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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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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Seit den 1990er Jahren ist das aufstrebende Feld der Kinderforschung ein Katalysator für empirische Forschung, für Politikanalyse und für die Entwicklung der beruflichen Praxis. Welche Konzepte und Theorien sind bei der Analyse von Phänomenen, die für das Leben von Kindern relevant sind, am hilfreichsten? Das Buch reflektiert diese Debatte und diskutiert aktuelle Herausforderungen der wichtigsten Disziplinen innerhalb der Soziologie der Kindheit.

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Der Aufstieg der Volksrepublik China stellt die internationale Politik und Diplomatie vor immense Herausforderungen. Gleichzeitig nehmen die Spannungen zwischen den USA und der Volksrepublik unaufhörlich zu. Beide Staaten steuern unmittelbar auf einen Konflikt zu, den keine Seite intendiert und dessen allumfassende Konsequenzen noch kaum absehbar sind. Ein besonderer Schauplatz dieser wachsenden Auseinandersetzung ist die Region Südostasien, in der sowohl die USA, im Verbund mit einigen Anrainerstaaten, als auch die Volksrepublik China miteinander in einem harten Wettbewerb um die regionale Vorherrschaft stehen. Dieses Buch zeigt anhand der territorialen und maritimen Konflikte in der Südchinesischen See auf, dass Chinas zunehmend proaktive und rücksichtslosere Position gegenüber diesen Konflikten und den Konfliktparteien auch eine Folge der zunehmenden Wahrnehmung von Respektlosigkeit und dem damit einhergehenden Wunsch Chinas, dies entsprechend zu korrigieren, ist und nicht allein eine strategische Entscheidung oder gar unvermeidliche Entwicklung darstellt. Auf diesen Ergebnissen aufbauend wird die Möglichkeit eines nachhaltigen Konfliktmanagements diskutiert und entsprechend eine Reihe konkreter Handlungsempfehlungen formuliert.

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In many Western societies, there has been a tremendous increase in family diversity over the course of the past few decades, resulting in a considerable prevalence of non-traditional family forms. The increased instability of marital and non-marital unions entails new challenges for both parents and children. In this special issue, family studies scholars from different disciplines examine from a life course perspective how re-partnering processes work and how family relationships are rearranged in order to adapt to the altered needs and requirements of post-separation family life.

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The book analyses the study of the growing field of ethnicity and politics from a number of different angles. These include the nature of the subject itself, different theoretical approaches, ways of addressing political issues the relationship gives rise to, the impact of major global challenges and a survey of output in the field. Comprehensive text book makes great course reading. Questions of identity, particularly ethnicity, play an increasingly important role in people’s lives. They are also of growing significance in both domestic and international politics. The increased attention to these issues has been matched by the mushrooming of scholarship in the field of ethnicity and politics. The chapters in this survey of recent analytical developments examine the contribution that this literature has made within the broad area of comparative politics within the discipline of political science. They are written by experts active in the international network of scholars that has been devoted to the study of this subject. The question of what we mean when we use ethnic terminology is rigorously interrogated. And the major theoretical approaches to the study of ethnicity and politics are critically examined. Ways of addressing ethnic diversity are debated under the wide headings of accommodation and integration. The issue of ethnicity in world politics is considered through an analysis of how watersheds of the last 25 years, including the end of the Cold War, 9/11 and the global economic downturn have impacted on the study of the subject. Also analysed is the output of publications in scholarly journals that has addressed this subject area. From the Contents: Ethnicity – What are we talking about? (Jean Touron) Ethnic and national mobilization (Eric Kaufmann/Daniele Conversi) The Politics of accomodation and integration in democratic States (Brendan O’Leary/John McGarry) Global Watersheds and the Study of ethno-politics (Adrian Guelke) Who is doing what, where and how in the study of ethnicity and politics (Britt Cartrite/Dan Miodownik)

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This book contends that civil society must mobilize its capacities to bring a new will to national and international politics and oblige governments to act. It starts by demonstrating the need for institutional change at the UN and then shows how, both in the past and the present, leading individuals and nongovernmental organizations, using their knowledge base and their organizational networks, have lead the fight for international organizations. After a summary of major UN reform proposals over the years, the book concludes by identifying leading global “reformers” and elaborating a detailed plan for a global reform movement to spearhead the modernization of the UN system.

