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Ontology and Closeness in Human-Nature Relationships: Beyond Dualisms, Materialism and Posthumanism (AESS Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies and Sciences Series)
by Neil H. KesslerIn Ontology and Closeness in Human-Nature Relationships, Neil H. Kessler identifies the preconceptions which can keep the modern human mind in the dark about what is happening relationally between humans and the more-than-human world. He has written an accessible work of environmental philosophy, with a focus on the ontology of human-nature relationships. In it, he contends that large-scale environmental problems are intimate and relational in origin. He also challenges the deeply embedded, modernist assumptions about the relational limitations of more-than-human beings, ones which place erroneous limitations on the possibilities for human/more-than-human closeness. Diverging from the posthumanist literature and its frequent reliance on new materialist ontology, the arguments in the book attempt to sweep away what ecofeminists call “human/nature dualisms. In doing so, conceptual avenues open up that have the power to radically alter how we engage in our daily interactions with the more-than-human world all around us. Given the diversity of fields and disciplines focused on the human-nature relationship, the topics of this book vary quite broadly, but always converge at the nexus of what is possible between humans and more-than-human beings. The discussion interweaves the influence of human/nature dualisms with the limitations of Deleuzian becoming and posthumanism’s new materialism and agential realism. It leverages interhuman interdependence theory, Charles Peirce’s synechism of feeling and various treatments of Theory of Mind while exploring the influence of human/nature dualisms on sustainability, place attachment, common worlds pedagogy, emergence, and critical animal studies. It also explores the implications of plant electrical activity, plant intelligence, and plant “neurobiology” for possibilities of relational capacities in plants while even grappling with theories of animism to challenge the animate/inanimate divide. The result is an engaging, novel treatment of human-nature relational ontology that will encourage the reader to look at the world in a whole new way.
The Internet and Health in Brazil: Challenges and Trends
by André Pereira Neto Matthew B. FlynnThe popularization of the Internet, due in larger part to the advent of multifunctional cell phones, poses new challenges for health professionals, patients, and caregivers as well as creates new possibilities for all of us. This comprehensive volume analyzes how this social phenomenon is transforming long-established healthcare practices and perceptions in a country with one of the highest numbers of Internet users: Brazil. After an opening text that analyzes the Internet and E-Health Care as a field of study, the book comprises six parts. The first part introduces the emergence and development of the internet in Brazil, its pioneering experience in internet governance, digital inclusion, and online citizen participation. The second part is dedicated to internet health audiences by analyzing the cases of patients, the young, and the elderly seeking and sharing health information online, especially in virtual communities. The third part is dedicated to the challenges that the expansion of the internet in healthcare poses to all of us, such as the evaluation of the quality of health information available online and the prevention of the risks involved with online sales, cyberbullying, and consumption of prescription medicines. The fourth presents some innovative e-learning experiences carried out with different groups in Brazil, while the fifth part analyses some practical applications involving the Internet and health, including studies on M-Health, the Internet of things, serious games and the use of new information and communication technologies in health promotion. The last chapter analyses the future of healthcare in the Internet Age. The authors establish a critical and creative debate with international scholarship on the subject. This book is written in a direct and comprehensible way for professionals, researchers, students of communication and health, as well as for stakeholders and others interested in better understanding the trends and the different challenges related to the social phenomenon of the internet in health.
The Legacy of Felix Klein (ICME-13 Monographs)
by Hans-Georg Weigand William McCallum Marta Menghini Michael Neubrand Gert SchubringThis open access book provides an overview of Felix Klein’s ideas, highlighting developments in university teaching and school mathematics related to Klein’s thoughts, stemming from the last century. It discusses the meaning, importance and the legacy of Klein’s ideas today and in the future, within an international, global context. Presenting extended versions of the talks at the Thematic Afternoon at ICME-13, the book shows that many of Klein’s ideas can be reinterpreted in the context of the current situation, and offers tips and advice for dealing with current problems in teacher education and teaching mathematics in secondary schools. It proves that old ideas are timeless, but that it takes competent, committed and assertive individuals to bring these ideas to life. Throughout his professional life, Felix Klein emphasised the importance of reflecting upon mathematics teaching and learning from both a mathematical and a psychological or educational point of view. He also strongly promoted the modernisation of mathematics in the classroom, and developed ideas on university lectures for student teachers, which he later consolidated at the beginning of the last century in the three books on elementary mathematics from a higher standpoint.
