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Given the increasing global interest in Chinese culture, this book uses case studies to describe and interpret Chinese cultivation in contemporary Taiwanese schools. Cultivation is a concept unique to Chinese culture and is characterized by different attitudes towards...
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Springer
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2014-10-24
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Many universities in the twenty-first century claim "diversity" as a core value, but fall short in transforming institutional practices. The disparity between what universities claim as a value and what they accomplish in reality creates a labyrinth of barriers,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-23
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A unique, comparative survey of community-based research within a higher education context, featuring some of the top scholars in the field, this book brings together a global range of experiences with community-based research and engages the leaders in the field...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-23
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Taking military charter schools as her subject, and drawing on years of research at one school in particular, Brooke Johnson explores the underpinings of a culture based on militarization and neoliberal educational reforms and probes its effects on individual identity...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-23
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In the last few years, ePortfolios and ePortfolio 2.0 have become buzzwords in the education and learning community used for different purposes and meanings. The book gives an innovative way of dealing with the problem of student unemployment by explaining the main...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-10-23
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This book is about the power of education: the kind of education that simultaneously improves the quality of life both of individuals and the wider society. It explains why education must be viewed as a basic human right, as a value in and of itself, and reviews the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-10-23
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This volume brings together a breadth of new research on how service-learning - combining community-based experiential learning with classroom instruction - can best be employed at community colleges. It discusses outcomes and best practices for all involved, covers...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-22
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This book comprises the proceedings of the International Conference on Transformations in Engineering Education conducted jointly by BVB College of Engineering & Technology, Hubli, India and Indo US Collaboration for Engineering Education (IUCEE).This event is done...
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Springer
Parution :
2014-10-22
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This volume highlights key aspects of new media, knowledge practices and multiliteracies in communication and education, providing readers with a range of empirical findings, novel theories and applications. The reports also include best practices, case studies,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-10-21
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This second volume of papers from the ATC21STM project deals with the development of an assessment and teaching system of 21st century skills. Readers are guided through a detailed description of the methods used in this process. The first volume was published by...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-10-21
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This book addresses policy research on homophobic and transphobic bullying in schools. It covers quantitative and qualitative research into policy impacts for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex students. It draws on a large-scale Australian study of the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-10-21
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This book analyses and describes the effects of the reforms of the European science systems on research. Taking the multilevel governance of the science system into account, the authors describe the effects of the reforms on different aspects: research collaborations...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-10-21
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This volume offers key insights into the crisis of legitimization that music as a subject of arts education seems to be in. Music as an educational subject is under intense pressure, both economically, due to the reduction of education budgets, as well as due to a loss...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-10-20
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Creative teaching has the potential to inspire deep learning, using inventive activities and stimulating contexts that can capture the imagination of children. This book enables you to adopt a creative approach to the methods and content of your primary science teaching...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2014-10-20
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The ABCs of Evaluation: Timeless Techniques for Program and Project Managers, 3rd Edition Thoroughly revised and updated, this third edition of the bestselling book offers an introduction to program evaluation including information on stakeholder relationships, program...
Editeur :
Jossey-Bass
Parution :
2014-10-20
Collection :
Research Methods for the Social Sciences
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As children, we would have spilt glasses of milk, dropped things, and broken things.As children, therefore, we would have developed intuitions about how the world ‘works’, but we would not necessarily have been able to explain these ‘workings’. It would only have been...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-10-19
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Carter and Pickett explore how educators and families can teach peace education through youth literature and literacy development. Showing how to assess, choose, and make use of literature that can be used to teach both literacy and peace education, they walk through...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-10-16
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Comenius gehört im Feld der humanistischen Wissenschaften zu den gedanklichen Riesen, deren Erkenntnisse erst sehr viel später durch nachweisbare Befunde mittels weiterentwickelter Forschungsmethoden und -instrumente belegt werden konnten. Er beschrieb Vorstellungen zur...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-10-16
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This study is an empirical and a theoretical contribution to academic labor market research in the social and educational sciences. The main focus is the situation of young academics who teach at German universities. Both the role of research and teaching in the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-10-16
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Developing a more culturally diverse teaching force is one of the most important tasks facing the education system in the United States. Yet, in the midst of this challenge, little is known about who these teachers might be or where they might come from. We Got Next:...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-10-16
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