This master thesis deals with history teaching from 1948 up to 1970. The main focus is not put on the way how the teaching looked really like, but it deals with the teaching methods how history should be taught. The major sources are journals of education for history teaching, mostly Dějepis ve škole and the preceding and following journals. The basic question is whether the magazines could have really helped the teachers in terms of teaching methodology and what was this support like. In the first chapter the history of education is described, the second chapter deals with the journals of education for history teaching. Next is described how a lesson should look like, the whole-class presentation, examination, revision, using a textbook. Special chapter deals with various tools for history teaching, including maps, images, audiovisual aids and literature. Moreover there is covered regional history, excursions, cooperation with museums and archives. In the end the basic question is answered; the journals were able to help the teachers well, many interesting and inspiring articles were in them. Nowadays, the problems of history teaching are almost the same, the have not been solved yet. Furthermore in the end are discussed special methodological debates in the half-public space that were present in...

Betreute kulturelle Exkursionen sind ein fester Bestandteil von vielen Study-Abroad-Programme. Sie werden allgemein positiv bewertet und bieten viele Chancen für fremdsprachliches und landeskundliches Lernen, sowie als „Handlungsfeld“ für das Gelernte. Es fehlen jedoch wissenschaftliche Begründungen sowie empirische Untersuchungen, die den Lernwert von Exkursionen bei Study-Abroad-Programmen nachweisen. Deshalb wurden folgenden Leitfragen untersucht: Welche Lerneffekte können Exkursionen bei Study-Abroad-Programmen haben? Welche Lerneffekte haben Exkursionen tatsächlich bei Study-Abroad-Programmen? Ziel dieser Masterarbeit ist es, die Lerneffekte von Exkursionen im Rahmen eines Study-Abroad-Programms theoretisch und empirisch zu untersuchen. / Supervised cultural excursions are often included in the offerings of foreign language immersion study abroad programs. Such excursions have the potential to achieve a depth beyond sightseeing. Under certain conditions, excursions can foster linguistic and intercultural learning and skill acquisition in a setting that has advantages not only over the traditional classroom, but also over daily unsupervised immersion. These conclusions can be intuitively inferred, but have never been supported by empirical evidence. Therefore, the questions which guided this outcomes assessment research were: What are the potential learning effects of immersion program excursions? What are the actual learning effects of immersion program excursions? This thesis attempts to answer the first question with a literature review of immersion programs, their excursions, and holistic/action-based foreign language acquisition; and the second question with an empirical study of excursions offered by an immersion program in Germany.

Current bio-robotic assistive devices have developed into intelligent and dexterous machines. However, the sophistication of these wearable devices still remains limited by the inherent difficulty in controlling them by sensing user-intention. Even the most commonly used sensing method, which detects the electrical activity of skeletal muscles, offer limited information for multi-function control. An alternative bio-sensing strategy is needed to allow for the assistive device to bear more complex functionalities. In this thesis, a different sensing approach is introduced using Pulsed-Wave Doppler ultrasound in order to non-invasively detect small tendon displacements in the hand. The returning Doppler shifted signals from the moving tendon are obtained with a new processing technique. This processing technique involves a unique way to acquire raw data access from a commercial clinical ultrasound machine and to process the signal with Fourier analysis in order to determine the tendon displacements. The feasibility of the proposed sensing method and processing technique is tested with three experiments involving a moving string, a moving biological beef tendon and a moving human hand tendon. Although the proposed signal processing technique will be useful in many clinical applications involving displacement monitoring of biological tendons, its uses are demonstrated in this thesis for ultrasound-based user intention analysis for the ultimate goal of controlling assistive exoskeletal robotic hands.

科学研究費補助金 研究種目:基盤研究(C)(2) 課題番号:08610252 研究代表者:加藤 鉦治 研究期間:1996-1998年度

The diploma thesis deals with the position of teaching the local region in the educational programmes. On the basis of empirical research, it summarises the findings of teaching the local region in primary schools and the lower grade of grammar school in the Benešovsko region. Based on the results of worksheet research, it compares the pupils? knowledge about Benešovsko region and then it tries to find the connection between the level of the pupils? knowledge and the ways of teaching this topic. The second part of the thesis is focused on the actual suggestion of teaching the local region concept. It contains a complete teaching material in the form of working textbook, suggestion of school geographical project, school excursion and methodological manual including time devotion and curriculum content, chosen teaching forms and methods and integral approach to education. The conception is based on the actual Framework Education Programme for Primary Education.

