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Bilingualer Religionsunterricht stellt eine wertvolle Chance für die Schülerinnen und Schüler, die Lehrkräfte und die Schule insgesamt dar - das zeigen Unterrichtserfahrungen von Lehrkräften ebenso wie empirische Forschungsergebnisse. Der englischsprachige Sachfachunterricht in Religionslehre leistet einen wichtigen Beitrag dazu, dass Jugendliche in einer immer stärker globalisierten Welt in religiösen, kulturellen, ethischen und lebensweltlichen Fragen international sprachfähig werden. Und: Der Religionsunterricht mit seiner spezifischen Aufgabe religiöser Bildung profitiert davon, weil sich neue didaktische Zugänge ergeben und die Lernmotivation der Schülerinnen und Schüler steigt. Dieses Buch bietet Perspektiven, Anregungen und Unterstützung für den bilingualen Religionsunterricht bis hin zu konkreten, praxiserprobten Unterrichtsentwürfen mit dazugehörigen Materialien. Eine fortlaufend aktualisierte Version des Glossars im Online-Anhang ist zugänglich unter: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5726733

Here is an idea that just might save the world. It is that science, properly understood, provides us with the methodological key to the salvation of humanity. A version of this idea can be found in the works of Karl Popper. Famously, Popper argued that science cannot verify theories but can only refute them, and this is how science makes progress. Scientists are forced to think up something better, and it is this, according to Popper, that drives science forward. But Nicholas Maxwell finds a flaw in this line of argument. Physicists only ever accept theories that are unified – theories that depict the same laws applying to the range of phenomena to which the theory applies – even though many other empirically more successful disunified theories are always available. This means that science makes a questionable assumption about the universe, namely that all disunified theories are false. Without some such presupposition as this, the whole empirical method of science breaks down. By proposing a new conception of scientific methodology, which can be applied to all worthwhile human endeavours with problematic aims, Maxwell argues for a revolution in academic inquiry to help humanity make progress towards a better, more civilized and enlightened world.

This Open Access book explains ASEAN’s strategic role in managing great power politics in East Asia. Constructing a theory of institutional strategy, this book argues that the regional security institutions in Southeast Asia, ASEAN and ASEAN-led institutions have devised their own institutional strategies vis-à-vis the South China Sea and navigated the great-power politics since the 1990s. ASEAN proliferated new security institutions in the 1990s and 2000s that assumed a different functionality, a different geopolitical scope, and thus a different institutional strategy. In so doing, ASEAN formed a “strategic institutional web” that nurtured a quasi-division of labor among the institutions to maintain relative stability in the South China Sea. Unlike the conventional analysis on ASEAN, this study disaggregates “ASEAN” as a collective regional actor into specific individual institutions—ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, ASEAN Summit, ASEAN-China dialogues, ASEAN Regional Forum, East Asia Summit, and ASEAN Defense Ministers Meeting and ASEAN Defense Ministers Meeting-Plus—and explains how each of these institutions has devised and/or shifted its institutional strategy to curb great powers’ ambition in dominating the South China Sea while navigating great power competition. The book sheds light on the strategic potential and limitations of ASEAN and ASEAN-led security institutions, offers implications for the future role of ASEAN in the Indo-Pacific region, and provides an alternative understanding of the strategic utilities of regional security institutions.

In this Chapter the author retraces the history of the physician-patient relationship from antiquity up to the present. The author focuses on ethical statements and pays particular attention to deontological rules of the second half of the twentieth century and to the opportunities and openings offered by Medical Humanities for 'new' doctors.

Ethnic American Literatures and Critical Race Narratology explores the relationship between narra¬tive, race, and ethnicity in the United States. Situated at the intersection of narrative theory and context-oriented approaches in race, ethnic, and cultural studies, it interrogates the complex and varied ways in which ethnic American authors use narrative form to engage readers in issues related to race and ethnicity. The book’s international group of contributors covers a wide range of primary texts that belong to the literary traditions of Latinx, African American, Native American, Asian American, Jewish American, and Arab American communities. They demonstrate that paying attention to the formal features of these texts changes our under¬standing of narrative theory and that narrative theories can help us to think about their representations of time and space, the narration of trauma and other emotional memories, and the importance of literary (meta)paratexts, genre structures, and author functions.

This book includes both fundamental studies and applications in a multidisciplinary research field involving a high diversity of chiral compounds, including commercial substances with industrial applications, pharmaceuticals, and new chiral compounds with promising biological activities. Recent developments and innovative approaches to producing enantiomerically pure compounds of industrial and research interest are included. Enantiomeric separation in both the analytical and preparative scale, determination of the enantiomeric purity, insights into enantioselective synthesis and many different aspects of chiral recognition, including chiral sensors, recognition in biological systems, and in analytical methods, are presented. Original research and review articles show the broad scope of chirality in diverse analytical fields and the connection to enantioselective synthesis and biological activities.

