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Co-presence, defined as the simultaneous presence of performers and spectators, defines theatre. This vol-ume expands on this concept to reframe social interactions and intersections of diverse groups, and exam-ines how theatre artistically addresses social co-presence. It innovatively asks how the media specificity of theatre can be used to negotiate virulent issues in societies characterized by plurality. The volume brings together contributions from literary and theatre scholars as well as theatre practitioners. Taking German-language contemporary theatre as its starting point, it expands its focus to include multilingual theatre, co-presence in the digital age, and historical comparisons. With contributions by Emmanuel Béhague | Johannes Birgfeld | Andrea Dassing | Barbara Engelhardt | Johann Emilian Horras | Koku G. Nonoa | Elena Polledri | Kevin Rittberger | Heinrich Schlange-Schöningen | Cosmea Spelleken | Marie Urban | Anna Volkland | Romana Weiershausen | Daniel Wetzel | Thomas Wortmann

The practice and theory of science communication can take many forms. One of them, which this volume represents, explores what forms of knowledge might be constructed when creative writing encounters science. Working outwards from a theoretical framework that sees the sciences as discourses constructed by human endeavour through forms of language and practices of authority, this collection offers writing that emerged from a scientific encounter. It explores the relationship between creativity and scientific experiment, between the languages deployed by scientists in their experiments and analyses and the languages forged by creatives in their ongoing efforts to understand the human condition. FicSci 01 brought eleven creative writers together with a biomechanical engineer. The presented science invited creative enquiry into different aspects of flow, that physical property that is so central to research in fluid mechanics. This anthology collects the results of that encounter.

This Reprint, titled “Teacher Professional Development and Teaching Practices in Early Childhood Education: An International Landscape”, presents a collection of international research originally published in a Special Issue of Education Sciences. The Issue brings together research from diverse international contexts, investigating Teacher Professional Development (TPD) approaches, pedagogical innovations, and structural challenges in Early Childhood Education (ECE). The featured articles offer a direct response to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) call for establishing a new social contract for education and reimaging our future together, which demands a fundamental and systemic shift in TPD. The new social contact requires moving beyond traditional approaches defined by rigid academic standards and compliance, toward systems prioritizing equity, sustainability, holistic well-being, and collective professional agency. In this publication, we identify five dimensions where this reimagining can occur: (1) reorienting TPD for sustainability and teacher agency; (2) pedagogical innovation (e.g., integrating arts, play, and digital tools); (3) building teachers’ competencies for the future (such as relational competence); (4) ensuring equity and inclusion (e.g., linguistic responsiveness); and (5) exploring and defining core teaching practices.

This book offers a thorough and detailed analysis of the exemplary dictionary of the Mots des Poilus (The language of the "Poilus") by Pierre Rézeau (2018). On the basis of some 15,000 citations which illustrate the extensive nomenclature of the dictionary, the fourteen authors emphasise the linguistic diversity of a country which was still entirely plurilingual, shedding light on the variation displayed by French dialects, regional varieties, argot and literary writing. The book details the impact of the Great War on the history of written French through an analysis of the daily correspondence between soldiers and their families, which amounts to almost ten billion letters written over a period of four years. A new and sometimes unexpected portrait of the French diasystem at the beginning of the twentieth century emerges, revealing numerous lexical, grapho-phonetic and morphosyntactic particularities. The linguistic choices which frequently diverge from those found in contemporary correspondence written in Italian or German are described in a complementary section. The appendix contains texts which supplement the chronological description of the Mots des Poilus, and a detailed analysis of the letters written by the wife of a Breton soldier provides an overview of the grapho-phonetic and morphosyntactic characteristics typically found in the letters.

