This edited volume examines the intersection of research and practice in STEM education by presenting empirically grounded examples developed by research groups across Europe. Bringing together contributions from researchers and practitioners, the book investigates how STEM approaches can be meaningfully integrated into diverse educational contexts. The chapters address critical gaps in research-based evidence on STEM pedagogy, the epistemological underpinnings of STEM education, and the design of innovative curricula and pedagogical models that support teacher professional development. Collectively, the volume offers a comprehensive resource that advances scholarly understanding of STEM education while providing educators with research-informed insights to enhance student engagement and learning in real-world settings.

This monograph develops the concept of anti-hermeneutics and diagnoses the age of COVID-19 as one marked by anti-hermeneutics. Crist describes and defines the concept of anti-hermeneutics as constituting an active resistance to many of the hermeneutic principles or virtues that Gadamer has affirmed throughout his life and works. This includes an emphasis on conversation or dialogue for genuine interpretation and understanding, the cultivation of practical and social reason, and the call for solidarity in the world with others. Furthermore, anti-hermeneutics promotes the outsourcing of individual decision and judgment, encourages conformism, and participates in the corruption of language as the medium of hermeneutic experience. Ultimately, anti-hermeneutics marks the condition for the impossibility of a community's collective ability to interpret, understand, and come into agreement with one another.

After developing this account of anti-hermeneutics, the author discusses in specific terms how the age of COVID-19 is profoundly anti-hermeneutical. The latter part of this book focuses on how anti-hermeneutics has played a significant role in how we have collectively approached, and continue to approach, pandemic lockdowns, masks, COVID-19 vaccines, and censorship. While these topics are still considered by many to be controversial, the claim is that avoiding these discussions is itself an anti-hermeneutical gesture, and in doing so, will only exacerbate the modern hermeneutical crisis. The concept of anti-hermeneutics will be of scholarly interest for those who are familiar with or actively research Gadamerian philosophical hermeneutics. However, this book will be accessible and of interest to any generally educated person with an interest in philosophical approaches to COVID-19.

This volume presents the third part of the proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality (TEEM) 2025. It explores the transformative role of emerging technologies and pedagogical methodologies in shaping the future of education across different domains such as health sciences and digital communication. Additionally, it examines how identity is formed in hyperconnected and natural learning environments, how gamification and serious games can boost motivation and learning outcomes, and how social media is reshaping the way we communicate and learn. Last but not least, this book also highlights the integration of cutting-edge technologies in multicultural healthcare education, and the use of learning analytics to better understand and support student learning.

Readers who wish to learn more about this topic can refer to 'Proceedings of TEEM 2025: Volume One' and 'Proceedings of TEEM 2025: Volume Two'.

This book is a curated literature overview that explores the evolving framework of climate justice as it intersects with global politics, ethics, economics, and human rights. It offers a structured overview of the multifaceted challenges posed by climate change, focusing on questions of responsibility, equity, and governance. At its core, the book examines who bears the greatest burden for reducing emissions and how to address the disproportionate impacts on communities least responsible for climate change. Organised across six chapters from definitional foundations through historical development, planetary-scale analysis, landscape- and community-level impacts, political dynamics, and forward-looking governance, the volume traces how the same structural asymmetry recurs at every scale: the populations least responsible for climate change bear its greatest consequences. It investigates climate-induced displacement, the rights of climate refugees, and the risks of policy solutions that may exacerbate existing vulnerabilities.
This volume also engages with the tensions between development and sustainability, particularly in emerging economies and climate-vulnerable regions. It addresses historical responsibility, climate reparations, and the financial mechanisms required to support equitable transitions.
Rather than presenting a static account of these issues, it proposes frameworks for navigating the complex terrain of climate justice. It translates intricate ethical and policy debates into accessible models for understanding, while maintaining analytical depth. The emphasis is on identifying practical, adaptive governance strategies that can inform decision-making across sectors.