This report describes my degree project. For my degree project I made a demo for a game idea that I've developed, and implemented for use with Xbox 360. The idea was about converting the feeling and gameplay of old 2D side-scrolling platform games into 3D, viewed from a first-person perspective. The Xbox 360 version of the demo was also submitted for the game competition Swedish Game Awards.  In the report, I explain this idea more extensive, what software I used to implement it, and how I implemented it. Finally, at the end I clarify the results and discuss fulfilled tasks and future improvements. I'm very pleased with my progress so far and I will continue to work on this on my own until it feels like a finished product that can be distributed. / Den här rapporten beskriver mitt examensarbete. För mitt examensarbete så gjorde jag en demoversion av en spelidé som jag utvecklat, och som implementerades för användning på Xbox 360. Idén bestod av att överföra känslan och spelmekaniken från gamla tvådimensionella sidoskrollande plattformsspel till 3D, sett ur ett förstapersonsperspektiv. Demoversionen för Xbox 360 skickades också in som ett bidrag till speltävlingen Swedish Game Awards.  I rapporten så förklarar jag idén mer utförligt, vad för mjukvara jag använde för att implementera den, och hur jag implementerade den. I slutet av rapporten så klargör jag resultaten och diskuterar mål som har uppfyllts samt idéer för att vidareutveckla spelet. Jag är nöjd med det jag åstadkommit hitintills och jag kommer att fortsätta arbeta på spelet själv tills det känns som en färdig produkt som kan distribueras.

Title: Neurophysiologic intervention induced changes of the functional foot characteristics in school children. Objectives: The aim of the research was to identify the functional characteristics of the foot in school children selected on the basis of the activity of physical activity in the highest intensity (sporting children) and in the lowest intensity (non-sporting children) and to find out possibilities of influencing the functional characteristics of the foot by targeted neurophysiological intervention. The whole research study was divided into 3 related parts, which were examined separately. The first study aim was an identification of group specific functional characteristics of the foot in 2 groups of school children - actively sporting children and non-sporting children. The second study aim was the influence determination of long-term duration high performance sport activity on the functional characteristics of the school children foot in adolescent elite soccer players. And the aim of the third study was to verify the effect of the targeted neurophysiologic active intervention on the functional foot characteristics in actively sporting children with foot dysfunction of pronated foot and/or flatfoot type. Methods: The research study was divided into three study parts consisted of...

Waking up in a world where everyone carries a miniature supercomputer, interaction designers find themselves in their forerunners dreams. Faced with the reality of planetary-scale we have to confront the task of articulating approaches responsive this accidental ubiquity of computation. This thesis attempts such a formulation by defining computation as a strange material, a plasticity shaped equally by its technical properties and the mode of production by which is its continuously re-produced. The definition is applied through a methodology of excursions — participatory explorations into two seemingly disparate sites of computation, connected in they ways they manifest a labor of care. First, we visit the social infrastructures that constitute the Linux kernel, examining strangle entanglements of programming and care in the world's largest design process. This is followed by a tour into the thorny lands of artificial intelligence, situated in the smart replies of LinkedIn. Here, we investigate the fluctuating border between the artificial and the human with participants performing AI, formulating new Turing tests in the process. These excursions afford an understanding of computation as fundamentally re-produced through interaction, a strange kind of affective work the understanding of which is crucial if we ambition to disarm the critical accidents of our present future.

Betreute kulturelle Exkursionen sind ein fester Bestandteil von vielen Study-Abroad-Programme. Sie werden allgemein positiv bewertet und bieten viele Chancen für fremdsprachliches und landeskundliches Lernen, sowie als „Handlungsfeld“ für das Gelernte. Es fehlen jedoch wissenschaftliche Begründungen sowie empirische Untersuchungen, die den Lernwert von Exkursionen bei Study-Abroad-Programmen nachweisen. Deshalb wurden folgenden Leitfragen untersucht: Welche Lerneffekte können Exkursionen bei Study-Abroad-Programmen haben? Welche Lerneffekte haben Exkursionen tatsächlich bei Study-Abroad-Programmen? Ziel dieser Masterarbeit ist es, die Lerneffekte von Exkursionen im Rahmen eines Study-Abroad-Programms theoretisch und empirisch zu untersuchen. / Supervised cultural excursions are often included in the offerings of foreign language immersion study abroad programs. Such excursions have the potential to achieve a depth beyond sightseeing. Under certain conditions, excursions can foster linguistic and intercultural learning and skill acquisition in a setting that has advantages not only over the traditional classroom, but also over daily unsupervised immersion. These conclusions can be intuitively inferred, but have never been supported by empirical evidence. Therefore, the questions which guided this outcomes assessment research were: What are the potential learning effects of immersion program excursions? What are the actual learning effects of immersion program excursions? This thesis attempts to answer the first question with a literature review of immersion programs, their excursions, and holistic/action-based foreign language acquisition; and the second question with an empirical study of excursions offered by an immersion program in Germany.

