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Privacy Statement. Login to my Brill account Create Brill Account. Author: Conrad Hughes. Educating for the Twenty-First Century is an engaging account of some of the most critical challenges for humanity, seen through the unique perspective of a school principal. A virtuoso performance of great imaginative force, the book takes the reader through philosophical reflections, humorous anecdotes, syntheses of cutting-edge research and examples of best practice, to answer fundamental questions about education and learning in the 21st century.

Provocative, touching, accessible, but always profound, the book is a must-read for policy-makers, school and university leaders, parents and anyone passionate about education and the future of the planet. Copyright Year: E-Book PDF. Login via Institution. Much has changed in the last two decades in critical theory, and the volume highlights how new methodological approaches and new archival research can update our understanding of Fontane's works.

Although his novels are famously rooted in the details of quotidian life in nineteenth-century Germany, they also reflect larger historical transformations that resonate with our world today e. The volume's contributors draw on literary and cultural studies approaches including gender and sexuality studies, emotion studies, transnationalismand globalization, media and visual studies, rhetorical criticism, paratextual criticism, and digital humanities.

Their contributions survey a wide range of Fontane's literary production in order to speak to both German and non-German audiences in the twenty-first century.

Contributors: James N. Bade, Russell A. White, Holly A. John B. Lyon is Professor of German at the University of Pittsburgh. The first used the anonymized e-mail logs of a university community of around 40, people to track daily network evolution over a year as a function of existing network structure, shared activities such as classes and individual attributes.

Dynamic data of this type may shed light on the relative roles of structural constraints and individual preferences in determining, for example, observed homogeneity of friendship circles. The second was a Web-based experiment in which 14, participants were asked to listen to, rate and download songs by unknown bands. Some participants made their decisions independently, and others could see how many times the songs had been downloaded previously. Experiments of this kind measure not only the influence that individuals have over each others' decisions, but also the consequences of these individual-level effects on macro properties, such as the predictability of 'hit' products.

Clearly, the leap from these still simplistic studies to the 'big questions' of social science remains formidable. In this regard, cooperation between academic researchers and the large Internet companies who currently dominate data collection may be extremely productive.

Although such collaborations will encounter challenges, including privacy and intellectual-property issues, the questions are too difficult to be left to intuition, or even experience, alone. We must start asking how the technological revolution of the Internet can lead to a revolution in social science as well. You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar.

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