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Verlag Barbara Budrich A Student’s Guide to European Universities: Sociology, Political Science, Geography and History
Studying Abroad The guidebook to Social Sciences in Europe addresses students and researchers going abroad. It offers an insight into the origins, methods and current trends in four Social Science disciplines in six European countries (Spain, France, Germany, Italy, the Czech Republic, and Great Britain) combined with practical information on the university system as well as teaching and assessment methods. It also includes information on student life in the countries in question. A thorough preparation is the best asset to make the most of a study abroad experience. From a practical standpoint, this guidebook is a goldmine for students in Social Sciences (History, Political Science, Geography and Sociology) who are planning to move to one of the six countries investigated (Germany, Spain, France, Britain, Italy and the Czech Republic). Not only are they provided with an opportunity to learn about the history of each academic system, but they can also gain an understanding about the evolution of the specific discipline they are studying, and discover the content of classes, the ways students are assessed and papers graded, or the national approaches of social sciences. The guidebook is also a genuine contribution to the analysis of European university systems. It provides hitherto unpublished material, and implicitly defends three strong positions. First, it confirms that the European Higher Education Area is only in its infancy. Next, it shows how national differences extend beyond structural differences to include pedagogical conceptions, ways of teaching and curricular management. Finally, it challenges the universal character of disciplines and emphasizes their national specificities, despite the constant stream of transnational circulations and transfers. From the Contents: An invitation to go abroad From Bologna (1217) to Bologna (1999): A brief history of European universities Building a European Higher Education Area Studying Abroad: Intercultural challenges Czech Republic France Germany Great Britain Italy Spain
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Verlag Barbara Budrich Qualitative Analysis and Documentary Method: In International Educational Research
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Verlag Barbara Budrich Doing Succession in Europe: Generational Transfers in Family Businesses in Comparative Perspective
Family enterprises make up the majority of all businesses across Western Europe. Nonetheless, they are seen as an endangered species. Succession is an especially critical moment for their survival. The succession process is shaped by the dynamics of generational relations in the family. Different institutional contexts between countries create diverse conditions for the negotiation between the generations. Doing Succession in Europe examines whether and how succession processes in European family businesses vary. Scholars of the family, capitalism, welfare state and law discuss comparative findings and ideas; business and legal experts highlight the concrete practices.
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Verlag Barbara Budrich Youth and Political Participation in Europe: Results of the Comparative Study EUYOUPART
Youth an Politics How do young people in Europe perceive politics? How do they engage in the political realm? Which groups of young people are actively involved? And which learning environments and opportunity structures can foster parti - cipation? Furthermore methodological problems of comparative participation research are discussed and the measurement instrument that was developed in this European research project, and is certainly useful for similar studies is presented. From the Contents: Reingard Spannring, The meaning of and relationship with politics Wolfgang Gaiser, Johann de Rijke, Forms of political participation among young Europeans Sabine Westphal and Natalia Waechter, Learning for participation: family, peers, schools, voluntary organisations Ruth Picker, Gender: a female way of participation/ young women and politics Günther Ogris, The measurement instrument Johann de Rijke, Wolfgang Gaiser and Franziska Waechter, Stability of political behaviour Reingard Spannring, Günther Ogris, Wolfgang Gaiser, Conclusion
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Verlag Barbara Budrich International Developments in Research on Extended Education: Perspectives on extracurricular activities, after-school programs, and all-day schools
From childhood to adolescence, young people are enrolled in various public or private forms of educational arrangements outside regular school lessons. These activities can be summarized by the term extended education. The volume provides an overview of extended education in multiple nations around the world. Different models, policies, methods, and research findings are discussed from an international point of view. Children participate in school- or community-based programs, forms of private tutoring or after-school activities such as art courses or academic clubs, or they attend extracurricular activities at all-day schools or leisure time centres. In as far as these activities and programmes focus on the social, emotional and academic development of children and young people and are pedagogically structured to make it easier for the participants to learn specific contents they can be summarized by the term extended education. The volume aims at three main aspects: Firstly, it explores major characteristics of extended education as an emerging research field, defines what this research field is (and is not), and points to areas/nations/regions where we know very little about extended education. Secondly, the volume provides a potential framework for future cross-national research (collaborative and comparative research) on extended education we are lacking so far. And thirdly, the volume sheds light on the national and international features of extended education and suggests future developments in this field of education. The volume focuses on childhood and adolescence (through secondary education, including college students), though some lifelong implications are discussed as well. It encompasses 18 articles which cover extended education in 12 different countries around the globe.