Interest in the things which are permanent (stable) in language, and therefore, according to a general belief, in the things which are static in diachrony, came along with a reflection about the phenomenon of the permanence of language. Contrary to appearances, this theme continues to be a source of many interpretative problems. The author is interested above all in the basic problems associated with what this permanence (stability) is and whether this phenomenon is actually homogenous or not. She directs the reader’s attention to a certain terminological and conceptual confusion, for on the one hand, in linguistic research works the following terms are used synonymously: permanence, stability, duration, continuity — in reference to the same concepts, and on the other hand, the same term is applied to heterogeneous phenomena.

The article has a form of the review of Wiesław Myśliwski’s book entitled “W środku jesteśmy baśnią” constituting a collection of author’s speeches and interviews. According to book’s originator - Jerzy Illga - collected texts are framed into "summa" of Myśliwski’s life and works. In the article, I refer to a number of constitutive themes for Myśliwski’s writings, i.e. family, eradication, language and view of the world, individual reception of His novels, nature and peasant’s culture. I amplify the reflections on the topic by quoting characteristic fragments of author’s speeches which in my belief mark His "Horizon" of crucial matters. In a certain sense, the review includes a catalog of quotes summarizing the themes in Myśliwski’s works.

How can public and university collections be preserved and exhibited in the future? Currently, the presentation of such collections is often determined by changes in the institutions. The history of disciplines and institutions plays a role, as does the focus of science on individual objects when it comes to provenance and exhibition possibilities. The authors address the challenges and future of teaching and display collections. In addition to the integration of objects in research and teaching, questions of the presentation of heterogeneous collections and uncertainties in the ownership of objects are addressed.

Was sagen geschichtliche Bilder über die Praxis des Enthauptens aus? Katrin Weleda arbeitet mittels sorgfältiger Quellenanalyse Paradigmen der Enthauptung heraus und etabliert diese als exekutives, experimentelles und diskursives Phänomen. Zentraler Handlungsakt ist dabei die Enthauptung Ludwigs XVI. durch die Guillotine, welche sich in unterschiedliche Bildwerdungen einschreibt. Neben Bildern fließen auch medizinische Quellen und die Diskursanalyse der psychoanalytischen Lesart Sigmund Freuds im Hinblick auf das Medusenhaupt in die Forschungsergebnisse ein – was aus ästhetischem Blickwinkel die macht- und wissenspolitischen Dimensionen der Enthauptung offenlegt.

The following text is the product of a broad hermeneutical exercise conducted on Michel Foucault's work to offer answers to a series of questions that are ultimately essential for anyone seeking to understand the philosophical program Foucault implemented. Who or what was Freud in Michel Foucault's philosophical work? What importance did Foucault give him? Why did he give him the place he held in his work? What recognition did he give to his thought? What aspects of Freudian discourse were problematic for him? This book focuses on the psychological period of his philosophical reflection, which runs from 1954 to 1961, and is dedicated solely to locating the different critical aspects that Foucault developed against Freudian doctrine, explicit in three of the five texts that together make up the period analyzed: Binswanger's Introduction to Dream and Existence, Mental Malady and Personality and Folie and Deraison, History of Folly in a Classical Age.

"The need for an immediate, transparent and sustainable dissemination of current research has become a prerequisite for the further development of science today. Making research results freely available online as Open Access is considered to achieve the widest possible dissemination worldwide. Everyone can access anywhere Open Access publications without any restrictions or paywalls. Meanwhile more and more academic institutions and universities have already started their own presses to publish books Open Access. In the present manual a sustainable and ideal workflow for producing and publishing academic books is presented. That workflow enables universities to publish their publications both as Open Access and printed books in a state-of-theart way and without any restrictions regarding the license, the variety of formats, print run etc. As proof of concepts we have processed different use cases which demonstrates the current status of the technically and economically possibilities in the publishing sector. Furthermore, data on time, costs and personnel resources were determined, which can be used by other universities and academic institutions to indicate the necessary investments for founding and operation of their own Open Access university presses."

Des « mamans faisant un bébé toutes seules » aux « polyamoureux assumés », cet ouvrage ethnosociologique présente trente-cinq parcours de vie atypiques. À leurs manières, ils montrent comment des attributs de la société contemporaine permettent à certaines personnes de déconjugaliser cinq fonctions anthropologiques pourtant traditionnellement conjugales : éprouver un sentiment d’attachement pour autrui, vivre sa sexualité, cohabiter, se reproduire et élever des enfants. L’analyse met en évidence des évolutions idéologiques, économiques et technologiques qui ont contribué à transformer le paysage familial en Europe francophone, incitant l’individu et le théoricien à interroger le sens du couple et de la famille aujourd’hui.