When discussing news selection and the media's function of issue framing, the technical term agenda-setting is often invoked. In contrast, its counterpart, agenda-cutting, is far less frequently addressed in academic or public discourse. Yet agenda-cutting represents a widespread practice in media, politics, and society, whereby topics are deliberately or inadvertently excluded from public discourse or withheld from it. The Initiative Nachrichtenaufklaerung (INA) (i.e. Initiative News Enlightenment), a partner organization of the US-american Project Censored, has long been engaged in the systematic examination of neglected topics and news items. This edited volume is the first to offer an in-depth scholarly exploration of the phenomenon from multiple perspectives.

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The first book ever on how the press covered the Gettysburg campaign, From Blood to Ink chronicles the rise of the press through the Civil War and how its coverage of Gettysburg not only misled the people of two warring factions but also misshaped the battle's meaning for generations to come. As Matthew J. Larson reveals, newsmen on both sides transformed the battle into what they needed it to be rather than what it truly was. While the Northern press elevated Gettysburg into America's Waterloo, the Southern press polished it into another hard-won success for Confederate General Robert E. Lee. In both cases, facts bent to bias, narrative eclipsed reality, and Gettysburg itself became the final casualty.

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to sustainability, examining the complex relationships among environmental, economic, and socio-cultural systems across a wide range of industries. Moving beyond a narrow focus on environmental protection, it emphasizes the interconnected nature of the three pillars of sustainability and the importance of balancing resource management, economic development, and social equity. As global population growth, resource scarcity, and climate change place increasing pressure on natural and human systems, sustainability has become a critical framework for decision making in both public and private sectors. This text explores how a variety of industries, such as energy, agriculture, tourism, healthcare, fashion, and policy contribute to sustainability challenges and solutions, highlighting both the opportunities and trade-offs involved in pursuing long term resilience.
Designed for graduate students from diverse academic backgrounds, this textbook integrates theoretical foundations with real-world examples, case studies, and global perspectives. It introduces key concepts such as linkages and trade-offs, demonstrating how actions in one domain can influence outcomes in others. In doing so, it encourages readers to think critically about the unintended consequences of development and the importance of interdisciplinary approaches. Ultimately, it strives to prepare future leaders to make informed, ethical decisions that support resilient communities, promote equity, and enhance quality of life for present and future generations.

Rivers, salmon, and dams collide where climate urgency meets justice, memory, and powerHydropower has long defined the Northwest. Massive dams on the Columbia and Snake Rivers electrify cities, fuel industrial growth, and help create one of the lowest-carbon electricity systems in the United States. Yet those same structures also flooded Indigenous homelands, transformed river ecosystems, and helped drive the region's iconic salmon toward collapse. Damming Debates examines this profound dilemma at the heart of the region's energy future.

Blending fieldwork, interviews, and historical research, Nik Janos follows the people shaping the hydropower debate-dam operators, policymakers, tribal leaders, environmental advocates, farmers, and river communities-as they wrestle with competing visions. The conflict is often framed as "dams versus fish," but beneath that slogan lies deeper questions about climate responsibility, tribal sovereignty, economic livelihoods, and the meaning of environmental restoration.

Hydropower embodies a central paradox of the clean-energy transition: infrastructure that produces abundant low-carbon electricity can simultaneously perpetuate ecological damage and colonial extraction. In the Northwest, debates about dam removal, salmon recovery, and energy reliability reveal how difficult it is to reconcile climate urgency with justice and ecological repair.

Clear, nuanced, and grounded in voices from across the region, Damming Debates offers an essential guide to a consequential environmental crossroads-and to the broader challenge of building a just energy transition.

This book offers a critical examination of psychology's role in addressing today's interconnected social-ecological crises. It argues that while psychological knowledge is crucial, the discipline often falls short by focusing too narrowly on individual behavior and neglecting broader systemic issues. Through critical perspectives on Environmental Psychology, the contributors illustrate the transformative potential of psychology in facing global challenges. They propose that psychology must evolve to address the complexities of our "polycrisis"-a convergence of ecological destruction, social injustice, and economic instability. The book emphasizes the historical roots of these crises in colonialism, capitalism, and systemic inequality, which psychology has often failed to address.

