Bøger i New Approaches in Educational and Social Sciences / Neue Denkansätze in den Bildungs- und Sozialwissenschaften serien

Drawing on recent research perspectives, the book discusses how social investment policies could be responsive to territorial inequalities in terms of better policy coordination, capacities, and institutional infrastructures¿ adaptability to territorial needs. By combining theoretical notions about territorial cohesion, territorial development, and social investment, the book provides an argument for the ¿territorialization of social investment policy¿ in the case of Lithuania. The contributions of various authors encourage a different way of looking at the territorial sensitivity of welfare policy strategies implemented in advantaged developing areas and those which are disadvantaged peripheral territories.

The book illuminates the educational potential of nuclear tourism that becomes a site of outdoor and place-based education, promotes STEM, energy literacy, critical thinking, and environmental skills.

This monograph deals with the motivation of lower secondary school students from Lithuania for learning Physics and Mathematics on the basis of Self-Determination Theory.

Im Fokus steht der Diskurs kulturwissenschaftlicher Bildungsforschung und der Austausch von Beispielen transkultureller padagogischer Praxis in der Hochschul- und Schulbildung. Der Erwerb interaktiver Kompetenzen ist Voraussetzung fur die Bildung einer Identitat, die den Herausforderungen unserer Gesellschaft im kommenden Jahrzehnt gerecht wird.

Die Beitrage diskutieren Positionen und Konzepte der Bildungsreform und Modelle der Lehrerbildung der Baltischen Staaten im Vergleich zu westeuropaischen Staaten (EU) sowie den Wandel der Zivilgesellschaft im Hinblick auf neue Bildungsplane und die Verknupfung der Hochschul- und Schulbildung unter Rekurs der von Humanismus gepragten Tradierungen.

Smart people make a smart city. Smartness is about being intelligent, networked, agile, creative, learning. A smart social system is less about technology and more about behavior. The role of leadership and adequate public governance is of upmost importance. Smart development requires application of uncommon sense in decision making.

The book contains articles about outdoor education in kindergarten, student teacher lesson analysis skills, activities that bridge the theory-practice gap, an explanation for the variation in reading proficiency in the PISA, identity of academics in the university, and user experience evaluation systems for pupils with disabilities.