Correcting the Scholarly Record for Research Integrity: In The Aftermath Of Plagiarism (Research Ethics Forum #6)
by M. V. DoughertyThis volume is the first book-length study on post-publication responses to academic plagiarism in humanities disciplines. It demonstrates that the correction of the scholarly literature for plagiarism is not a task for editors and publishers alone; each member of the research community has an indispensable role in maintaining the integrity of the published literature in the aftermath of plagiarism. If untreated, academic plagiarism damages the integrity of the scholarly record, corrupts the surrounding academic enterprise, and creates inefficiencies across all levels of knowledge production. By providing case studies from the field of philosophy and related disciplines, the volume exhibits that current post-publication responses to academic plagiarism are insufficient. It catalogues how humanities disciplines fall short in comparison with the natural and biomedical sciences for ensuring the integrity of the body of published research. This volume provides clarity about how to conceptualize the scholarly record, surveys the traditional methods for correcting it, and argues for new interventions to improve the reliability of the body of published research. The book is valuable not only to those in the field of philosophy and other humanities disciplines, but also to those interested in research ethics, meta-science, and the sociology of research.
Former Foster Youth in Postsecondary Education: Reaching Higher
by Jacob P. GrossThis book examines the attainment gap between foster youth and their peers. Specifically focusing on post-secondary access and success for foster youth, Gross points out the challenges foster youth face in the primary and secondary school context, such as being less likely to complete high school. These barriers to former foster youth continue once enrolled in post-secondary education, and can manifest as lack of institutional support, financial barriers, and limited to no familial support. The author discusses what policy makers and practitioners need to know to better support the educational attainment of former foster youth.
Collaboration and Technology: 24th International Conference, CRIWG 2018, Costa de Caparica, Portugal, September 5-7, 2018, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #11001)
by Armanda Rodrigues Benjamim Fonseca Nuno PreguiçaThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Collaboration and Technology, CRIWG 2018, held in Costa de Caparica, Portugal, in September 2018.The 11 revised full papers presented together with 6 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. The papers published in the proceedings of this year span dierent areas of collaborative computing research, from collaborative learning to collaboration through social media and virtual communities.
Lessons on Caffeine, Cannabis & Co: Plant-derived Drugs and their Interaction with Human Receptors (Learning Materials in Biosciences)
by Angelika Böttger Ute Vothknecht Cordelia Bolle Alexander WolfThis textbook provides a structured, easy to understand and thorough insight into the mode of function of plant secondary metabolites in plants and humans. It explains the biosynthesis and molecular action of nicotine, cannabis, caffeine and Co, describes the effects of these drugs on signal transduction at receptors and ion channels in animals, their relevance for human health and their potential for recreational use and abuse. It also offers a broad and comprehensive understanding on the role and function of these diverse molecules for the plants that make them. This textbook is written for master students and scientist in biochemistry and biology as well as for pharmaceutical and medical students. It will be a valuable study tool for teachers and students alike.
Human Rights Literacies: Future Directions (Interdisciplinary Studies in Human Rights #2)
by Cornelia Roux Anne BeckerThis book adds impetus to the nexus between human rights, human rights education and material reality. The dissonance between these aspects is of growing concern for most human rights educators in various social contexts. The first part of the book opens up new discourses and presents new ontologies and epistemologies from scholars in human rights, human rights education and human rights literacies to critique and/or justify the understandings of human rights’ complex applications. Today’s rapidly changing social contexts and new languages attempting to understand ongoing dehumanization and violations, put enormous pressure on higher education, educators, individuals working in social sciences, policy makers and scholars engaged in curricula making.The second part demonstrates how global interactions between citizens from different countries with diverse understandings of human rights (from developed and developing democracies) question the link between human rights and it’s in(ex)clusive Western philosophies. Continuing inhumane actions around the globe reflect the failure of human rights law and human rights education in schools, higher education and society at large. The book shows that human rights education is no longer a blueprint for understanding human rights and its universal or contextual values presented for multicomplexial societies. The final chapters argue for new ontologies and epistemologies of human rights, human rights education and human rights literacies to open-up difficult conversations and to give space to dissonant and disruptive discourses. The many opportunities for human rights education and literacies lies in these conversations.
