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What is the reason for the American university's global
preeminence? How did the American university succeed where the
development of the German university, from which it took so much,
stalled? In this closely-argued book, Meyer suggests that the key
to the American university's success is its institutional design of
self-government. Where other university systems are dependent on
the patronage of state, church, or market, the American university
is the first to achieve true autonomy, which it attained through an
intricate system of engagements with societal actors and
institutions that simultaneously act as amplifiers of its impact
and as checks on the university's ever-present corrosive
tendencies. Built on a searching analysis of the design thinking of
Wilhelm von Humboldt and Adam Smith and closely tracing the
learning process by which Americans adapted the German model, The
Design of the University dismisses efforts to copy superficial
features of the American university in order to achieve world-class
rank. Calling attention to the design details of the university and
the particulars of its institutional environment, this volume
identifies the practices and choices that produced the gold
standard for today's world class higher education.
*How should education be organized in pluralistic and multicultural
societies? *What are the roles in education of civil society,
markets, governments, and the family? *How can the idea of the
civil society help to reorient education policy discussions that
are sometimes stuck in either-or juxtapositions of "market versus
government" or "individualism versus communitarianism?" *What are
some of the traditions of civil society--across countries and
across history--that educators and policymakers today can revive or
build on? These questions are at the center of this book. Its goal
is to understand how we can accommodate cultural, ethnic, and
religious pluralism in a political and conceptual framework that is
sufficiently flexible to combine choice with equity, a commitment
to a shared civil and political culture with openness to exploring
and affirming the distinct ethnicity, race, creed, or culture of
different groups. To address these questions, the authors take up
the notion of the civil society, an idea that has experienced a
popular and scholarly revival in recent years as numerous citizens,
action groups, political philosophers, and social scientists make
the case that only a democratic civil society can sustain a
democratic state. The implications of this development for
education have to date been very little explored. This book is a
step toward addressing this gap. Going beyond simple juxtapositions
of "market versus government" in education reform, the book as a
whole develops an integrative perspective informed by the idea of
the civil society. It combines current policy issues with a look at
their historical development, and evaluates U.S. educational policy
in the context of a range of international cases. The
authors--education scholars, sociologists, economists, historians,
and philosophers-- explore from diverse disciplinary, political,
and philosophical points of view, the potential of the civil
society and civic associations for education. At the same time,
they share the hope that a thorough reconsideration of the role of
the state, the market, and the civil society will help to energize
ongoing experiments with charter schools, voucher schemes, and a
variety of other plans to increase educational and school autonomy.
What is the reason for the American university's global
preeminence? How did the American university succeed where the
development of the German university, from which it took so much,
stalled? In this closely-argued book, Meyer suggests that the key
to the American university's success is its institutional design of
self-government. Where other university systems are dependent on
the patronage of state, church, or market, the American university
is the first to achieve true autonomy, which it attained through an
intricate system of engagements with societal actors and
institutions that simultaneously act as amplifiers of its impact
and as checks on the university's ever-present corrosive
tendencies. Built on a searching analysis of the design thinking of
Wilhelm von Humboldt and Adam Smith and closely tracing the
learning process by which Americans adapted the German model, The
Design of the University dismisses efforts to copy superficial
features of the American university in order to achieve world-class
rank. Calling attention to the design details of the university and
the particulars of its institutional environment, this volume
identifies the practices and choices that produced the gold
standard for today's world class higher education.
*How should education be organized in pluralistic and multicultural
societies?
*What are the roles in education of civil society, markets,
governments, and the family?
*How can the idea of the civil society help to reorient education
policy discussions that are sometimes stuck in either-or
juxtapositions of "market versus government" or "individualism
versus communitarianism?"
*What are some of the traditions of civil society--across
countries and across history--that educators and policymakers today
can revive or build on?
These questions are at the center of this book. Its goal is to
understand how we can accommodate cultural, ethnic, and religious
pluralism in a political and conceptual framework that is
sufficiently flexible to combine choice with equity, a commitment
to a shared civil and political culture with openness to exploring
and affirming the distinct ethnicity, race, creed, or culture of
different groups.
To address these questions, the authors take up the notion of the
"civil society, " an idea that has experienced a popular and
scholarly revival in recent years as numerous citizens, action
groups, political philosophers, and social scientists make the case
that only a democratic civil society can sustain a democratic
state. The implications of this development for education have to
date been very little explored. This book is a step toward
addressing this gap.
Going beyond simple juxtapositions of "market versus government"
in education reform, the book as a whole develops an integrative
perspective informed by the idea of the civil society. It combines
current policy issues with a look at their historical development,
and evaluates U.S. educational policy in the context of a range of
international cases. The authors--education scholars, sociologists,
economists, historians, and philosophers-- explore from diverse
disciplinary, political, and philosophical points of view, the
potential of the civil society and civic associations for
education. At the same time, they share the hope that a thorough
reconsideration of the role of the state, the market, and the civil
society will help to energize ongoing experiments with charter
schools, voucher schemes, and a variety of other plans to increase
educational and school autonomy.
