Kultur, Bildung und Wandel 1987 – 2004

Kultur, Bildung und Wandel 1987 – 2004
Author: Sultan Bin Muhammad al-Qasimi
Publisher: Georg Olms Verlag
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2014-10-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 348715143X

Im vierten und letzten Band seiner Memoiren schildert der Emir von Sharjah, wie es nach dem gescheiterten Putschversuch im Juni 1987 weiterging. Er berichtet von seinen Aufgaben und Maßnahmen, seinen politischen und gesellschaftlichen Anliegen und Visionen. Mit dem Tod des Gründers der Vereinigten Arabischen Emirate, Shaikh Zayid bin Sultan Al Nahyan, im November 2004, schließen seine Erinnerungen. In den genannten Zeitraum fällt die irakische Invasion Kuwaits im Jahre 1990 – eine traumatisierende Erfahrung für die Bürger Sharjahs und der anderen Emirate, die sich in großer Zahl als Freiwillige meldeten, um ihre Nachbarn zu verteidigen. Sharjah und die VAE erlebten in diesen Jahren bedeutende Entwicklungen in den Bereichen Kultur und Bildung, aber auch in politischer Hinsicht. Mit der Gründung der Universität Sharjah und der Amerikanischen Universität von Sharjah sowie weiterer wichtiger Bildungsinstitutionen in den anderen Emiraten wuchs auch das akademische Angebot. 1998 wurde Sharjah zur arabischen Kulturhauptstadt gewählt. Dies geschah in Anerkennung des lebendigen, kulturfreundlichen Klimas, das sich etwa in der ab 1993 stattfindenden Sharjah Kunstbiennale zeigte oder in der steigenden Bedeutung der Buchmesse von Sharjah. Der Autor selbst erhielt in diesen Jahren zahlreiche Auszeichnungen, unter anderem vom Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, außerdem Doktor- und Ehrendoktortitel von mehreren internationalen Universitäten. 2003 verlieh Frankreich Dr. Sultan al-Qasimi den renommierten Ordre des Arts et des Lettres und würdigte damit seine Leistungen in den in Bereichen Hochschulbildung, Wissenschaft, Kultur und Kunst und seine Unterstützung des Dialogs zwischen Orient und Okzident.

Exploring Alterity in a Globalized World

Exploring Alterity in a Globalized World
Author: Christoph Wulf
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 532
Release: 2016-01-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317331133

This volume develops a unique framework to understand India through indigenous and European perspectives, and examines how it copes with the larger challenges of a globalized world. Through a discussion of religious and philosophical traditions, cultural developments as well as contemporary theatre, films and media, it explores the manner in which India negotiates the trials of globalization. It also focuses upon India’s school and education system, its limitations and successes, and how it prepares to achieve social inclusion. The work further shows how contemporary societies in both India and Europe deal with cultural diversity and engage with the tensions between tendencies towards homogenization and diversity. This eclectic collection on what it is to be a part of global network will be of interest to scholars and researchers of South Asian studies, philosophy, sociology, culture studies, and religion.

Dynamics and Performativity of Imagination

Dynamics and Performativity of Imagination
Author: Bernd Huppauf
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2013-05-13
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1136603603

In this interdisciplinary anthology, essays study the relationship between the imagination and images both material and mental. Through case studies on a diverse array of topics including photography, film, sports, theater, and anthropology, contributors focus on the role of the creative imagination in seeing and producing images and the imaginary.

The SAGE Handbook of Intercultural Competence

The SAGE Handbook of Intercultural Competence
Author: Darla K. Deardorff
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2009-08-31
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1412960452

Containing chapters by some of the world's leading experts and scholars on the subject, this book provides a broad context for intercultural competence. Including the latest research on intercultural models and theories, it presents guidance on assessing intercultural competence through the exploration of key assessment principles.

International Handbook of Migration, Minorities and Education

International Handbook of Migration, Minorities and Education
Author: Zvi Bekerman
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 743
Release: 2011-10-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9400714661

Migrants and minorities are always at risk of being caught in essentialized cultural definitions and being denied the right to express their cultural preferences because they are perceived as threats to social cohesion. Migrants and minorities respond to these difficulties in multiple ways — as active agents in the pedagogical, political, social, and scientific processes that position them in this or that cultural sphere. On the one hand, they reject ascribed cultural attributes while striving towards integration in a variety of social spheres, e.g. school and workplace, in order to achieve social mobility. On the other hand, they articulate demands for cultural self-determination. This discursive duality is met with suspicion by the majority culture. For societies with high levels of migration or with substantial minority cultures, questions related to the meaning of cultural heterogeneity and the social and cultural limits of learning and communication (e.g. migration education or critical multiculturalism) are very important. It is precisely here where the chances for new beginnings and new trials become of great importance for educational theorizing, which urgently needs to find answers to current questions about individual freedom, community/cultural affiliations, and social and democratic cohesion. Answers to these questions must account for both ‘political’ and ‘learning’ perspectives at the macro, mezzo, and micro contextual levels. The contributions of this edited volume enhance the knowledge in the field of migrant/minority education, with a special emphasis on the meaning of culture and social learning for educational processes.

