Michael Wolff: 40 books

The study described in this book arose in the contextof a three-year collective effort to bring about change in science teaching at Mountain Elementary School. 1 This opportunity emerged after I contacted the school with the idea to help teachers implement student-centered science teaching. At the...

In what way do educators understand the language they use to make sense of the educational environment? How does language enable educators and how can they consciously make the most of its potential? Using the right language and setting the correct tone in the school classroom has repercussions...

Als das Literaturbüro Ruhr, der Klartext Verlag und Zeitungen der Funke Mediengruppe ihren Wettbewerb "Geschichten zum Mitnehmen" ausschrieben, ahnten sie nicht, wie unüberhörbar das Echo darauf sein würde. 1449 Einsendungen trafen im Literaturbüro ein, viele enthielten die maximal möglichen zwei...

Children’s learning and understanding of science during their pre-school years has been a neglected topic in the education literature—something this volume aims to redress. Paradigmatic notions of science education, with their focus on biologically governed development and age-specific accession...

Researchers agree that schools construct a particular image of science, in which some characteristics are featured while others end up in oblivion. The result is that although most children are likely to be familiar with images of heroic scientists such as Einstein and Darwin, they rarely learn about...

This study examines the origins of geometry in and out of the intuitively given everyday lifeworlds of children in a second-grade mathematics class. These lifeworlds, though pre-geometric, are not without model objects that denote and come to anchor geometric idealities that they will understand at...

Toward the end of his life, the Russian psychologist L.S. Vygotsky turned away from his earlier work that he has become famous for only to sow the seeds for a new theory. In this theory, affect was to play a central role, there was to be a primacy of social relations, and anything mental (mind, thought,...

Focusing on the body as a visual and discursive platform across public space, we study marginalization as a sociocultural practice and hegemonic schema. Whereas mass incarceration and law enforcement readily feature in discussions of institutionalized racism, we differently highlight understudied...

NoSQL führt eine Vielzahl neuer Technologien in die Datenbankszene ein. Das bedeutet mehr Verantwortung für den Einzelnen, sich umfassend zu informieren. Hierzu bietet das erste Kapitel des shortcuts eine überblicksartige Einführung, der im Folgenden die unterschiedlichen Datenbanktechnologien erläutert....

Gerade mithilfe von PaaS-Umgebungen können Anwendungen sehr einfach in die Cloud gebracht werden. Bei einer Platform as a Service (PaaS) sind nämlich schon alle Komponenten vorhanden, um eine Anwendung laufen zu lassen - die Installation eines Application Servers beispielsweise entfällt. Aber welche...

Im Rahmen des shortcuts werden unterschiedliche Datenbanken näher betrachtet. Das einführende Kapitel 1 erläutert die Spielarten von NoSQL und bietet Kriterien für einen Datenbankvergleich. Das zweite Kapitel erläutert das einfache und linear skalierbare Couchbase, das zudem Daten sehr schnell ausliefern...