Wissenschaftliche Literatur Education

Darjo Felda, Mara Cotic, Sanja Maricic

Building Mathematical Literacy by Solving Realistic Problems

Didaktik in Forschung und Praxis

Today mathematics is characterized by increasing orientation toward developing the ability of thinking, towards acquiring knowledge that has applicative value in everyday life, developing students’ independence in learning, creation of the conditions that will foster the desire and need for learning the strategies of solving and investigating a variety of mathematical problems in the framework of problem situations. Solving problems represents one of the key competences…

Onyema Anozie

Theological Ethical Moral Series (TEMS) Vol. 1

Essays on Community Ethics and Divine-Human-Relationship

THEOS – Studienreihe Theologische Forschungsergebnisse

Dieses Buch unterstreicht, dass die Entwicklung (des Menschen) integral sein sollte und nicht lediglich rational; sie sollte die unvergängliche Berufung des Menschen mit einschließen. Es wäre ein fataler Irrtum, eine Entwicklung zu erwägen, die lediglich den sozialen Aspekt des menschlichen Lebens hervorhebt und den geistigen Aspekt missachtet.

Dieses Buch zeigt auf, dass eine integrierte moralische Erziehung durch das Schulsystem während der ersten Jahre der…

Silke Jurkowitsch

A Student Satisfaction Model for Higher Education Providers

Based on the Example of the Universities of Applied Sciences in Austria

MERKUR – Schriften zum Innovativen Marketing-Management

This study examines how overall student satisfaction in Austrian Universities of Applied Sciences can be broken down into dimensions of the student’s learning experience. The book proposes a student satisfaction model for actual students in Austria taking an economic diploma course. The author demonstrates that in addition to the academic and pedagogic quality of the teaching culture, infrastructure and quality of services based on long-term relationships with university…

Anita Hökelmann, Notger Müller, Kerstin Witte, Thomas Wolbers (Eds.)

Active Healthy Aging

Proceedings of the International Conference of Sports and Neuroscience „Active Healthy Aging, AHA 2015“, 2nd–5th September, Magdeburg, Germany

Schriften zur Sportwissenschaft

This question has been of interest to mankind for a long time. The average lifetime has grown constantly across the last 150 years; however, what really matters is a long healthy life span.

But what is to do?

Normal aging is associated with the decline of physical and cognitive abilities along with structural and neurophysiological changes in the brain and the remainder of the body.

Lifestyle factors such as physical activity, education…

Bojan Jošt / Janez Vodičar

Sports Teacher and Coach

Schriften zur Sportwissenschaft

A coach’s role is not only that of a trainer, but also of an educator, teacher, psychologist, manager, consultant, animator, technologist, masseur, physiotherapist, etc. In order to successfully perform the professional role of a coach a person must first acquire the proper education and specific professional competence in a chosen sport or form of sports activity. This fairly broad variety of professional competences calls for a substantial leap forward from the current…

Lars Bollen

Activity Structuring and Activity Monitoring in Heterogeneous Learning Scenarios with Mobile Devices

Computergestütztes Lernen

This book deals with the integration of mobile devices in technology enhanced learning environments under special consideration of the concepts of activity structuring and activity monitoring, as increased usage of mobile and ubiquitous devices in learning contexts calls for adapted conceptual and architectural approaches. This work is rooted in applied computer science, involving subjects like cooperative and learning support technologies, human-computer interaction,…

Eugene Suom-Dery

The Family as Subject of Moral Education in the African Context

Incarnating Christian Ethics among the Dagara of North-western Ghana

THEOS – Studienreihe Theologische Forschungsergebnisse

How can and should Christian ethics and morality be incarnated in the African moral universe and penetrate into the personal and social lives of African peoples, particularly among the Dagara of North-western Ghana? How does Christian ethics and morality relate to African ethics and morality with regard to moral education and development within the African family context? Has the African family a chance at all as a moral educational subject in a time of rapid changes and…

Eugene Irmela Gorges / Linda A. Winkler (Eds.)

Economy and Social Conditions in Transition

Probleme und Chancen der Globalisierung

This book is interdisciplinary in scope, written for economists, educators, and for individuals working on the fields of globalization, and its impacts on societal development. The book analyzes the current economic and social development in selected countries with different economic conditions relative to the impact of globalization and infrastructure development. The volume contains six selected papers presented at the annual conference of the Congress of Political…

Eugene Martin H. Wenderoth

Four-Phase-Model for the Implementation of Shared Services

Strategisches Management

This thesis focuses on the implementation and conception of shared services within large-scale enterprises in Germany. The review of the existing literature, publications and studies concerning the shared service concept led to the conclusion that shared services are discussed in a comprehensive way in practice and science. However, at the same time, the publications appear to highlight only certain aspects of the concept.

The main objective of this thesis is…

Eugene Ursula Meier (Hrsg.)

Erna Stahl – Zeugnisse ihres Wirkens im Hamburger Schulwesen nach 1945 und Betrachtungen aus ihrer späteren Lebenszeit

Mit einem Beitrag: Erna Stahls Haltung in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus

IMAGO VITAE – Schriften zur Biographieforschung

Erna Stahl (1900–1980) wuchs als Tochter einer Wiener Violinistin aus dem Arbeitermilieu und eines Lübecker Konzertagenten im Hamburger Stadtteil St. Pauli auf. Nach einem Vorbereitungsdienst wirkte sie seit 1930 an der reformpädagogischen Hamburger Lichtwarkschule. Im Zuge nationalsozialistischer Eingriffe in das Schulwesen wurde sie 1935 an die damalige Oberrealschule für Mädchen im Alstertal, Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel, strafversetzt. 1943 geriet Erna Stahl im entfernteren…