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Verlag Barbara Budrich Borders and Margins: Federalism, Devolution and Multi-Level Governance
The theory and concept of multi-level governance (MLG) is a fairly recent one, emerging from the deepening integration of the European Union in the early 1990s and the development of free trade agreements around the world. MLG enlarges the traditional approaches, namely those of neo-institutionalism and multinational federalism, by offering a better understanding of the role of the state, regions and provinces. The book analyses the changes that have taken place as well as those that might take place in the future.
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Verlag Barbara Budrich Curriculum Design for Language Courses: Developing an EFL Speaking Course
The course design process is an important empirical type of research. However, course designers often neglect to follow the academic guidelines in curriculum theory and development. This study on curriculum design in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) links theory with practice and provides a practical guide for teachers and language professionals in designing foreign language courses. This book will be beneficial for researchers working on educational sciences and foreign languages and also for those working as professionals (teachers, lecturers etc.) in the teaching of English as a foreign language.
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Verlag Barbara Budrich A United Nations Renaissance: What the UN is, and what it could be
This short introduction to the United Nations analyzes the organization as itis today, and how it can be transformed to respond to its critics. Combiningessential information about its history and workings with practical proposalsof how it can be strengthened, Trent and Schnurr examine what needs to bedone, and also how we can actually move toward the required reforms. Thisbook is written for a new generation of change-makers — a generation seekingbetter institutions that reflect the realities of the 21st century and that can actcollectively in the interest of all.
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Verlag Barbara Budrich The EU as a Children's Rights Actor: Law, Policy and Structural Dimensions
This edited collection critiques from an interdisciplinary perspective the growing body of EU children's rights activities in the light of broader global political, economic, and legal processes. Specifically, it interrogates whether EU intervention effectively responds to what are perceived as global violations of children's rights and the extent to which EU efforts to uphold children's rights complement and reinforce parallel national and international pursuits. Moreover, it scrutinises the compatibility of EU children's rights measures with the principles and provisions enshrined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).
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Verlag Barbara Budrich European Social Work - A Compendium
This volume gives an account of the fundamental developments transforming social work in Europe at the beginning of the 21st century. A European standard of social work has already emerged, but models for future European social work are absent. Therefore, the compendium gives an overview of the current transformation process for the first time, discussing the visible and invisible changes and mapping out where social work is positioned in the emerging post-welfare states. Contents include: A General Introduction: Transforming Perspectives. Social Work in Europe and European Social Work * Analytical Perspectives: Social Work in Europe and European Social Work in Post-Welfarist Contexts * Professional Perspectives: Main Approaches of Social Work in Europe and European Social Work * Positions: New Theoretical and Methodological Discourses of Social Work in Europe and European Social Work * Future Perspectives of Social Work in Europe and European Social Work * Social Work's Contribution to a Social Europe. [Subject: Social Work, European Studies]
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Verlag Barbara Budrich The World of Political Science: A Critical Overview of the Development of Political Studies around the Globe: 1990-2012
How well is the field of political studies doing and where is it headed? These questions are answered by this broad world overview of political science, its advances and shortcomings, along with prescriptions for the future in the first decades of the 21th century. The volume includes three world regional assessments of the discipline by senior scholars along with an in-depth survey of various sub-disciplinary fields and a concluding critical essay on the future of political studies. Great as a text book, i.e., an introductory global overview.
