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This superbly researched study offers a chalk-face perspective on the secret of Finland’s educational success. Providing an intimate and revealing portrait of the Nordic nation’s schools and its teacher training system, it sets out to explain why Finland’s students...
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Springer
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2013-12-11
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This book presents John Dewey’s work as a claim to the human potentials found in experience, the imagination and the possibilities that emerge from our disposition towards liberty. It details Dewey’s work as a critical junction marked by the quandary of schooling and...
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Springer
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2013-12-11
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The educators are dedicated and concerned. The curriculum is successful. Yet some students aren't reading at grade level, and meetings air problems without making progress. Many students continue to flounder, leading to more meetings with the same lack of meaningful...
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Springer
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2013-12-11
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This book sets out the necessary processes and challenges involved in modeling student thinking, understanding and learning. The chapters look at the centrality of models for knowledge claims in science education and explore the modeling of mental processes, knowledge,...
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Springer
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2013-12-11
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Espinoza's work illuminates how education was the site of ideological and political struggle in Peru during its early years as an independent state. Spanning 100 years and discussing both urban and rural education, it shows how school funding, curricula, and governance...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-12-10
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Academics and practitioners examine the developing field of integrated education in conflicted societies, where children who would normally be educated apart are deliberately educated together. They draw on a range of theoretical and practical frameworks, providing...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-12-10
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How do views about children shape research concerned with their lives? What different forms can research with children take? What ethical issues does it involve?How does it impact on policy and practice, and on the lives of children themselves? This book helps you to...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2013-12-10
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Taking as a starting point the work of Aotearoa New Zealand to provide an education system that includes curriculum, pedagogy, and language from indigenous Maori culture, this book investigates the ensuing practices, policies, and dilemmas that have arisen and provides...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2013-12-09
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This book is the “Study Book” of ICMI-Study no. 20, which was run in cooperation with the International Congress on Industry and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM). The editors were the co-chairs of the study (Damlamian, Straesser) and the organiser of the Study Conference...
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Springer
Parution :
2013-12-09
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Set in Malaysia, this book encompasses language and cultural policy challenges that many other multi-ethnic nations currently have to address. The people of Malaysia constitute a diverse ethnic, linguistic and cultural population and one of the continuing challenges is...
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Springer
Parution :
2013-12-09
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This volume addresses the key issue of the initial education and lifelong professional learning of teachers of mathematics to enable them to realize the affordances of educational technology for mathematics. With invited contributions from leading scholars in the field,...
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Springer
Parution :
2013-12-08
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?This book will gather current research in early childhood mathematics education. A special focus will be the tension between instruction and construction of knowledge. The book includes research on the design of learning opportunities, the development of mathematical...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-12-06
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Education Studies continues to grow as a popular undergraduate area of study. This core text addresses themes common to allEducation Studies courses. It benefits from a large list of chapters from key contributors at key institutions. This third edition has been...
Editeur :
Learning Matters
Parution :
2013-12-06
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This volume provides a necessary, current and extensive analysis of probabilistic thinking from a number of mathematicians, mathematics educators, and psychologists. The work of 58 contributing authors, investigating probabilistic thinking across the globe, is...
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Springer
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2013-12-05
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'This informative and wide-ranging book argues persuasively for the value of multiple perspectives, both international and disciplinary, in the study and practice of early childhood education, because they feed our imaginations and provoke us to think. And while...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2013-12-05
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"This is a beautifully written book that takes the reader to the heart of ethnography as experience. Readers can walk in the shoes of ethnographers who have travelled before them, and learn as they learned. Sara Delamont is an undisputed expert in both ethnography and...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2013-12-05
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Relive the excitement of the first ever Moshi Monsters movie! This retelling of the adventures of Katsuma, Poppet, Furi, Luvli, Diavlo and Zommer as they come up against Dr. Strangeglove and his dastardly schemes is the perfect page-turner stocking filler for all Moshi...
Editeur :
Puffin
Parution :
2013-12-05
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Carrying out leadership research in educational establishments can be challenging, but it is also rewarding. This accessible book offers sound practical advice and a clear conceptual framework for this research. Drawing on their extensive expertise, the authors show you...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2013-12-05
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In this book, internationally respected scholars from the disciplines of educational science, business administration and psychology thoroughly discuss practice-related questions on learning transfer in organizations. Readers will learn solid concepts for securing and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-12-04
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Die Studie nimmt eine Untersuchung des Kinderzimmers als einen Herstellungs- und Reproduktionsmodus sozialer Ungleichheit vor. Es wird davon ausgegangen, dass zeittypische Semantiken der Kindheit (und des Raumes) nicht nur generelle Verräumlichungen und Platzierungen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-12-04
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