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Book Medieval Slavic Lives of Saints and Princes

Download or read book Medieval Slavic Lives of Saints and Princes written by Marvin Kantor and published by University of Michigan Department of Slavic Lang Ures. This book was released on 1983 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Affirmative Discrimination

Download or read book Affirmative Discrimination written by Nathan Glazer and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Should government try to remedy persistent racial and ethnic inequalities by establishing and enforcing quotas and other statistical goals? Here is one of the most incisive books ever written on this difficult issue. Nathan Glazer surveys the civil rights tradition in the United States; evaluates public policies in the areas of employment, education, and housing; and questions the judgment and wisdom of their underlying premises--their focus on group rights, rather than individual rights. Such policies, he argues, are ineffective, unnecessary, and politically destructive of harmonious relations among the races. Updated with a long, new introduction by the author, Affirmative Discrimination will enable citizens as well as scholars to better understand and evaluate public policies for achieving social justice in a multiethnic society.

Book Interculturel Et Didactique Du Fran  ais Langue Etrang  re Cas Du Maroc

Download or read book Interculturel Et Didactique Du Fran ais Langue Etrang re Cas Du Maroc written by Mohamed Sabir and published by Omniscriptum. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La classe de français philosophie dans les classes préparatoires scientifiques marocaines est un espace de découverte et de contacts interculturels. Mais cette composante importante de la didactique des langues étrangères est-elle un facteur d'enrichissement ou de blocage et de difficultés pour les apprenants marocains? Quelles sont les représentations, les attitudes et les interactions des apprenants et des enseignants marocains par rapport au processus de l'enseignement apprentissage du F.L.E.? Cette recherche explore la problématique interculturelle posée par le contact entre deux cultures différentes au Maroc, pays de diversité et des brassages des cultures. L'étude s'appuie notamment sur une enquète menée auprès du jeune public marocain et de leurs enseignants ainsi que sur l'analyse de corpus écrits des élèves marocains en CPGE.

Book Eat Sleep Bagpipes Repeat

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mirako Press
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2018-07-18
  • ISBN : 9781723229053
  • Pages : 104 pages

Download or read book Eat Sleep Bagpipes Repeat written by Mirako Press and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-18 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This adorable music notebook is perfect for staffs, kids and musicians. The high-quality manuscript book includes 110 pages of 12 staves. Let exercise your composing skills with this well-designed music sketchbook! Enjoy!

Book The Politics and Governance of Basic Education

Download or read book The Politics and Governance of Basic Education written by Brian Levy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-24 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. All over the world, economic inclusion has risen to the top of the development discourse. A well-performing education system is central to achieving inclusive development - but the challenge of improving educational outcomes has proven to be unexpectedly difficult. Access to education has increased, but quality remains low, with weaknesses in governance comprising an important part of the explanation. The Politics and Governance of Basic Education explores the balance between hierarchical and horizontal institutional arrangements for the public provision of basic education. Using the vivid example of South Africa, a country that had ambitious goals at the outset of its transition from apartheid to democracy, it explores how the interaction of politics and institutions affects educational outcomes. By examining lessons learned from how South Africa failed to achieve many of its goals, it constructs an innovative alternative strategy for making process, combining practical steps to achieve incremental gains to re-orient the system towards learning.

Book The    Malleus Maleficarum    and the construction of witchcraft

Download or read book The Malleus Maleficarum and the construction of witchcraft written by Hans Broedel and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The Malleus is an important text and is frequently quoted by authors across a wide range of scholarly disciplines. Yet it also presents serious difficulties: it is difficult to understand out of context, and is not generally representative of late medieval learned thinking. This, the first book-length study of the original text in English, provides students and scholars with an introduction to this controversial work and to the conceptual word of its authors. Like all witch-theorists, Institoris and Sprenger constructed their witch out of a constellation of pre-existing popular beliefs and learned traditions. Therefore, to understand the Malleus, one must also understand the contemporary and subsequent debates over the reality and nature of witches. This book argues that although the Malleus was a highly idiosyncratic text, its arguments were powerfully compelling and therefore remained influential long after alternatives were forgotten. Consequently, although focused on a single text, this study has important implications for fifteenth-century witchcraft theory. This is a fascinating work on the Malleus Maleficarum and will be essential to students and academics of late medieval and early modern history, religion and witchcraft studies.

