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The Idea of the University, the first book in a set of volumes from Michael A. Peters and Ronald Barnett, provides readings of central texts in the philosophical discourse of the organization and development of the modern research university. Since von Humboldt's reforms at the University of Berlin in 1810, the early influential model of the university was intended to achieve a unity of teaching and research in providing students with an all-round humanist education. Emerging from German idealist and Romantic philosophy traditions, the Humboldtian university reflected the central...

This book provides an expansive guide for designing and conducting robust qualitative research across a diverse range of purposes concerned with understanding new literacies in theory and in practice. It is based on the idea that one of the best ways of learning how to do good research is by closely following the approaches taken by excellent researchers. This volume brings together a group of internationally reputed qualitative researchers who have investigated new literacies from a sociocultural perspective. These contributors offer "under the hood" accounts of how they have adapted...

Today's globalized economy depends on the dissemination of knowledge rather than the manufacture of goods and the provision of services. This alone calls for new models of classroom leading to prepare children for an interactive future.

Moreover, students are better equipped to interact with their teachers than ever before, and they get frustrated when they can't participate in decision making. As psychologist William Glasser writes, "Boss management fails because it limits both the quality of the work and the production of the (student) worker. Its use actually causes most of the...

Das Buch gibt einen mehrperspektivischen Einblick in online-typische Problematiken des Lehrens und Studierens und gibt Antworten auf die Frage, wie Online-Lehre dem Paradigmenwechsel vom Lehren zum Lernen gerecht werden kann. Vorgestellt werden Entwicklungspotentiale des Studienformats und virtuelle Lehr-Lernraume.