Wissenschaftliche Literatur Teaching

Veronica Jemanyur Rop

Human Dignity – Participation of Women in Integral Human Development

A Study Among the Kalenjin in the Catholic Diocese of Eldoret, Kenya

THEOS – Studienreihe Theologische Forschungsergebnisse

The title of this book is Human Dignity- Participation of Women in Integral Human Development and the subtitle is A Study Among the Kalenjin in the Catholic Diocese of Eldoret, Kenya.

The dignity of the human person is central to the integral human development (IHD) of any community. The Catholic Social Teaching teaches that human dignity originates from God and is of God, because human beings are made in God’s own image and likeness. As a person…

Xiaoxiang Su

Radical Awareness among Chinese-as-a-Foreign-Language Learners

LINGUA – Fremdsprachenunterricht in Forschung und Praxis

This study examined radical awareness among college students who learned Chinese as a foreign language (CFL).

Radicals are subcomponents of characters. They follow positional constraints and they have meaning-cueing and pronunciation-cueing functions. Radical awareness, the knowledge about the positional and functional regularities of radicals has been found closely related to Chinese word reading and word writing among developing readers in first language…

Kevin J. Pike

Legal Lexis in Online Learner‘s Lexicography

To What Extent are the ‘Big Five‘ English Online Monolingual Learner‘s Dictionaries Fit for the Particular Purpose of Legal ESP Classes?

LINGUA – Fremdsprachenunterricht in Forschung und Praxis

This book deals with the practical application of e-lexicography as a fundamental teaching tool in English for Special Purposes (ESP) classes in the field of law. It is very much interdisciplinary, covering the fields of lexicography, metalexicography, law, ESP teaching and linguistics. It begins with a look at the methodology undertaken during a detailed piece of research conducted by the author amongst several hundred predominantly law students at the…

Jasna Mažgon / Damijan Štefanc

Epistemological Aspects of Contemporary Educational Methodology and Didactics

Qualitative Research, Quality Teaching

Didaktik in Forschung und Praxis

In this book the authors Jasna Mažgon and Damijan Štefanc from University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) are discussing some of the most crucial contemporary issues which emerged in the fields of general didactics and educational methodology. In the centre of their scientific interest is the concept of knowledge.

From the methodological point of view they address the question of how scientific knowledge in the field of education is produced in post-modern society:…

Michael Streifinger

Das Medium Film im Kontext der neuen gymnasialen Oberstufe

P-Seminar Geographie

Medienpädagogik und Mediendidaktik

Seit dem Jahr 2010 werden in der gymnasialen Oberstufe in Bayern sogenannte P-Seminare angeboten. Diese sollen durch eine neu geschaffene Unterrichtsform im Sinne eines modernen Geographieunterrichts Schülerinnen und Schüler langfristig auf die spätere Berufswelt vorbereiten.

Die empirische Untersuchung zur unterrichtlichen Medienpraxis im Kontext des gymnasialen P-Seminars lässt durch die richtungsweisende Beantwortung themenzentrierter Fragestellungen deutlich…

Danh Nam Nguyen

Understanding the Development of the Proving Process

Suggestions for Teaching Proofs Within a Dynamic Geometry Environment

Didaktik in Forschung und Praxis

Argumentation and proof have played a fundamental role in mathematics education in recent years. Much of the research that has been conducted on the proving process has been aimed at clarifying the functions and the need of proofs in teaching and learning mathematics, especially its role in the current mathematical curriculum. The author of this book investigates the development of the proving process within a dynamic geometry environment in order to support tertiary…

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…

Mojca K. Šebart / Miha Kovač

Knowledge, values, equity: Contemporary tendencies in education

Schriften zur Pädagogischen Theorie

This book addresses three main topics: the first one relates to the issue of values in education; the second one regards the role and importance of knowledge in education; and the third one examines the attitudes towards deep reading as this is one of the fundamental processes on which the achievement of any long-term educational goal depends.

In regard to the issue of values, the authors claim that society needs to achieve a consensus about what principles can…

Mirjam Bon Klanjšček / Jurka Lepičnik Vodopivec / Darjo Felda

Statistical Literacy Among Secondary School Students

Achieving a Higher Level of Statistical Literacy

Studien zur Schulpädagogik

The statistical education should be in step with modern didactic trends, which recommend the use of statistics in relation to everyday life and thus develop and improve statistical literacy. But as statistics is made part of mathematics instruction, solving statistical problems tends to be dominated by mathematical thinking, emphasizing mathematical models, methods and procedures, with the techniques being more important than the statistical problem itself. There is not…

Jozef Štefcík

Einblicke in das Gerichtsdolmetschen in der Slowakei und seine methodisch-didaktischen Ansätze

TRANSLATOLOGIE – Studien zur Übersetzungswissenschaft

Dieses Buch richtet sich an Gerichtsdolmetscher, Rechtsanwälte, Richter, und Staatsbehörden, die mit Ausländern und Sprachmittlern arbeiten, als auch an Übersetzer und Dolmetscher, die für Gerichte und Behörden tätig sein wollen. [...]