Spatialisation of Education : Migrating Languages - Cultural Encounters - Technological Turn

Tomasz Stepien

ISBN 10: 3631640390 / ISBN 13: 9783631640395

Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang, 2013

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - In a knowledge-based society education and technologies appear as the decisive driving-forces of the development, and one of the most important challenges is the adaptation process of education adequately to the present societal and cultural changes. The following considerations extrapolate a multidisciplinary approach to the present conditions and circumstances of education, and are especially focusing on concerns such as the significance of technological development and the moral agency of technologies in the field of education, the questions concerning methods of languages and competences acquisition basing on the CLIL and e-learning methods, and finally the characteristic of engineers' education orientated on the interdisciplinary concept of the converging technologies.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Spatialisation of Education : Migrating Languages - Cultural Encounters - Technological Turn
• Publisher: Peter Lang, Peter Lang
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3631640390
• ISBN 13: 9783631640395
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 216W x 153H x 15D millimeters 216 millimeters width by 153 millimeters height by 15 millimeters depth
• Weight: 350 grams

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Synopsis

In a knowledge-based society education and technologies appear as the decisive driving-forces of the development, and one of the most important challenges is the adaptation process of education adequately to the present societal and cultural changes. The following considerations extrapolate a multidisciplinary approach to the present conditions and circumstances of education, and are especially focusing on concerns such as the significance of technological development and the moral agency of technologies in the field of education, the questions concerning methods of languages and competences acquisition basing on the CLIL and e-learning methods, and finally the characteristic of engineers’ education orientated on the interdisciplinary concept of the converging technologies.

About the Author

Tomasz Stepien, PhD; Head of Political Science and Social Communication Research Team at the Wroclaw University of Technology, Department of Humanities; main research fields: Philosophy of Culture and Technology, Technology Assessment, Research and Science Policy, International Relations.
Annette Deschner, PhD; Institute of Transdisciplinary Social Science, University of Education, Karlsruhe (Germany); main research fields: CLIL, Multilingualism, CLIL and forest pedagogy, theory-guided development of teaching material, Diversity.
Mojca Kompara, PhD; Teaching Assistant at the University of Primorska (Slovenia), Faculty of Management, Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies, Faculty of Humanities, main research fields: Abbreviations, Lexicography, Computational Lexicography, Automatic recognition of Abbreviations in Texts, Automatic Compilation of Dictionaries, Algorithms, Language Technologies, Translation, Bilingualism, Language Acquisition, CLIL.
Adriana Merta-Staszczak, PhD; Member of the Political Science and Social Communication Research Team at the Wroclaw University of Technology (Poland), Department of Humanities; main research fields: Economic history, rural development, institutional environment of the agriculture.