Diese Dissertation über Epistemologie der Geographie befasst sich mit dem Problem, wie sich französische und deutsche Geographen der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts auf das Konzept der Landschaftskunde stützten, sei es um Ihre Forschungsdisziplin zu definieren, sei es bei ihrer praktischen Arbeit als Geographen. Im Rahmen der histoire croisée von Michael Werner versuche ich, die Wissenszirkulation zwischen französischen und deutschen Geographen aufzuzeigen. Zu diesem Zweck verflechte ich die semantischen, terminologischen, bibliographischen, institutionalen und thematischen Analysen zum Thema Landschaft. Ich betone dabei die Spannungsfelder, die Ähnlichkeiten und die Zusammenhängen zwischen Landschaftskunde, Länderkunde und géographie régionale. Der erste Teil stellt zunächst den Kontext der deutsch-franösischen Beziehungen hinsichtlich der Landschaftskunde dar. Dafür untersuche ich die landschaftlichen Begriffe, ihre problematischen Übersetzungen, ihre semantischen Entwicklung und ihre Rezeption durch geographischen Zeitschriften. Im Zentrum des zweiten Teils stehen die Akteure und die verschiedenen möglichen Optionen, die der Landschaftsbegriff in Deutschland und in Frankreich für die Definition der Geographie bietet. Einerseits interessiere ich mich für die akademischen Geographen: Auf deutscher Seite Banse, Gradmann, Krebs, Schlüter, Volz und besonders Passarge, auf der französischen Vidal de la Blache, Vallaux, Maurette, Dion, Clozier und Cholley. Andererseits werden die Menschen, die das Wissen übermitteln, betrachtet und typisiert, als « passeurs » / « Übermittler » (wie die Redakteure der bibliographischen Notizen), als « tiers » / « Dritte » (wie belgische oder amerikanische Geographen, die das französische und deutsche geographische Material weiterverarbeiten) und als « pivot » / « Schlüsselfiguren » (wie Davis, im Spiegel dessen die französischen und deutschen Geographen die Methodologie, Praxis und Definition der Geogaphie erörtern). Der dritte Teil analysiert schließlich, wie geographische Begriffe und Arbeitspraktiken bei wichtigen Zusammentreffen von Geographen thematisiert wurden: der Landschaftsbegriff bei den internationalen geographischen Kongressen und die Feldforschungen in der Geomorphologie bei internationalen Exkursionen. Grundlage der letzteren Analyse ist die Untersuchung von Notizbüchern der Teilnehmer. / Cette thèse en épistémologie de la géographie vise à savoir dans quelle mesure et comment les géographes français et allemands de la première moitié du XXe siècle s’appuient sur la géographie du paysage pour définir leur discipline et/ou pour la pratiquer. En utilisant la méthodologie de l’« histoire croisée » développée par Michael Werner, on examine les modes de circulation des savoirs entre géographes français et allemands, en menant des approches terminologiques, bibliographiques, sémantiques, institutionnelles et thématiques sur un ensemble de lectures croisées concernant la question du paysage et celle de la géographie du paysage. On insiste sur les mises en tension, les similitudes et les articulations entre géographie du paysage et géographie régionale. La partie 1 présente le contexte des relations franco-allemandes concernant la géographie du paysage, d’où l’étude des concepts paysagers, les problèmes de leur traduction et de leur évolution sémantique ainsi que de leur réception dans les revues de géographie. La partie 2 centre l’analyse sur les acteurs et sur les possibles options offertes par le concept de paysage, en Allemagne comme en France, pour définir la géographie. L’accent est mis d’une part sur les géographes académiques : Banse, Gradmann, Krebs, Schlüter, Volz et surtout Passarge, ainsi que Vidal de la Blache, Vallaux, Maurette, Dion, Clozier et Cholley. D’autre part, cette partie est consacrée à des auteurs qui assurent une circulation des savoirs, des filtrages ou une reconfigurations, et que je définis comme des « passeurs », des « tiers » et des « pivots ». Enfin, la partie 3 permet d’aborder deux scènes privilégiées de la rencontre franco-allemande : la section Paysage des Congrès internationaux de géographie et l’analyse paysagère effectuée en géomorphologie, via les excursions internationales et l’étude des carnets de terrain. / In this doctoral thesis of epistemology of geography, I would like to know how French and German geographers in the first half of the XXe century use landscape geography to define and / or to practice geography. In the methodology of histoire croisée developed by Michael Werner, I’m trying to show the knowledge circulation between French and German geographers. In this aim I study the crossing approaches of landscape concept in the semantic, terminological, bibliographical, institutional