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What concepts of `gender’ and `diversity’ emerge in the different regions and pertinent research and practical fields? On the back drop of current European developments – from the deregulation of economy, a shrinking welfare state to the dissolution and reinforcement of borders – the book examines the development of Gender and Diversity Studies in different European regions as well as beyond and focuses on central fields of theoretical reflection, empirical research and practical implementation policies and politics. Anti-discrimination policies of the EU contribute to an institutionalization of Gender and Diversity Studies and interact with legal, political, societal and economic factors which shape the academic and practical fields. Pressure towards the deregulation of economy, the reduction of welfare state institutions, increased requirements of mobility for individuals and, at the same time, stronger regulations of migration have an impact on research and theory development in the field of Gender and Diversity Studies. While certain rights and anti-discrimination policies are being strengthened within the EU, and while inner borders between member states dissolve and – recently at the same time partially also increase – external borders of Europe are simultaneously being enforced. The large flows of refugee migration towards and into Europe has put these questions on top of the agenda. Taking these processes as well as social and political changes in different European and border regions into account, the state of the art as well as future perspectives of Gender and Diversity Studies are debated from multiple European and border perspectives. What concepts of `gender’ and `diversity’ emerge in the different regions and fields of studies? The book examines the development of Gender and Diversity Studies in different European regions as well as beyond and focuses on central fields of theoretical reflection, empirical research and practical implementation policies and politics in the following fields:  Anti-discrimination, law and policies  Social movements and politics  Work and organizations  Higher education and the sciences  Intersectionality

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The book investigates transnational migration and mobility of women from and within Central-Eastern European countries. It looks at women’s practices and experiences mostly in the service sector where they are in demand as substitutes in stereotypically „women’s work“. The book combines different perspectives: sociological and anthropological studies, comparative policy analysis and historical and statistical evidence and provides new insights into current theoretical debates in migration and gender studies.

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In diesem Buch wird der aktuelle Stand der Stadtforschung in den relevanten Disziplinen verständlich dargestellt. Der Autor bietet Einblicke in die Sichtweisen der wichtigsten Disziplinen, die sich mit Stadt-Thematiken beschäftigen, wie Soziologie, Geographie, Raum- und Stadtplanung, Geschichte, Philosophie und Politikwissenschaft. Dabei berücksichtigt er auch die Sprachphilosophie und zeigt die unterschiedlichen Bedeutungen von stadtbezogenen Begriffen in einem Dutzend Wortsprachen auf. Ein Überblick über die zentralen Ansätze und Theorien sowie deren praktische Anwendung ermöglicht es den Lesern und Leserinnen, ein vertrautes Thema aus neuen Perspektiven zu betrachten.

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There are two tendencies in present public discussions.Social problems have their causes in the individual, and are thus not a problem of socio-economic inequality. Consequently, we find an increasing policy in Europe of selfactivation and self-help as substitutes of social work. On the other hand, new types of social vulnerability and challenges for social work and social policy are detected which are discussed in the book in their European dimensions. Beginning in the last century in Europe, processes of social exclusion are discussed as common phenomena of the crisis in social welfare systems. They have their origins in the radical changes in paid employment, the weakening of family ties, and the increasing incapability of the welfare state to promote social inclusion. New types of ,social vulnerabilities’ are emerging - containing chances as well as risks. They are discussed in two ways. On the one hand the implementation of indicator-based management systems of social services is attempted, which implies a range of chances and risks in ethical and professional self-image. On the other hand there are self-help movements, social networks and other social types of resilience – which are often a complement or support to Social Work. Yet there is a policy to substitute Social Work by a strategy of self-activation. Both developments are signs of the present and indicators of the future of Social Work. They show the necessity of clarifying the social and political scopes and prospects of Social Work in societies at the crossroads of enhancing civility, human development and social security or overburden the vulnerable, who face new dimensions of psychological, ecological and economic distress. This book is an attempt to bring together several European discussions concerning Social Work and social politics.

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The Capability Approach founded by Armatya Sen and Martha Nussbaum offers a justicebased analytical framework for human development. The contributions to the present volume show how the Capability Approach can be applied productively in empirical analyses of the life situations of young people and the educationalinstitutions they attend in different parts of the world including Serbia, Kosovo, Kenya, India, Greece, and Germany. Moreover, the volume helps to extend the Capability Approach by relating it to different theoretical and methodological approaches such as the capability concept of Paul Ricoeur, critical materialism, critical discourse analysis, and biographical research. Thus, the volume delivers comprehensive insights into the social (in) justices to be found not only on the level of individual life paths but also in institutions and in educational policy while showing innovative ways of applying the Capability Approach in the social sciences.