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Verlag Barbara Budrich Experiences of Intervention Against Violence: An Anthology of Stories. Stories in four languages from England & Wales, Germany, Portugal and Slovenia
The stories in this anthology emerged from interviews with women and young people about their experience of intervention when they were escaping a situation of abuse, neglect and/or sexual exploitation. They come from the research project “Cultural Encounters in Intervention Against Violence (CEINAV)” in four countries – England & Wales, Germany, Portugal and Slovenia. Through support services the women and young people were contacted; they came from a minority or migration background and had travelled through a history of violence and intervention, and were asked to tell who intervened, what had been helpful and what had not.
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Verlag Barbara Budrich Beyond the Panama Papers. The Performance of EU Good Governance Promotion: The Anticorruption Report, volume 4
This last title in the series covers the most important findings of the five yearsEU sponsored ANTICORRP project dealing with corruption and organized crime.How prone to corruption are EU funds? Has EU managed to improve governancein the countries that it assists? Using the new index of public integrity and avariety of other tools created in the project this issue looks at how EU funds andnorms affected old member states (like Spain), new member states (Slovakia,Romania), accession countries (Turkey) and the countries recipient of developmentfunds (Egypt, Tanzania, Tunisia). The data covers over a decade of structuraland development funds, and the findings show the challenges to changing governanceacross borders, the different paths that each country has experiencedand suggest avenues of reforming development aid for improving governance.
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Barbara Fiore Editora Diario de libros
El Diario de libros es una agenda a largo plazo, sin fecha de caducidad. Es un tesoro de consulta, un precioso contenedor ilustrado por Rotraut Susanne Berner, en el que guardar valiosos recordatorios regidos por un ritmo distinto, más lento, más plácido: el de la lectura.
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Barbara Fiore Editora S muchas cosas
Sé que puedo cavar un hoyo espectacular y trepar a un árbol tan alto como el cielo para observar el vuelo de un pájaro.Claro y rítmico, lúdico e ingenioso, así es el texto de Ann Rand que anima a los más pequeños a pensar sobre todo lo que se puede llegar a aprender del mundo que los rodea. Las ilustraciones, coloristas e ingeniosas, las debemos a su marido, el diseñador gráfico Paul Rand. Sé muchas cosas es un clásico infantil que captura la frescura de la infancia y el descubrimiento del mundo que nos rodea.
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Barbara Fiore Editora Hermosa soledad
En la primavera de 1995 Jimmy descubrió que tenía leucemia. Durante un año de tratamiento, vivió en reclusión y silencio. Hasta 1998 los dibujos fueron toda su vida. Este libro recoge sus obras de dicho período, un mundo poético que se rige por sus propias leyes. En él, las ballenas bailan y cantan ante el asombrado y triste espectador. Las lágrimas de un conejo hacen brotar flores del suelo reseco. Los poetas nadan en piscinas sin agua, y las mariposas, con sus alas de mil brillantes colores, cubren a las muchachas con una preciosa colcha multicolor.Durante mucho tiempo después de enfermar no pinté. Cuando volví a coger los pinceles, por animado que fuera el tema de la ilustración, al plasmarlo adquiría una cierta melancolía.Jimmy Liao nació en Taipei (Taiwán) en 1958 y se licenció en Bellas Artes. Después de una brillante trayectoria de doce años en el mundo de la publicidad, una leucemia le obligó a replantearse su vida: a los cuarenta, abandonó su empleo en una agencia para
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Barbara Fiore Editora Linesperat regal del Pare Noel
Imaginem un Pare Noel que s?entesta a trobar el destinatari apropiat per a cada regal i el regal apropiat per a cada nen en aquesta era d?excés en què tots tenim més del que necessitem. Una divertia i bonica història sobre la felicitat veritable, esquiva i capritxosa, però que sempre acaba arribant a qui espera.
