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This book demonstrates how the pedagogical decision making of university academics can be shaped by engagement with an educational philosophy known as “relationship-centred education”. Beginning with critical analysis of concepts such as student engagement, student...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-12-24
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Use graphic novels to teach visual and verbal literacy While our kids today are communicating outside the classroom in abbreviated text bursts with visual icons, teachers are required to teach them to critically listen, think, and read and write complex texts. Graphic...
Editeur :
Jossey-Bass
Parution :
2018-12-21
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This book offers a comprehensive picture of high-performing East Asian education systems, beyond their outstanding achievements in international assessments, such as PISA and TIMSS. Situating “excellence” within discussions of “equity”, it contextualises the conceptions...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-12-20
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This book addresses the costly non-sustainable policies, programs, practices, and priorities currently driving the tuition crisis in American public higher education. In this era of growing competition among public colleges and universities for more students and higher...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-19
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The Garden of Leaders explores two related questions: What is leadership? And what sort of education could prepare young people to be leaders? Paul Woodruff argues that higher education--particularly but not exclusively in the liberal arts--should set its main focus on...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-12-19
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This book uses social support as a central theme to provide a sound underpinning for guiding teachers to play more supportive roles in schools. It comprises a series of empirical studies that address the psychological processes involved in feeling supported and...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-12-19
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As technology becomes increasingly integrated into our society, cultural expectations and needs are changing. Social understanding, family roles, organizational skills, and daily activities are all adapting to the demands of ever-present technology, causing changes in...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-12-19
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This book outlines the creative responses academics are using to subvert powerful market forces that restrict university work to a neoliberal, economic focus. The second volume in a diptych of critical academic work on the changing landscape of neoliberal universities,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-18
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This volume comprises of chapters that deal with language proficiency relating to a wide range of language program issues including curriculum, assessment, learners and instructors, and skill development. The chapters cover various aspects of a broad-based proficiency...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-12-18
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This edited volume brings to the foreground the inequities of contemporary schooling in Canada. The editors and authors perform a critical examination of the Canadian schooling space, highlighting the agency and action of marginalized communities and their efforts to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-18
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This pivot considers the impact of INSET courses on EFL teachers practicing under the national curriculum reform in China. Providing context-specific findings on the policy and implementation of INSET as well as its impact on teacher education initiatives in both China...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-12-18
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This volume explores the life stories of women who were former members of Mormon fundamentalist polygamous societies, from their own perspectives, to seek insight into their readiness for higher education settings. In order to support all learners in higher education,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-18
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Frances Beier widmet sich der Entstehung mathematikbezogener Angst zu Beginn der Sekundarstufe I. Sie untersucht, in welchen Situationen mathematikbezogene Angst auftritt und durch welche Einflussfaktoren sie hervorgerufen wird. Hierzu werden Sozialisationsaspekte,...
Editeur :
Springer Spektrum
Parution :
2018-12-18
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Kathrin te Poel rekonstruiert die Bildungs- und Anerkennungstheorie Krassimir Stojanovs und beleuchtet kritisch ihre Bedeutung für die Debatte um Bildungsgerechtigkeit. Im Zentrum stehen in der Theorie implizit enthaltene Fokussetzungen auf kognitive Leistungsfähigkeit...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2018-12-18
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Dieser Band leistet einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Diskussion um die Professionalisierung des Personals in Bildungsinstitutionen und deren empirischen Fundierung. Die einzelnen Kapitel beleuchten Kompetenzbereiche pädagogischer Professionalität in ihren verschiedenen...
Editeur :
Springer Spektrum
Parution :
2018-12-18
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The book synergizes research on number across two disciplines—mathematics education and psychology. The underlying problem the book addresses is how the brain constructs number. The opening chapter frames the problem in terms of children’s activity, including mental...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-12-17
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This book examines the experiences of adult learners in times of austerity. The power of adult education to transform lives is well known, and it is especially powerful for those who missed out on educational opportunities earlier in life. Those who have been successful...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-17
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This book analyses the role played by schools themselves in the high rates of educational exclusion and dropping out that affects many European education systems. The author frames the analysis according to three aspects of justice – redistribution, recognition and care...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-12-17
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This unique book is an important source of information for all of those who educate future teachers and those who participate in teacher education as students, researchers, educators and policymakers. The volume also contributes to the international development of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-12-17
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The book is made up of 21 chapters from 25 presentations at the 23rd MAVI conference in Essen, which featured Alan Schoenfeld as keynote speaker. Of major interest to MAVI participants is the relationship between teachers’ professed beliefs and classroom practice.The...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-12-14
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