Category: Education

By Harold G. Coward, Gordon S. Smith

Within the wake of September eleven, 2001 faith is usually obvious because the motivating strength at the back of terrorism and different acts of violence. faith and Peacebuilding appears to be like past headlines touching on violence perpetrated within the identify of faith to envision how international religions have additionally encouraged social welfare and peacemaking activism. best students from the Aboriginal, Hindu, Buddhist, Confucian, Jewish, Muslim, and Christian traditions offer precise analyses of the religious assets for fostering peace inside of their respective religions. The members speak about the bold hindrances to nonviolent clash transformation discovered inside sacred texts and residing traditions. Case stories of Northern eire, Bosnia, Cambodia, and South Africa also are tested as useful purposes of non secular assets for peace.

By Parisa Eslambolchilar, Roderick Murray-Smith (auth.), Steve Renals, Samy Bengio, Jonathan G. Fiscus (eds.)

This ebook constitutes the completely refereed post-proceedings of the 3rd foreign Workshop on desktop studying for Multimodal interplay, MLMI 2006, held in Bethseda, MD, united states, in may possibly 2006.

The 39 revised complete papers provided including 1 invited paper have been rigorously chosen in the course of rounds of reviewing and revision. The papers are prepared in topical sections on multimodal processing, picture and video processing, HCI and functions, discourse and discussion, speech and audio processing, and NIST assembly attractiveness evaluate.

By Hokyoung Ryu

Academia and have in simple terms all started to discover the colossal functions that the rising box of cellular studying has to complement schooling. to assist researchers and practitioners force the conclusion of the capability advantages of cellular studying know-how to the subsequent point, an intensive survey of the country of data during this ascending box is key.
Innovative cellular studying: ideas and applied sciences is the 1st booklet to comprehensively set out possibilities offered via cellular studying applied sciences, accumulating incisive learn articles from best foreign specialists. masking box demanding situations, functional studies, and present technological advances, this exact contribution to the present study will gain lecturers and scholars in numerous schooling and technology-related disciplines, in addition to experts within the box cellular expertise.

By Mantz Yorke

Much hangs at the summative grades that scholars are given. an exceptional measure opens doorways which another way may perhaps stay closed. but, as larger schooling is now a mass instead of an elite approach, what's anticipated of its graduates isn't like the expectancies of past generations. scholars are anticipated not just for you to show excessive criteria of educational fulfillment, but additionally quite a few features that experience at assorted occasions been given labels similar to ‘generic talents’ and ‘transferable skills’. those skills are tricky to grade for a number of purposes and a few graduates can be wasting out simply because their specific strengths are given inadequate acknowledgement in present summative evaluation practices.Using the united kingdom honours measure classifications as a case examine, this publication appraises the best way summative overview in greater schooling is approached and indicates that the principles of present practices (in the united kingdom and in different places) are of questionable robustness. It argues that there's a have to widen the evaluate body if the breadth of valued scholar achievements is to be regarded safely.

By Laura Miguelez Cavero

By Dale Carnegie

In diesem Buch greift Dale Carnegie eines der wichtigsten Themen unserer Zeit auf - die alltäglichen Ängste und Sorgen, die uns an der Entfaltung unserer Möglichkeiten hindern und die es uns so schwer machen, einfach glücklich zu sein und den Tag mit Selbstvertrauen und Zuversicht zu beginnen. Die Grundsätze für ein unbesorgteres Leben, die Dale Carnegie hier aufstellt, sind anregend, für jeden Menschen nachvollziehbar und - sie lassen sich wirklich in die Praxis umsetzen.

Diese Buch hilft Ihnen
- sich das Sorgen abzugewöhnen, ehe es einen zugrunde richtet
- zu einer Lebenseinstellung zu gelangen, die Frieden und Glück bringt
- mit der Kritik anderer fertig zu werden
- geistig und körperlich auf der Höhe zu bleiben
- sich selbst zu finden
- Trübsinn in wenigen Tagen zu heilen
- an vielen Beispielen zu erkennen, used to be der Wille des Menschen vermag
- das Leben positiv zu verändern

By JoAnne Silbert-Flagg, Elizabeth Sloand

By A. Sense

Drawing on new learn this ebook bargains a wholly clean standpoint on the right way to domesticate studying inside of a venture surroundings. It offers a framework to facilitate venture practitioners' systematic mirrored image on their studying actions and to help them in construction a undertaking studying perform. It additionally identifies new sights for researchers to extra examine the educational phenomenon in tasks. This booklet weaves jointly assorted theories and empirical facts in a manner that are supposed to entice a large educational and practitioner viewers, and demanding situations all readers to contemplate intra-project studying as basically a social job which calls for their planned dedication, figuring out and a focus.

By H. S. Versnel

This is often the 1st of a two-volume choice of reports in inconsistencies in Greek and Roman faith. Their universal goal is to argue for the historic relevance of assorted different types of ambiguity and dissonance. the 1st quantity specializes in the significant paradoxes in historical henotheism. The time period 'henotheism' -- a contemporary formation after the stereotyped acclamation: #EIS O QEOS# ("one is the god"), universal to early Christianity and contemporaneous paganism -- denotes the particular devotion to 1 specific god with no denying the life of, or perhaps cultic recognition to, different gods. After its best within the twenties and thirties of this century the time period fell into disuse. still, the thought of henotheism represents some of the most awesome and important shifts in Graeco-Roman faith and consequently merits clean reconsideration.

By L. Verschaffel, E. De Corte, G. Kanselaar

During the last years a great deal of examine has been undertaken on the subject of the improvement of strong studying environments for the purchase in scholars of important academic targets focussing on conceptual figuring out, higher-order cognitive and metacognitive abilities, and self-regulated studying. This study has been regularly undertaken from 3 specific, yet comparable views within the research of studying and guideline, particularly educational psychology, educational expertise, and tutorial layout. by contrast heritage a "research neighborhood" regarding 14 ecu learn groups has lately been initiated with the purpose of interactively contributing to the development of idea and method when it comes to the layout, implementation, and assessment of strong studying environments. This quantity, in line with the plenary lectures and dealing classes throughout the community?s 3rd workshop, constitutes a collective output of this examine group, focussing at the id and research of significant parts and dimensions of robust studying environments geared toward the merchandising of deep conceptual and strategic studying in significant domain names of college curricula, like arithmetic, physics, historical past, and social sciences. partially I of the amount 3 chapters current common views at the principal topic of the 3rd workshop. partly II six reports are stated in which novel studying environments for common and secondary arithmetic schooling were designed, applied and evaluated. partly III of the quantity one other set of 5 investigations is gifted in relation to the layout, implementation and review of robust studying environments in different subject-matter domain names (physics, background, social sciences) and in instructor education.