The role of photography in U.S. migrant histories Since the mid-nineteenth century photography has played a central role in cultural encounters within and between migrant communities in the United States. Migrant histories have been mediated through the photographic image, and the cultural practices of photography have themselves been transformed as migrant communities mobilise the photographi…
Il volume raccoglie ventinove studi greci e latini dedicati all’illustre grecista Giuseppina Matino da partecipanti alla Sezione di Scienze dell’Antichità del Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici dell’Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II. I saggi spaziano dalla lingua e letteratura greca alla lingua e letteratura latina, alla filologia classica, alla papirologia, alla letteratura la…
Described by Aristotle as the most vital of senses, touch contains both the physical and the metaphysical in its ability to express the determination of being. To manifest itself, touch makes a movement outwards, beyond the body, and relies on a specific physical involvement other senses do not require: to touch is already to be active and to activate. This fundamental ontology makes touch th…
From Catullus to Horace, the tradition of Latin erotic poetry produced works of literature which are still read throughout the world. Ovid’s Amores, written in the first century BC, is arguably the best-known and most popular collection in this tradition.
In the Project P16901-G06 sponsored by the FWF, Camillo Sittes writings will be published for the first time in a "critical comprehensive edition", scheduled for six volumes. The basis for this edition is provided by the "Sitte Nachlass-Archiv" owned by the University of Technology, Vienna. The writings of volume four document Sittes writings in the field of pedagogy and school system. Camillo …
Fundamentado na perspectiva histórico-cultural, este livro identifica as características do brincar das crianças nas idades de seis e sete anos, período de passagem da Educação infantil para o Ensino Fundamental. Analisa ainda em que circunstâncias os educadores criam espaços para as brincadeiras e como o fazem. Trata-se de um tema de grande atualidade num momento em que as instituiçõ…
Mathematics teaching and learning in the primary school; whole number arithmetic; 23rd ICMI Study; international perspectives on primary math education; social-cultural diversity of early mathematics teaching; institutional constraints of early mathematics; whole number thinking, learning and development
This textbook of classroom activities and homework accompanies Deutsch im Blick, http://coerll.utexas.edu/dib/, the web-based German program developed and in use at the University of Texas since 2004, and its companion site, Grimm Grammar (2000) http://coerll.utexas.edu/gg/. These are open access sites, free and open multimedia resources, which require neither password nor fees. Deutsch im B…
Looting, despoiling temples, attempted rape and judicial murder: these are just some of the themes of this classic piece of writing by one of the world’s greatest orators. This particular passage is from the second book of Cicero’s Speeches against Verres, who was a former Roman magistrate on trial for serious misconduct. Cicero presents the lurid details of Verres’ alleged crimes in exqu…
People interpret their biographies in order to give them a subjective meaning. In institutionalized biographies, biographies also become normatively charged patterns of progress. They reflect the tension between life courses and culturally and socially shaped generalized patterns of life-style. The volume collects selected peer-reviewed contributions on this topic.