Divided into four sections, the book begins by highlighting the necessary changes within psychology to tackle today's intertwined crises. It critiques the discipline's limitations and advocates for a reassessment of traditional approaches. The second section introduces decolonial and intercultural perspectives, urging the field to embrace diverse knowledge systems and confront power dynamics in research. The third section critically examines psychology's social role, encouraging it to challenge societal inequalities and environmental harm. The concluding chapters demonstrate theory in action, showcasing emancipatory projects that illustrate how psychology can support social and ecological justice in practice. By outlining practical implementations of critical environmental psychology, the book serves as a guide for how psychology can contribute meaningfully to creating a sustainable, equitable world.

This collection is a must-read for researchers, scholars, and practitioners in the environmental, social, and behavioral sciences. It offers fresh insights and practical guidance for those seeking to understand how psychology can actively contribute to building a sustainable and just world.

This book engages with a contemporary phenomenon of newsfluencers - individuals who use social media platforms to present news using innovative formats such as image and video to engage with their audience, analyzing news stories according to certain topics that resemble their personal interests. Such a role - integrated within the periphery of journalism - has been noted by scholars and major international outlets and has been evolving. It brings professional journalists and peripheral actors together in an individual effort to bring innovation in how information is produced and distributed to digital audiences, particularly young people who are distant from traditional media and who look for an inspiring role model figure through which they can learn about topics that they are most interested in. To explain this phenomenon, the book looks at the topic from two dimensions - production (including those who produce news for young people, working within journalism organizations but increasingly also acting upon their individualization on social media platforms to disruptively contribute to the field) and reception (including adolescents who frequently use social media platforms to know about current events).

Since the 1990s, Evangelicalism has spread rapidly across Brazil, reshaping the country's religious landscape. This transformation has captured media attention across the Americas, yet few works offer a structured and theory-based account of the phenomenon.

The Economic Roots of Evangelicalism in Brazil provides a detailed and empirically grounded analysis of this expansion through the lens of microeconomic theory. Rather than attributing the rise of Evangelicalism only to its appeal among the poor, this book examines the "production technologies" of religion. The authors explore how Evangelical churches opened temples, scaled operations, and reached converts nationwide-within a regulatory environment broadly favorable to religious entrepreneurship.

Drawing on data and analysis surrounding the microeconomics of consumers and firms, the authors demonstrate how Evangelical churches developed a dynamic organizational model that positioned them at the forefront of Brazil's religious market. Bridging economics, sociology, political science, and religion, this book offers a rare interdisciplinary perspective on one of the most consequential social transformations in contemporary Latin America.

Bringing together leading scholars in the field, this open access book presents novel theoretical perspectives, methodological approaches, ethical reflections and comparative frameworks to inform research on production, content, dissemination and use of alternative media. Over the last decade, falling levels of media and political trust and sweeping populist election victories have coincided with a wave of new alternative media. Seeking to challenge mainstream news media and established politics, these alternative media have attracted extensive political, media and scholarly attention.

Building on in-depth insights from different countries across Europe, it represents a key reference for alternative media research in Europe and beyond. This book demonstrates how we are now entering a third stage of alternative media research, characterized by more cross-theoretical fertilization, methodological innovation and focus on contextual conditions.

This open access book opens up a new pathway in revisiting and optimising the European Film Industry's (EFI) competitiveness. Through a multilevel governance lens of research and analysis, the chapters dissect film competitiveness across the domains of culture, professionals' views, policy frameworks and current and future audiences. This volume diagnoses persistent limitations in understanding and optimising the multifaceted value of the sector. It identifies key issues essential for supporting the EFI's future as both a market actor and a cultural and civic player in European integration. The chapters explore critical topics, such as the governance of film policy, the cultural and economic dimensions of competitiveness, and the role of film in fostering European social cohesion. Analyses challenge traditional frameworks, offering fresh perspectives on how to enhance the EFI's role in cultural and creative sectors. Readers will discover diverse perspectives from scholars and practitioners who explore innovative strategies for positioning the EFI as a leader in global cinema. The book is an invaluable resource for researchers, scholars, and policymakers interested in the film industry, cultural policy, and European integration.