Book Data Information Literacy

Download or read book Data Information Literacy written by Jake Carlson and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the increasing attention to managing, publishing, and preserving research datasets as scholarly assets, what competencies in working with research data will graduate students in STEM disciplines need to be successful in their fields? And what role can librarians play in helping students attain these competencies? In addressing these questions, this book articulates a new area of opportunity for librarians and other information professionals, developing educational programs that introduce graduate students to the knowledge and skills needed to work with research data. The term "data information literacy" has been adopted with the deliberate intent of tying two emerging roles for librarians together. By viewing information literacy and data services as complementary rather than separate activities, the contributors seek to leverage the progress made and the lessons learned in each service area. The intent of the publication is to help librarians cultivate strategies and approaches for developing data information literacy programs of their own using the work done in the multiyear, IMLS-supported Data Information Literacy (DIL) project as real-world case studies. The initial chapters introduce the concepts and ideas behind data information literacy, such as the twelve data competencies. The middle chapters describe five case studies in data information literacy conducted at different institutions (Cornell, Purdue, Minnesota, Oregon), each focused on a different disciplinary area in science and engineering. They detail the approaches taken, how the programs were implemented, and the assessment metrics used to evaluate their impact. The later chapters include the "DIL Toolkit," a distillation of the lessons learned, which is presented as a handbook for librarians interested in developing their own DIL programs. The book concludes with recommendations for future directions and growth of data information literacy. More information about the DIL project can be found on the project's website: datainfolit.org.

Book Spaces of Culture

Download or read book Spaces of Culture written by Mike Featherstone and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1999-03-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Spaces of Culture an international group of scholars examines the implications of questions such as: What is culture? What is the relationship between social structure and culture in a globalized and networked world? Do critical perspectives still apply, or does the speed and complexity of cultural production demand new forms of analysis? They explore the key themes in social theory: the nation state; the city; modernity and reflexivity; post-Fordism and the spatial logic of the informational city. The contributors go on to analyze the public sphere, questioning the reductive representation of technology as a form of instrumentality, and demonstrating how new technologies can offer new spaces of culture. This analysis of public space is essential to an understanding of issues like global citizenship and multicultural human rights.

Book Data Information Literacy

Download or read book Data Information Literacy written by Dominika Dechiel and published by . This book was released on 2016-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beginning of the 21st century has been called the Information Age because of the explosion of information output and information sources. It has become increasingly clear that students cannot learn everything they need to know in their field of study in a few years of college. Information literacy equips them with the critical skills necessary to become independent life-long learners. They know how to learn because they know how knowledge is organised, how to find information and how to use information in such a way that others can learn from them. They are prepared for lifelong learning, because they can always find the information needed for any task or decision at hand. Information literacy forms the basis for life-long learning. It is common to all disciplines, to all learning environments, and to all levels of education. It enables learners to master content and extend their investigations, become more self-directed, and assume greater control over their own learning. The term data information literacy has been adopted with the deliberate intent of tying two emerging roles for librarians together. By viewing information literacy and data services as complementary rather than separate activities, the contributors seek to leverage the progress made and the lessons learned in each service area. This book enunciates a new area of opportunity for librarians and other information professionals, developing educational programs that introduce graduate students to the knowledge and skills needed to work with research data.

Book EuroComRom   the Seven Sieves

Download or read book EuroComRom the Seven Sieves written by William J. McCann and published by . This book was released on 2002-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Anatomy Live

    Book Details:
  • Author : Maaike Bleeker
  • Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9053565167
  • Pages : 271 pages

Download or read book Anatomy Live written by Maaike Bleeker and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gross anatomy, the study of anatomical structures that can be seen by unassisted vision, has long been a subject of fascination for artists. For most modern viewers, however, the anatomy lesson—the technically precise province of clinical surgeons and medical faculties—hardly seems the proper breeding ground for the hybrid workings of art and theory. We forget that, in its early stages, anatomy pursued the highly theatrical spirit of Renaissance science, as painters such as Rembrandt and Da Vinci and medical instructors like Fabricius of Aquapendente shared audiences devoted to the workings of the human body. Anatomy Live: Performance and the Operating Theatre, a remarkable consideration of new developments on the stage, as well as in contemporary writings of theorists such as Donna Haraway and Brian Massumi, turns our modern notions of the dissecting table on its head—using anatomical theatre as a means of obtaining a fresh perspective on representations of the body, conceptions of subjectivity, and own knowledge about science and the stage. Critically dissecting well-known exhibitions like Body Worlds and The Visible Human Project and featuring contributions from a number of diverse scholars on such subjects as the construction of spectatorship and the implications of anatomical history, Anatomy Live is not to be missed by anyone with an interest in this engaging intersection of science and artistic practice.

Book The Plural Actor

Download or read book The Plural Actor written by Bernard Lahire and published by Polity. This book was released on 2011-02-07 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The individual that the social sciences take as an object is most often studied in a particular context or from a single dimension. The actor is analysed as a student, worker, consumer, spouse, reader, sportsperson, a voter etc. However, in societies where individuals live often through simultaneously and successively heterogeneous and sometimes contradictory social experiences, each person inevitably carries a plurality of roles, ways of seeing, feeling and acting. The aim of this study is to consider the ways in which this plurality of worlds and experiences are incorporated into the being of each individual and to observe the individual's actions in a variety of settings. In addition to his sociological viewpoint, the author engages with psychology, history, anthropology and philosophy. His reflections lead him to embark on a program of psychological sociology to highlight the complexities of this plural view of the social.

