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Der Wandel von Unterricht und Schule in einer digitalen Welt ist ein gegenwärtig immer mehr beachtetes Thema. In der ethnografischen Studie wird auf Basis von Beobachtungen zu vielen kleinen Begebenheiten, Momenten und Ereignissen im Alltag von Unterricht und Schule sowie anhand der in Interviews mit Lehrkräften und Schüler*innen entfalteten Reflexionen die These von der „Wartung des Wandels“ entfaltet. Anschaulich und plastisch beschrieben wird, wie sich um Unterricht und Schule in vielfältiger und beiläufiger Weise permanent bemüht, gesorgt, gekümmert wird. Gezeigt wird dadurch, dass „Wartung“ das ist, was den Alltag von Schule und Unterricht im Wandel auszeichnet. Gerahmt werden die sich um digitale Technologien, Regeln und Zeit in Unterrichtspraktiken drehenden zentralen Kapitel dieses Bandes durch eine Einleitung, eine methodische Reflexion und eine thesenhafte Diskussion des Ertrags der ethnografischen Beobachtungen. Die Studie richtet sich an alle Menschen, die den Wandel mitgestalten, beobachten und ihn erforschen: Lehrkräfte, (ehemalige) Schüler*innen, Studierende, Bildungsverwaltung, Wissenschaftler*innen.

Was bedeutet die Forderung nach einer »Dekolonisierung der Universität« für die deutschsprachige Theaterwissenschaft? Wie könnte eine post- oder dekoloniale Theaterwissenschaft aussehen? Und welche institutionellen und methodologischen Veränderungen sind nötig, um intersektionale Analysen von Race, Class, Gender und Sexuality strukturell zu verankern? Ausgehend von ihren Erfahrungen in Lehre, Forschung und Theaterpraxis gehen die Beitragenden des Bandes diesen Fragen nach und liefern dabei vielfältige Anregungen für alle, die ihre Curricula, Seminar- und Probenräume von kolonialen Spuren befreien wollen.

Big data are changing the way we work. This book conveys a theoretical understanding of big data and the related interactions on a socio-technological level as well as on the organizational level. Big data challenge the human resource department to take a new role. An organization’s new competitive advantage is its employees augmented by big data.

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The book was adapted from an investigation that was presented to the National University of the Altiplano (UNA). The objective was to determine the relationship between perceptions about the problem of environmental pollution and environmental attitudes in students of the Faculty of Educational Sciences (FCEDUC) of UNA Puno, Peru. The research method was the quantitative approach, the non-experimental type and the design was correlational. For this purpose, the population was made up of 778 students, with an intentional sample of 113 students. The data collection techniques were the evaluation technique and the Likert-type attitude test, the instruments being the test of perceptions of environmental pollution and the Likert scale of attitudes. The statistical design that was applied was the chi square (X2) for the hypothesis test. The results show that there is a significant relationship between the study variables of perceptions with attitudes about environmental problems according to the inferential statistics that was X2 = 62.534. It was concluded that the problem of environmental pollution is the task of all citizens to put into practice the care and preservation of the environment with attitudes that help not to contaminate nature.

Adult Learning and Education The graduate student guide in adult education explores theories of adult learning and adult education participation. It provides a frame of reference for understanding the development of a rapidly evolving field and for enhancing knowledge and competencies in this professional domain. The publication is divided into two sections: a section on adult learning theories and a section on adult education participation theories. If Adult Learning and Education (ALE) is now a recognised professional field, the theoretical perspectives, underlying practices and policies draw on a variety of academic disciplines. Various theories of learning and of adult education participation shape the practice and the “engineering” of adult learning. In the first section, this study guide provides a review of the most important learning theories, including behaviourist, cognitive, and constructivist approaches, their modern development, as well as specific developments in adult education theory. The second section examines the psychological and sociological theoretical backgrounds of adult education participation in order to understand the factors at work in participation patterns along the adult life course and between different social contexts. Observing the relativity of social reproduction allows to identify the conditions and variables that need to be addressed in order to alter prevailing trends.

