Humanities & Social Sciences

This open access book provides an introduction to multimodality and the role of multimodal texts in today’s education. Presenting a comprehensive framework for analysing and working with multimodal texts in disciplinary education, it serves as a tool for researchers and teachers alike. The second part of the book focuses on sample analyses of a variety of educational texts for different age groups and from different disciplines, including games and online resources. The authors also comment on the specific challenges of each text, and how teachers can discuss such texts with their students to enhance both their understanding of the content and their multimodal literacy. The book is intended for researchers in fields like education and multimodal studies, and for teacher educators, regardless of school subject or age group. With the combined perspectives on text analysis and implications for education, the book addresses the needs of teachers who want to work with multimodal aspects of texts in education in informed ways, but lack the right tools for such work.

This collection brings together activism-informed disability research conducted both IN and FROM the region by scholars and activists representing local communities and languages. Disability in Central and Eastern Europe is situated between ethnic and national identities and languages, socialist/communist and harshly capitalist and neoliberal orders, shifting state borders, policies and regimes, and the fact that disability studies is not yet an academically institutionalised field that manoeuvres between different disciplines. This inherent inbetweenness fuels disability studies in CEE with the diversity of the rich and diverse systems of knowledge and experience. A carefully curated selection of chapters is centred around three main themes that animate contemporary disability studies in CEE: local disability histories that contribute to global disability history disability activism and (auto-)biographical methods in disability studies the impact of artistic practices and texts, and accessibility of technology Bringing together a diverse group of researchers working in Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Hungarian, Latvian, Polish, Polish Sign Language, Serbian and Slovenian, it will be of interest to all scholars and students of disability studies, sociology, social policy, cultural studies and regional studies more broadly.

Motivation in Focus: Self-Determination Theory, in Theory and Practice sheds light on how Self-Determination Theory (SDT) can be applied in the workplace, education, health, sports and the arts. This anthology provides a systematic overview of SDT's scientific status and how it can be used to promote motivation and well-being. Each chapter examines new research and provides concrete examples in which practical implementation of SBT serves to strengthen individual achievement and independence. The anthology brings together leading researchers from a variety of disciplines in Norway and offers both theoretical and practical insights. It will be a useful reference work for anyone interested in how motivation can be deliberately encouraged in different life situations, and particularly relevant for students, researchers and practitioners in the fields of economics, administration, education, health, sports and the arts.

In Deutschland erinnern eine Vielfalt von Museen, Archiven und Gedenkstätten an die Geschichte. Häufigstes Thema sind die NS-Verbrechen, der Zweite Weltkrieg und die deutsche Teilung sowie deren Überwindung. Getragen werden diese für die Demokratie und Demokratieerziehung so wichtigen Institutionen von Kommunen, Land oder Bund. Ihre Wurzeln liegen aber nicht selten im bürgerschaftlichen Engagement. Die Aufsätze dieses Bands stellen einzelne dieser Erinnerungsstätten vor und geben Einblicke in deren Geschichte, Entwicklung, pädagogischen und kuratorischen Konzepte sowie deren Rezeption. Daneben wird anhand ausgewählter Persönlichkeiten und Ereignisse auch die Demokratiegeschichte als Teil der Erinnerungskultur in Deutschland thematisiert.

Marion Nicoll (1909-1985) is a widely acknowledged and important founder of Alberta art and certainly one of a dedicated few that brought abstraction into practice in the province. Her life and career is a story of determination, of dedication to her vision regardless of professional or personal challenges. Nicoll became the first woman instructor hired at the Provincial Institute of Art and Technology (now the Alberta College of Art and Design) - and although limited to teaching craft and design, she became a significant mentor for generations of artists. Contributions by Ann Davis, Elizabeth Herbert, and Jennifer Salahub.

Transfer of Buddhism across Central Asian Networks (7th to 13th Centuries), ed. Carmen Meinert, offers a transregional and transcultural vision for religious transfer processes in Central Asian history. It explores Buddhist localisations in the Tarim basin, the Transhimalaya and Tibet.; Readership: All interested in an interdisciplinary approach towards understanding religious transfer processes across a Central Asian Buddhist network, best known as the Silk Road(s).

La rencontre, au début du XXe siècle au Caire, de deux savants, un lettré du Borno, al-Hajj Musa ibn Hissein, et un linguiste amateur allemand, Rudolf Prietze, résulta dans la production d’un ensemble exceptionnel de documents en kanouri transmis et composé par al-Hajj Musa. Ce sont à la fois des éléments issus de la culture populaire du Borno du XIXe siècle (contes, chansons et proverbes) et des textes de sa composition donnés sous formes orales et écrites. Dans ce cas, l'acte européen de collecte et de grammatisation n'a pas pu effacer la force de l'épistémè du Sahel au cœur de ces textes. Ainsi, l'analyse de ce corpus révèle des pratiques de compositions mentales translinguistiques nourries d’habitudes narratives et discursives à la fois religieuse et profane, savante et populaire, haoussa et kanouri. At the dawn of the twentieth century, in Cairo the encounter of a Kanuri scholar, al-Hajj Musa ibn Hissein, and a German amateur linguist, Rudolf Prietze, resulted in the production by al-Hajj Musa of an exceptional collection of Kanuri texts. This oral and written corpus gathers original texts and tales, songs and proverbs from the popular culture of nineteenth century Borno. The European act of collecting and grammatization could not erase, in this case, the strength of the original episteme. When studied as historical sources, this corpus of texts shed light on translinguistic practices, in between Kanuri and Hausa, and on the role of memorization and mental composure at the intersection of the religious and the secular and of erudition and popular culture.

