Die "Ägyptischen Erzählungen" des Synesios von Kyrene (ca. 370-413 n. Chr.) entwerfen in Form einer Allegorie, die den Osiris-Mythos mit neuplatonischen Elementen erzählt, ein lebendiges Bild der Erlebnisse, die der Autor als Gesandter am Hof von Konstantinopel um 400 n. Chr. machte.
This book is a guide to the latest research using the C-SPAN Archives. In this book, nine authors present original work using the video archives to study presidential debates, public opinion and Congress, analysis of the Violence Against Women Act and the Great Lakes freshwater legislation, as well as President Clinton's grand jury testimony. The C-SPAN Archives contain over 220,000 hours of fi…
Government agencies frequently contract with nonprofit or for-profit organizations to provide services to improve the well-being of their clients―for example, by reducing recidivism, homelessness, or drug use. Governments have traditionally paid service providers on the basis of the number of clients they treat. The past decade has seen a number of Pay for Success (PFS) or results-based fina…
This course is designed to teach the basics of creating games for educational
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Learning is active in nature. It is something you do, not something that is done to you. Engineering educators around the world recognize this basic truth and implement one or another form of active learning to enhance their teaching. Active learning in Engineering (ALE) was started as an initiative from the Polytechnic in Nantes, France and the University the Los Andes in Bogota, Colombia. The…
Warum ist es wichtig, Konzepte der Achtsamkeit und Meditation an unseren Hochschulen zu etablieren? Welche Auswirkungen hat dies auf das Bildungssystem und auf die Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer? Andreas de Bruin widmet sich den Ergebnissen der ersten zehn Jahre des seit 2010 existierenden Münchner Modells »Achtsamkeit und Meditation im Hochschulkontext«, an dem bislang über 2000 Studierend…
Academic pipeline programs are critical to effectively support the steady increase of diverse students entering the academy. Academic Pipeline Programs: Diversifying Pathways from the Bachelor's to the Professoriate describes best practices of successful academic government and privately funded pre-collegiate, collegiate, graduate, and postdoctoral/faculty development pipeline programs. The aut…
Academic Ableism brings together disability studies and institutional critique to recognize the ways that disability is composed in and by higher education, and rewrites the spaces, times, and economies of disability in higher education to place disability front and center. For too long, argues Jay Timothy Dolmage, disability has been constructed as the antithesis of higher education, often pos…
Overview: Students who do not know what careers they would like to pursue will be asked to review supplementary career resources such as the Occupational Handbook or the Virginia Wizard or the local employment office or any authoritative resources which could give them information about career pathways. Students will choose at least two occupations that they would be interested in pursuing. For…