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Los procesos de concentración urbana acelerada en América Latina, de jerarquización progresiva de las redes urbanas nacionales y de metropolización, han sido ampliamente estudiados desde 1950. En particular, desde el inicio sorprendió a los investigadores la similitud con la cual casi todos los Estados de la región experimentaron una concentración de tendencia "unipolar", con supremacía cada vez más fuerte de la ciudad de mayor importancia sobre el resto de la red urbana. Se designa a este fenómeno con el término de "primacía urbana". Creado en otra época y otro lugar, el concepto de primacía urbana se adecua perfectamente a la realidad latinoamericana de los últimos 60 años, en la que la combinación del éxodo rural masivo, la explosión demográfica y la industrialización acelerada han tenido como resultado una concentración urbana particularmente rápida, con un carácter primacial muy marcado. En la actualidad, Colombia experimenta un proceso muy notorio de concentración primacial alrededor de una sola ciudad. El libro análiza el período de 1930 a principios de los años 90, que abarca dos ciclos claves de la organización del espacio colombiano. El primero es el de la cuadricefalia urbana que nace en los años 30 y finaliza entre los años 60 y 70; constituye una transición original entre la situación de atomización urbana, existente a principios de siglo, y la tendencia actua la concentración. El segundo es el de la primacía urbana de Bogotá, que ha crecido sin interrupción desde los años 60 y sigue afirmándose hoy día tal como lo podemos comprobar. El propósito de nuestro estudio es comprender por qué estos dos cielos aparentemente contradictorios han podido iniciarse en un período relativamente corto, y cómo ha sido la transición del uno al otro.

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Organ donation and transplantation is a largely successful treatment used to replace failing organs. However, donation rates have never met the demand for transplantable organs. Biomedical researchers are exploring alternative sources from nonhuman animal donors such as pigs; improved biotechnological solutions such as total artificial hearts; and 3D printed organs developed from the recipient’s own cells. These These solutions are in various stages of development, and they may or may not prove viable in terms of cost, functionality, and/or compatibility with the recipient’s body. In this chapter, I ask not about the viability of these proposed solutions, but rather, about the acceptability of the various technologies to potential recipients. Simply put: were these organ transplant alternatives to become available, would patients agree to them? Analyzing answers from focus group interviews and surveys, I use the responses to show that individuals imagine these various technologies as familiar or foreign, self or other, clean or dirty, and so on. People envisage that using different different different materials will certainly affect their bodies but also their subjectivities. New biotechnologies are raising questions about altering subjectivity through body modification and the answers to these questions demonstrate ambiguity.

The relationship between the intellectual development of the young Georg Lukacs and the culture of Vienna around the turn of the century was investigated in the research project: Georg Lukacs and Vienna. Because of this the main point of interest was to investigate aspects of his work which stand in relation to Vienna around 1900. First of all the results of previous research about the theme 'Lukacs and Vienna' were held onto. After this, the methodical procedure from cultural studies about the turn of the century, which are treated as the standard works in this field, we re sketched out and the methods for contemporary works were laid down. The relevant biographical facts were laid out in two chapters about his life and his education - with special attention being paid to the question of his introduction to the problems of contemporary Austrian philosophy. The effect of Rudolf Kassner on Lukacs thoughts around 1910 seems to be very important. Lukacs' literature critical texts on modern Austrian drama especially the literature of Arthur Schnitzler and Richard Beer-Hofmann play a central role. The theories, which are developed in these texts, were made more precise in a discussion with Mihaly Babits as well as in the text: Aesthetic Culture. Following this Lukacs' aesthetical Heidelberg writings, which are relevant to the investigation of this project, were analyzed. The insight into the theories, which show up in Lukacs' texts, which was won in the research project through the aforementioned writings was then deepened with consideration to the Jewish Question as well as with an analysis of the concepts of liberalism, culture, and the Modern. At the same time Lukacs' activities were placed in the context of Central Europe. In addition the question was answered: what meaning did the relationship between Lukacs and Vienna have for his later development. The result of the project is that insight into Georg Lukacs must be viewed in the context of modernity and Central Europe, in order to understand his activity and, in a very concrete way, in order to understand his individual texts. If one doesn't take his contradictory relationship to Vienna around 1900 and to the Modern and Central Europe into account he remains a confused solitary person. Afurther and perhaps even more important result is: When one places Lukacs in the relation of these aforementioned intellectual-historical appearances, these appearances themselves win on dimensions, which first make their understanding possible.