In 1978, UNESCO Secretary General Amadou-Mahtar M’Bow compared cultural colonial objects to ‘witnesses to history’. Their treatment is one of the most debated questions of our time. Calls for a novel international cultural order go back to decolonization. However, for decades, the issue has been treated as a matter of comity or been reduced to a Shakespearean dilemma: to return or not to return. This book seeks to go beyond these classic dichotomies. It argues that contemporary practices are at a tipping point. It shows that cultural takings were material to the colonial project throughout different periods (early takings, birth of modern nation state, nineteenth-century scramble for objects) and went far beyond looting. It relies on micro histories and object biographies to trace recurring justifications and contestations of takings and returns, and the complicity of anthropology, racial science, and professional networks in colonial collecting. It demonstrates the dual role of law and cultural heritage regulation in enabling colonial injustices, and mobilizing resistance thereto. It challenges the argument that takings were acceptable according to the standards of the time. Drawing on the interplay between justice, ethics, and human rights, it develops a theory of entanglement to rethink contemporary approaches. It shows that future engagement requires a reinvention of knowledge systems and relations towards objects, including new forms of consent, provenance research, partnership and a rethinking of the role of museums themselves. It proposes principles of relational cultural justice to confront ongoing historic, legal, and economic entanglements and enable normative transformation.

This is the first comprehensive history of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), the central humanitarian assistance organization of American Quakers during the first half of the 20th century. It describes the creation of a “humanitarian marketplace,” the development of humanitarian techniques in relation to the media, donors, and recipients, as well as the complex relationship between religious and secular elements.

This book is devoted to the religiosity of the medieval Christian masses in Central and Eastern Europe and its relationship with the traditional cultures of that time. Addressing such topics as the common instruction of the three prayers and the Decalogue, "Christian" magic in everyday life, the Marian devotion, and various images of heaven and eternal damnation, the author never loses sight of his main topic: the complex and powerful interaction between medieval folklore and Christianity.

The starting point of the work is an understanding of the theorem, also referring to Bachtin, as a "hybrid of sentence and utterance", of referential values ​​and pragmatic embedding. This is connected with the view that language knowledge is made up of autonomous, innate (partial) competencies. and acquired skills, and these interact with other knowledge systems. Consequently, the demand is raised for a linguistic paradigm that is capable of meaningfully integrating inherited and learned knowledge. The author sees his work as a first, "certainly quite bumpy attempt (...) in this direction". Thus, this work joins the current attempt to transgress the rigid limits of a too generatively understood generativistic. Horst Dippong accomplishes this in his own way with an original work, which can not be attributed to any single linguistic school, and which deserves an interested and critical reception.

The volume presents the concluding architectural and structural research on this early Hellenistic tomb of a Diadochus, a monumental two-story construction with innovative design of building structure, façades and a peristasis, enclosing an unused courtyard. Pure proportions determined the modularly composed design, having been brought to perfection by numerous optical refinements. Innovative developments of construction techniques such as the utilisation of grout mortar indicate the forthcoming era and so do the new formal developments in the design of this mausoleum having grown out of late classical tradition.

This book makes an essential contribution to understanding the dynamics of contemporary immigrant inflows and integration in Europe. Though embracing a Continent-wide outlook on migration processes, it accounts, in particular, for Southern and Eastern European perspectives. This is accomplished by analysing the long-term transition countries undergo from net emigration to net immigration, as well as developments in their migrant inflows, integration and policy. Balance is achieved between describing the common European experience and the intra- and inter-regional differences characterising migration’s underlying factors and trends. This volume is one of few attempts to conceive of the ‘Old Continent’ as a common economic and cultural space that fully incorporates its eastern part, while still viewing post-enlargement Europe as an area that – despite nation-specific histories – maintains a high degree of social and political coherence. The book is very comprehensive, with deep insights into aspects of immigration throughout different periods and changing socio-economic environments. Contents come from new empirical evidence, specially designed and collected. A great asset is the mix of authors, representing several academic centres across Europe yet pursuing a common vision of European migration, past, present and future.

Beyond all instrumentalisation, the rooted Muslim presence in Italy raises problems of various kinds that are not easy to resolve. Inevitably, the need to comprehend the content of the principles and the rules governing Islam is destined to increase, expanding from the narrow circle of the specialists to the broader group of legal, social and cultural workers. This handy book, originally designed to give students easy-to-use teaching material, attempts to meet this demand via eleven lessons that address the specific profiles and the most topical issues of the Islamic legal system: the sources of the law, marriage, human rights, the holy war, female genital mutilation, the veil and the birth of the Islamic banks. The final section of the book devotes ample space to the solutions which the western legal systems have (or have not) elaborated to respond to the specific requirements of Muslims living in Europe.

This collection takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of gendered technology, an emerging area of inquiry that draws on a range of fields to explore how technology is designed and used in a way that reinforces or challenges gender norms and inequalities. The volume explores different perspectives on the impact of technology on gender relations through specific cases of translation and interpreting technologies. In particular, the book considers the slow response of legal frameworks in dealing with the rise of language-based technologies, especially machine translation and large language models, and their impacts on individual and collective rights. Part I introduces the study of gendered technologies at this intersection of legal and translation and interpreting research, before moving into case studies of specific technologies. The cases explored in Parts II and III discuss the impact of interpreting and translation technologies on language professionals, language communities, and gender inequalities, while stressing the future needs of gendered technology, particularly machine translation. Taken together, the collection demonstrates the value of a cross-disciplinary approach in better understanding how language technologies can be harnessed to address discrimination and contribute to growing discussions on gender equality and social justice at the intersection of technology and translation. This book will be of interest to scholars in translation and interpreting studies, gender studies, language technologies, and language and the law. The Open Access version of this book, available at Home | Taylor & Francis eBooks, Reference Works and Collections , has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.