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In 1900 the Swedish social theorist Ellen Key launched the idea of a Century of the Child. Recent media reports, from shooting and racial violence in the US to the latest news from ISIS-dominated areas provide a darker vision: it is certainly not a time for children; it...
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Springer
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2016-04-20
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This book discusses how to improve high school students’
understanding of research methodology based on alternative interpretations of data, role of controversies, creativity and
the scientific method, in the context of the oil drop experiment. These aspects form an...
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Springer
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2016-04-20
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This book analyses and discusses the recent developments for assessing research quality in the humanities and related fields in the social sciences. Research assessments in the humanities are highly controversial and the evaluation of humanities research is delicate. ...
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Springer
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2016-04-19
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This book examines the challenges of cross-professional comparisons and proposes new forms of performance assessment to be used in professions education. It addresses how complex issues are learned and assessed across and within different disciplines and professions in...
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Springer
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2016-04-19
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This book investigates
the integration of literary writing into work based or business writing. It proposes ways of how to help people with
considerable work experience use literature to engage with the problems they
face in their work. Many people like...
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Springer
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2016-04-19
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Marc
Ruhlandt untersucht die organisationalen Voraussetzungen von Volkshochschulen
zur Gestaltung migrationsbedingter Vielfalt. Der Autor zeigt, wie sich die
Sozialstruktur der Bundesrepublik bereits seit Mitte der 1950er Jahre verändert
hat, und rekonstruiert...
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Springer VS
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2016-04-19
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Although Wolfgang Schneider’s Grammatik des biblischen Hebräisch: Ein Lehrbuch serves primarily as an introductory textbook to biblical Hebrew, it makes an invaluable contribution to the text-linguistic study of Hebrew Bible. Schneider’s understanding of narrative...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-04-19
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This book provides a comprehensive overview of the clinical phenomenon of pica. It focuses specifically on the disorder as it presents in children, adolescents, and adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and intellectual disabilities (ID). Initial chapters introduce...
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Springer
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2016-04-19
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This book is an exploration of tools and mathematics and issues in mathematics education related to tool use. The book has five parts. The first part reflects on doing a mathematical task with different tools, followed by a mathematician's account of tool use in his...
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Springer
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2016-04-18
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This collection brings together pedagogical memoirs on significant topics regarding teaching race in college, including student resistance, whiteness, professor identity, and curricula. Linking theory to practice, the essays create an accessible and useful way to look...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-04-16
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The Social Foundations Reader is meant for undergraduate and graduate students in introductory foundations of education classes. No other contemporary reader provides such a broad and yet critical view of the issues typically addressed in an introductory foundations...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-04-14
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This timely text describes the role of program evaluation in counselor education and provides step-by-step guidance for faculty seeking to develop comprehensive Student Learning Outcome (SLO) evaluation plans to meet accountability expectations. It serves as a blueprint...
Editeur :
American Counseling Association
Parution :
2016-04-14
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The Curriculum: Whose Internationalization? asks a series of important questions in the re-examination of the internationalization of curriculum studies. It reflects the work of the Internationalization of Curriculum Studies Task Force – created at the American...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-04-14
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Politics, Pedagogy and Power: Bullying in Faculties of Education is the result of research seeking to find explanations for bullying between faculty members in faculties of education around the world. The frank and devastating revelations of professors are shocking and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-04-14
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The last half century has created deep tensions in how we analyze educational and social change. Educators, policymakers, and concerned citizens have had to cope with competing belief systems in evaluating and acting upon school policies and practices. This illuminating...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-04-14
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Teacher leadership as a dimension of teachers’ work has never been more important. This topic has emerged as a major component of both state and national standards, and as such, it is included in most contemporary teacher education programs. Three decades of research...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-04-14
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Over the past decade, concerns about a global «obesity epidemic» have flourished. Public health messages around physical activity, fitness, and nutrition permeate society despite significant evidence disputing the «facts» we have come to believe about «obesity». We live...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-04-14
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Young children’s access to knowledge about gender, relationships, and sexuality has critical implications for their health and well-being, not only in their early years but throughout their lives. This knowledge can build children’s competencies and resilience,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-04-14
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Volume XXIX/1 of History of Universities contains the customary mix of learned articles and book reviews which makes this publication such an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education. The volume is, as always, a lively combination of original research...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-04-14
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This book discusses the relationship between juvenile disability and delinquency, including characteristics of youth with disabilities, how disability relates to delinquency, and its impact during a youth’s involvement with the juvenile justice system. The book details...
Editeur :
Springer
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2016-04-12
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