Evidence and Expertise in Nordic Education Policy

This open access book explores how policy makers draw on national, regional and international expertise in issuing school reform within five Nordic countries. In an era of international comparison, policy makers are expected to review best practices, learn from experiences from elsewhere, and apply international standards propelled by international organizations. Do they do so? What counts, fo…

Schulbezogene Motivierungspraktiken von Eltern: Verbale Wert- und Kontrollzus…

Das vorliegende Open-Access-Buch untersucht die sprachlichen Motivierungspraktiken von Eltern und zeigt Handlungsoptionen auf, wie diese verbessert werden könnten. Eltern üben mit ihren Einstellungen, Aspirationen und Leistungserwartungen einen großen Einfluss auf die schulbezogenen Wertorientierungen und leistungsbezogenen Selbstbilder ihrer Kinder aus. Aber wie gehen Eltern konkret vor, we…

Systems of classification in premodern medical cultures :sickness, health and…

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Evidence and Expertise in Nordic Education Policy

This open access book explores how policy makers draw on national, regional and international expertise in issuing school reform within five Nordic countries. In an era of international comparison, policy makers are expected to review best practices, learn from experiences from elsewhere, and apply international standards propelled by international organizations. Do they do so? What counts, fo…

A tale of two towers :gigantism in architecture and digital culture

A cultural history of gigantism in architecture and digital culture, from the Eiffel Tower to the World Trade Center. The gigantic is everywhere, and gigantism is manifest in everything from excessively tall skyscrapers to globe-spanning digital networks. In this book, Henriette Steiner and Kristin Veel map and critique the trajectory of gigantism in architecture and digital culture--the conver…

Grundkurs Relationale Datenbanken

Dieses Buch richtet sich an Studierende und IT-ler in Ausbildung und Beruf, die ohne unnötigen Theorieballast die Praxis der Entwicklung von Datenbankapplikationen erlernen möchten. Es ist als anwendungsorientiertes Lehrbuch aufgebaut und eignet sich für den Unterricht sowie zum Selbststudium. Praxisnah und verständlich werden die Themen Datenmodellierung, Datenbankentwicklung und Datenbank…

Tower to Tower: Gigantism in Architecture and Digital Culture

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Systems of Classification in Premodern Medical Cultures

Systems of Classification in Premodern Medical Cultures puts historical disease concepts in cross-cultural perspective, investigating perceptions, constructions and experiences of health and illness from antiquity to the seventeenth century. Focusing on the systematisation and classification of illness in its multiple forms, manifestations and causes, this volume examines case studies rangin…

The State, Business and Education : Public-Private Partnerships Revisited

The State, Business and Education contributes to the ongoing debates surrounding the effects of public funding of private entities by examining the ways in which they affect the quality and equity of those services, and the realization of human rights. Using case studies from both the developing and developed world this book illustrates the variety of ways in which private actors have expanded …

Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic’s Distance Learning on Students and Teachers i…

The worldwide imposed lockdowns forced schools and universities to digitise conventional teaching in a very short time and to convert teaching and learning formats partially or completely to Distance Learning. The changes in everyday teaching brought by Distance Learning were felt worldwide. With 22 double blind peerreviewed articles of researchers reporting on 17 different countries, the edito…