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Internationalising Teacher Education
No full textStudents of teacher education need to be prepared for increasingly diverse classrooms. Internationalising their studies is one way to make them aware of the many dimensions of diversity and prepare them for their future lives in the classroom. It is important to expose them to international learning opportunities, to enable mobility abroad and implement international modules into their studies. The DAAD project to internationalise teacher education is conducted with partner universities worldwide. In this volume, members from participating universities present conceptual approaches to the internationalisation of teacher education, examples of good practice as well as results from their research. These shall encourage everyone working in teacher education to shape flexible mobility paths within the student journey
The Palgrave Handbook of Just Green Transitions in the Western Balkans and Beyond
No full textThis open access handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the concept of just green transitions and its key dimensions. With a specific focus on the Western Balkans and other key European regions, it explores the core policy thematic areas at the heart of the just green transition and the socio-economic and governance challenges and opportunities within each policy theme. Each chapter provides examples of good practice and of just green transition policies developed and implemented across this region. Finally, the handbook outlines forward-thinking recommendations that help facilitate the development of effective policies and governance structures that support the delivery of just green transitions and promote socio-economic growth to meet the needs of citizens
Transport Transitions: Advancing Sustainable and Inclusive Mobility
No full textThis is an open access book. It gathers the proceedings of the 10th edition of Transport Research Arena (TRA 2024), held on 15-18 April, 2024, in Dublin, Ireland. Contributions cover a wide range of research findings, methodological aspects, technologies and policy issues that are currently reshaping the transport and mobility system in different parts of Europe. Bridging between academic research, industrial developments, and regulations, this book offers a comprehensive review of the state-of-the art in transportation, with a special emphasis on topics concerning digital transition in transport, and inclusive and sustainable mobility alike. This is the fifth volume of a 6-volume set
Reference and Contemporaneity in Architecture
No full textStarting from the fundamental premise that references are essential for all cultural techniques, the contributors to this volume elaborate architecture’s ambivalent tension between reference and contemporaneity, its central role in both architectural production and discourse. The issues surrounding contemporaneity do not pertain to a condition, but to an agenda – one where references are selected according to interests and adapted to present needs. This perspective enriches existing conceptions of references as tools of design economy, imitation, and historicization by tying them more explicitly to contemporary agendas than has been done before
Dimensionen einer vielfältigen Fluchtforschung: Diversität, Intersektionalität und heterogene Ankunftskontexte
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Possessed Landscapes
No full textWhen spirits guard forests, conservation becomes revolution—and liberation grows from the soil In 2011 Myanmar emerged from what was by some counts the longest ongoing war in the world. Amid the flurry of ceasefires and constitutional reforms, Indigenous communities moved to reterritorialize land that was fiercely contested in the preceding decades of conflict. In southeast Myanmar, the Indigenous people of Karen State, activists, and revolutionaries transformed their war-torn land into the Salween Peace Park—a conservation area that is home not only to endangered species like tigers and gibbons but also to territorial spirits and ancestors. Set in the highlands of the Myanmar-Thai border, Possessed Landscapes introduces a world where land is understood as both spiritually inhabited and politically claimed. Pwakanyaw cosmologies blur boundaries between human and more-than-human ownership, presence, and possession. Anthropologist Tomas Cole’s concept of more-than-human political ecology captures the nuanced, playful, and often deeply strategic ways in which local communities negotiate power, land, and identity amid civil war and state violence. Through vibrant ethnography and grounded political analysis, Cole illuminates how Indigenous Karen communities and their allies are defining conservation, autonomy, and peace building on their own terms. A case study in reimagining sovereignty through ecological stewardship, Possessed Landscapes is essential reading for scholars and practitioners in anthropology, environmental humanities, and peace and conflict studies, as well as anyone seeking to understand how revolutionary politics and conservation can be inseparably entwined. Open access edition: DOI 10.6069/978029575421
Local government and democracy in Britain
No full textLocal government in the UK is in crisis. The book argues that it is now neither local in terms of the geography and populations of its principal units, nor does it govern in these areas. Over the last two hundred years local government has been changed from a system in which local interests held governance over localities to one in which central government, national and multinational agencies, and corporate business increasingly dominate governance of local and community decision-making. These changes seriously undermine the important contribution that local government can bring to the effectiveness of democracy in the UK. The study provides an update on the structures and powers of local government since 2010. Despite change and austerity, a democratic hope still persists at the local level concerning local governments’ potential as a fundamental building block for democratic renewal. It is argued that the local remains a central arena of democratic practice, and that more direct forms of democracy should form part of a renewed democratic infrastructure. Following the ideas of J. S. Mill, the book also presents an argument that citizens have a right to participate in the government of their localities on issues that affect only their area, thus enhancing the capacity of citizens to become involved in understanding of our political culture
