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This edited volume presents a systematic analysis of conceptual,
methodological and applied aspects related to the validation of
educational tests used in Latin American countries. Inspired by
international standards on educational measurement and evaluation,
this book illustrates efforts that have been made in several
countries to validate different types of educational assessments,
including student learning assessments, measurements of
non-cognitive aspects in students, teacher evaluations, and tests
for certification and selection. It gathers the experience of
validity studies from the main international assessments in Latin
America (PISA, TIMSS, ERCE, and ICCS). Additionally, it shows the
challenges that must be taken into account when evaluations are
used to compare countries, groups or trends of achievement over
time. The book builds on the premise that measurements in the
educational field should not be used if there are no studies that
support the validity of the interpretation of their scores, or the
use made of such tests. It shows that, despite the recognition
given to validity, relatively few educational measurement
assessments have accumulated enough evidence to support their
interpretation and use. In doing so, this volume increases
awareness about the relevance of validity, especially when
assessments are key component of educational policies.
To Hell and Back: The Life Story of an Austrian World War II
Survivor is a unique, one-of-a-kind memoir. Author Maria Rosa takes
us on a journey through time and history as she tells the true
story of her harrowing experiences before, during, & after
World War 2. Her adventures span the globe as Maria describes life
as a little girl, a student, an adult, & finally as a
grandmother. Emotionally charged drama alternates with historical
narrative & comical anecdotes in Maria's extraordinary &
entertaining narrative. Topics include: World War II - Anschluss or
Nazi takeover of Austria - A child's view of the Holocaust -
Salzburg & Mozart - Hitler's Eagle's Nest - Castles &
cathedrals - Manhattan Freemasons - Motherhood, family, &
education - Abusive marriage - Cuban Missile Crisis - Assassination
of JFK - Apollo Moon Landing - Vietnam War - Major California
earthquakes - Berlin Wall - Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
...and much more Compelling & educational, this eye opening
book is a must read for all ages
Agroforestry seeks to balance protection of forest resources, the
exploitation of the ecosystem services that trees can contribute to
agriculture and the role of agroforestry in diversifying the range
of agricultural products and markets. This volume reviews the
latest research on the role and implementation of main types of
agroforestry, understanding and assessing the ecosystem services
that agroforestry can deliver and techniques for optimising
agroforestry practice. The book's main focus is on temperate
agroforestry, but also reviews particular issues facing
agroforestry in the tropics. The collection will be a standard
reference for forestry and agricultural scientists in universities,
government and other research centres in agroforestry
Agroforestry has come of age during the past three decades. The
age-old practice of growing trees and crops and sometimes animals
in interacting combinations - that has been ignored in the
single-commodity-oriented agricultural and forestry development
paradigms - has been brought into the realm of modern land-use.
Today agroforestry is well on its way to becoming a specialized
science at a level similar to those of crop science and forestry
science. To most land-use experts, however, agroforestry has a
tropical connotation. They consider agroforestry as something that
can and can only be identified with the tropics. That is a wrong
perception. While it is true that the tropics, compared to the
temperate regions, have a wider array of agroforestry systems and
hold greater promise for potential agroforestry interventions, it
is also true that agroforestry has several opportunities in the
temperate regions too. Indeed, the role of agroforestry is now
recognized in Europe as exemplified by this book, North America,
and elsewhere in the temperate zone. Current interest in ecosystem
management in industrialized countries strongly suggests that there
is a need to embrace and apply agroforestry principles to help
mitigate the environmental problems caused or exacerbated by
commercial agricultural and forestry production enterprises.
This book presents case studies to analyse the relationship between
sustainability - environmental, social, institutional and economic
- and digital innovation. The respective contributions offer a
contextualisation of the main present and future trends concerning
these two elements, and present analyses from economic, technical,
managerial, and social perspectives alike. The individual sections
of the book focus on interactions between sustainability and
digital innovation in existing organisations and highlight the new
opportunities, challenges and threats that may emerge as a result.
The contributions are mainly based on case studies and research
conducted in Europe and Africa, with a few focusing on Southeast
Asia and Central America, and were prepared by experts in the
fields of Information Systems, Computer Science, Social
Development, and Economics.
Emmaus movement transnational movement ideas in different
socio-political, economic, historical and linguistic contexts.
sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, discourse studies,
cultural studies, and sociology.
