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Die GEW kümmert sich mittlerweile sehr um Bildung in der digitalen Welt. Das ist richtig und wichtig, weil Digitalisierung sowieso ein heißes gesellschaftspolitisches Eisen ist, bei dem jetzt die Weichen gestellt werden, die entscheiden, wohin unsere Reise in den nächsten Jahren und Jahrzehnten führen wird. Im Bildungsbereich ist das Thema noch dringlicher, weil dies quasi der einzige Bereich des chronisch unterfinanzierten Bildungswesen ist, in den richtig viel Geld investiert wird. Nur hier gibt es die Möglichkeit, etwas zu bewegen und dafür auch Geld ausgeben zu können. Noch schlimmer: Dieser Bereich genießt so hohe Priorität, dass Neuerungen hier zulasten bestehender Strukturen und Überzeugungen durchgesetzt werden können, oft ohne empirische, z.T. sogar ohne theoretische Basis.
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Influencer sind keine ganz neue Erscheinung, aber neu genug, um wissenschaftlich noch unerschlossenes Land zu sein. Nymoen und Schmitt versuchen sich an der Erschließung und gehen dabei eher ungewöhnliche Wege. Viele ihrer Betrachtungen basieren auf marxistischer Theorie oder wenigstens marxistischen Kategorien.
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The Library of Souls by Ransom Riggs is the third part of the Peculiar Children Series and marks halfway between the beginnning and the sixth and last part.
The series is set in a world where some children have special, peculiar abilities, that set them apart from the "Ordinaries". They mean no harm and live peacefully under the guidance and protection of "Ymbrines": peculiar ladies who can shapeshift between human and bird. But all is not well in peculiardom: "Hollowgasts", and "Wights", peculiars who tried to achieve eternal life, are out to attack them because they feed on their eyeballs. Ymbrines and Peculiars have hid away in "time loops": places where the day recurs over and over and over again – meaning that while in the time loop nobody ever ages, but also meaning that nothing anybody ever does has consequences beyond the end of the day. 21st-century youth Jake accidentally enters such a time loop, is sucked into the 1940s on a small island off Wales and of course immediately needs to save (peculiar) civilization as Wights and Hollows invade and destroy their time loop.
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In the second half of the 19th century, a network of anti-slavery ativists helped slaves from the Southern States of the US escape and flee to the Northern States where slavery had already been abolished, making these states a safe haven for escapees. The trip from the South to the North was long and not one helper or group of helpers accompanied their customers all the way into safety, but a hole network of helpers passed their clients on from one station to the next.
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History often is seen as history of states or statesmen. It's all about political decisions, not the day-to-day lives of ordinary people. Eileen Power tries to write just that, a history of everyday life in the middle ages.
She selects six people from the middle ages whose lives are documented in one form or the other and describes their daily lives and routines, their pleasures and sorrows, their quirks and their qualities as best she can. These descriptions are not historical fiction – they are true history, told in the third person, but with a genuine interest and warm feelings for the person, not just the era or the subject. Where Power's sources run dry, she deduces from sources on other persons' lives or general period information, but always makes it clear that she can only speculate about the significance to the characters at hand.
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