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This book examines four theses regarding Asian higher education and development: interplay between cultural traditions, economic development, globalization, and the evolution of the 'hybrid' university. Top scholars evaluate these hypotheses and determine the elements...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-12-18
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With the rise of the knowledge economy, universities are under pressure to embrace not just their traditional missions of teaching and research but a third mission of serving economic and social development. This book examines the major strategies that governments in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-12-18
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Using the successful Inside-Out program, in which incarcerated and non-incarcerated college students are taught in the same classroom, this book explores the practice of community-based learning, including the voices of teachers and participants, and offers a model for...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-12-18
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How do humanists speak for and from the humanities in an academy which values them less and less and market-driven approaches more and more? Jeffrey R. Di Leo provides a thorough critique of the higher education crisis and a set of practical and reasonable remedies for...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-12-18
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In order to determine how history education can be harnessed to reduce conflict attitudes and intentions and create a culture of peace, this book examines how history curricula and textbooks shape the identities of their students through their portrayals of ingroup and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-12-18
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By presenting a series of intricate analyses of educational phenomena through the theoretical lenses offered by Immanuel Wallerstein and István Mészáros, the book engages readers and helps them to critically analyze their own participation in the global economy, as...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-12-18
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This book examines the multiple relationships between education, pedagogy, and social change in Latin America and beyond through a discussion of critical theory in education and its uses in Latin American society today. An international group of contributors discuss...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-12-18
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With higher education around the world in a period of extreme flux, this volume explores its underlying philosophy, a core element of the ongoing debate. Offering a diverse range of perspectives from an international selection of renowned scholars of higher education,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-12-18
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This volume offers rare insights into the connection between young audiences and the performing arts. Based on studies of adolescent and post-adolescent audiences, ages 14 to 25, the book examines to what extent they are part of our society’s cultural conversation. It...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-12-17
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If you are a primary trainee, you must demonstrate a knowledge of mathematics to be recommended for QTS.
This popular, widely recommended text helps you audit your knowledge of mathematics and understand what learning you need to pass your course. A rigorous test...
Editeur :
Learning Matters
Parution :
2013-12-17
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This book addresses two main questions, namely how to prepare high-quality teachers in the 21st century and how the East and the West can learn from each other. It addresses the different challenges and dilemmas that eastern countries, especially China, and western...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-12-16
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A Guide to Online Course Design offers faculty and professional staff a practical and easy-to-follow model for creating exceptional online courses that focuses on quality standards in instructional design, transparency in learning outcomes, and learner persistence.A...
Editeur :
Jossey-Bass
Parution :
2013-12-16
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Rasch Analysis in the Human Sciences helps individuals, both students and researchers, master the key concepts and resources needed to useRasch techniques for analyzing data from assessments to measure variables such as abilities, attitudes, and personality traits. Upon...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-12-13
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The diversity of research domains and theories in the field of mathematics education has been a permanent subject of discussions from the origins of the discipline up to the present. On the one hand the diversity is regarded as a resource for rich scientific development...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-12-13
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A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2014!Sponsored by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), this one-of-a-kind book demonstrates the best tools, resources, and techniques for discovering, selecting, and integrating interactive open educational...
Editeur :
Jossey-Bass
Parution :
2013-12-13
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Die öffentliche Wahrnehmung der zweiten Phase der Lehrerausbildung ist durch eine eigentümliche Aufgeregtheit geprägt. Das Erleben des Referendariats scheint verbreitet durch hohe Belastungen, Druck und Leid geprägt.Die vorliegende Untersuchung nimmt ihren Ausgangspunkt...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2013-12-12
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Presenting a thoughtful justification for the left in American education, Donald Lazere argues that to teach students rhetoric and critical thinking, key components of a humanist education, educators must discuss and teach students to grapple with the conservative bias...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-12-11
Collection :
Education, Politics and Public Life
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This volume demonstrates that Critical Friendship Theory can help distinguish education doctorate (EdD) programs from research doctorates (education PhDs). Drawing on multiple, detailed case studies of CFT implementation at universities, it covers curriculum and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-12-11
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Marshall Gregory argues that teachers at the university and high school levels can achieve teaching excellence by grounding their teaching in pedagogical theory that takes into account students' abilities and the ultimate goals of teaching: to develop students'...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-12-11
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This book offers current international initiatives, developed for working with children from “Birth to Eight” by a diverse group of noted professional authors. Their readings present an overview of early education as it evolved from the Froebelian kindergarten to...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-12-11
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