This book explains the usage and application of Molecular Quantum
Dynamics, the methodology where both the electrons and the nuclei
in a molecule are treated with quantum mechanical calculations.
This volume of Lecture Notes in Chemistry addresses graduate
students and postdocs in the field of theoretical chemistry, as
well as postgraduate students, researchers and teachers from
neighboring fields, such as quantum physics, biochemistry,
biophysics, or anyone else who is interested in this rising method
in theoretical chemistry, and who wants to gain experience in the
opportunities it can offer. It can also be useful for teachers
interested in illustrative examples of time-dependent quantum
mechanics as animations of realistic wave packets have been
designed to assist in visualization. Assuming a basic knowledge
about quantum mechanics, the authors link their explanations to
recent experimental investigations where Molecular Quantum Dynamics
proved successful and necessary for the understanding of the
experimental results. Examples including reactive scattering,
photochemistry, tunneling, femto- and attosecond chemistry and
spectroscopy, cold chemistry or crossed-beam experiments illustrate
the power of the method. The book restricts complicated formalism
to the necessary and in a self-contained and clearly explained way,
offering the reader an introduction to, and instructions for,
practical exercises. Continuative explanation and math are
optionally supplemented for the interested reader. The reader
learns how to apply example simulations with the MCTDH program
package (Multi Configuration Time Dependent Hartree calculations).
Readers can thus obtain the tools to run their own simulations and
apply them to their problems. Selected scripts and program code
from the examples are made available as supplementary material.
This book bridges the gap between the existing textbooks on
fundamental theoretical chemistry and research monographs focusing
on sophisticated applications. It is a must-read for everyone who
wants to gain a sound understanding of Molecular Quantum Dynamics
simulations and to obtain basic experience in running their own
simulations.
This monograph is an attempt to unify existing works in the field
of random sets, random variables, and linguistic random variables
with respect to statistical analysis. It is intended to be a
tutorial research compendium. The material of the work is mainly
based on the postdoctoral thesis (Ha- bilitationsschrift) of the
first author and on several papers recently published by both
authors. The methods form the basis of a user-friendly software
tool which supports the statistical inferenee in the presence of
vague data. Parts of the manuscript have been used in courses for
graduate level students of mathematics and eomputer scienees held
by the first author at the Technical University of Braunschweig.
The textbook is designed for readers with an advanced knowledge of
mathematics. The idea of writing this book came from Professor Dr.
H. Skala. Several of our students have significantly contributed to
its preparation. We would like to express our gratitude to Reinhard
Elsner for his support in typesetting the book, Jorg Gebhardt and
Jorg Knop for preparing the drawings, Michael Eike and Jiirgen
Freckmann for implementing the programming system and Giinter
Lehmann and Winfried Boer for proofreading the manuscript. This
work was partially supported by the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. We are
indebted to D. Reidel Publishing Company for making the pub-
lication of this book possible and would especially like to
acknowledge the support whieh we received from our families on this
project.
This monograph is an attempt to unify existing works in the field
of random sets, random variables, and linguistic random variables
with respect to statistical analysis. It is intended to be a
tutorial research compendium. The material of the work is mainly
based on the postdoctoral thesis (Ha- bilitationsschrift) of the
first author and on several papers recently published by both
authors. The methods form the basis of a user-friendly software
tool which supports the statistical inferenee in the presence of
vague data. Parts of the manuscript have been used in courses for
graduate level students of mathematics and eomputer scienees held
by the first author at the Technical University of Braunschweig.
The textbook is designed for readers with an advanced knowledge of
mathematics. The idea of writing this book came from Professor Dr.
H. Skala. Several of our students have significantly contributed to
its preparation. We would like to express our gratitude to Reinhard
Elsner for his support in typesetting the book, Jorg Gebhardt and
Jorg Knop for preparing the drawings, Michael Eike and Jiirgen
Freckmann for implementing the programming system and Giinter
Lehmann and Winfried Boer for proofreading the manuscript. This
work was partially supported by the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. We are
indebted to D. Reidel Publishing Company for making the pub-
lication of this book possible and would especially like to
acknowledge the support whieh we received from our families on this
project.
This open access book focuses on the role of civil society in the
creation, dissemination, and interpretation of knowledge in
geographical contexts. It offers original, interdisciplinary and
counterintuitive perspectives on civil society. The book includes
reflections on civil and uncivil society, the role of civil society
as a change agent, and on civil society perspectives of undone
science. Conceptual approaches go beyond the tripartite division of
public, private and civic sectors to propose new frameworks of
civic networks and philanthropic fields, which take an inclusive
view of the connectivity of civic agency across sectors. This
includes relational analyses of epistemic power in civic knowledge
networks as well as of regional giving and philanthropy. The
original empirical case studies examine traditional forms of civic
engagement, such as the German landwomen's associations, as well as
novel types of organizations, such as giving circles and time banks
in their geographical context. The book also offers insider
reflections on doing civil society, such as the cases of the
Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong, epistemic activism in the United
States, and the #FeesMustFall movement in South Africa.
