Claudia Muller – författare

Innovative research solutions increasingly require deep engagement with practitioners to manage the complex problems they are attempting to solve. This often project-based research is equipped with finite resources over a limited period without much thought into future-proofing the practice. These projects must face questions of what happens when a product comes to an end and whether there are any lasting positive effects once the IT systems are no longer being actively developed. From a computing perspective, the challenge is to design IT artifacts that contribute to improving the user''s work and everyday life in a sustainable way, thereby also contributing to social and ecological sustainability. Future-Proofing: Making Practice-Based IT Design Sustainable documents the experiences made by several leading research groups in Europe, North America, and South Africa. It describes their efforts to achieve sustainable design results, the difficulties that barred the way but also the strategies they adopted to achieve the goal of sustainability. The analysis of these cases has inspired thinking about how to more systematically address and possibly overcome the impediments to sustainability. This book develops a strong future-oriented perspective that conceptualizes sustainability as a complex and highly variegated issue and formulates insights and recommendations with a view to help researchers to better design for sustainability.

Innovative research solutions increasingly require deep engagement with practitioners to manage the complex problems they are attempting to solve. This often project-based research is equipped with finite resources over a limited period without much thought into future-proofing the practice. These projects must face questions of what happens when a product comes to an end and whether there are any lasting positive effects once the IT systems are no longer being actively developed. From a computing perspective, the challenge is to design IT artifacts that contribute to improving the user''s work and everyday life in a sustainable way, thereby also contributing to social and ecological sustainability. Future-Proofing: Making Practice-Based IT Design Sustainable documents the experiences made by several leading research groups in Europe, North America, and South Africa. It describes their efforts to achieve sustainable design results, the difficulties that barred the way but also the strategies they adopted to achieve the goal of sustainability. The analysis of these cases has inspired thinking about how to more systematically address and possibly overcome the impediments to sustainability. This book develops a strong future-oriented perspective that conceptualizes sustainability as a complex and highly variegated issue and formulates insights and recommendations with a view to help researchers to better design for sustainability.

Innovative research solutions increasingly require deep engagement with practitioners to manage the complex problems they are attempting to solve. This often project-based research is equipped with finite resources over a limited period without much thought into future-proofing the practice. These projects must face questions of what happens when a product comes to an end and whether there are any lasting positive effects once the IT systems are no longer being actively developed. From a computing perspective, the challenge is to design IT artifacts that contribute to improving the user's work and everyday life in a sustainable way, thereby also contributing to social and ecological sustainability. Future-Proofing: Making Practice-Based IT Design Sustainable documents the experiences made by several leading research groups in Europe, North America, and South Africa. It describes their efforts to achieve sustainable design results, the difficulties that barred the way but also the strategies they adopted to achieve the goal of sustainability. The analysis of these cases has inspired thinking about how to more systematically address and possibly overcome the impediments to sustainability.This book develops a strong future-oriented perspective that conceptualizes sustainability as a complex and highly variegated issue and formulates insights and recommendations with a view to help researchers to better design for sustainability.

Für mehr Leichtigkeit in Ihren Finanzen Um sich im Finanzdschungel zurechtzufinden brauchen Sie nicht viel Geld, viel Zeit und viel Wissen, sondern lediglich ein paar Euro pro Monat, drei Stunden pro Jahr, die Bereitschaft, etwas Neues zu lernen und dieses Buch. Hier finden Sie konkrete Tipps für Ihre Alltagsfinanzen, Wissenswertes über Versicherungen und Steuern. Sie erhalten Hinweise, wie Sie mit Finanzen in der Beziehung umgehen und finanziell für Ihre Kinder und Ihr Alter vorsorgen. Und selbstverständlich kommt auch das Thema Vermögensaufbau mit Immobilien, Börseninvestitionen und alternativen Investitionsformen nicht zu kurz. Sie erfahren Wie Sie hilfreiche Alltagsgeldgewohnheiten entwickelnWie Sie Ihre Altersvorsorge in Altersvorfreude umwandelnWie Vermögensaufbau funktioniertWissenswertes über Versicherungen, Krypto-währungen und Steuern

In the last few years, global education has become a key concept within the TEFL domain, suggesting competences, topics, and methods that enable students to become responsible and knowledgeable participants in a globalized world. With the help of a triangulated blended learning study conducted in five different middle school EFL classes, and an additional small group study, the author investigates the potential of digital games that have an educational purpose, so called serious games, for global education when used in EFL scenarios. The results show a clear contribution of serious games to global education when used with EFL learners, leading to a reference model of digital game-based learning in the EFL classroom.

