In diesem Open-Access-Buch gibt eine Evaluationsstudie Auskunft, wie teilnehmende Lehrkräfte Fortbildungen erleben, die auf die KulturSchul-Entwicklung zielen. Welche Perspektiven bauen diese auf? Und welche internen Unterstützungsmaßnahmen trifft die Schule, damit sich die Lernkultur ändern kann? Die Fortbildungsreihen im Landesprogramm «KulturSchule Hessen» legen die Grundlage daf…
This open access edited volume presents a series of studies utilizing a variety of linguistic research techniques to investigate areas of language education, acquisition and assessment, contemporary political debate, modern and historical print media, and clinical language disorders, in the Indonesian context. In doing so, the authors provide a rich and diverse overview of current research in t…
This Open Access book explores the complex interplay between gender, Islam and sexuality in Indonesia, the country with the world's largest Muslim population. The authors offer a fresh look at the tensions between the local and the global through a wide range of cultural expressions and productions, including fashion, Islamic dating, popular literature, and videos on YouTube. The book is groupe…
This open access book contributes not only to the scientific literature on sustainable agricultural development and in particular rice agriculture but also is highly valuable to assist practitioners, projects, and policymakers due to its sections on reducing carbon footprint, agricultural innovations, and lessons learned from a multi-country/multi-stages development project. The scope of the …
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) plays a unique role in the development and implementation of international nuclear law. This chapter contains a short examination of the regime of nuclear law and its four pillars, namely safety, security, safeguards and civil liability for nuclear damage. It examines how we got to where we are and where we can take the global debate, taking int…
Fictional dialogue contains evidence about the conversational and rhetorical strategies that contribute to characterisation and plot development. Through their words, fictional characters not only create their identities, but also express the set of values they are meant to represent, since dialogues are constructed following the conventions of the community that produces and forms the aud…
This book brings together how we, friends, colleagues, and co-workers, see the scientist Klaus Hasselmann. We have tried to assess the legacy of his work, oceanography, climate science, economy, and physics. The original momentum for this project came from Ola M. Johannessen. Hans von Storch designed the concept of the book, supervised the composition, and holds the overall-reponsibility o…
Air museums around the world are displays of the manifestations of the many ideas that went into making it possible for a person to take to the air. The earliest desires to do so are recorded in mythology, the human imagination, and envy of what birds can do. Icarus and Leonardo da Vinci dreamed of flying but, alas, their efforts were not successful. Balloons lifted people into the air usin…
When physical travel to a specific place is prohibited or otherwise difficult or impossible, digital travel provides a promising alternative. The technology to do this is now widely available and many people have the possibility to meet with others digitally, and thus alleviate the social effects of physical isolation. Digital travel can also be source of pleasure and entertainment, and ma…
The European Union’s (EU) ‘Digital Society’ is the latest in a long line of ‘revolutions’, ‘ages’ and societal forms proposed by policymakers, academics and industry for over ffty years (Martin, 2008; Lynn et al., 2018). Critics note that it is at best inaccurate and at worst incorrect to describe society as digital or of technological origin, and is not by and large subje…