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Affective education can be defined as that part of the educational process which concerns itself with the attitudes, feelings, beliefs and emotions of students. Central to the concept is the acknowledgement that student's feelings about themselves as learners and about their academic subjects can be at least as influential as their actual ability. This collection features the work of contributors from countries such as Belgium, Denmark, Russia, Germany, Israel, Spain and the UK. It shows how the practical approach to affective education varies from nation to nation. By analyzing the underlying theory, this text sets out to bring the different approaches closer together, to enable teachers across the continent to work towards a positive common ground.

Affective education can be defined as that part of the educational process which concerns itself with the attitudes, feelings, beliefs and emotions of students. Central to the concept is the acknowledgement that student''s feelings about themselves as learners and about their academic subjects can be at least as influential as their actual ability. This collection features the work of contributors from countries such as Belgium, Denmark, Russia, Germany, Israel, Spain and the UK. It shows how the practical approach to affective education varies from nation to nation. By analyzing the underlying theory, this text sets out to bring the different approaches closer together, to enable teachers across the continent to work towards a positive common ground.

This book covers the science of interfaces between an aqueous phase and a solid, another liquid or a gaseous phase, starting from the basic physical chemistry all the way to state-of-the-art research developments. Both experimental and theoretical methods are treated thanks to the contributions of a distinguished list of authors who are all active researchers in their respective fields. The properties of these interfaces are crucial for a wide variety of processes, products and biological systems and functions, such as the formulation of personal care and food products, paints and coatings, microfluidic and lab-on-a-chip applications, cell membranes, and lung surfactants. Accordingly, research and expertise on the subject are spread over a broad range of academic disciplines and industrial laboratories. This book brings together knowledge from these different places with the aim of fostering education, collaborations and research progress.

Die Beiträge machen mit allen wesentlichen Elementen des Waldorfkindergartens vertraut und zeigen, wie man den Alltag im Vorschulalter sinnvoll gestalten kann. Das Buch kommt einem wesentlichen Bedürfnis vieler Eltern entgegen: einer umfassenden, aktuellen Einführung in die Pädagogik der Waldorfkindergärten.Die Autorinnen und Autoren beschreiben anschaulich den besonderen Ansatz der Waldorfpädagogik und ihr Verständnis der frühkindlichen Bildungsprozesse. Die Entwicklung des Kindes im Vorschulalter beruht zum überwiegenden Teil auf Vorbild und Nachahmung, Rhythmus und Wiederholung; diese grundsätzlichen Elemente prägen daher auch den Alltag in Waldorfkindergärten. In dem Buch werden aber auch die veränderten sozialen und gesellschaftlichen Bedingungen berücksichtigt. So entsteht ein lebendiges, vielseitiges Bild des heutigen Waldorfkindergartens. Auch die besonderen Organisationsformen der Waldorfkindergärten, der Weg bis zur Gründung eines Kindergartens und die Mitarbeit der Eltern kommen zur Sprache.

The Society of Interiors discusses a variety of spatial practices which critique, reveal, and resist the economical logic of a neo-liberal market. A market that caters for exclusiveness and individualities, where public space becomes an interior, that is highly controlled and privatized. The different essays unpack, develop and expand a diversity of interior and spatial practices in urban contexts that allow for a diverse public, express differences, and create other experiences and situations.Authors include the architect and researcher Tatjana Schneider, editor of the publication Spatial Agency (Routledge 2011); the activist architect Petra Pferdmenges from alive architecture in Brussels, the architectural theorist Peter Lang; the architect and artist Tor Lindstrand; as well as Rochus Hinkel, whose research focuses on the intersections between interior, architecture and urban environments.