The Engineering-Business Nexus: Symbiosis, Tension and Co-Evolution (Philosophy of Engineering and Technology #32)
by Steen Hyldgaard Christensen Christelle Didier Martin Meganck Mike Murphy Bernard DelahousseFascinating and compelling in equal measure this volume presents a critical examination of the multilayered relationships between engineering and business. In so doing the study also stimulates ethical reflection on how these relationships either enhance or inhibit strategies to address vital issues of our time. In the context of geopolitical, economic, and environmental tendencies the authors explore the world that we should want to create and the role of the engineer and the business manager in this endeavor. Throughout this volume the authors identify periods of alignment and periods of tension between engineering and business. They look at focal points of the engineering-business nexus related to the development of capitalism. The book explores past and present movements to reshape, reform, or reject this nexus.The volume is informed by questions of importance for industry as well as for higher education. These are: What kinds of conflict arise for engineers in their attempts to straddle both professional and organizational commitments? How should professionals be managed to avoid a clash of managerial and professional cultures? How do engineers create value in firms and corporations? What kinds of tension exist between higher education and industry? What challenges does the neoliberal entrepreneurial university pose for management, faculty, students, society, and industry? Should engineering graduates be ready for work, and can they possibly be? What kinds of business issues are reflected in engineering education curricula, and for what purpose? Is there a limit to the degree of business hybridization in engineering degree programs, and if so, what would be the criterion for its definition? Is there a place in engineering education curricula for reflective critique of assumptions related to business and economic thinking? One ideal of management and control comes to the fore as the Anthropocene - the world transformed into an engineered artefact which includes human existence. The volume raises the question as to how engineering and business together should be considered, given the fact that the current engineering-business nexus remains embedded within an economic model of continual growth. By addressing macro-level issues such as energy policy, sustainable development, globalization, and social justice this study will both help create awareness and stimulate development of self-knowledge among practitioners, educators, and students thereby ultimately addressing the need for better informed citizens to safeguard planet Earth as a human life supporting system.
Educational Leadership in Policy: Challenges and Implementation Within Europe
by Nikša Alfirević Jurica Pavičić Ágúst Hjörtur Ingþórsson Dijana VicanThis book analyzes the challenges of developing and implementing effective policies for educational leadership in South-East Europe (SEE) and the Nordic-Baltic region. While individual countries from the Nordic-Baltic region are praised for their educational achievements, the SEE region could be considered as a (post)transitional landscape: these two educational contexts present their own unique challenges, notably international benchmarking and the ‘Europeization’ of educational policy. Seamlessly integrating theoretical framework with the goals and experiences of actors and practitioners, the editors and contributors build an accessible overview of existing policy research and its conflicting theoretical perspectives. Often disregarded by the mainstream literature, the countries and regions chosen provide a snapshot into the challenges of developing policies for educational leadership. This thoughtful yet practical volume will be of interest and value not only to students and scholars of educational leadership in these regions, but to practitioners and policy makers more widely.
Information Security Education – Towards a Cybersecure Society: 11th IFIP WG 11.8 World Conference, WISE 11, Held at the 24th IFIP World Computer Congress, WCC 2018, Poznan, Poland, September 18–20, 2018, Proceedings (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology #531)
by Lynette Drevin Marianthi TheocharidouThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th IFIP WG 11.8 World Conference on Information Security Education, WISE 11, held at the 24th IFIP World Computer Congress, WCC 2018, in Poznan, Poland, in September 2018.The 11 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions. They focus on cybersecurity and are organized in the following topical sections: information security learning techniques; information security training and awareness; and information security courses and curricula.
Innovative Technologies and Learning: First International Conference, ICITL 2018, Portoroz, Slovenia, August 27–30, 2018, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #11003)
by Ting-Ting Wu Yueh-Min Huang Rustam Shadiev Lin Lin Andreja Istenič StarčičThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Innovative Technologies and Learning, ICITL 2018, held in Portoroz, Slovenia, in August 2018. The 66 revised full papers presented together with 4 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 160 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Augmented and Virtual Reality in Education; Collaborative Learning; Design and Framework of Learning Systems; Instructional Strategies; Learning Analytics and Education Data Mining; Mind, Brain and Education; Pedagogies to Innovative Technologies; Personalized and Adaptive Learning; Social Media and Online Learning; Technologies Enhanced Language Learning; Application and Design of Innovative Learning Software; Educational Data Analytics Techniques and Adaptive Learning Applications; and Innovative Thinking Education and Future Trend Development.
A Lacanian Theory of Curriculum in Higher Education: The Unfinished Symptom
by Fernando M. MurilloThis volume presents a distinctively Lacanian psychoanalytic approach to the theorizing, understanding, and critique of curriculum in higher education. In this work, the author presents the main theories of curriculum in the current discourse, develops a notion of critique, and applies it to existing global guidelines for curriculum reform. Relying on the architectonic of the subject as developed across the work of Jacques Lacan—expressed in the registers of the Symbolic, the Imaginary, and the Real—the author provides a new approach to understanding curriculum in terms of the psychic dynamics that explain its workings.