This volume is a collection of original contributions to the study
of lexical allomorphy, with a focus on Optimality Theory's
distinctive take on this topic. The chapters provide an up-to-date
perspective on the advances in our understanding of allomorphy
which Optimality Theory has been able to secure (in comparison with
rule-based Generative Phonology). They also consider a number of
important allomorphy questions which Optimality Theory has helped
raise and address (e.g. the nature of inputs, the role of
paradigms, the interaction of phonology with other modules of
grammar, lexical storage vs computation, degrees of phonological
(ir)regularity, subcategorization vs markedness). The contributors
form an international array of linguists from North America and
Europe. A broad variety of languages serve as the empirical base
for the volume, either in detailed case studies (e.g. Burushaski,
Catalan, English, French, Italian, Moroccan Arabic, Sahaptin) or in
encompassing typological surveys. The volume is aimed at
professional linguists with an interest in phonology, morphology,
and the lexicon.With its broad coverage of allomorphy issues, the
book's content will also lend itself to courses in phonology and
morphology for advanced undergraduates and graduate students.
Emmaus movement transnational movement ideas in different
socio-political, economic, historical and linguistic contexts.
sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, discourse studies,
cultural studies, and sociology.
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Tina, Mafia Soldier
Maria Rosa Cutrufelli; Translated by Robin Pickering-Iazzi
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The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature: The Literature of Al-Andalus explores the culture of Iberia from the eighth to the thirteenth century, and to the centuries following the Christian conquest, when Arabic continued to be used. While the focus is on literature, the study extends to the related fields of philosophy, art, architecture and music. Edited by an Arabist, a Hebraist and a Romance scholar, with individual chapters by a team of the world's leading experts in the field, this is a truly interdisciplinary and comparative work offering a radical new approach.
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Tina, Mafia Soldier (Hardcover)
Maria Rosa Cutrufelli; Translated by Robin Pickering-Iazzi
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L’esperienza mediante esplorazione e la familiarità con
l’ambiente migliorano la capacità di muoversi
competentemente nel mondo. Questo libro intende potenziare il senso
dell’orientamento fin dalla prima infanzia, proponendo esercizi
eseguibili a scuola e a casa. La prima parte illustra le teorie
sulla capacità navigazionale e sull’acquisizione di tale
competenza, seguita da un’indagine sperimentale condotta su
bambini di 4-7 anni per indagare lo sviluppo di differenti tipi di
memoria implicati nell’orientamento. La seconda parte ha come
protagonista un piccolo alieno “Kosmos†che si è perso sul
nostro pianeta e ha bisogno di aiuto per imparare ad usare i
prerequisiti di percezione visuo-spaziale, il linguaggio spaziale,
la memoria di posizioni nell’ambiente, le rotazioni mentali e il
riconoscimento di luoghi e oggetti da diverse prospettive. I
bambini dovranno inoltre aiutare Kosmos a consultare delle mappe e
a riprodurre dei percorsi all’interno di un ambiente virtuale.
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The Song of the CID (Paperback)
Burton Raffel; Introduction by Maria Rosa Menocal
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One of the finest of epic poems, and the only one to have survived
from medieval Spain, "The Song of the Cid" recounts the adventures
of the warlord and nobleman Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar both - 'Mio Cid'.
A forceful combination of heroic fiction and historical fact, the
tale seethes with the restless, adventurous spirit of Castile,
telling of the Cid's unjust banishment from the court of King
Alfonso, his victorious campaigns in Valencia and the crowning of
his daughters as queens of Aragon and Navarre - the high point of
his career as a warmonger. An epic that sings of universal human
values, this is one of the greatest of all works of Spanish
literature.
Of all the thinkers of the century of genius that inaugurated
modern philosophy, none lived an intellectual life more rich and
varied than Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716). Maria Rosa
Antognazza's pioneering biography provides a unified portrait of
this unique thinker and the world from which he came. At the centre
of the huge range of Leibniz's apparently miscellaneous endeavours,
Antognazza reveals a single master project lending unity to his
extraordinarily multifaceted life's work. Throughout the
vicissitudes of his long life, Leibniz tenaciously pursued the
dream of a systematic reform and advancement of all the sciences.
As well as tracing the threads of continuity that bound these
theoretical and practical activities to this all-embracing plan,
this illuminating study also traces these threads back into the
intellectual traditions of the Holy Roman Empire in which Leibniz
lived and throughout the broader intellectual networks that linked
him to patrons in countries as distant as Russia and to
correspondents as far afield as China.