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Los conejos llegaron hace muchas generaciones.Llegaron en barco. Los conejos se propagaron por el país.No había montaña, desierto o río que pudiera detenerlos.Quién nos salvará de los conejos?Una rica y encantadorahistoria para todas lasedades y culturas.

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En este sugerente libro sin palabras la aclamada artista Suzy Lee cuenta la historia de una niña en un día de playa. La impresionante simplicidad de las ilustraciones, en tan sólo dos tonos de acuarela, crean una vibrante e inolvidable historia llena de alegría y risas.Suzy Lee nació en Seoul, Korea, actualmente vive y trabaja en Singapore. Después de conseguir un Master of Arts in Books, en Londres, ha participado en numerosas exposiciones internacionales.

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Un artista dibuja una línea con su lápiz, los patines de una niña siguen esta línea. De repente, estamos ante un estanque congelado. Página tras página, nos deslizamos siguiendo el movimiento que crea el baile de la niña sobre el hielo. Sin embargo, una caída inesperada, nos obliga a preguntarnos: qué es real y qué es fantasía en esta historia?La aclamada artista coreana vuelve tras Espejo, La ola y Sombras, con una original propuesta en la que las imágenes construyen una narración con varias capas de significados. Un tierno ejercicio visual que atrapará tanto a grandes como a pequeños.

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A veces te echo de menos.Existe un cielo más allá de las nubes? Y nubes en el paraíso?Por fin, he cumplido lo que acordamos.En esta tarde de primavera, sé que tú estás.

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?A los mentirosos la Luna les cortará la lengua! ?Verdad o mentira?Desde pequeños, nuestra vida transcurre entre historias que son verdad o mentira y nos sentimos desconcertados por toda clase de conjeturas, frágiles como pompas flotantes de jabón.Lo que en nuestra infancia creemos que es verdad, luego, al hacernos mayores, nos parece mentira.Lo que, en nuestra juventud, presumimos que es una gran tomadura de pelo, con los años vemos que es la dura realidad.A la gente suele resultarle imposible distinguir las pompas que revolotean en el aire. Lo único que se puede hacer de vez en cuando es gritar:Verdad o mentira?.

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El oso que no estaba es el viaje de un oso que sale a la búsqueda de sí mismo y de su verdadera identidad.Un paseo a través del bonito bosque con preguntas aparentemente simples: soy el primero?, o el último?, eres yo? Pensamientos positivos soy un oso muy amable y encuentros reveladores con la Vaca Valerosa, la Lagartija Lánguida, el Pingüino Pintoresco y la Tortuga Taxi, que ayudarán al oso a encontrar las respuestas que buscabas, y en la búsqueda será capaz de conocerse a sí mismos.Una historia, ilustrada por Wolf Erlbruch, imaginativa, filosófica, irónica e inteligente, con un guiño al oso bonachón de Winnie de Pooh y al viaje fantástico de Alicia en el país de las maravillas.

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Las ilustraciones de este álbum datan aproximadamente de entre los años 2000 y 2002 y fueron publicadas en el suplemento literario de un periódico. La técnica empleada en la mayoría es la acuarela con rotulador fino.A partir del 2002, en respuesta a los cambios que experimentó la prensa escrita, la mayoría de periódicos empezaron a publicar a todo color, con lo que ya no he vuelto a tener motivo para dibujar en blanco y negro. Así estas obras han quedado atrapadas en el ámbar de una época cuyo recuerdo y sabor preservan.Al revisar estas ilustraciones, es como si pudiera recuperar la tranquilidad de los buenos y viejos tiempos, aunque fuera una época de actividad frenética, porque en la creación sólo se ha filtrado lo bueno. He olvidado algunas cosas y hay gente que ya no está, pero por suerte estos dibujos han permanecido guardado en el cajón.En estos tiempos, Internet ha revolucionado por completo nuestras vidas y costumbres que parece como si antes fuéramos criaturas muy

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Das Buch untersucht die sozialen Folgen von Arbeitsmarktmarginaliserung für nahe soziale Beziehungen und gesellschaftliche Partizipation in Deutschland. Dabei zeigen Mehrebenenmodelle und Längsschnittanalysen, die individuelle, haushaltsbezogene und regionale sozio-ökonomische Faktoren analysieren, dass finanzielle Schwierigkeiten nur marginal soziale Exklusion erklären können. Vielmehr sind soziale Rollen, Normen und Identität ausschlaggebend für eine Arbeitsmarktmarginalisierung.