Self-Efficacy in Instructional Technology Contexts
by Charles B. HodgesThis edited volume contains reports of current research, and literature reviews of research, involving self-efficacy in various instructional technology contexts. The chapters represent international perspectives across the broad areas of K- 12 education, higher education, teacher self-efficacy, and learner self-efficacy to capture a diverse cross section of research on these topics. The book includes reviews of existing literature and reports of new research, thus creating a comprehensive resource for researchers and designers interested in this general topic. The book is especially relevant to students and researchers in educational technology, instructional technology, instructional design, learning sciences, and educational psychology.
Broadening the Scope of Research on Mathematical Problem Solving: A Focus On Technology, Creativity And Affect (Research In Mathematics Education Ser.)
by Nélia Amado Susana Carreira Keith JonesThe innovative volume seeks to broaden the scope of research on mathematical problem solving in different educational environments. It brings together contributions not only from leading researchers, but also highlights collaborations with younger researchers to broadly explore mathematical problem-solving across many fields: mathematics education, psychology of education, technology education, mathematics popularization, and more. The volume’s three major themes—technology, creativity, and affect—represent key issues that are crucially embedded in the activity of problem solving in mathematics teaching and learning, both within the school setting and beyond the school. Through the book’s new pedagogical perspectives on these themes, it advances the field of research towards a more comprehensive approach on mathematical problem solving. Broadening the Scope of Research on Mathematical Problem Solving will prove to be a valuable resource for researchers and teachers interested in mathematical problem solving, as well as researchers and teachers interested in technology, creativity, and affect.
Critical Voices in Science Education Research: Narratives of Hope and Struggle (Cultural Studies of Science Education #17)
by Jesse Bazzul Christina SiryThis book is a collection of narratives from a diverse array of science education researchers that elucidate some of the difficulties of becoming a science education researcher and/or science teacher educator, with the hope that through solidarity, commonality, and “telling the story”, justice-oriented science education researchers will feel more supported in their own journeys. Being a scholar and teacher that sees science education as a space for justice, and thinking/being different, entry into this disciplinary field often comes with tense moments and personal difficulties. The chapter authors of this book break into many painful, awkward, and seemingly nebulous topics, including the intersectional nuances of what it means to be a researcher in the contexts of epistemic rigidness, white supremacy, and neoliberal restructuring. Of course these contexts become different depending on how teachers, students, and researchers are constituted within them (as racialized/sexed/gendered/disposable/valued subjects). We hope that within these narratives readers will identify with similar struggles in terms of what it means to desire to “do good in the world”, while facing subtle and not-so-subtle institutional, personal cultural, and political challenges.
Schülkes Tafeln: Funktionswerte Zahlenwerte Formeln
by Helmut Wunderling Hartmut AdelsbergerDie Schülkeschen Tafeln haben sich seit ihrem ersten Erscheinen im Jahre 1895 einen festen Platz unter den Hilfsmitteln des mathematischen und naturwissenschaftlichen Unterrichts erworben. Seither unterliegen sie einer laufenden Überprüfung, Erneuerung und Erweiterung.
Lie-Gruppen und Lie-Algebren
by Joachim Hilgert Karl-Hermann NeebDieses Buch versteht sich als Einführung in die Theorie der Lie-Gruppen. Der Begriff der Lie-Gruppen wird ausgehend von den einfachsten Beispielen, den Matrizengruppen, entwickelt. Eine große Anzahl von Problemen für Lie-Gruppen kann man durch Übertragung auf die zugehörigen Lie-Algebren lösen. Dies ist der Leitgedanke des Buches. Vorausgesetzt werden Kenntnisse in der Linearen Algebra, der Differentialrechnung mehrerer Variablen und der elementaren Gruppentheorie.
Schule in der Wissensgesellschaft: Ein soziologisches Studienbuch für Lehrerinnen und Lehrer
by Bernhard GillDieses Lehrbuch führt problembezogen in die Bereiche der Gesellschaft ein, die für angehende Lehrerinnen und Lehrer besonders relevant sind: Schule, Familie und Schulumfeld.
