Putting PIRLS to Use in Classrooms Across the Globe

This open access book provides teachers with approaches to strengthen reading comprehension instruction based on scientific research and evidence-based didactic principles. In this volume, the Progress in International Reading Study (PIRLS) framework is used to inform teachers about the skills and knowledge that students need to comprehend certain texts. The book gives practical guidance on how…

Die beharrliche Mitte – Wenn investive Statusarbeit funktioniert

Dieses Open-Access-Buch untersucht vor dem Hintergrund der kulturell hegemonialen Rolle der Mittelschichten in westlichen Gesellschaften sowie angesichts zeitdiagnostischer Behauptungen, dass „die Mitte" zunehmenden Verunsicherungen und Gefährdungen ausgesetzt sei, die biographischen Orientierungen und Praktiken, die die Lebensführung der Mittelschichten in Deutschland ausmachen.

Domestic Politics and Norm Diffusion in International Relations: ideas do not…

This book collects Thomas Risse's most important articles together in a single volume. Covering a wide range of issues – the end of the Cold War, transatlantic relations, the "democratic peace," human rights, governance in areas of limited statehood, Europeanization, European identity and public spheres, most recently comparative regionalism – it is testament to the breadth and excellence o…

Exploring the narratives and agency of children with migrant backgrounds with…

Introduction / Claudio Baraldi -- The conceptual framework / Claudio Baraldi -- The complex position of migrant children in European legislation and education / Shannon Damery, Ester Di Napoli, Erica Righard, Magdalena Slusarczyk -- It takes a village to enable

Contextualizing premodern philosophy: explorations of the Greek, Hebrew, Arab…

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Contemporary Housing Struggles

This OA book provides a comparative study of housing contention in Budapest and Bucharest in 2008-2021. The financialization of housing and the resulting inequalities, expulsions and social contention are a central characteristic of today’s capitalist crisis. These two East European cities that fall outside the usual focus of urban movements research provide an illuminating case of similar st…

Education, Equity and Inclusion

This open access book provides a current view on education, equity and inclusion within the lens of education for a sustainable North. The first book published by the University of the Arctic Thematic Network for Teacher Education for Social Justice and Diversity (Including the North: A comparative study of the policies on inclusion and equity in the circumpolar North, 2019) highlighted policie…

Orte und Räume im Roman

Dieses Open-Access-Buch bietet eine breit angelegte, digital unterstützte, korpusbasierte Studie zur Referenzierung von Orten und Räumen in Erzähltexten. Aus literaturwissenschaftlicher, insbesondere narratologischer Forschung sowie mathematischen, philosophischen, physikalischen und kulturwissenschaftlichen Ansätzen zur Thematik des Raumes wird ein fuzzy-set-Modell herausgearbeitet, mit de…

Securitization and Democracy in Eurasia

This open-access book presents cutting-edge research on securitization and democratic development in the OSCE Region. Gathering contributions by practitioners and researchers from various disciplines, it presents case studies and highlights recent activities of proactive engagement in democratic institution-building and responding to security threats from the Balkans to Central Asia. The volume…

Länderbericht zum Deutschen Freiwilligensurvey 2019

Dieses Open-Access-Buch bringt die Daten des Deutschen Freiwilligensurveys 2019 für einen Vergleich der Bundesländer Baden-Württemberg, Bayern, Berlin, Brandenburg, Hamburg, Hessen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Niedersachsen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Saarland, Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein und Thüringen zusammen. Der Freiwilligensurvey wurde 2019 zum fünften Mal im Au…