Brill aug 2019 (85 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Since the turn of the 21st century, developing teachers' assessment literacy has been recognized as one of the key levers for improving instructional practice and student learning in light of the education reforms worldwide. A substantial body of literature is focused on teachers' assessment…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Was können wir nicht alles vermittels ihrer multiplen Einsatzformen tun: Wir 'erfassen', 'berühren' und 'begreifen' mit den Händen, wir 'geben', 'reichen' und 'halten' einander die Hände, wir arbeiten und schreiben mit der Hand - und Hände können ebenso 'zupacken' wie etwas kneten, zurechtzup…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Expanding the Rainbow is the first comprehensive collection of research on the relationships of people who identify as bi+, poly, kinky, asexual, intersex, and/or trans that is written to be accessible to an undergraduate audience. The volume highlights a diverse range of identities, relation…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Higher Education Policy in the Philippines and ASEAN Integration: Demands and Challenges examines and analyses the status of education policy in the Philippines and, more particularly, focuses on the issue of the integration of higher education in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (A…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - At a time when higher education institutions in the United States are the subject of increased media scrutiny and nearly continuous loss of funding by resource-strapped state legislatures, a greater understanding of higher education's bulwark resource--mid-career research and teaching faculty…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book introduces the reader to the literary work and to an understanding of its cultural background and its specific features. In doing so, it refers to two main traditions of Western culture: one of aesthetics and the theory of art and the other of literary theory. In our postmodern worl…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Writing comprises a significant proportion of academic staff members' roles. While academics have been acculturated to the notion of 'publish or perish, ' they often struggle to find the time to accomplish writing papers and tend to work alone. The result can be a sense of significant stress…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Roads through Mwinilunga provides a historical appraisal of social change in Northwest Zambia from 1750 until the present. By looking at agricultural production, mobility, consumption, and settlement patterns, existing explanations of social change are reassessed. Using a wide range of archiv…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Politics of Education in Latin America: Reforms, Resistance and Persistence portrays complex situations of education change policies in Latin America from Argentina and Chile, the southernmost part of the continent, to Mexico, the northernmost. The analyses tour through Brazil, Peru, Colombia…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - We often look back at changing trends in higher education and call them 'bandwagons' (temporary fads that everyone rushes to be part of and 'jump on'). While much of the hype and jargon of 'The Employability Agenda' may fade from the tip of our tongues (or perhaps be subsumed into the norm) i…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - STEM Education 2.0 discusses the most recent research on important selected K-12 STEM topics by synthesizing previous research and offering new research questions. The contributions range from analysis of key STEM issues that have been studied for more than two decades to topics that have mor…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the last twenty-five years there has been a great deal of scholarship about John Dewey's work, as well as continued appraisal of his relevance for our time, especially in his contributions to pragmatism and progressivism in teaching, learning, and school learning. The Handbook of Dewey's E…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Inspired by pragmatism, this book addresses religious plurality with the aim of bringing forth how it may be approached constructively by Christian theology. Accordingly, not doctrine, but practices are focussed in its analyses of interreligious topics. Henriksen argues that engagement with t…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume offers diverse insights on how the practice of torture has impacted society and how we view human nature. After the Second World War, it was hoped that torture had been permanently vanquished among modern liberal states, and was only practiced by brutal totalitarian regimes. Howev…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Winner of the 2019 Outstanding Academic Titles award in Choice, a publishing unit of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Why Look at Plants proposes a thought-provoking and fascinating look into the emerging cultural politics of plant-presence in contemporary art. Through t…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Dr Kennedy's work is a sociological study of Quakers that investigates the impact that sectarianism has had on identity construction within the Religious Society of Friends in Ireland. The research highlights individual Friends' complex and hybrid cultural, national and theological identities…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Clothing as Devotion in Contemporary Hinduism, Urmila Mohan explores the materiality and visuality of cloth and clothing as devotional media in contemporary Hinduism. Drawing upon ethnographic research into the global missionizing group 'International Society for Krishna Consciousness' (IS…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book questions the critical attitude that is informing the critical histories that have been flourishing since the 'historical turn' in international law. It makes the argument that the 'historical turn' falls short of being radically critical as the abounding critical histories which ha…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Religious courts have been part of the European legal landscape for centuries. Almost all churches and religious communities have their own judicial systems, often composed of courts or tribunals ordered hierarchically. The aim of this book is to present cases from the jurisprudence of the Eu…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This publication makes the case for 'religion and education' as a distinct, but cross-disciplinary, field of inquiry. To begin with, consideration is given to the changing dynamic between 'religion and education' historically, and the differing understandings of religious education within it.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Law and images are generally not regarded as having much in common, since law is based on textual and images are based on visual information. The paper demonstrates that quite to the contrary, legal norms can be understood as models of intended moral behaviour and hence as images, in the same…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The main theme of this year's congress is 'Animal lives worth living'. This theme focuses on our responsibility for all animals kept or influenced by humans, to ensure that we can provide a life for them that takes into account all relevant aspects of animal welfare, aided by applied ethology…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume addresses trauma not only from a theoretical, descriptive and therapeutic perspective, but also through the survivor as narrator, meaning maker, and presenter. By conceptualising different outlooks on trauma, exploring transfigurations in writing and art, and engaging trauma throu…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The present volume, edited by Patricia Salazar-Campillo and Victòria Codina-Espurz, is a timely contribution to the field of interlanguage pragmatics. The nine chapters presented here expand the scope of research to date by including different contexts (i.e., formal instruction, stay-abroad,…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This Book of Abstracts is the main publication of the 70th Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science (EAAP). It contains abstracts of the invited papers and contributed presentations of the sessions of EAAP's eleven Commissions: Animal Genetics, Animal Nutrition, Animal Mana…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Grounded Identities: Territory and Belonging in the Medieval and Early Modern Middle East and Mediterranean is a collection of essays on attachment to specific lands including Kurdistan, Andalusia and the Maghrib, and geographical Syria in the pre-modern Islamicate world. Together these essays put a…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Timescapes of Waiting explores the intersections of temporality and space by examining various manifestations of spatial (im-)mobility. The individual articles approach these spaces from a variety of academic perspectives - including the realms of history, architecture, law and literary and cultural…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Third Edition of Brill's Encyclopaedia of Islam is an entirely new work, with new articles reflecting the great diversity of current scholarship. It appears in substantial segments each year, both online and in print. The new scope includes comprehensive coverage of Islam in the twentieth…