practices in primary school contexts around Europe. It presents a range of concepts related to multilingual education and multilingual teacher education, such as pluriliteracy, identity, the pluralistic approaches (namely intercomprehension and «éveil aux langues») and translanguaging in pedagogy. From an empirical perspective, the authors present and discuss suggestions regarding the integration of multilingual activities in the classroom and in teaching education programs.

This book examines how cloud-based services challenge the current application of antitrust and privacy laws in the EU and the US. The author looks at the elements of data centers, the way information is organized, and how antitrust, competition and privacy laws in the US and the EU regulate cloud-based services and their market practices. She discusses how platform interoperability can be a driver of incremental innovation and the consequences of not promoting radical innovation. She evaluates applications of predictive analysis based on big data as well as deriving privacy-invasive conduct. She looks at the way antitrust and privacy laws approach consumer protection and how lawmakers can reach more balanced outcomes by understanding the technical background of cloud-based services.

Dieser Sammelband thematisiert die zahlreichen Anknüpfungspunkte zwischen (organisiertem) Sport und kommunalen Aufgabenbereichen. Dazu zählen unter anderem Planung, Bau und Betrieb von Sportstätten, die Stadt- beziehungsweise Sportentwicklungsplanung, das Stadtmarketing, das Eventmanagement und die kommunale Sportpolitik. Auch gesellschaftspolitische Themenstellungen, wie Integrationspolitik, Freizeitgestaltung oder bürgerschaftliches Engagement finden Betrachtung. Die Beiträge geben einen ersten Überblick über die vielfältigen Zusammenhänge von Sport und Kommune und zeigen auf, wie der Sport mit kommunalen Belangen untrennbar verknüpft ist und gestaltend mitwirkt. Fachleute aus verschiedenen Kompetenzbereichen haben in diesem Band Zusammenhänge zwischen Sport, kommunaler Aufgabenerfüllung und Zielstellung aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln beleuchtet.

The book focuses on European Integration in the Field of Higher Education and Research, as well as the Implementation of the Bologna Process in Slovenia. The common policy of higher education and research belongs to the most important fields in the process of European integration and to the constitutive elements of the European Union. The authors analyse the process constituting the framework of higher education and research policy in Poland and Slovenia. The book analyses the political process of transformation within these two member states of the EU and exemplifies their plurality and specificity which are integrated in the genuine European idea of education, science and the research community.

Das Buch stellt die bisher unbekannte, einzigartige österreichische Bibliothek der Ritterfamilie Beck von Leopoldsdorf aus dem Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts vor. Diese ging Ende des Dreißigjährigen Krieges als Kriegsbeute nach Schweden und wurde dort zerstreut. Die Büchersammlung gehörte zu den progressiven Typen von Adelsbibliotheken. Die Autorin stellt diese Bibliothek in Kontext zu anderen zeitgenössischen aristokratischen Bibliotheken der habsburgischen Länder und offenbart hierbei den intellektuellen Horizont des Bibliotheksbesitzers. Ein Teil der Monographie ist auch eine virtuelle Rekonstruktion dieser Bibliothek in Form einer detaillierten Bestandsaufnahme.

The anthology departs from the fundamental idea that the university is deeply connected to the ideal of «Bildung» and to democratic values. If the university should serve as an open space to develop democracy and to meet today's social, cultural and ecological challenges, then one has to take into account the different disciplines'approaches to education. Thus, the featured proposals on school and university education come from diverse research fields such as general education, media education, art and aesthetic education, philosophy, ethnology, sociology, performance art and gender.