This book offers a specialized study focusing on the phenomenon of the female mystic and the divine feminine in the global Sufi experience. Drawing on classical and modern periods, it presents a considered approach to the topic from the disciplines of literature, history, religion, philosophy, language and linguistics, and anthropology. As each author offers their expertise in their respective fields, each article, therefore, whilst a standalone piece, contributes collectively to the multidisciplinary understanding of the female and the feminine in Sufi experience. The book addresses the topic from different points of view, showing the authors’ interest in subjectivity, literary and artistic productivity, as well as notable figures of importance, but narrows the purview of its examination to case studies, historical periods, and philosophical concerns of relevance. Focused areas of inquiry include the economic power of Sufi women in history; the hierophanic dialectics of mystical Islamic poetry with regard to “the feminine” experience in Yunus Emre; the ontology of the sacred feminine and female mystic in classical Sufi poiesis; the mystical autochthonous presence in local Sufi praxis of Indonesia; reconfigurations of gendered understanding in Argentinian Sufism; and symbolism and spiritual psychology in Sufi cosmology. This book is an interdisciplinary publication that brings together an international host of scholars from around the world, including University of Amsterdam, University of St Gallen, University of Haifa, Western Sydney University, Monash University, and Australian National University.

The history of Montbeliard began in the late 9th century with the construction of a castle on a rocky spur overlooking the Allan and the Lizaine rivers. The city developed as a result of contact with both Burgundian and Germanic culture and by the end of the 14th century had become a commercial and religious centre. The second defensive wall, built in the 15th century is a reflection of the city’s prosperity, encircling as it does the original castle, through as well as the two districts of La Halle and Saint-Martin. Excavation work undertaken in 1993-1994 prior to the construction of a shopping centre in the Velotte quarter of the Saint-Martin district has enabled archeologists to define seven build periods of architectural development covering both buildings and the urban defense system. This work has also shed light on various aspects of daily and social life as experienced by the inhabitants of this area within the city walls the bucolic character of which remained intact up to the final quarter of the 19th century.

Die Konturierung der Pflegedidaktik ist durch die vielfältigen und heterogenen Strukturen der Lehrer*innenbildung erschwert. Neben Aspekten der Transformation sind immer wieder auch Tendenzen der Diffusion erkennbar - beispielsweise werden theoretische und empirische Befunde in der Bildungspraxis wenig aufgegriffen oder die Disziplin Pflegedidaktik unter der Perspektive Gesundheit in den Hintergrund gedrängt. Die Beiträger*innen liefern eine niedrigschwellige Vorstellung der Disziplin Pflegedidaktik, die sich gleichermaßen an Lehrende, Forschende und Studierende der Pflege- und Gesundheitswissenschaften sowie deren Didaktiken richtet.

In diesem Buch wird erstmals der Stellenwert der audiovisuellen Medien für die Herstellung und Popularisierung von Wissen aufgezeigt. Der historische Rahmen der Studie erstreckt sich dabei von den kinematographischen Bewegungsstudien in Psychiatrie und Physiologie Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts bis zum Einsatz von Video in den sozialpsychologischen Experimenten der 1970er Jahre. Mit dem Gebrauch von Bewegtbildern zu Zwecken der Kontrolle, Aufzeichnung und Demonstration veränderte sich die gesamte Experimentalkultur der Wissenschaft. Vor dem Hintergrund flexibler medienkultureller Kontexte transformiert sich das Labor zusehends in ein Filmstudio des Wissens, in welchem die Versuchsanordnung am Storyboard entworfen, die epistemischen Gegenstände in Szene gesetzt und die Probanden gecastet werden.

"This is Li Bo. You may also know him as Li Po 李白 (701–62), the great poet of Tang China, master of swoop and soar, wanderer, man of wine, so enamored of the moon that he tried to embrace her reflection in the river, fell from his boat and drowned. Favorite of the Emperor—but only for a while, as such energies cannot be long contained at Court. Li Bo Unkempt presents seventy of his verses, a few letters, some rhapsodies and songs. They dance all through Tang high culture, inhabited by planets, hermit women, swashbucklers, grottos, calligraphers and buffoons, Li Bo’s friends, lovers and alter egos. He’s too shy, too quick to make introductions, but this volume allows us to hear the poetry's stories, their temperaments, to glimpse their secret economies of exchange. The book also offers background material, brief essays, a kind of Lonely Planet™ guidebook to this extraordinary realm. This way the strange will become familiar, and only then can we appreciate how truly strange it is. The authors and translators regard these poems as magical acts. What is offered, then, in this volume, are multiple ways to realize that magic. The essays are demonstrations, a spell-book, an extension of this non-ordinary knowing. Things too delicate to be said directly. So the book proceeds by analogy, by juxtaposition, latency, innuendo, jump cuts, dialetheia and flirt. All this a way to understand a deeper claim: that Li Bo is an immortal. And what might that be...?"

