Bøker av Frank Fischer

Kognitive Werkzeuge wie die Mappingverfahren sollen Lernende in multimedialen Lernumgebungen unterstützen. In der Arbeit werden anhand zweier empirischer Studien Bedingungen aufgezeigt, unter denen Mappingverfahren beim problemorientierten Lernen zu verbesserter Strategieanwendung und zu höherem Lernerfolg führen.

Claims that the problematic communication gap between experts and ordinary citizens is best remedied by a renewal of local citizen participation in deliberative structures. This study will interest political scientists, public policy practitioners, sociologists, scientists, environmentalists, activists, urban planners, and public administrators.

Public policy is made of language. Whether in written or oral form, argument is central to all parts of the policy process. As simple as this insight appears, its implications for policy analysis and planning are profound. This title explores the interplay of language, action, and power in both the practice and the theory of policy-making.

Contemporary scholarship and essays focus on the crises in bureaucratic organizations and managerial authority. This book argues that rethinking and innovation in private, public, and nonprofit organizations emerge from case studies on schools, multicultural and feminist organizations, private corporations and alternative services.