Kybernetische Interventionen: Zum kritischen Verständnis des immanenten Verhältnisses von Multimedia und Pädagogik (Schriftenreihe der Kommission Bildungs- und Erziehungsphilosophie der DGfE)
by Dietmar WeberDie pädagogische Relevanz von 'Multimedia' schlägt sich in den Begriffen des Lernens und der Medienkompetenz nieder. Das Buch entwickelt deren Bildungsbedeutung aus der kulturellen Bedeutung multimedialer Techniken und führt zu der Einsicht, dass die Verfügung über die Möglichkeiten der Technologiegestaltung unabdingbare Voraussetzung für die Entfaltung der bildungsrelevanten Qualität dieser Technologien ist.
Agrarischer Protest und Krise der Familie: Zwei Versuche zur Geschichte der Moderne (Otto von Freising-Vorlesungen der Katholischen Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)
by Andreas WirschingDie Geschichte der Moderne ist gekennzeichnet von dem steten Bewusstsein ihrer Krise. Indem das moderne Individuum zur unaufhörlichen Selbstreflexion gezwungen ist, konstruiert es die Krise seiner Existenz zwar immer wieder neu, jedoch in wiederkehrenden Formen. Als Beispiele solcher beständigen Reproduktion modernen Krisenbewusstseins bieten sich konkret zu untersuchende "Indikatoren" an. Die Abhandlung schlägt hierfür den in der Moderne sprichwörtlich "ewigen" Protest der Landwirtschaft und die ebenso andauernde Klage über den Verfall der Familie vor. Der Erkenntnishorizont erstreckt sich dabei sowohl auf einen nationalen als auch auf einen diachronen Vergleich.
Stufen zur Akademisierung: Wege der Ausbildung für Soziale Arbeit von der Wohlfahrtsschule zum Bachelor-/Mastermodell
by Elke KruseDie historische Entwicklung der heutigen Hochschulausbildung für Sozialarbeit/Sozialpädagogik von der Gründung erster Ausbildungsstätten bis hin zur derzeit aktuellen Studienstrukturreform mit Bachelor und Master im Hinblick auf die Erfordernisse einer weiterführenden Studienreform wird in dieser Studie nachgezeichnet. Durch Verknüpfung neuer Sichtweisen auf die Facetten der Hochschulausbildung und ihrer Geschichte werden unter Einbeziehung aller für die heutigen Studiengänge relevanten Ausbildungsstränge wiederkehrende Themen herausgefiltert, die Orientierungspunkte für zukünftige Ausbildungsreformen sind.
Kierkegaard: Eine Grenzbestimmung des Pädagogischen (Schriftenreihe der Kommission Bildungs- und Erziehungsphilosophie der DGfE)
by Alfred SchäferDass Menschen in sich selbst keinen Grund für ihre Handlungen und Urteile finden können, dass man sie (pädagogisch) gerade auf diese Grundlosigkeit des eigenen Selbst aufmerksam machen müsse, was man aber wiederum über eine direkte Ansprache nicht kann: solche Positionen haben Sören Kierkegaard bisher zu einem in der Pädagogik systematisch vernachlässigten Autor gemacht. Grenzreflexionen pädagogischer Möglichkeiten sind jedoch möglicherweise das, was der 'aufklärerischen' Pädagogik fehlt.
Jungen- und Männerarbeit: Bildung, Beratung und Begegnung auf der „Baustelle Mann“
by Johannes KrallIm Lebensalltag entwerfen Männer ihre Rollen im Spannungsfeld von gesellschaftlichen Ansprüchen und realen Möglichkeiten ihrer Lebenswelt. Tradierte oder medial vermittelte "gemachte" Männerbilder liefern dafür Bausteine und Konstruktionsmodelle. Doch was aussieht wie ein schlüssiger Bauplan, erweist sich oft auch für den erfahrenen Heimwerker als unsicher, widersprüchlich oder gar unvereinbar. Bildung und Beratung stellen sich der Aufgabe, wie man gut fundierte Bewältigungsstrategien und tragfähige Lösungen erarbeiten kann. Konkrete Herausforderungen und Problemstellungen des Alltages und seiner gesellschaftlichen Bedingungen sind Gegenstand der "Baustelle Mann".
Organisationstheorie in pädagogischen Feldern: Analyse und Gestaltung (Organisation und Pädagogik #2)
by Wolfgang Böttcher Ewald TerhartIm Kontext von Organisationstheorie und Bildungsmanagement bieten die AutorInnen dieses Bandes eine wissenschaftlich fundierte Reflexionsgrundlage für geplanten Organisationswandel.