This book focuses on the new anthropology elaborated by the physicians-philosophers of Montpellier in the second half of the 18th century, in particular, Paul-Joseph Barthez (1734-1806). In the wake of scepticism and empiricism, Barthez plans a science of man which rests upon physiological foundations and assimilates the respective resources of medicine and philosophical reflection. This essay first reconstructs the historical-cultural context in which the author’s writings came into being; second, it examines the texts in which its science of man takes shape, by highlighting the methodology, conceptual tools and theoretical implications.

Pacing through second decade of the 21th century, more computer users are widely adopting technology-based tools and information-enriched databases to focus on supporting managerial decision making, reducing preventable faults and improving outcome forecasting. The goal of decision support systems (DSS) is to develop and deploy information technology-based systems in supporting efficient practice in multidiscipline domains. This book aims to portray a pragmatic perspective of applying DSS in the 21th century. It covers diverse applications of DSS, primarily focusing on the resource management and outcome forecast. Our goal was to provide the broad understanding of DSS and illustrate their practical applications in a variety of fields related to real life.

This book is a historical synthesis of the second scholasticism. Based on the sociology of science and the history of ideas, a study method is proposed, a chronological division, with various periods and stages, is explained, highlighting the causes and consequences and the most rellevant features of each era. Starting from three dimensions (schools, authors and themes), the development of the second scholasticism is studied, in dialogue with the other manifestations of the culture of its time, and in the epilogue the transition to the third scholasticism is analyzed. This books tries to underline the integration of the second scholasticism within the framework of modern thought.

Migration in modern world affects ghettoization. Also Germany is struggling with this problem, especially in urban areas. Immigrant neighborhoods are becoming districts which are often described as ghettos. And only do they have their own rules, but also own language – a kind of sociolect. The aim of this article is to analyze the representations of contemporary German ghettos in works of Feridun Zaimoglu (based on his novels Kanak Spark and Koppstoff).

The world steel industry is strongly based on coal/coke in ironmaking, resulting in huge carbon dioxide emissions corresponding to approximately 7% of the total anthropogenic CO2 emissions. As the world is experiencing a period of imminent threat owing to climate change, the steel industry is also facing a tremendous challenge in next decades. This themed issue makes a survey on the current situation of steel production, energy consumption, and CO2 emissions, as well as cross-sections of the potential methods to decrease CO2 emissions in current processes via improved energy and materials efficiency, increasing recycling, utilizing alternative energy sources, and adopting CO2 capture and storage. The current state, problems and plans in the two biggest steel producing countries, China and India are introduced. Generally contemplating, incremental improvements in current processes play a key role in rapid mitigation of specific emissions, but finally they are insufficient when striving for carbon neutral production in the long run. Then hydrogen and electrification are the apparent solutions also to iron and steel production. The book gives a holistic overview of the current situation and challenges, and an inclusive compilation of the potential technologies and solutions for the global CO2 emissions problem.

Malnutrition has been a persistent problem throughout history, despite advances in agriculture, the food industry and medical technology. Even today, millions of people around the world continue to suffer from hunger and malnutrition. This book aims to explore various issues related to undernutrition, including its causes, such as lack of access to nutritious food, poverty, food insecurity, lack of nutrition education and other social and economic factors that are directly related to undernutrition. In addition, the consequences of malnutrition, such as stunting, muscle weakness, decreased immunity, chronic diseases and infant mortality, will be examined.****In essence, this book on malnutrition serves as a call to action for all members of global society to take responsibility and contribute to the fight against malnutrition. It is not a situation that can be addressed by governments or international organizations alone, but requires the collective commitment of society to ensure that everyone has access to adequate food and can enjoy a healthy and fulfilling life.****This book, which outlines the main advances in programmes, care, tactics and elements related to undernutrition and malnutrition, not only in our nation but also globally, seeks to provide a theoretical and scientific basis for generating knowledge and, potentially, spearheading tactics that will lead to diminishing this dilemma in our environment.****Rosa Gabriela Espadero