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, Humboldt-University of Berlin, course: Masculinity in the Late Victorian and Early Edwardian Novel, language: English, abstract: The paper 'Where to live - The Houses in Howards End' shows in which way E. M. Forster associates certain housing conditions with special types of character, in how far he thinks that housing conditions influence the way people are and behave and what conclusion he draws as to where to live. Basically, there are three different types of houses portrayed in the novel: the dwelling place of the urban lower middle class, London town houses, and country houses. It can be argued that there are differences between these types of houses and also that the narrator differs the houses quality among themselves. Taking the city country dichotomy as a starting point, the paper discusses the standpoint Forster takes towards the quality of these houses when he shows that they are alive or not (whether they possess life, spirit or souls).It is explained in which way the economic status of the main characters of the novel (the Schlegels, the Wilcoxes and the Basts) is reflected in their respective housing-conditions and what position Forster takes towards housing at the beginning of the twentieth century in general. The paper also relates to some of the current views and popular concepts of Forster s time on the different housing conditions of people. Taking a look at some general statements about living in the city versus living in the country and living in flats versus living in houses, it is explained what the narrator s preferences are as to where one should live. The paper discusses in how far this attitude is reflected in the narrator s decision about the ideal place to live for his heroine Margaret Schlegel and in how far this solution is a realistic one.

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict, Security, grade: 1,0, Humboldt-University of Berlin, language: English, abstract: "e;We will direct every resource at our command to win the war against terrorists, every means ofdiplomacy, every tool of intelligence, every instrument of law enforcement, every financial influence. We will starve the terrorists of funding, turn them against each other, rout them out of their safehiding places, and bring them to justice (Cited in Biersteker and Eckert 2008: 1). President George W. Bush, September 24, 2001In the immediate aftermath of the attacks in the United States on 11 September 2001 President W. Bush declared America s War on Terrorism in which he assured to defeat terrorist movementsand their methods of funding that could be used to support the acts of global terrorist (Bierstekerand Eckert 2008; 1). The examination of broader terrorism studies literature shows financial andmaterial resources are correctly perceived as the lifeblood of terrorist operations, and governmentshave determined that fighting the financial infrastructure of terrorist organizations is the key totheir defeat (Grialdo and Trinkunas 2007; 1). Since the attacks of 9/11 the US has designed a strongstrategy to fight terrorist groups and their financing. International and national measures have beencarried out such as the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism,the enforcement of international sanctions, and the expansion of law enforcement to targetterrorism financing and disrupt terrorist operation (Sheppard 2002). However, the spectrum ofterrorist funding is broad. In particular, the increasing reliance on criminal activities by terrorist sincethe end of the Cold War and the subsequent decline of state sponsorship, such as the rising pressureof law enforcement, network structures became an essential source to safeguard the existenceof many terrorist and criminal groups. The development of the so- called crime- terror nexus, inwhich two traditionally autonomous groups started to expose various operational and structuralparallels, implicated a key income source for terrorists and has brought sheer difficulty to developsuccessful strategies to freeze the terrorist monetary trail. In the following, this essay examines theinvolvement of terrorist groups in criminal activities as a source of funding and whether or not it is asustainable and profitable source for terrorist funding. Moreover, we try to evaluate to what extentthe so- called terror-crime nexus poses a threat to global security.

Mit unterhaltsamen Anekdoten und direkt umsetzbaren praktischen Anregungen öffnet dieses Buch einen ganz neuen Zugang zum Thema Finanzen. Als Gründerin des Female Finance Forum wendet sich Claudia Müller an Leserinnen (und Leser), die mehr über persönliche Budgetplanung, Geldanlage und Altersvorsorge wissen wollen und dieses Know-how anwenden möchten. Mit zahlreichen Tipps und nützlichen Tools kann jede Leserin einen klaren Plan für die persönlichen Finanzen entwickeln.

