Paul Howard-Jones (2018). Evolution of The Learning Brain: Or How You Got To Be So Smart … Oxon: Routledge. 237 pp., ISBN-13: 978-1138824461 (Paperback) Both neuroscientific as well as evolutionary approaches to human learning have made great advances in the recent years. Both fields will become essential sources of understanding learning and the role of… Read More »
This issue of ‟International Dialogues on Education: Past and Present” consists of contributions by educationalists from Austria, Belarus, Colombia, Germany, Russia, Switzerland, and the USA. The papers deal with the challenges of inclusive and integrative education in the context of migration and cultural diversity, and aspects of modern teacher training. Some authors analyze not only… Read More »
Summary: The phenomenon of online bullying, which causes the victims a great deal of suffering, does not take place in a void, but rather it is related to the culture in which the bully and the victim were educated and to the context that gave rise to the bullying event. The current study constitutes an… Read More »
Summary (Hein Retter: Martin Luther, the Jews, National Socialism – Critical review of the Reformation anniversary): The article informs and reflects on the results of two conferences in the context of the Reformation Jubilee, which dealt with Martin Luther’s relationship with the Jews. In the background is the question of the impact of Luther’s anti-Jewish… Read More »
Pampel, Margot & Zwalf, Felicity (2017): As Chance Would Have It. From Jena to Melbourne. Published by Makor at Lamm Jewish Library of Australia. (171 Seiten; ISBN 978-1-876-733-36-0; 25,00 $AU; in Deutschland nur beziehbar durch Stadtmuseum Jena, Markt 7, D-07743 Jena, stadtmuseum@jena.de; 20,00 €). Dieser relativ schmale, doch umso gewichtigere Band gehört zum Genre der… Read More »
David Käbisch / Michael Wermke (2017) (Hrsg.): Transnationale Grenzgänge und Kulturkontakte. Historische Fallbeispiele in religionspädagogischer Perspektive. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt. (448 Seiten; ISBN: 978-3-374-04819-9, 44,00 €) Die Globalisierung macht auch vor den historischen Wissenschaften keinen Halt. In allen Bereichen wird immer deutlicher, dass die Beschränkung auf den „Containerraum“ des Nationalstaats eine unzulässige Simplifikation von Entwicklungsprozessen darstellt.… Read More »
Joseph Zaida, Tatyana Tsyrlina-Spady & Michael Lovorn (Eds.) (2017): Globalization and Historiography of National Leaders. Symbolic Representations in School Textbooks. Dordrecht: Springer Science+Business Media. [ISBN 978-94-024-0974-1; ISBN 978-94-024-0975-8 (e-book); DOI 10.1007/078-94-024-0975-8; 283 pp. (cloth edition)] This book, being volume 18 in the series “Globalization, Comparative education and Policy research”, provides a global overview of selected… Read More »
Summary: The article discusses the development of the content of secondary education in Europe in the context of globalization and the information society. The authors emphasize the urgency to move from education based on knowledge to education based on working with the meaning behind denominated objects. The authors argue that the methodological application of new… Read More »
Summary: The study explored the inter- and intra-relationship between two multi-dimensional constructs, morphology and vocabulary. Fifty five senior students from a Chinese university majoring in English were assessed on five variables: compounding knowledge, real-word derivational knowledge, pseudoword derivational knowledge, reading vocabulary knowledge and listening vocabulary knowledge. Using t-test, correlation and hierarchical regression, the study found… Read More »
Arthur K. Ellis, John B. Bond (2016): Research on Educational Innovations. NewYork: Routledge. (210 pages; ISBN-13: 978-1138671225; ISBN-10:1138671223) Arthur K. Ellis and John B. Bond begin their multi-faceted book on the state of research in education innovation with a look at the benefits of science and evidence-based education research. The discussion of the “nature of… Read More »