The tendency of 21st century studies about the table has been to privilege as multi and transdisciplinary approaches. In fact, it is in its holistic sense that we use the term table, a universe that encompasses goods, people and ideas. Reflect today toward the table constitutes a process of careful inquiry into three of the main pillars of the man’s relationship with food, throughout its history: food, health and culture. This book is the subject of Lusophone Tables and is organized in two volumes, containing five parts and a total of 25 chapters. The 13 chapters of the first volume focus on two central themes: food under the therapeutic and symbolic prism. In Part I (Therapeutic Tables: when food is medicine), it is evident that, historically, medical writings preceded the culinary literature. Part II (Sacred Tables: when food is a symbol) is referred to the table as answer and vehicle of dialogue with the transcendent.

La vida y la obra de Mercedes Olivera están definidas por su carácter revolucionario, por un pensamiento y un quehacer incesante en el cuestionamiento de las relaciones de poder, sobre todo de género, institucionalizadas, normalizadas y naturalizadas. Una de las grandes intelectuales públicas de Nuestra América, destaca por su trayectoria congruente y abrazadora, siempre luchando por introducir un futuro otro, por mover el horizonte intelectual y político hacia un umbral situado en la distancia más desafiante para conseguir que las cosas no queden en el opresivo presente y se acerquen al mejor mundo posible. Los trabajos reunidos en esta antología, en una apuesta por Centroamérica, en sus propuestas investigativas colaborativas y de defensa participativa de las mujeres que viven violencia, son el testimonio de los caminos críticos y reflexivos de una intelectual-política cuyas búsquedas como antropóloga y activista feminista han tenido entre sus objetivos producir conocimientos, explicar y cambiar la realidad. Los principales ejes de su quehacer y su pensamiento han sido las revoluciones latinoamericanas, la recuperación de los saberes indígenas y de las lenguas mayas, la defensa de la propiedad colectiva, los alegatos a favor del derecho a la tierra para las mujeres y al territorio, la exposición de las causas estructurales de la violencia de género y, en general, la reivindicación del derecho, la libertad, la justicia y el sentido humano.

Ongoing advances in pharmaceutical biotechnology have paved the way to ground-breaking new biological therapeutic modalities, offering the possibility of a durable curative approach for a number of life-threatening diseases, for which the medical need is as yet unmet. Over the past decades, gene therapy has seen a massive transformation from a proof-of-concept approach to a clinical reality culminating in the regulatory approval of state-of-the-art products in the European Union and in the United States. This book captures some of the scientific progresses notably in gene transfer technologies and translational development of in vivo and ex vivo gene therapy interventions in the treatment of a broad range of complex and debilitating non-inherited and inherited disorders such as: human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV-1) infection, cancer, cystic fibrosis, hereditary retinopathies, haemophilia B, cardiac diseases, and chronic liver fibrosis.

Personnalités contrastées et souvent opposées, Jean Monnet et Charles de Gaulle ont tous deux joué un rôle déterminant dans la politique internationale de la France, dans la construction européenne et dans les relations transatlantiques de 1940 et 1970. Quand l’un glorifiait la France et le génie national, l’autre pensait que la seule voie possible pour les vieilles nations européennes était l’union au prix de transferts partiels de souveraineté. Alliés lorsqu’il s’est agi de résister à l’Allemagne nazie en 1940, de moderniser la France par la planification à la sortie de la guerre, ou de réconcilier les ennemis d’hier, les deux hommes se sont opposés, parfois violemment, sur la forme à donner à l’Europe unie et sur les relations à établir avec le Royaume-Uni et les États-Unis. Soixante ans plus tard, ces oppositions restent aujourd’hui d’une étonnante actualité.L’ouvrage ne vise ni à opposer les deux figures ni à les réconcilier, mais à explorer les oppositions et interactions de ces deux personnalités françaises exceptionnelles au service d’une réflexion sur la place de l’Europe dans le monde aujourd’hui. Éric Roussel est membre de l’Institut (Académie des sciences morales et politiques). Vice-président de l’Institut Jean Monnet, historien et journaliste, il a publié de nombreuses biographies de références, sur Jean Monnet et Charles de Gaulle au premier chef, mais aussi sur Georges Pompidou, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, François Mitterrand et Pierre Mendès France. Son dernier ouvrage s’intitule Le monde politique d’avant : Carnets d’un biographe (L’Observatoire, 2022).