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Barbara Fiore Editora La cosa perdida The Lost Thing
Un día, mientras pasea por la playa en busca de tapones de botellas para su colección, un joven se encuentra con una criatura extraña, de aire triste, desamparada y solitaria, la cosa perdida. Mientras espera en vano que alguien venga a recogerla se establece una relación intima entre ellos. En la playa nadie sabe nada sobre la criatura, ni siquiera la han notado. Entonces decide llevarla a su casa donde la cosa perdida pasa desapercibida para sus padres, tan atentos a las noticias oficiales de desgracias ajenas que, sin embargo, cuando finalmente la notan gracias a las observaciones del joven, la menosprecian, la excluyen y se desentienden. El joven no sabe que hacer hasta que encuentra en el periódico un anuncio del Departamento Federal de Objetos Inútiles. Una vez llegados al dfoi la cosa hace un ruidito de infelicidad, mientras él busca un bolígrafo con el que rellenar los interminables modelos burocráticos, un empleado de la limpieza le aconseja que si en algo aprecia a la cosa pe
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Barbara Fiore Editora El viaje de Olek
El joven Olek no es un simple cazador de osos, es un cazador con un corazón de oro que un día decide realizar un viaje para ver si puede hacer algo en alguna parte. En su camino encuentra situaciones que, aunque no requieran de una gran valentía, como atar un cordón de zapato, tapar agujeros de un cubo, liberar a un conejo de una trampa, ayudar a un ave con un ala rota, sí le hacen implicarse y ayudar. Pero según va avanzando, los retos que se presentan son cada vez más complicados: incluso deberá salvar a doce niñas retenidas por el diablo y enfrentarse a él aun a riesgo de perder la vida. Y es que los viajes a veces son duros y plantean situaciones muy difíciles, pero las buenas acciones, por pequeñas que sean, tarde o temprano se ven recompensadas; al igual que las cosas pequeñas que hacemos, por pequeñas que sean, pueden llegar a salvar a las personas. Además, como le ocurre al joven Olek, si uno hace lo que buenamente puede, podría descubrir cosas fantásticas que jamás hubiera sos
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Barbara Fiore Editora El profesor Astro Cat y la odisea del cuerpo humano
El último título de la exitosa serie del Profesor Astro Cat lleva a los lectores a un viaje a través de las maravillas del cuerpo humano.Después de desvelarnos los secretos del Universo y del fascinante mundo de la física, el dúo formado por el doctor Dominic Walliman y el ilustrador Ben Newman nos invita a descubrir los misterios de nuestra anatomía.Por qué tienen nuestras orejas una forma tan extraña? Para qué estornudamos? Cómo sabe el cuerpo que tiene que reaccionar ante algo que quema? Qué hace nuestro cerebro mientras dormimos? El cuerpo humano es una máquina compleja y esta odisea por su interior nos ayuda a entender su funcionamiento gracias a rigurosas explicaciones y detalladas infografías. El libro explora los diferentes tipos de células, el esqueleto, los cinco sentidos, los órganos y sus respectivos funcionamientos sin olvidar varios capítulos dedicados al crecimiento, a la reproducción y al futuro de la ciencia.Un fascinante recorrido desde el corazón hasta la pu
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Barbara Fiore Editora La memoria del elefante un viaje inolvidable por la memoria de Marcel
Un álbum excepcional con grandes ilustraciones y planchas enciclopédicas llenas de detalles sorprendentes, extraordinarios o simplemente estrambóticos, pero siempre verídicos, sobre toda clase de temas.Porque en los recovecos de la memoria de un elefante viejísimo encontramos en desorden, entre otras cosas: animales raros o en peligro de extinción, un planisferio, mares, instrumentos musicales, rascacielos, objetos...Marcel, el elefante africano que ha viajado a lo largo y ancho de este mundo, ha decidido recoger todo lo que ha aprendido en un gran libro ilustrado. Memoria no le falta, se acuerda de todos los acontecimientos de su vida.Sin embargo, el viejo elefante parece haber olvidado que ese día es su cumpleaños. y finge no ver que todos sus amigos se han reunido para ofrecerle una fiesta inolvidable! O será él, por el contrario, quien sorprenda a sus amigos?Un álbum enciclopedico extraordinario y lúdico!
