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Tact and the Pedagogical Relation focuses on two topics of increasing interest both in teacher education and research. It shows how questions of sensitive and attuned action as well as educators relations with children and the young are specialuni...

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"One must assume we are all familiar with what is commonly called education." This is how Schleiermacher begins his famous 1826 lecture on the Art of Education. But in proceeding furtherand unlike Rousseau or Locke before himSchleiermach...

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Media and Transnational Climate Justice captures the intriguing nexus of globalization, crisis, justice, activism and news communication, at a time when radical measures are increasingly demanded to address one of the most pressing global issues: ...

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This book explores social networking sites as the digital field of cultural production by loosely drawing from Pierre Bourdieus notion of field and capital. The book examines four case studies on MySpace, YouTube, Second Life, and Indaba Music, an...

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This volume aims to deepen our understanding of the dynamic intersections of war and media in the rapidly transforming media ecology and the reordered geopolitical context. Since Russias fullscale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, a new set of...

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The interrelationship between journalism and public relations (PR) is one of the most contentious in the field of media studies. Numerous studies have shown that 5080 per cent of the content of mass media is significantly shaped by PR. But many ed...

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This collection is the first of its kind on the topic of media development. It brings together luminary thinkers in the fieldboth researchers and practitionersto reflect on how advocacy groups, researchers, the international community and others c...

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As demonstrated by the 2016 presidential election, memes have become the suasory tactic par excellence for the promotional and recruitment efforts of the Alt-right. Memes are not simply humorous shorthands or pithy assertions, but play a significa...

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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has achieved celebrity status in many Western countries, yet despite considerable effort to prove its existence as a real disorder, ADHD still suffers from a crisis of legitimacy. Nonetheless, diagno...

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Rage and Hope, a collection of the most controversial and provocative interviews granted by Peter McLaren from around the turn of the twenty-first century, offers a lucid and penetrating window into the thought and humanity of one of the world's m...

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This collection posits three questions. 1) What structures of violence and oppression are experienced and shared by human and nonhuman laborers working and dying in these necropolitical facilities? 2) If there is an intersection between class and ...

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This book explores the works of Michel Foucault, emphasizing his relevance for educational theory and practice. Gail McNicol Jardine investigates Foucault's early examinations of the transformation of systems of knowledge as societies change, his ...

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From a critical perspective, some early childhood educators have proposed that the knowledge base used to ground the field actually serves to support the status quo, reinforces prejudices and stereotypes, and ignores the real lives of children. Th...

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Over recent decades, developing nations have been the beneficiaries of Official Development Assistance (ODA) from European and North American countries. ODA remains the central mechanism in sustaining and financing actions and processes related to...

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This book presents the results of Heide Goettner-Abendroths pioneering research in the field of modern matriarchal studies, based on a new definition of matriarchy as true gender-egalitarian societies. Accordingly, matriarchal societies should not...

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This volume represents a unique contribution to the area of language attitudes research with its focus on how languages, dialects and accents induce us to form social judgments about people who use these forms. The essays attend to evaluations of ...

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Focusing on the wildly successful Twilight series, this collection of scholarly essays examines the phenomenon from diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives. Particular attention is paid to cultural, social, and economic aspects of the ...

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This edited volume, which elaborates on the idea and concept of sustainable journalism, is the result of a perceived lack of integral research approaches to journalism and sustainable development. Thirty years ago, in 1987, the Brundtland Report p...

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One of the worlds most influential and prolific media scholars, George Gerbner played a major role in the development of communication theory and research. His critical approach to mass communication changed the way we think about media industries...

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In the last edition of the Diffusion of Innovations, Everett Rogers challenged diffusion scholars to move beyond the methods and models of the past, recognize the limitation of prior approaches, and broaden the conceptions of the diffusion of inno...

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Frau Wickerts Arbeit untersucht das Thema Heros und heroisches Zeitalter in seiner Bedeutung fuer die gesellschaftspolitische Ein- stellung Kleists, die sich der ueblichen regressiven oder progressiven Etiquettierung entzieht und sich als politisc...

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This investigation examines the emergence of a specifically modern literary critical discourse in Germany at the turn-of-the-century. The commercialization and industrialization of the press contributed to the reorganization of the public sphere a...

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Ein wichtiger Aspekt in der Lyrik Johannes Bobrowskis ist die Manipulation von Zeit in seinen Gedichten. Bobrowski benutzt Zeit nicht im metaphysischen Sinne, sondern als ein Medium, mit dessen Hilfe er die geschichtliche Vergangenheit des europae...

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Die Arbeit setzt sich zum Ziel, die Anordnung und kuenstlerische Ge- staltung des biographischen Materials aufzuzeigen, ein Aspekt, der bei den ersten Besprechungen des Hoelderlin vernachlaessigt worden ist. Die Frage zur Gattung des Werks wird da...

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Ce livre, ecrit pour tous ceux qui s'interessent au Moyen Age, est une introduction aux themes de l'amour courtois. L'auteur, ayant choisi un certain nombre d'oeuvres du XIIIe siecle, examine de pres la fin'amor et la jalo...

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Cet ouvrage decrit les resultats d'une enquete sociolinguistique effectuee dans une des regions ou la population acadienne se trouve le plus fortement concentree. L'analyse quantitative revele une structuration nette dans la variation linguistique...

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This study interprets debates within the Weimar literary Left over the relation of literature to politics. The historical key to these debates was the German revolution of 1918-1919 and the idea of Bolshevism, i.e. a symbolic allegiance to the onl...

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Lafcadio Hearn's name has always been associated with the attempt of Western man to fathom the soul of Japan. The impact of Hearn's Japanese works extended beyond America and England to the Continent. This study examines Hearn's great popularity i...

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This study was undertaken to determine if the credibility principle of attitude change applied in the multi-variable context of a team-taught education methods course. Defined as respondent perceptions of communicator expertise and trustworthiness...

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Los ensayos reunidos en esta monografia examinan los principios de estructuracion de la obra teatral que generan en el publico espectador una comprension de los significados nucleares del texto-produccion. Se examinan obras representativas del tea...

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