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There is constant debate around the questions of what constitutes the "just" distribution of goods and how we can assess existing distribution patterns. Some commentators mistakenly believe that there can be one simple, all-encompassing governing principle that automatically yields the "fairest" results. In this book Grzegorz Lissowski argues that three types of principles need to be distinguished according to three requirements of justice: equality, impartiality, and unanimity.

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Mi querido gatito, es el paradigma de la obra de Jimmy Liao. Un libro empático y conmovedor en el que los gatos tienen un papel esencial; transmite su profundo afecto por estos animales mientras describe la soledad y el desconcierto de la vida urbana con su agudeza habitual.A través de la protagonista, el autor dibuja con palabras los sentimientos de melancolía, ansiedad, aflicción y frustración con su estilo poético.En cada ilustración, se esconde la historia de un minino.Sin haberme recuperado aún del sueñode la noche pasada, me viene a lamente otro sueño esta noche y soyincapaz de distinguir entre la realidady la fantasía.El domingo por la mañana, alguiencanta y me despierta, pero vuelvo adormirme al rato.Su canción me llega a través del techoblanco, del rosal marchito, del aguaque gotea del aire acondicionado,del suspiro del despertador.Su canción me llega de lo másprofundo del bosque, de la playaenvuelta en la niebla.

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La pajarera de oro es una historia misteriosa de sombras y luces.Valentina es la hija del imperador, que tiene a su lado solo sirvientes asustados de sus imposibles deseos. Cada deseo se convierte en orden, porque Valentina es una niña prepotente y terrible, una princesa de odio y sangre.A causa de su amarga soledad, la princesa colecciona objetos, pero sobre todo: pájaros. Cientos de maravillosos y exuberantes pájaros enjaulados, que se convierten en su lujoso capricho, exóticos ejemplares alados, símbolos de su soledad. Animales tan exóticos que solo viven en la imaginación de Valentina.Los sirvientes viajan por remotos y desolados lugares para encontrar los pájaros más esplendidos y para contentar los deseos de Valentina. Durante los intrépidos viajes algunos pierden la vida otros al volver son decapitados. Hasta que un sirviente, con inteligencia y astucia, le regala algo inesperado: el huevo de un pájaro que habla. La felicidad y la esperanza iluminan la vida de Valentina

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This book investigates how educational expansion, the trend towards the service society and the German unification affect East and West German women’s life courses and family lives. It focuses on educational enrolment, educational attainment level, labour force participation, career resources, social origin, the educational match among partners as well as historical periods and examines their consequences on women’s entry into first motherhood as well as partnership formation and dissolution processes. Using longitudinal data from the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS), multivariate methods such as event history analysis were applied. The findings suggest that women’s entry into motherhood during full-time education is highly dependent on women’s age, social origin and the policy measures in a country. Furthermore, women’s education has mainly an effect on the time structure of entry into first motherhood over the life course of differently qualified women but not on their final decision to enter into motherhood. This book also looks into women’s partnership formation and dissolution processes. East and West German women do only differ slightly with regard to these transitions. Based on a new theoretical model on educational assortative mating and divorce, this book is able to show that there are not only benefits from division of work but also benefits from communication within married couples. Women’s upward marriages are the most stable ones, with homogamous marriages ranking second, followed by married down marriages being the least stable ones.

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Negotiations in the European Union Council of Ministers are not only taking place within formal decision-making structures. Member states strive to find allies and coordinate their positions prior to formal negotiation meetings. They either create ad hoc coalitions to pool voting power or cooperate within more durable, institutionalised coalitions that traditionally form due to geographical proximity or among like-minded member states as task-specific coalitions on particular issues. Institutionalised coalitions bestow their members with a bargaining advantage even if they cannot generate enough voting weight to reach voting thresholds.

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Western military presence wanes in Afghanistan and a transformed security environment challenges borders and stability in Central Asia. This book examines how the tensions relating to the reorganization of external military presence interact with regional states' ambitions and challenge the borders already contested by numerous dividing lines. It studies a complex political landscape across which radical Islam connected with international terrorism is feared to spread as the international mission initiated in the wake of the 9/11 attacks winds down.