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Barbara Fiore Editora Alto vuelos
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Barbara Fiore Editora Oram H Filbert el diablillo bueno
Había una vez un papá diablo que era feroz y malvado. Había también una mamá diablo que era fiera y malvada. Y luego estaba Filbert, su pequeño diablillo, que no es que fuera bueno, era RE-TE-BUENO.Filbert se quitó el abrigo rabiosamente rojo, los cuernos monstruosos y los horripilantes guantes y se los dio a Florinda.Florinda se quitó la suave capa plateada, las esponjosas alas blancas y la aureola dorada y se las dio a Filbert.Una angelita nada perfecta. ... y un diablillo casi angelical.
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Barbara Fiore Editora Soy feliz no me preocupo soy yo quien tiene preocupado al mundo
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Barbara Fiore Editora Nocturno
Encuadernación: CartonéTres historias paralelas se desarrollan en una sola noche en New York City en 1948, una noche calurosa de tormenta, entre melodías de jazz tres historias de soledad y de desesperación. Ann Schleffer ofrece un recital en la radio NBC y, arropado por su voz que resuena en la ciudad, da comienzo el viaje de los personajes: una estrella de la radio, un escritor fracasado y una camarera melancólica.Las ilustraciones, que al principio parecen una espléndida serie de portadas retro de The New Yorker, se encadenan melodiosamente y muestran una narrativa magistralmente lograda.Blanchet rinde un homenaje a la arquitectura de los años treintaa cincuenta del siglo xx, un homenaje al aerodinamismo, al movimiento streamline, representada con líneas puras, largas y curvas, los edificios con sus formas entrelazada y halls amplios y desmesurados incrementan la majestuosidad de los personajes.Nocturno es una novela gráfica dedicada a los que tienen miedo de la no
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Barbara Fiore Editora El nuevo libro del abecedario
Qué es esto? Un abecedario? Un libro para aprender a leer? Es un libro para aprender a leer, a pensar, a mirar Un libro colmado de una poesía sencilla, de una filosofía concreta, de un viaje lleno de sensibilidad a través del alfabeto en 26 imágenes. Concebido en 1790 por Karl Philipp Moritz, Wolf Erlbruch lo ha ilustrado y reinterpretado, y del Abecedario de Moritz ha surgido un verdadero libro de poesía: el resultado es un libro lleno de imaginación y fantasía para personas de cualquier edad.
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Verlag Barbara Budrich Survival through Bildung – On the Topicality of Heinz–Joachim Heydorn′s Philosophy of Education
The central reference point of the volume is Heinz-Joachim Heydorn's essay "Survival Through Education - Outline of a prospect" (1974), which was translated into English and subsequently made available to a broad public for the first time. Despite the time gap of almost 50 years, Heydorn's text is fascinating, because the survival of humanity – at least a qualitatively substantial survival of humanity – seems extremely questionable today. Researchers with different theoretical perspectives question the text on its contemporary content and put their interpretations up for discussion.