Book L   interculturel    travers le multim  dia dans l   enseignement du fran  ais langue   trang  re

Download or read book L interculturel travers le multim dia dans l enseignement du fran ais langue trang re written by RIVERO VILA, Isabel and published by Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of our research has been to promote intercultural analysis from the target language and culture in Francophone film sequences. These film sequences have allowed us to expose the learner to intercultural aspects of language and Francophone cultures . We aim to develop intercultural skills of the learner from engaging teaching units, also available on our website. We have created a teaching approach where intercultural communication anticipates the situations; locates the communicative interferences; develops cultural and linguistic skills and promotes intercultural dialogue based on representative sequences on day-to-day Francophone life. Thus, we have created and also developed existing approaches in teaching French as a foreign language ( actionnelle approche , input structuré , lexiculture , etc). Finally, with this research we wanted to respond to the current lack in educational publishing : the teaching of the language - culture in French as a foreign language (FLE) based in Francophone multiculturalism represented in current Francophone movies. We consider Francophone multiculturalism as an essential element in teaching FLE since it allows to train our learners both in a sociocultural and linguistic level so that they can participate fully in the Francophone world

Book Migration from the Middle East and North Africa to Europe

Download or read book Migration from the Middle East and North Africa to Europe written by Michael Bommes and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most important challenges concerning the future of the European Union is the demographic reproduction of the European population. Decreasing birth-rates and the retirement of the baby boomers will dramatically reduce the labour force in the EU, which will entail not only a lack of manpower but also lower contributions to European social systems. It seems clear that the EU will have to counterbalance this population decrease by immigration in the coming years. Migration Between the Middle East, North Africa and Europe takes this challenge as a point of departure for analysing the MENA region, in particular Morocco, Egypt and Turkey, as a possible source of future migration to the European Union. At the same time, it illustrates the uncertainties implied in such calculations, especially at a time of radical political changes, such as those brought about by the Arab Uprising.

Book Passage des fronti  res

    Book Details:
  • Author : Luc Collès
  • Publisher : Presses universitaires de Louvain
  • Release : 2013-12-15
  • ISBN : 2875582372
  • Pages : 275 pages

Download or read book Passage des fronti res written by Luc Collès and published by Presses universitaires de Louvain. This book was released on 2013-12-15 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cinq thèmes majeurs de l'œuvre et du parcours de Luc Collès : l'enseignement de la littérature, la didactique du FLE et de l'interculturel, la promotion de la francophonie, la littérature migrante et l’interrogation sur les enjeux de la transmission du fa

Book Le fran  ais langue   trang  re et seconde

Download or read book Le fran ais langue trang re et seconde written by Jean-Marc Defays and published by Editions Mardaga. This book was released on 2003 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L'enseignement du français langue étrangère et seconde ne cesse de se développer dans les pays francophones ou non francophones, dans les écoles, les universités ou d'autres institutions ; et le métier de professeur de français langue étrangère et seconde devient de plus en plus exigeant vu la spécificité et la variété de ses publics, de ses conditions et de ses enjeux. Cet ouvrage présente de manière systématique et critique tous les aspects de cet enseignement, tant sur le volet de la didactique par le biais de la linguistique, de la psychopédagogie et de l'approche culturelle, que sur le volet de la pédagogie où sont analysées les différentes méthodes et activités de classe. Pages de début Préface Avant-propos Introduction Chapitre 1 - QUOI ? Les objets du cours de FLES Chapitre 2 - QUI ? Les acteurs du cours de FLES Chapitre 3 - OÙ et QUAND ? Les circonstances du cours de FLES Chapitre 4 - POUR( )QUOI ? Les motivations et les objectifs du cours de FLES Chapitre 5 - COMMENT ? Les méthodes et les stratégies du cours de FLES Bibliographie établie en collaboration avecVincent Louis Un tout grand merci Pages de fin.

Book The Climate Crisis

Download or read book The Climate Crisis written by Vishwas Satgar and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays that address the question: how can people and class agency change this destructive course of history? Capitalism’s addiction to fossil fuels is heating our planet at a pace and scale never before experienced. Extreme weather patterns, rising sea levels and accelerating feedback loops are a commonplace feature of our lives. The number of environmental refugees is increasing and several island states and low-lying countries are becoming vulnerable. Corporate-induced climate change has set us on an ecocidal path of species extinction. Governments and their international platforms such as the Paris Climate Agreement deliver too little, too late. Most states, including South Africa, continue on their carbon-intensive energy paths, with devastating results. Political leaders across the world are failing to provide systemic solutions to the climate crisis. This is the context in which we must ask ourselves: how can people and class agency change this destructive course of history? Volume three in the Democratic Marxism series, The Climate Crisis investigates eco-socialist alternatives that are emerging. It presents the thinking of leading climate justice activists, campaigners and social movements advancing systemic alternatives and developing bottom-up, just transitions to sustain life. Through a combination of theoretical and empirical work, the authors collectively examine the challenges and opportunities inherent in the current moment. This volume builds on the class-struggle focus of Volume 2 by placing ecological issues at the centre of democratic Marxism. Most importantly, it explores ways to renew historical socialism with democratic, eco-socialist alternatives to meet current challenges in South Africa and the world.