and thematic fields focusing on the strained relationships, the similarities and links between the landscape geography and the regional geography. The first part deals with the context of the French-German relationships regarding the landscape geography, hence the study of landscape concepts, its translation problem and its semantical evolution as well as its reception in geographical reviews. The second part focuses upon actors and the possible given options in France and Germany through the landscape concept to define geography. The emphasis is put on academic geographers on one hand : Banse, Gradmann, Krebs, Schlüter, Volz and mostly Passarge in Germany, as well as Vidal de la Blache, Vallaux, Maurette, Dion, Clozier and Cholley in France. On the other hand, I emphasize geographers who ensure a knowledge circulation of landscape geography and that I see as « passeurs », « tiers » and « pivots ». At least, the third part analyses two priviledged scenes of the French-German meetings : the landscape session at the International Geographical Congress, and the landscape on the field of geomorphology thanks to international excursions and notebooks. / História cruzada (histoire croisée) entre os geógrafos franceses e alemães na primeira metade do século XX: a geografia da paisagem (Landschaftskunde) em questão. Nesta tese, na epistemologia da geografia, eu quero saber como os geógrafos franceses e alemães da primeira metade do século XX contam como base na geografia da paisagem para definir a geografia e / ou praticá-la. A geografia da paisagem, que tem o objetivo principal do conceito de paisagem, é tanto uma metodologia que uma prática. Usando a estrutura da história cruzada, desenvolvida por Michael Werner, eu tento mostrar a circulação de conhecimentos entre os geógrafos franceses e alemães: por isso cruzo dados da semântica, terminologia, bibliografias, institucional e temática da paisagem . Parte 1 discute o contexto das relações franco-alemãs sobre a geografia da paisagem, por isso estudo os conceitos de paisagem, os problemas de tradução e seu desenvolvimento semântico, bem como a sua recepção através de revistas de geografia. Parte 2 foco a análise sobre os atores e as opções disponíveis na Alemanha como na França, para definir o conceito de paisagem na geografia. A ênfase é colocada sobre aqueles que fornecem a circulação do conhecimento: os « intermédiarios » (« passeurs »), « o terceiro » (« tiers »), « o pivô » (« pivot »). Por fim, a Parte 3 permite abordar duas cenas previlegiadas pelo o encontro franco-alemão : a paisagem ao Congresso Internacional de Geografia e a geomorfologia através excursaos internacionais e estudo dos cadernos de campo. / Histoire Croisée entre géografos Franceses y Alemanes en la primera mitad del siglo XX : la geografìa de dicho paisaje ( Landschaftskunde). Esta tesis en Epistemología de la Geografìa apunta a saber en qué medida y cómo los geógrafos franceses y alemanes de la primera mitad del Siglo XX se apoyan en la geografìa del paisaje para definir su disciplina y/o para practicarla. Utilisando la metodología de la Histoire croisée desarrollada por Michael Wener, se examina los modos de circulación del saber entre los geógrafos franceses y alemanes, valiendose de aproximaciones terminológicas, bibliogràficas, semànticas, institucionales y temàticas sobre un conjunto de lecturas cruzadas concernientes al tema del paisaje y al de la geogafìa del paisaje. Se insiste sobre las tensiones, las similitudes y las articulaciones entre geografìa del paisaje y geografìa regional. La parte 1 presenta el contexto de las relaciones franco-alemanas que conciernen la geografìa del paisaje; de ahí el estudio de los conceptos destinados a producir un efecto de paisaje natural, los problemas de su traducción y de su evolución semàntica, al igual que la recepción en las revistas de geografìa. La parte 2 centra el anàlisis sobre los actores y sobre las posibles opciones ofrecidas por el concepto de paisaje tanto en Alemania como en Francia para definir la geografìa. El énfasis por una parte, està puesto en los geógrafos académicos: Banse, Gradmann, Krebs, Schlüter, Volz y sobre todo, Passarge, al igual que Vidal de la Blache, Vallaux, Maurette, Dion, clozier y Cholley. Por otra parte, el texto està consagrado a los autores, que aseguran una circulación del saber, de las filtraciones y de las reconfiguraciones, y que yo defino como los « passeurs », los « tiers » y los « pivots ». Para terminar, la parte 3 permite abordar dos escenas privilegiadas del encuentro franco-alemàn: la sección, Paisaje de los Congresos Internacionales de geografìa y el anàlisis del espacio cercano efectuado en geomorfologìa, via las excursiones internacionales y el estudio de cuardernos de campo.