Peter Alheit Livres

Ephemeral Coast is a curatorial research project that seeks to investigate our difficult relationship to the coast as a threshold and frontline to climate change and considers the possibilities of understanding art in relation to what may be described as an unparalleled event. Ephemeral Coast involves the curation of exhibitions, located in coastal regions of the US/Canadian Arctic, Wales, and Mauritius and is made up primarily of artists, cultural theorists and climate change scientists. This catalogue is a theoretical extension of the artists' work presented in first installment of the exhibition in south Wales, UK. The catalogue discusses the curatorial process and incorporates essays by guest authors, who re-contextualize Ephemeral Coast, S Wales within discussions of regional climate change and cultural theory.

Unemployment is, without doubt, one of the prevalent themes in more recent sociological debate. The sociological problems that develop because of unemployment are quite clear it frequently causes dramatic changes in everyday habits and the habits of a lifetime; social reference points become easily disrupted; loss of identity, mental depression, inability to act or learn, and even physical illness are obvious symptoms among those affected.This extremely engaging book is based on the exploration phase of a long-term research programme dealing with the social problems generated by youth unemployment in Germany. The study has yielded what are undoubtedly surprising and important sociological results.The first chapter deals with the theoretical and methodological foundations of the study; the second chapter contains the empirical complex of the study, with an attempt at a careful differentiation of dominant 'patterns of coping' with the unemployment experience; finally, the author discusses some theoretical consequences of the study.

Lebenslanges Lernen hat sich als bildungspolitisches Konzept in den letzten Jahren in den wichtigsten europäischen Staaten durchgesetzt. Dass die Grundlagenforschung in Hinsicht auf lebenslange Lernprozesse damit durchaus nicht Schritt gehalten hat, sondern noch vielfältiger Forschungsanstrengungen und Diskussionen bedarf, ist durch die unterschiedlichen Perspektiven auf Lernprozesse über die Lebenszeit in europäischen Kontexten deutlich geworden. Zudem ist ein Blick auf die unterschiedlichen Bedingungen Lebenslangen Lernens unter einer biographietheoretischen Perspektive in verschiedenen europäischen Staaten interessant. Diese Publikation erweitert den Forschungsblick der Biographieforschung auf eine europäische Ebene und verbindet das bildungspolitische Konzept 'Lebenslanges Lernen' mit grundlagentheoretischen Forschungsansätzen.