This book presents some of the leading technical, professional, and
political challenges associated with the development and
implementation of teacher evaluation systems, along with
characterizing some of these systems in different countries around
the world. The book promotes a broader comprehension of the
complexities associated with this kind of initiatives, which have
gained relevance in the last two decades, especially in the context
of policies aimed at improving the quality of education. The first
section of the book includes conceptual chapters that will detail
some of the central debates around teacher evaluation, such as a)
performance evaluation versus teaching effectiveness; b) tensions
between formative and summative uses of evaluation; c) relationship
between evaluation and teacher professionalization; and d)
political tensions around teacher evaluation. In the second
section, the book addresses specific examples of national or
state-wide initiatives in the field of teacher evaluation. For this
section, the authors have invited contributions that reflect
experiences in North America, Asia, Europe, Oceania, and Latin
America. In each chapter, a teacher evaluation system is presented,
including their main results and validity evidence, as well as the
main challenges associated with its design and implementation. This
wide-ranging presentation of teacher evaluation systems around the
world is a valuable reference to understand the diverse challenges
for the implementation of teacher evaluation programs. The presence
of conceptual chapters with others that illustrate how teacher
evaluation has been implemented in different contexts gives the
reader a comprehensive view of the complex nature of teacher
evaluation, considering their technical and political
underpinnings. It is a valuable source for anyone interested in the
design, improvement, and implementation of teacher evaluation
systems.
The extraordinary breadth and depth of Leibniz's intellectual
vision commands ever increasing attention. As more texts gradually
emerge from seemingly bottomless archives, new facets of his
contribution to an astonishing variety of fields come to light.
This volume provides a uniquely comprehensive, systematic, and
up-to-date appraisal of Leibniz's thought thematically organized
around its diverse but interrelated aspects. Discussion of his
philosophical system naturally takes place of pride. A cluster of
original essays revisit his logic, metaphysics, epistemology,
philosophy of nature, moral and political philosophy, and
philosophy of religion. The scope of the volume, however, goes
beyond that of a philosophical collection to embrace all the main
features of Leibniz's thought and activity. Contributions are
offered on Leibniz as a mathematician (including not only his
calculus but also determinant theory, symmetric functions, the
dyadic, the analysis situs, probability and statistics); on Leibniz
as a scientist (physics and also optics, cosmology, geology,
physiology, medicine, and chemistry); on his technical innovations
(the calculating machine and the technology of mining, as well as
other discoveries); on his work as an 'intelligencer' and cultural
networker, as jurist, historian, editor of sources and librarian;
on his views on Europe's political future, religious toleration,
and ecclesiastical reunification; on his proposals for political,
administrative, economic, and social reform. In so doing, the
volume serves as a unique cross-disciplinary point of contact for
the many domains to which Leibniz contributed. By assembling
leading specialists on all these topics, it offers the most rounded
picture of Leibniz's endeavors currently available.
The extraordinary breadth and depth of Leibniz's intellectual
vision commands ever increasing attention. As more texts gradually
emerge from seemingly bottomless archives, new facets of his
contribution to an astonishing variety of fields come to light.
This volume provides a uniquely comprehensive, systematic, and
up-to-date appraisal of Leibniz's thought thematically organized
around its diverse but interrelated aspects. Discussion of his
philosophical system naturally takes place of pride. A cluster of
original essays revisit his logic, metaphysics, epistemology,
philosophy of nature, moral and political philosophy, and
philosophy of religion. The scope of the volume, however, goes
beyond that of a philosophical collection to embrace all the main
features of Leibniz's thought and activity. Contributions are
offered on Leibniz as a mathematician (including not only his
calculus but also determinant theory, symmetric functions, the
dyadic, the analysis situs, probability and statistics); on Leibniz
as a scientist (physics and also optics, cosmology, geology,
physiology, medicine, and chemistry); on his technical innovations
(the calculating machine and the technology of mining, as well as
other discoveries); on his work as an 'intelligencer' and cultural
networker, as jurist, historian, editor of sources and librarian;
on his views on Europe's political future, religious toleration,
and ecclesiastical reunification; on his proposals for political,
administrative, economic, and social reform. In so doing, the
volume serves as a unique cross-disciplinary point of contact for
the many domains to which Leibniz contributed. By assembling
leading specialists on all these topics, it offers the most rounded
picture of Leibniz's endeavors currently available.
hombres que ame y se fueron. Como dijo Campoamor: El amor se
transforma y no varia, un mismo amor puede tener mil nombres.
From Comfort Woman: "We began the day with breakfast, after which
we swept and cleaned our rooms. Then we went to the bathroom
downstairs to wash the only dress we had and to bathe. The bathroom
did not even have a door, so the soldiers watched us. We were all
naked, and they laughed at us, especially me and the other young
girl who did not have any pubic hair. "At two, the soldiers came.