The first English-language translation of a major biblical commentary written in Arabic by a seminal figure in the history of Christianity in the Middle East.

Abu-l-Faraj ibn al-?ayyib (d. 1043) spent his adult life in Baghdad, where he served as a priest in the Church of the East around the turn of the first millenium. He was a polymath - a physician, philosopher, and theologian - and part of an illustrious line of teachers dedicated to the transmission of scientific knowledge from Greek into Syriac and then later into Arabic. He authored commentaries on Aristotle, Galen, and Hippocrates, as well as original treatises on the Trinity, science and miracles, Christian law, and the resurrection. His major works of biblical interpretation included a complete commentary on the Bible, entitled The Paradise of Christianity. The first part of it, his Commentary on Genesis, is translated here into English for the first time and accompanied by a critical introduction to Ibn al-?ayyib's life and writings; the form, method, and content of his biblical interpretation; and his theology of creation and the divine Word.

The entanglement of Vancouver's infrastructure in settler colonialism and racialized exploitation

Vancouver, Canada, has long been held up as an environmentally conscious coastal refuge and model of progressive urban planning. Unpacking the troubling complexities that lie beneath the city's otherwise tidy self-image, Terminal City reveals the long, recurring patterns of racialized violence and Indigenous dispossession crucial to its formation.

Examining the histories of Vancouver's infrastructures, including railways, ports, the freeway system, fossil-fuel pipelines, and property, Michael Simpson details the various spatial manifestations of settler colonialism and racial capitalism that constitute the city's urban environment-using it as a case study to reveal such tendencies around the world. Simpson exposes how the seizure of Indigenous lands and the destruction of Black communities has been foundational to the development of the city, and he highlights its structural dependency on these violent legacies, as well as the ongoing struggles to dismantle them.

Bringing together theoretical insights from the fields of urban geography, political ecology, and Indigenous studies, Simpson provides a distinctive intervention into contemporary debates around the material basis of logistics and circulation. At a time when massive upheavals to urban infrastructure are taking place in the hopes of establishing greater sustainability, Terminal City raises important questions about how this moment of transition might be harnessed to bring about decolonial abolitionist futures that redefine what a city can become.

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This book treats AI and OSINT as everyday tools-useful, bounded, and always subject to transparent, human editorial judgment. A Practitioners' Handbook for the AI-Powered Financial Journalist is a do-first textbook that fuses writing craft with OSINT and AI-assisted workflows-so students and early-career reporters can produce accurate, human-centered journalism at speed. Built from classroom seminars and newsroom practice, it pairs clear explanations with assignments, checklists, and case studies to build durable skills. Readers learn where these tools help, where they fail, and how to verify, disclose, and maintain evidentiary standards. It also foregrounds a global, beyond-Western perspective, challenging dominant narratives and training readers to write for international audiences. Scope: Part I covers the essentials-leads and structure, interviewing, sourcing, fact-checking, headline craft, features, investigative basics, expert use, and bias awareness. Part II develops business journalism capability-macroeconomy and indicators, markets, trade, company news, private equity/VC/hedge funds, science/tech as business beats, business investigations with OSINT, AI tools in the newsroom, and crypto coverage. Each chapter ends with readings and practical assignments. Who is it for? Undergraduate and graduate students, early-career reporters, and instructors seeking ready-to-teach modules. Key benefits: (1) Do-first pedagogy-exercises that build muscle memory for interviewing, verification, data use, and story structure; (2) AI & OSINT, explained and bounded-practical frameworks and guardrails; (3) Business journalism, demystified-turn numbers into narratives audiences actually understand.

This edited volume is the first to systematically examine how the internationalization of higher education and global competence are being redefined in the post-COVID era. The pandemic disrupted established models of student mobility and intercultural learning, prompting universities worldwide to adopt online and hybrid learning approaches. These changes raised urgent questions about whether higher education can continue to foster global competence-skills in intercultural understanding, critical thinking, and global citizenship-without physical mobility.

