Wissenschaftliche Literatur Competences

Jana Viktoria Nysten

Can You Sue Away Climate Change?

An Examination of the Potential of Climate Change Litigation to Fill Gaps in the Global Governance for GHG Emissions Reductions

Umweltrecht in Forschung und Praxis

Climate change litigation has been on the rise in recent years and the number of cases keeps increasing. Accordingly, a diverse – and partly heated - discussion has emerged in the legal literature: some argue that it could help fix the legal framework where political consent is lacking to enact respective laws or negotiate respective treaties, while others point to alleged limitations, such as the competences of courts in the different legal systems and the idea of…

Nina Krmac / Jurka Lepicnik Vodopivec

Employment Model of Career Counsellors at Universities

Studien zur Berufs- und Professionsforschung

For the development of the competence framework of career counsellors at universities we primarily explored in the theoretical part what competences a good counsellor should possess and what opportunities career counsellors have in European space to upgrade these competences.

In the framework of the qualitative part we got an in-depth insight into the opinions of three career counsellors: from Slovenia, from Austria, and from Portugal. The career counsellors…

Robert Celec (Ed.)

Modern Society’s Diverse Challenges

EUB. Erziehung – Unterricht – Bildung

The scientific monograph covers some of the most interesting research areas of the modern time.

Right at the beginning, we are confronted with discussion about the encouragement of mathematical thinking of preschool children through the nature photography prism.

Later on, we find out more about an interesting research of a possible impact of contemporary music on partner models, so that we could examine connections between these two important social…

Aleksandra Burgiel / Troy B. Wiwczaroski (eds.)

Global Leadership and Leadership Development

Betriebliche Personalentwicklung und Weiterbildung in Forschung und Praxis

This book has been developed as part of a broader project: ERASMUS+ KA203 - Strategic Partnerships for Higher Education project No. 2017-1-HU01-KA203-035918, known as PROMINENCE (Promoting mindful encounters through intercultural competence and experience). Four partner universities were involved in the research and writing of this book: Debrecen University in Debrecen, Hungary, the coordinating partner; the University of Economics in Katowice,…

Sonja Čotar Konrad / Tina Štemberger

CHILDREN MATTER
Empowering teachers for generations to come

Schriften zur pädagogischen Psychologie

Throughout history, teachers and schools have always presented the reflection of societies, their priorities, needs and their orientation. Today, in the fast-changing world, teachers’ roles are changing, as are the expectations directed towards them. Teachers are faced with demands in terms of in-depth subject knowledge, advanced pedagogical skills, reflective practice and ability to adapt teaching to the needs of each individual as well as to the needs of the group of…

Sonja Čotar Konrad / Darjo Felda / Tina Štemberger

Contemporary Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Care

Studien zur Schulpädagogik

The monograph »Contemporary perspectives on early childhood education and care« consists of ten chapters that theoretically and empirically address some of the key areas of quality of ECEC.

In the first chapter »The preschool teacher: an important factor in promoting child development« we present how the education of preschool teacher profession has been developed and influenced in Slovenia.

In the second chapter »Models for professional development…

Martin Krikken

The Organizational Response to Remote Service Delivery

A Competence-Based Exploration of Remotability in the Capital Goods Sector

Schriftenreihe innovative betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis

Fueled by the arrival of the Internet, modern technologies have been gradually relaxing the need for physical proximity between service providers and service objects, which has long been considered a major burden for global service delivery. The utilization of remote service delivery, in particular, puts service providers in the promising position to offer service elements to service objects at any given location and at any given time. Naturally, this raises vital…

Sonja Čotar Konrad / Mara Cotič / Darjo Felda / Jurka Lepičnik Vodopivec / Milena Valenčič Zuljan / Amalija Žakelj / Tina Štemberger

Classroom Climate: Student and Teacher Perceptions

Studien zur Schulpädagogik

The scientific monograph entitled Classroom Climate: Student and Teacher Perceptions comprises the theoretical and empirical sections.

The theoretical section focuses on the justification of the school’s role of a place that encourages the development of the student’s potentials where we aim to highlight that the teaching and learning of contents prescribed by the curriculum are coupled with other processes that are important for an individual’s…

Hanna Pułaczewska

Adolescence with Polish in a German Town

The Case of Regensburg

PHILOLOGIA – Sprachwissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

Already in the first generation of children born abroad to migrant parents, a language shift to the language of the host country and a loss of the heritage language frequently occurs. While some migrant parents talk to their children in their own mother tongues, a contrary scenario is no exception. In families including a Polish speaking parent or parents living in Germany, German frequently becomes the only language used for communication by members of the second…

Oliver Treidler

From the Lisbon Strategy to Europe 2020 and Beyond

Rethinking the Rationale for a Common European Economic Policy

EURO-Wirtschaft – Studien zur ökonomischen Entwicklung Europas

During the last couple of years the lack of competitiveness of many European economies has been brutally exposed. This book presents a detailed analysis of the failed attempt of the European Commission to enhance competitiveness and rethinks the rationale for delegating competences to the EU.

The Lisbon Strategy, which was initiated in 2000, has failed to attain the goal of turning Europe into the most competitive and dynamic economy in the world. In 2010 the…