My work began, and I lay down as one by one the soldiers raped me.
Every day, anywhere from twelve to over twenty soldiers assaulted
me. There were times when there were as many as thirty; they came
to the garrison in truckloads." "I lay on the bed with my knees up
and my feet on the mat, as if I were giving birth. Whenever the
soldiers did not feel satisfied, they vented their anger on me.
Every day, there were incidents of violence and humiliation. When
the soldiers raped me, I felt like a pig. Sometimes they tied up my
right leg with a waist band or a belt and hung it on a nail in the
wall as they violated me. "I shook all over. I felt my blood turn
white. I heard that there was a group called the Task Force on
Filipino Comfort Women looking for women like me. I could not
forget the words that blared out of the radio that day: 'Don't be
ashamed, being a sex slave is not your fault. It is the
responsibility of the Japanese Imperial Army. Stand up and fight
for your rights.'" In April 1943, fifteen-year-old Maria Rosa
Henson was taken by Japanese soldiers occupying the Philippines and
forced into prostitution as a "comfort woman." In this simply told
yet powerfully moving autobiography, Rosa recalls her childhood as
the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy landowner, her work for Huk
guerrillas, her wartime ordeal, and her marriage to a rebel leader
who left her to raise their children alone. Her triumph against all
odds is embodied by her decision to go public with the secret she
had held close for fifty years. Now in a second edition with a new
introduction and foreword that bring the ongoing controversy over
the comfort women to the present, this powerful memoir will be
essential reading for all those concerned with violence against
women.
From Comfort Woman: "We began the day with breakfast, after which
we swept and cleaned our rooms. Then we went to the bathroom
downstairs to wash the only dress we had and to bathe. The bathroom
did not even have a door, so the soldiers watched us. We were all
naked, and they laughed at us, especially me and the other young
girl who did not have any pubic hair. "At two, the soldiers came.
My work began, and I lay down as one by one the soldiers raped me.
Every day, anywhere from twelve to over twenty soldiers assaulted
me. There were times when there were as many as thirty; they came
to the garrison in truckloads." "I lay on the bed with my knees up
and my feet on the mat, as if I were giving birth. Whenever the
soldiers did not feel satisfied, they vented their anger on me.
Every day, there were incidents of violence and humiliation. When
the soldiers raped me, I felt like a pig. Sometimes they tied up my
right leg with a waist band or a belt and hung it on a nail in the
wall as they violated me. "I shook all over. I felt my blood turn
white. I heard that there was a group called the Task Force on
Filipino Comfort Women looking for women like me. I could not
forget the words that blared out of the radio that day: 'Don't be
ashamed, being a sex slave is not your fault. It is the
responsibility of the Japanese Imperial Army. Stand up and fight
for your rights.'" In April 1943, fifteen-year-old Maria Rosa
Henson was taken by Japanese soldiers occupying the Philippines and
forced into prostitution as a "comfort woman." In this simply told
yet powerfully moving autobiography, Rosa recalls her childhood as
the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy landowner, her work for Huk
guerrillas, her wartime ordeal, and her marriage to a rebel leader
who left her to raise their children alone. Her triumph against all
odds is embodied by her decision to go public with the secret she
had held close for fifty years. Now in a second edition with a new
introduction and foreword that bring the ongoing controversy over
the comfort women to the present, this powerful memoir will be
essential reading for all those concerned with violence against
women.
This edited volume presents a systematic analysis of conceptual,
methodological and applied aspects related to the validation of
educational tests used in Latin American countries. Inspired by
international standards on educational measurement and evaluation,
this book illustrates efforts that have been made in several
countries to validate different types of educational assessments,
including student learning assessments, measurements of
non-cognitive aspects in students, teacher evaluations, and tests
for certification and selection. It gathers the experience of
validity studies from the main international assessments in Latin
America (PISA, TIMSS, ERCE, and ICCS). Additionally, it shows the
challenges that must be taken into account when evaluations are
used to compare countries, groups or trends of achievement over
time. The book builds on the premise that measurements in the
educational field should not be used if there are no studies that
support the validity of the interpretation of their scores, or the
use made of such tests. It shows that, despite the recognition
given to validity, relatively few educational measurement
assessments have accumulated enough evidence to support their
interpretation and use. In doing so, this volume increases
awareness about the relevance of validity, especially when
assessments are key component of educational policies.