£26.10
Barbara Fiore Editora Otar
Esto podría haber sido O*. Con alas. Joven. Atolondrado. Un ganso pura sangre.[aunque en una anterior vida, lejana, pasada]Ocurrió que ? planeando en 1 de sus vuelos -...Hizo el ganso y chocó de lleno contra una lámparaCon un cuac! y un paf! cayó de plano sobre el suelo en plena ciudadEl color gris del entorno caló sus plumasFue así cómo O* se transformó en una paloma.La mayoría de las palomas vivían a ras de suelo en lo más bajo ........ Picoteando aquí y allá sin levantar el vuelo. O*, en cambio, aspiraba a lo más alto horizonte vida anterior lejana y pasada.Concluyó que la riqueza espiritual de sus innumerables vuelos [por cierto, de un valor histórico nada desdeñable]... Y la pérdida del ala derecha daba derecho a antigüedad. Se erigió a sí mismo en vipVipVery important pigeon (paloma muy importante)Y se trasladó en transporte preferente a la suite 3901 [la habitación más alta en la torre más alta del edificio más grisáceo de la ciudad]
£9.59
Barbara Fiore Editora El profesor Astro Cat y las fronteras del sistema solar
Los pequeños lectores guiados por el profesor Astro Cat descubrirán los secretos del sistema solar. Un apasionante viaje lleno de sorpresas y curiosos datos sobre el Sol, la Tierra y los planetas.Una primera enciclopedia ilustrada que invita a los niños a adentrarse en el fascinante mundo de la astronomía. Un libro para despertar la curiosidad de los más pequeños.
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Barbara Fiore Editora Soy la vida
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Barbara Fiore Editora Hilda y el bosque de piedra
Hilda ya casi no pasa tiempo en casa; quiere que sus días estén llenos de grandes emociones, y su madre no puede evitar preocuparse. En un momento de tensión, las dos acaban viéndose arrojadas a un lugar lejano, un bosque oscuro y misterioso: el país de los trols!Podrán entre las dos escapar de las garras de estas siniestras criaturas de piedra?El mundo de Hilda es. un sitio glorioso y emocionante, aunque también bastante amenazador; los niños tendrán muchas ganas de entrar en él.The New York TimesLas imaginativas ilustraciones de Pearson, un cruce entre Lucky Luke y Miyazaki, crean el hechizo mágico de un mundo misterioso.The Observer
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Barbara Fiore Editora Arlequín
Cuatro versos de Lorca dan forma al universo en este bello desplegable concebido por André da Loba y el Equipo TresBrujas:Un viaje del día a la noche, a través del cuerpo, el amor y la muerte.Lectura de descubrimiento que abrirá una nueva puerta a la belleza tanto a quienes saborean su primer poema, bebés y niños, como a consolidados amantes del arte.
£11.48
Barbara Fiore Editora Cómo atrapar al monstruo de tu armario en 10 sencillos pasos
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Barbara Fiore Editora La carrera espacial
Un hermoso libro en acordeón que aborda los acontecimientos definitorios de la carrera entre EE. UU. y la URSS por llegar al espacio exterior durante la guerra fría.Completamente ilustrado, La carrera espacial no es solo una bella obra de arte, sino que también cuenta con una cronología en la que se detallan los avances más importantes en la exploración del espacio exterior en ambos lados del telón de acero entre 1957 y 1975. Una fantástica herramienta para educadores así como una manera divertida para que los niños exploren unos de los períodos clave del siglo XX.
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Barbara Fiore Editora 999 hermanas ranas
Es primavera y mamá rana ha dado a luz 999 renacuajos en un campo de arroz. Un día, mientras las 999 hermanas ranas juegan al escondite, son acechadas por una serpiente enorme y hambrienta que quiere comerse a la hermana mayor.Ken Kimura y Yasunari Murakami nos adentran con esta deliciosa historia en la saga de las 999 hermanas ranas, siendo éste el primer libro de la triología que iniciamos en 2011 con el segundo de los cuentos: 999 hermanas ranas se mudan de charco.
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Verlag Barbara Budrich Governing development across cultures: Challenges and dilemmas of an emerging sub-discipline in political science
The book is a critical examination and appraisal of the status, methodology and likely future trends of the emerging sub-discipline of “Governing Development” within the broader discipline of political science, leading to the application of “Good Governance” in the administration and development of the newly emerged nations during the later half of the twentieth century.
£24.95
Verlag Barbara Budrich Social Policies and Institutional Reform in Post–COVID Cuba
The economic crisis in the wake of the COVID pandemic is putting Cuba's socialism to a severe test. The government in Havana has added a fundamental reform of the economy, institutional structure and social policies to the agenda. This volume brings together contributions from leading international experts as well as from the island itself, analysing the economic, political and social challenges Cuba is facing today.
