Deutschland ist seit Jahrzehnten ein Einwanderungsland. Sprachförderung für Zugewanderte ist also kein neues Thema. Massiv steigende Flüchtlingszahlen offenbaren jedoch die Lücken und Herausforderungen des deutschen Bildungssystems gerade in diesem Bereich. In den Schulen ist vor allem der Bereich Deutsch als Zweitsprache (DaZ) – und hier insbesondere die Sprachförderung – betroffen. G…
In dieser Publikation wird sowohl ein umfassendes Bild des kindlichen Empathieausdrucks formuliert als auch ein komplexes Mixed-Methods-Design ausgearbeitet. Im Mittelpunkt stehen die sprachlichen und kommunikativen Fähigkeiten von 22 Kindern im Alter von drei bis sieben Jahren, von denen einige Sprachauffälligkeiten aufweisen. Anhand videographierter Interaktionen werden Muster des Empathiea…
This open access book brings together 16 specially commissioned chapters drawn from a range of different professional-practitioner and academic global perspectives on the importance of the relationship between people and green and blue spaces. It focuses on issues surrounding the importance of natural environments on public health and wellbeing, and the environmental, cultural, and social impor…
This open access book examines the interactions between India’s economic development, agricultural production, and nutrition through the lens of a “Food Systems Approach (FSA).” The Indian growth story is a paradoxical one. Despite economic progress over the past two decades, regional inequality, food insecurity and malnutrition problems persist. Simultaneously, recent trends in obesity …
This open access collection of essays examines the literary advice industry since its emergence in Anglo-American literary culture in the mid-nineteenth century within the context of the professionalization of the literary field and the continued debate on creative writing as art and craft. Often dismissed as commercial and stereotypical by authors and specialists alike, literary advice has non…
This open access book is the first comprehensive guide to identifying antisemitism online today, in both its explicit and implicit (or coded) forms. Developed through years of on-the-ground analysis of over 100,000 authentic comments posted by social media users in the UK, France, Germany and beyond, the book introduces and explains the central historical, conceptual and linguistic-semiotic ele…
This open access book is about Mozambicans and Angolans who migrated in state-sponsored schemes to East Germany in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. They went to work and to be trained as a vanguard labor force for the intended African industrial revolutions. While they were there, they contributed their labor power to the East German economy.