Bringing together scholars from Japan, Taiwan, the United States, England, and Australia, the book combines two multinational student surveys (2022 and 2024) with qualitative faculty interviews and policy analyses. It highlights national differences in fostering global competence, the role of digital natives in intercultural learning, and the impact of political and economic contexts on higher education.

The chapters also explore innovative practices such as undergraduate research, interdisciplinary curricula, and the inclusion of indigenous knowledge as essential to developing truly global graduates.

The volume concludes with forward-looking reflections on building sustainable models of internationalization and global competence. By bridging empirical evidence, theory, and practice, this book provides timely insights for researchers, educators, policymakers, and university leaders worldwide.

The Land of Cotton is a sweeping environmental and cultural history of cotton's power in the American South. More than the region's signature crop, cotton was a material, symbolic, economic, and ideological force. James C. Giesen's central claim is that the culture of cotton-the ways planters, laborers, boosters, tourist boards, musicians, and a host of others representing the crop-shifted not only with the political moment but in response to the physical world. Cotton lands eroding and becoming forests, labor and technological upheaval, and the rise and fall of constructed environments all changed the rhetorical possibility of the thin white fiber. Cotton festivals, country songs, and sharecroppers' memories shaped and were shaped by the conditions of terrains. By grounding this history in two distinct Southern landscapes-the South Carolina Piedmont and the Mississippi Delta-Giesen reveals how these local conditions forged cotton's cultural power and practical uses. Spanning 150 years, this study shows how the South's most iconic crop remained a literal and figurative site for debates over environmental change, political ideology, and historical memory.

Writing groups often fly under the radar in academia, but they can make a big difference. Faculty are under constant pressure to publish while juggling teaching, research, and service. Add packed schedules and limited time, and writing can easily get sidelined-especially for women balancing work and family. Breaking Boundaries: How Writing Groups Fuel Women's Academic Success explores how writing groups offer support, structure, and community to help navigate these challenges.

Whether you're a grad student trying to finish a dissertation, a stuck faculty member, or someone newly tenured wondering what's next-you're in the right place. This book shares honest stories, insights, and encouragement from women who have found strength in writing together. Each chapter highlights real experiences with writing groups-what helped, what didn't, and how these groups shaped the authors' scholarly identities. They discuss topics such as overcoming imposter syndrome, access to writing resources, navigating the stress of tenure, making academic contributions outside traditional paths, and creating sustainable writing habits. The contributors come from diverse disciplines and deliver practical advice for making writing fit into a hectic academic life. Their message is clear: when scholars support each other in writing, they not only grow their own careers, but also become mentors, leaders, and role models in the academic world.

This book is a comprehensive resource for upper-undergraduate level students, academics and professionals across five disciplines: communication, digital media, business, psychology, and the social sciences. The book provides insights into social media strategies, ethical considerations, and emerging technologies. It covers key theories, case studies, and practical applications, addressing topics such as digital activism, social media marketing, global political dynamics, and even the implications for virtual reality and the metaverse. Such diverse exploration makes it a valuable tool for making informed decisions and staying competitive in various fields. This book stands out for its high volume of recent statistics, examples, and case studies-in fact, many sources are from 2022-2026-and for its interdisciplinary approach, bridging theory with practical applications across multiple fields. It also explores the impact of social media on mental health and intercultural relations. The comprehensive coverage of current and emerging technologies, combined with recommendations and solutions to common problems (e.g., social media addiction, technology overload, identity theft, etc.), makes it an essential resource for students, academics and practitioners who need to navigate the complexities of the digital landscape.

This book shares the authors' insights into processes of change in education policy research gained during research and supervision work in comparative and international education (CIE). The authors' focus on charting change in education and societies within CIE, and across academic research traditions more widely, is on two salient areas: decolonization in education research approaches and ethnographic approaches to the investigation of social policies in education. This book contributes methodological insights from multiple case studies within international research projects that span work over two decades considering global social policies in Southeast Asian and Pacific contexts. The various chapters address research issues in CIE fieldwork and supervision, with particular attention to collaborative and focused ethnographic approaches based in decolonial and postcolonial perspectives.