£81.26
Verlag Barbara Budrich Quality Teacher Education in Cameroon: The Role of Sociocultural Backgrounds in Pedagogical Reform Projects
Quality teacher education improves the quality of teaching and learning processes. What role do the sociocultural backgrounds play here? The book highlights how actors' sociocultural backgrounds influence the quality of teacher training within a pedagogical reform project involving participants from Cameroon and Germany. The analysis and interpretation of qualitative data shows that actors' sociocultural backgrounds are important factors influencing international, intercultural dialogues on teacher education as well as teaching-learning interaction dynamics in classrooms. The book further discusses the influence of sociocultural contexts on learner-centered classrooms based on principles of diversity, interaction and reciprocal responsibility.
£55.80
Verlag Barbara Budrich The Anticorruption Frontline: The Anticorruption Report, volume 2
From Turkey to Egypt, Bulgaria to Ukraine, and Brazil to India, we witness the rise of an angry urban middle class protesting against what they see as fundamental corruption of their political regimes, perceived as predatory and inefficient. Corruption is near the top of all global protesters’ list of grievances – from the Occupy movement to the Arab Spring. Their countries have benefited to varying degrees from globalization, but their regimes have all failed to evolve politically to meet their expectations. Corruption has become the main explanation for failures in government performance, for networks of patrons and clients subverting fair competition, and for billions of Euro in disappearing public funds, national or foreign assistance income. The economic crisis exposed the hypocrisy of rich countrieswhich control corruption at home but use it to advance their economic interests abroad. The rise in the last two decades of an international anti-corruption regime only raised awareness but failed so far to diminish corruption. There is increasing demand for good governance resulting in quality education and health systems, and denunciation of sheer bread and circus populism. Briefly put, governments unable to control corruption cannot get away with organizing football World Cups anymore. Volume 2 of the Anticorruption Report tackles these issues across key cases and developments.
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Verlag Barbara Budrich Divergent Pathways: Turkey and the European Union: Re-Thinking the Dynamics of Turkish-European Union Relations
Should Turkey become a part of the European Union? This heated debate has been going on for many years now, always under the assumption that it is the membership candidate alone who needs to adjust to the EU’s influence. The book’s main argument is precisely that the Turkish accession needs to be analyzed not only by looking at the EU’s impact on Turkish transformation but also from an angle that captures the Turkish role in recasting Europe.
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Verlag Barbara Budrich Gender Equality in Context – Policies and Practices in Switzerland
In many Western countries, gender equality has not yet been achieved. Switzerland, in particular, has failed as a forerunner in integrating women in politics and the economy. With Switzerland as the case study, this book critically examines the state of gender equality in different policy areas, such as education, family, and labor. [Subject: Sociology, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Social Policy, Swiss Studies, Politics]
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Verlag Barbara Budrich Gendered Configurations of Humans and Machines – Interdisciplinary Contributions
In numerous fields of science, work, and everyday life, humans and machines have been increasingly entangled, developing an ever-growing toolbox of interactions. These entanglements affect our daily lives and pose possibilities as well as restrictions, chances as well as challenges. The contributions of this volume tackle related issues by adopting a highly interdisciplinary perspective. How do digitalization and artificial intelligence affect gender relations? How can intersectionality be newly understood in an increasingly internationally networked world? This volume is a collection of contributions deriving from the "Interdisciplinary Conference on the Relations of Humans, Machines and Gender" which took place in Braunschweig (October 16–19, 2019). It also includes the keynotes given by Cecile Crutzen, Galit Wellner and Helen Verran.
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Verlag Barbara Budrich The vignette as an exercise in perception / Η βινιέτα ως άσκηση αντίληψης: On the professionalisation of educational practices / ^
Pedagogical work requires the willingness to engage with new situations and with people in their diversity. This book does not offer any simple recipes, but a gentle approach to important steps towards professionalisation in the teaching profession. These lead via an open attitude of perception and the inclusion of corporeality to an insight into how learning and teaching processes can be understood in a new or different way. With vignettes and examples from different pedagogical fields, the theoretical concepts are presented and reflected on their application. The book contains an English-language and a Greek-language version.
