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The nine chapters in this book explore how the Italian education system responded to distance learning during the first wave of the pandemic. The impact of the hard lockdown on both teaching and learning revealed the inherent weaknesses of a system in which digital technology had only recently been introduced and highlighted the relevant inequalities in their access and use.

International organisations play an important role in the development of education around the world. The Role of International Organisations in Education provides an introductory background to the operation of organisations that have had a direct impact on educational policy.

This book focuses on methodological lenses to study how migration intersects with education. It squarely centers methodological inquiries by questioning disciplinary divisions, challenging dominant positivist approaches, and engaging with issues of ethics, legitimacy and positionality in studying migration and education.

This book focuses on methodological lenses to study how migration intersects with education. It squarely centers methodological inquiries by questioning disciplinary divisions, challenging dominant positivist approaches, and engaging with issues of ethics, legitimacy and positionality in studying migration and education.

This book exemplifies that research into linguistic and cultural diversity not only contributes to the reduction of unjust human relations, but also has its own added value in creating and exposing new connections, relationships, identities, and communities through intercultural communication.

This book exemplifies that research into linguistic and cultural diversity not only contributes to the reduction of unjust human relations, but also has its own added value in creating and exposing new connections, relationships, identities, and communities through intercultural communication. It is not a handbook but offers nine studies that illustrate the reflection process from different scholarly perspectives. The approaches in this volume are interaction approach, contrastive approach, cultural representation approach, multilingualism approach and transfer approach including research into intercultural competences. Together, the chapters illustrate the essence of the essentialism and non-essentialism debate regarding diversity and inclusion.

Usually known as a bon vivant poet or naïve biographer of saints, Venantius Fortunatus, the sixth-century poet and émigré from Italy to Merovingian Gaul, emerges this book as a vigorous and mature preacher of Christian theology.

In In Search of Identity: The Hadhrami Arabs in the Netherlands East Indies and Indonesia (1900-1950) Huub de Jonge discusses changes in social, economic, cultural and national identity of Arabs originating from Hadhramaut (Yemen) in the Netherlands East Indies and Indonesia during the first half of the twentieth century.

Edition, translation and study of an booklet dedicated to supplications to God, dated dated 267/880-881.This manuscript sheds light on the way traditional sciences were taught in Medieval Egypt, on little known circles of transmitters, and on the religious policy of the Tulunids.

This collection presents to educators, parents, and other interested readers a variety of perspectives, challenges, and highlights of the teaching methods that could be useful. Its purposes are to not only document an important time of human history, education, and the outbreak of unknown pandemics but also outline strategies to serve as insights into and predictions of the unknown future of humanity, diseases, and human learning.

This collection presents to educators, parents, and other interested readers a variety of perspectives, challenges, and highlights of the teaching methods that could be useful. Its purposes are to not only document an important time of human history, education, and the outbreak of unknown pandemics but also outline strategies to serve as insights into and predictions of the unknown future of humanity, diseases, and human learning.

This book investigates the literary and textual development of the book of Daniel, especially the six court tales and the Four Beasts apocalypse, based on comparison of ancient manuscripts and versions and internal reconstruction.

This collection of critical stories emerges as a timely confession from marginalized imagined communities at the physical and metaphorical Mexican-American border.

This collection of critical stories emerges as a timely confession from marginalized imagined communities at the physical and metaphorical Mexican-American border.

Higher Education and the COVID-19 Pandemic explores how higher education institutions and systems around the world responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, managed transition to online learning, and adjusted to the new post-COVID reality.

Drawing on case-studies from the first millennium BCE, this volume explores canonisation as a form of cultural formation. The book asks why and how canonisation works and thereby investigates the importance of the concept of anchoring to arrive at innovation in particular.

This volume explores Biblical Studies and its relationship to the Digital Humanities in all its complexity, focusing on new approaches to texts and images.

Mobile artisans, male and female, were responsible for many innovations and new consumer products. This book asks why, and shows the importance of collective traditions of migration, of the experience of mobility, and of the encounter with new places.

Radiant Lights, Eloquent Words is the first scholarly edition of K. al-Anwār al-bahiyya fī taʿrīf maqāmāt fuṣaḥāʾ al-bariyya attributed to Abū Manṣūr al-Thaʿālibī. The work is introduced by an analytical study.

This volume focuses on the rise and expansion of Christianity in Athens, Attica, and adjacent areas, from the Pauline mission until the closing of the philosophical schools under Justinian I. It takes into account all relevant literary, epigraphical, and archaeological evidence.

This book brings to readers carefully selected texts from four influential Chinese educators of the later 20th century, whose writings open up profound insights into the educational philosophy, understanding of moral education and educational innovation that underpinned China's global rise.

This book is an introduction to the role played by Spanish formal education in providing feminist pedagogies to adolescents and young people, throughout the first two decades of the 21st century. The authors combine a sociological, historical and pedagogical perspective.