Mit unterhaltsamen Anekdoten und direkt umsetzbaren praktischen Anregungen öffnet dieses Buch einen ganz neuen Zugang zum Thema Finanzen. Als Gründerin des Female Finance Forum wendet sich Claudia Müller an Leserinnen (und Leser), die mehr über persönliche Budgetplanung, Geldanlage und Altersvorsorge wissen wollen und dieses Know-how anwenden möchten. Mit zahlreichen Tipps und nützlichen Tools kann jede Leserin einen klaren Plan für die persönlichen Finanzen entwickeln. 

Schriftsprachliche Fähigkeiten stellen für SchülerInnen nicht sozial privilegierter Milieus ein entscheidendes Hindernis im Bildungsverlauf dar. Ihre geringen Chancen, die sprachlichen Erwartungen der Schule erfüllen zu können, werden in der Forschung auf sprachsozialisatorische Prozesse zurückgeführt, die im Kontext der Familie initiiert werden. Diese statten Kinder bereits in jungen Jahren mit einem divergenten Sprachwissen aus, welches ihnen als Ressource für die Bewältigung der sprachlichen Aufgaben der Schule zur Verfügung steht. Exemplarisch anhand der Entwicklung von Erzählfähigkeiten in der Erst- und Zweitsprache beschreibt dieses Buch empirisch die Kluft zwischen den schulischen Spracherwartungen und den in Familien unterschiedlicher sozialer Gruppenzugehörigkeit anzutreffenden Sprachlernbedingungen. In Verwendung von ethnografischen Methoden und linguistischen Analysen gibt diese Studie differenzierte Einblicke in die Sprachpraxis von ein- und mehrsprachigen Familien und rekonstruiert die soziale Dimension der sprachlichen Entwicklung von Kindern. Darüber hinaus werden sprachdidaktische Überlegungen formuliert, die für Sprachförderangebote am Übergang vom Kindergarten- zum Grundschulalter sowie für die ErzieherInnen- und LehrerInnenausbildung von zentraler Bedeutung sind.

Das Vorlesen gilt sowohl in der Forschung als auch in der Praxis als ein Interaktionsformat, das die kindliche Entwicklung auf verschiedenste Art und Weise fördert. Entsprechend bildet das Vorlesen ein Feld, das von einer Vielzahl an Fachdisziplinen beforscht wird. Der vorliegende Band bringt elf Beiträge zusammen, die das Vorlesen nicht nur aus den unterschiedlichen Fachperspektiven heraus beleuchten, sondern auch unterschiedliche Realisierungsorte abbilden, in denen das Vorlesen praktiziert wird: Familie, Kindergarten, Schule. Dabei werden sowohl die Frage nach interaktiven Strategien beim Vorlesen, die Sprachund Literaturerwerb befördern, als auch die Frage nach der Rolle des Buches im Vorleseprozess diskutiert. Ein weiterer Schwerpunkt des Bandes liegt in der Darstellung und Aufbereitung empirischer Forschungsergebnisse, die wertvolle Anregungen und Vorschläge für das Vorlesen in der Familien-, Schul- und Kindergartenpraxis liefern.

Der Band befasst sich mit sprachlichen Lernprozessen in der frühen Kindheit, insbesondere im Hinblick auf den Erwerb bildungssprachlicher und literaler Kompetenzen. Der Bildungsauftrag, der inzwischen auch an Kindertageseinrichtungen für Kinder zwischen 0 und 6 Jahren herangetragen wird, verlangt nach einer Professionalisierung der pädagogischen Fachkräfte, die in diesen Einrichtungen tätig sind. Die Beiträge richten sich an Personen, die in der akademischen Ausbildung dieser Fachkräfte Diagnose- und Förderkompetenzen im sprachlichen Bereich fachlich fundieren und reflektieren.

Der verstärkte Einsatz des Projektmanagements zur Problemlösung in den unterschiedlichsten Unternehmensbereichen spiegelt die zunehmende Bedeutung dieses Managementinstrumentes wider.Claudia Müller zeigt die Wirkungszusammenhänge im Projekt "Produktentwicklung" auf und legt das Fundament für einen neuen Ansatz im Projektmanagement, der einen aktuellen Bezug zwischen Wissens- und Projektmanagement herstellen soll.