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Understanding today's Vocational Education and Training (VET) systems requires a comprehension of the rise and development, i.e. of the foundations of topical VET. This book provides a comparative...

The book presents academic education in European countries and USA and special requirements, education and professional exams giving the right to perform legal professions. Each part is a guide...

The book seeks answers to the question: how has Human Resource Management contributed and how could it have contributed to the development of organisations and economy? Based on theories and...

Age is a complex cross-cutting notion for at least two reasons: the intricate interweaving of its biological and socio-cultural meanings and its dual significance as both a benchmark in an...

This book reveals the current state of advanced research in the field of Humanities (medieval world), introducing some of the leading projects being carried out in Europe and in the Unites States by...

Dieser Band vereinigt medienlinguistische Beitr?ge zu Fragen der Textsorten-Hybridisierung und Ausdifferenzierung im Bereich von Online-Medien (Textsorten in Online-Zeitungen und -Zeitschriften,...

I Synonyma di Isidoro di Siviglia nella tradizione letteraria. Ricerca di opere di riferimento per la composizione: tradizione biblica, patristica, stoica cristiana. Continuit? dello stile e...

Mittels linguistischer Optimierungsprinzipien wird aufgezeigt, wie die m?ndliche Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion basierend auf der aktuellen Spracherkennungstechnologie benutzerfreundlicher und...

This volume provides contributions at the intersection of history and politics. The essays show that history provides better grounding as well as a more suitable paradigm for the study of politics...

This volume investigates the difficulties adult L2 users of English encounter with plosive consonants. It presents the results of two tasks examining the acquisition of plosive voicing contrasts by...

The volume is a collection of empirical studies investigating, through a variety of methodological approaches to the scientific enquiry of cultural identity manifestations, the ways and means through...

The book previews some of the research presented in the 2nd international webinar organisedby the project in May 2021 entitled "Art, Culture and Tradeas Evidence of Bonds between East and West: 11th...

Historians and Archivists, after a meeting held in Moscow in 2006, analyse in this book the contempt, damage and destruction that documentation usually suffers from revolutions. It is devoted special...

Languages are inseparable from their contexts of use. They are not only congruent with, but also involved in the configuration of the worldviews and value systems manifested in cultures and embodied...

In recent times, educational reformers have proposed ways of using education to reduce inequality, overcome discriminatory values and attitudes, and alleviate social problems. An increasing number of...

What makes us what we are? How does our gender affect our identity? Who are our heroes and heroines and how do they mould the decisions we make and the way we live our lives? In what ways does our...

Il volume, diviso in due parti, analizza in che modo due miti classici impostati sull'incesto - quello di Fedra e quello di Edipo - vengono ripresi, rielaborati e trasformati nella letteratura...

Even though the democratic decline has been deemed a global phenomenon, the question of how it manifests itself in the postcommunist world and how it varies across different regions with divergent...

Based on an empirical study of a corpus of 335 English illocutionary shell nouns, the book investigates the issue of semantic compatibility between the meaning of these nouns and their...

De nombreux ?tudiants, futurs enseignants du primaire en formation initiale ? la Haute ?cole P?dagogique de Berne (PHBern), pr?sentent des r?sistances ? l'encontre du fran?ais qu'ils vont pourtant...

Metaphern beeinflussen die Wahrnehmung, das Denken, F?hlen, Erleben und Handeln. Eine Ver?nderung der Metaphern ist folglich ein m?glicher Ansatzpunkt f?r die Psychotherapie. Aus einer Fallstudie mit...

Erholungsangebote f?r den harten Alltag im Nationalsozialismus? Fluchtfahrzeuge f?r Eskapisten? Oder doch erfolgreiche Instrumente der Integration und Propaganda? Produkte einer modernen...

The book presents the evolution of the migration phenomenon, the most relevant factors for exclusion and social integration, the demands and forms of intervention of the social workers, the evolution...

This book explores immigrant life writing and examines the complex relationship between the America imagined in the dreams of would-be immigrants and their ability to establish connections to actual...

The discursive space once occupied by 'utopia' is changing. This book explores how that space is now overdetermined by a state of differentiation in how reality is represented, through the cultures...

This book provides a nexus between research and practice through teachers' narratives of their experiences with telecollaboration. The projects described in the volume serve as excellent examples for...

This volume explores informal structures and practices in Eastern Europe and whether these are different from informality which can be observed in Western Europe. The authors discuss the scientific...

Viele Konzepte des Innovationsmanagements sind in formalen Prozessen erstarrt und hemmen Innovation. Science Fiction bietet dagegen viel Anregung f?r Kreativit?t: Wie Aliens, Star Trek u.a. Konzepte...

Diese Anthologie versammelt 15 Beitr?ge internationaler Autorinnen und Autoren, die sich mit Fragen der Einschreibung und Institutionalisierung von Gender Studies in der Disziplin Kunstgeschichte...

This volume presents the latest research of an international group of scholars, engaged in the analysis of academic discourse from a genre-oriented perspective. The area covered by this volume is a...