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Verlag Barbara Budrich Gender in Focus: Identities, Codes, Stereotypes and Politics
This book deals with the interplay between identities, codes, stereotypes and politics governing the various constructions and deconstructions of gender in several Western and non-Western societies (Germany, Italy, Serbia, Romania, Cameroon, Indonesia, Vietnam, and others). Readers are invited to discover the realm of gender studies and to reflect upon the transformative potentialities of globalisation and interculturality.
£33.26
Verlag Barbara Budrich European Neighbourhood Policy: Challenges for the EU-Policy Towards the New Neighbours
The enlarged European Union needs new instruments for exporting stability and change into the fragile regions and countries beyond its borders. That is why the EU is developing and implementing the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP): a strategic concept which is to enhance the Union’s capability to be a driver of reform – without automatically promising the “golden carrot” of membership to the neighbours. This book provides the reader with information on what ENP wants, how it works and what the prospects of the Union’s cooperation with neighbouring countries are.
£21.95
Verlag Barbara Budrich International Perspectives on Inclusive Education: In the Light of Educational Justice
Internationale Entwicklungen und Impulse fordern dazu auf, Bildungssysteme gerecht und inklusiv auszugestalten. Das vorliegende Buch greift dies auf und fokussiert das häufig unscharf diskutierte Verhältnis zwischen inklusiver Bildung und Bildungsgerechtigkeit. Durch die Zusammenstellung von aktuellen Forschungsergebnissen und theoretischen Beiträgen aus mehreren europäischen Ländern zu dem Thema schaffen die Autor*innen einen übergreifenden Diskussionsrahmen.
£45.00
Verlag Barbara Budrich Mobile Schools – Pastoralism, Ladders of Learning, Teacher Education
How can children from nomadic communities go to school, when they are permanently on the move? This publication deals with the necessity and the development of a mobile school system for pastoralists in Northern Kenya. The underlying system Ladders of Learning guides pupils and teachers with a reliable system for individualized learning in heterogeneous learning communities. The book gives a practical insight into international cooperation, curriculum-based learning material development and a flexible teacher education in the INES project of the Benedictine Fathers in Illeret, Marsabit County, Kenya.
£27.86
Verlag Barbara Budrich Work-based Learning as a Pathway to Competence-based Education: A UNEVOC Network Contribution
Dieses Buch bietet eine umfangreiche Sammlung von Forschungs- und Praxisperspektiven rund um zentrale Themen im Bereich des arbeitsgestützten Lernens (WBL). Auf Basis eines ausführlichen Literaturüberblicks über den aktuellen Forschungsstand zum Thema WBL in der beruflichen Bildung im globalen Kontext wurden Beiträge von anerkannten Forschern und Experten in der Berufsbildung aus der ganzen Welt zu zentralen Schlüsselthemen ausgewählt. Inspiriert von Forschungsergebnisse aus einer Vielzahl von aktuellen nationalen Projekten bietet das Buch neue Erkenntnisse über förderliche Faktoren für das Lernen auf individueller Ebene sowie im Arbeitsumfeld. Die Papiere nehmen regionale und nationale Herausforderungen bei der Unterstützung von WBL und bei der Entwicklung und Umsetzung von Curricula auf, die auf realen Arbeitsprozessen basieren. Sie werfen einen tieferen Blick auf die Rolle von Tutoren im WBL und zeigen neue Möglichkeiten bei der Übertragung und Anerkennung von Wissen, Fähigkeiten und Kompetenzen. Die Forschungsansätze, die in diesem Buch vorgestellt werden, sollen dabei unterstützen, Berufsbildungsziele unabhängig von Region und Umfang zu erreichen.
£39.96