Public Broadcasting and European Law

Public Broadcasting and European Law
Author: Irini Katsirea
Publisher: Kluwer Law International B.V.
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2008-04-09
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9041130837

This important book examines the challenges posed to public service obligations by European Union media law and policy. An in-depth analysis of the extent to which six countries (France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom) regulate broadcasting for the public interest reveals a range of vulnerability to national political pressures or, alternatively, to the ideology of market sovereignty. The author examines the country of origin principle and the European quota rule of the Television without Frontiers Directive, revealing the influence of European law on the definition and enforcement of programme requirements, and shows how the case law of the European Court of Justice encourages deregulation at the national level without offering adequate safeguards at the supranational level in exchange. She asks the question whether the alleged ‘European audiovisual model’ actually persists—that is, whether broadcasting is still committed to protecting such values as cultural diversity, the safety of minors, the susceptibility of consumers to advertising, media pluralism, and the fight against racial and religious hatred. The book concludes with an evaluation of the impact of the EU state aid regime on the licence fee based financing of public broadcasting.

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Publisher: Waxmann Verlag
Total Pages: 232
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ISBN: 3830973209

Postwar History Education in Japan and the Germanys

Postwar History Education in Japan and the Germanys
Author: Julian Beatus Dierkes
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2010
Genre: Germany
ISBN: 1135193649

How did East and West Germany and Japan reconstitute national identity after World War II? Did all three experience parallel reactions to national trauma and reconstruction?History education shaped how these nations reconceived their national identities. Because the content of history education was controlled by different actors, history education materials framed national identity in very different ways. In Japan, where the curriculum was controlled by bureaucrats bent on maintaining their purported neutrality, materials focused on the empirical building blocks of history (wh.

Von der Lehrperson zur Lehrerpersönlichkeit

Von der Lehrperson zur Lehrerpersönlichkeit
Author: Erwin Rauscher
Publisher: StudienVerlag
Total Pages: 483
Release: 2015-12-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3706558084

Im Band 6 der Reihe "Pädagogik für Niederösterreich" begeben sich die Autoren auf die Spur der "Lehrerpersönlichkeit". Im modernen Schulalltag stehen LehrerInnen vor einer Reihe von Herausforderungen: Problemlösung im Alltag, Strukturreformen, Vernetzung und Kooperation, Kreativität und Innovation, Inklusion, Weiterbildung und die allezeit präsente Forderung nach weitreichenden Kompetenzen. - Ist das Idealbild einer solchen Lehrerpersönlichkeit überhaupt erreichbar? - Wie können die Lehrenden die Schwierigkeiten, die dieses Idealbild mitbringt, meistern? - Wie von der "Lehrperson" zur "Lehrerpersönlichkeit" werden? Die Autoren des Bandes gehen den Menschen hinter den Methoden und Systemen auf den Grund: In 40 spannenden, informativen und anregenden Aufsätzen setzen sich nationale und internationale SpezialistInnen des Themas mit den Herausforderungen an die Lehrerpersönlichkeiten von heute auseinander, sprechen von ihren Erfahrungen und präsentieren innovative Ansätze und Lösungsvorschläge.

Helmut Kohl's Quest for Normality

Helmut Kohl's Quest for Normality
Author: Christian Wicke
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2015-02-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1782385746

During his political career, Helmut Kohl used his own life story to promote a normalization of German nationalism and to overcome the stigma of the Nazi period. In the context of the cold war and the memory of the fascist past, he was able to exploit the combination of his religious, generational, regional, and educational (he has a PhD in History) experiences by connecting nationalist ideas to particular biographical narratives. Kohl presented himself as the embodiment of “normality”: a de-radicalized German nationalism which was intended to eclipse any anti-Western and post-national peculiarities. This book takes a biographical approach to the study of nationalism by examining its manifestation in Helmut Kohl and the way he historicized Germany’s past.