Of all the thinkers of the century of genius that inaugurated
modern philosophy, none lived an intellectual life more rich and
varied than Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646 1716). Trained as a
jurist and employed as a counsellor, librarian, and historian, he
made famous contributions to logic, mathematics, physics, and
metaphysics, yet viewed his own aspirations as ultimately ethical
and theological, and married these theoretical concerns with
politics, diplomacy, and an equally broad range of practical
reforms: juridical, economic, administrative, technological,
medical, and ecclesiastical. Maria Rosa Antognazza s pioneering
biography not only surveys the full breadth and depth of these
theoretical interests and practical activities, it also weaves them
together for the first time into a unified portrait of this unique
thinker and the world from which he came. At the centre of the huge
range of Leibniz s apparently miscellaneous endeavours, Antognazza
reveals a single master project lending unity to his
extraordinarily multifaceted life s work. Throughout the
vicissitudes of his long life, Leibniz tenaciously pursued the
dream of a systematic reform and advancement of all the sciences,
to be undertaken as a collaborative enterprise supported by an
enlightened ruler; these theoretical pursuits were in turn
ultimately grounded in a practical goal: the improvement of the
human condition and thereby the celebration of the glory of God in
His creation. As well as tracing the threads of continuity that
bound these theoretical and practical activities to this
all-embracing plan, this illuminating study also traces these
threads back into the intellectual traditions of the Holy Roman
Empire in which Leibniz lived and throughout the broader
intellectual networks that linked him to patrons in countries as
distant as Russia and to correspondents as far afield as China.
The Literature of Al-Andalus is an exploration of the culture of
Iberia, present-day Spain and Portugal, during the period when it
was an Islamic, mostly Arabic-speaking territory, from the eighth
to the thirteenth century, and in the centuries following the
Christian conquest when Arabic continued to be widely used. The
volume embraces many other related spheres of Arabic culture
including philosophy, art, architecture and music. It also extends
the subject to other literatures - especially Hebrew and Romance
literatures - that burgeoned alongside Arabic and created the
distinctive hybrid culture of medieval Iberia. Edited by an
Arabist, an Hebraist and a Romance scholar, with individual
chapters compiled by a team of the world's leading experts of
Islamic Iberia, Sicily and related cultures, this is a truly
interdisciplinary and comparative work which offers a interesting
approach to the field.
Las investigaciones que articulan este volumen se vinculan con todo
aquello que se refiere al monacato femenino en America y en la
peninsula iberica. La pluralidad de perspectivas, que abarcan
multitud de disciplinas humanisticas (arte, archivistica,
arquitectura, cine, historia, literatura, etc.), es el componente
esencial de la seleccion de los trabajos que configuran Desde el
clamoroso silencio. Asimismo, la gran variedad de temas abordados
revela su importancia aun desde una perspectiva cronotopica, puesto
que se analiza el monacato femenino en America, Espana y Portugal,
desde la Edad Media hasta la actualidad. El contenido de este
monografico, pues, evidencia la relevancia y el valor que la vida
monacal suponia para las mujeres del ambito luso-hispano.
"Eroticism, it seems to me, is something hidden, something that
doesn't come out, doesn't let itself be discovered. In those places
where it announces itself, where it is put on view and put on sale,
it is not to be found . . . so as to appear later, even slyly, in a
place where no one expected to seek it, ambiguous and crafty,
furtive and fitting."--from "The Zipper" by Dacia Maraini
For centuries, the stereotypical image of the voluptuous Italian
woman has served as an object of desire for Western man: from the
paintings of Venetian courtesans who modeled for the erotically
charged canvases of Titian, Veronese, and Tintoretto, to
nineteenth-century reports of the beautiful dancer Marie Taglioni,
to the twentieth-century cinematic images of Sophia Loren and
Dominique Sanda.
Now Italian women have turned the tables. In this volume, acclaimed
novelist Maria Rosa Cutrufelli brings together fourteen short
erotic stories by contemporary Italian women writers.
Well-established voices are juxtaposed with new ones; traditional
forms provide a contrast with the experimental. In Sandra
Petrignani's dialogue "Body," a women and a former lover engage in
a heady debate about desire and indifference; Margherita Giacobino
delivers a tale of lesbian desire, a theme uncommon in Italian
literature; Dacia Maraini writes on the literature of eroticism
penned by women writers that ingeniously manages to be erotic in
its own right; and Rossana Campo offers a hip-rattling tri-logue on
love voiced by three super-cool adolescents. In her introductory
essay on the nature of desire and seduction, Cutrufelli draws in
writers such as Jean Baudrillard, Angela Carter, and Georges
Bataille. Available for thefirst time in English, "In the Forbidden
City" constitutes a breakthrough volume in literary erotica that is
both profound and engaging.
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