This open access book focuses on the role of civil society in the
creation, dissemination, and interpretation of knowledge in
geographical contexts. It offers original, interdisciplinary and
counterintuitive perspectives on civil society. The book includes
reflections on civil and uncivil society, the role of civil society
as a change agent, and on civil society perspectives of undone
science. Conceptual approaches go beyond the tripartite division of
public, private and civic sectors to propose new frameworks of
civic networks and philanthropic fields, which take an inclusive
view of the connectivity of civic agency across sectors. This
includes relational analyses of epistemic power in civic knowledge
networks as well as of regional giving and philanthropy. The
original empirical case studies examine traditional forms of civic
engagement, such as the German landwomen's associations, as well as
novel types of organizations, such as giving circles and time banks
in their geographical context. The book also offers insider
reflections on doing civil society, such as the cases of the
Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong, epistemic activism in the United
States, and the #FeesMustFall movement in South Africa.
The 14th edition of this practice-proven standard work on court
cost law considers the numerous legal changes that have taken place
in the GKG/FamGKG (Court Fees Act/Act on Court Fees in Family Law
Matters), including changes resulting from the Mediations Act, the
Act to Reform Findings of Fact in Compulsory Execution Procedures,
and particularly through the Second Modernization of Costs Law that
came into force on 1 July 2013.
A new edition of this work was made necessary by the numerous
changes to the law of costs related to contentious jurisdiction
since the Reform Act on Proceedings in Family Matters and Matters
of Non-Contentious Jurisdiction (FFG-Reform) came into effect on 1
September 2009. The well-established standard reference work on the
law of costs contains commentary on the Court Fees Act (GKG) as
well as the Act on Court Fees in Family Law Matters (FamGKG),
including costs schedule and expenses. The new edition is updated
through July 2011.
The Act regarding the Reform of Proceedings in Family Matters and
Matters of Non-Contentious Jurisdiction (FFG-Reformgesetz), which
will take effect on 1 September 2009, includes the new Family
Proceedings Act (FamFG) as well as numerous reforms and changes to
the law of costs relating to contentious jurisdiction. The new Act
on Court Fees in Family Law Matters (FamGKG) has not only
significantly altered the Cost Regulation Act but also the Court
Fees Act (GKG). These changes required a restructuring of the
commentary and a revision of the title. In addition, the Act on
Court Fees in Family Law Matters (FamGKG) is printed and explained
in the second part of this commentary. This new edition is updated
through June 2009.
The new edition takes into consideration the law relating to
enterprise integrity and modernization of the right of rescission
(UMAG) of September 22, 2005, as well as article 14 of the law
relating to the corrective adjustment of federal law in the sphere
of responsibility of the Ministry of Justice of April 19, 2006,
through which section 30a (A 30a EGGVG) of the introductory act to
the Judicature Act (EGGVG) was recently inserted. The extent and
pace of legislation since the revised text of the Court Fees Act
(GKG) have made extensive revisions and supplementary additions
necessary. It was possible to take into account comprehensive
literature and court decisions dating up to September 2006.
Since the publication of the previous edition, legislators have
been busy with more than 20 amendments to the law concerning court
costs, through which the court fee law also received numerous
changes, which made an update of the reliable commentary necessary.
The new edition explains: Victims Rights law reform from
24.06.2004, Law for the introduction of the additional preventative
detention from 23.07.2004, 1st Justice Modernization Act from
24.08.2004, Censure Hearing Act from 09.12.2004, EC Legal CostsAid
Act from 15.12.2004, Law for the revision of the Partnership Law
from 15.12.2004, Financial Statement Act from 15.12.2004,
International Family Law Act from 26.01.2005, Legal Communications
Law from 22.03.2005, Seventh Act for the Modification of the Act
Against Restraints of Competition from July 7, 2005 Second Energy
Reform Act of July 7, 2005, Act for the Introduction of Capital
Investor Example Proceedings (KapMuG) of August 16, 2005, and Act
for the Implementation of the Regulations Regarding a European
Enforceable Title for Indisputable Accounts Receivable of August
18, 2005. The amount in dispute catalog of the jurisdiction is
completely revised and newly composed. The amount in dispute
indices have been considerably altered. The printed text on the
cost regulations of the social court law was provided with short
comments in the appendix. As expected, the flood of published
higher court jurisdiction has not dwindled despite the new legal
costs regulations. It still also partly pertained to questions of
the old version, valid up to 30.06.2004, of the court fee law. This
has only been used as far as the definition of the old and new
versions objectively correspond to each other. The new edition also
makes it possible to incorporate and thoroughly review the
definition of procedural laws, particularly the questions of the
procedures and amount in dispute. The comparison of the old and new
regulations has been maintained. Literature and jurisdiction could
be evaluated until the end of August 2005. For this reason, the
commentary is once again "cutting edge" "
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