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Hardly a day goes by without South Africans going on a rampage over the provision of basic municipal services such as water, electricity, sanitation and other municipal obligations. This book connects the critical issue of community protests to the equally precarious issue of political trust in local governance in South Africa by using comparative analysis of grassroots activism in predominantly black communities and predominantly white communities.

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How to Be a Superpower focuses on the role and self-perception of public intellectuals in 21st-century America. Drawing on a series of interviews conducted with the most prominent ‘professional thinkers’ in the field of foreign policy since 9/11, from Noam Chomsky via Francis Fukuyama to Michael Walzer. With his fascinating interviews, Tobias Endler illustrates how intellectuals inspire, influence, and participate in the nation’s current public discourse and opinion-shaping process. This unique and insightful book explores the role and self-perception of 21st-century American intellectuals. Challenging the idea that intellectuals are becoming increasingly irrelevant, this book argues that they have managed to stake out a significant role in present society. Accelerated and intensified by the events of September 11, renowned experts in the field of foreign policy such as Zbigniew Brzezinski, Noam Chomsky, Francis Fukuyama, Anne-Marie Slaughter, and Michael Walzer have engaged in a vibrant public political debate on the global status of the United States – and very successfully so.

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A comprehensive guide to competences Competence has become a key concept in political and scientific discussions. It is used as a headword in publications, at conferences and congresses: it dominates strategy papers and practical concepts; it is the standard bearer and point of crystallization for sometimes bitterly fought differences of opinion. The text explains the term “competence” and reflects the current international discussion. From the Contents: Development guidelines and approaches regarding education policy The competence concept and its difference from similar concepts Building blocks of competence Types of competences Genesis of competence Recording competence and measuring competence Fields of application Instruments for recording and harmonising competences and qualifications for comparison purposes

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Oft forgotten but simmering “frozen conflicts” continuously mark the political map of Europe. All located in South Eastern Europe, the Black Sea area and Transcaucasia, these conflicts run along ethnic, national, cultural and linguistic lines, separating communities. This insightful book offers a rare critical analyses of the cases of Northern Cyprus, Transnistria, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Nagorno-Karabakh, Kosovo, and Crimea.

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The book is written for active learners – those keen on cutting their own path through the complex and at times hardly comprehensible world of THEORY in International Relations. To aid this process as much as possible, this book employs the didactical and methodical concept of integrating teaching and self-study. The criteria for structured learning about IR theory will be derived from an extensive discussion of the questions and problems of philosophy of science (Part 1). Theory of IR refers to the scientific study of IR and covers all of the following subtopics: the role and status of theory in the academic discipline of IR; the understanding of IR as a science and what a ""scientific"" theory is; the different assumptions upon which theory building in IR is based; the different types of theoretical constructions and models of explanations found at the heart of particular theories; and the different approaches taken on how theory and the practice of international relations are linked to each other. The criteria for the structured learning process will be applied in Part 2 of the book during the presentation of five selected theories of International Relations. The concept is based on ""learning through example"" – that is, the five theories have been chosen because, when applying the criteria developed in Part 1 of the book, each single theory serves as an example for something deeply important to learn about THEORY of IR more generally.

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El primer libro de Carmen José es una obra de arte, la historia de una de tantas emigrantes españolas que decidieron ?trasplantarse? a otro país en busca de algo mejor. En el caso de Carmen: un lugar donde poder desarrollar su trabajo artístico. Pero, qué hacer con todo lo bueno que se queda en casa? Cómo reconciliar dos lenguas, dos identidades, dos vidas? Es posible llevarlo todo consigo?De esta reconciliación, o no-reconciliación, trata ALLÍ : HIER. Del crecimiento, el cambio y la búsqueda de otros climas distintos, del crecimiento y el cambio, también, al llegar a casa (o es que lo que queda en casa ya es sólo pasado?). La emigración no es un viaje de ida y vuelta, aunque se vuelva: sólo de ida. Qué es dentro y qué es fuera? Cómo saber qué casa es la casa? Traducir la casa, amueblar la casa, llevar la casa, habitar la casa. Ser casa.

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Since the collapse of the Soviet Union the political history of Central and Eastern Europe has been mainly the story of arise, consolidation, transformation and struggles of new democratic regimes and societies. The handbook offers an instructive approach to that history focusing on the relevance of practices and institutions of direct democracy. It collects 20 political analyses of direct democracy in 20 Central and Eastern European countries after 1989.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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