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Rapid—and seemingly accelerating—changes in the economies of developed nations are having a proportional effect on the skill sets required of workers in many new jobs. Work environments are often technology-heavy, while problems are frequently ill-defined and tackled by...
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Springer
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2011-10-20
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Educational Assessment in an Information Age
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This well researched volume tells the story of music education in Japan and of the wind band contest organized by the All-Japan Band Association. Identified here for the first time as the world’s largest musical competition, it attracts 14,000 bands and well over...
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Springer
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2011-10-20
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Why is metacognition gaining recognition, both in education generally and in science learning in particular? What does metacognition contribute to the theory and practice of science learning? Metacognition in Science Education discusses emerging topics at the...
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Springer
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2011-10-20
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While notions of what constitutes critical thinking vary, educators, politicians, and employers all agree that critical thinking skills are necessary for well-educated citizens and a key capacity for successful employees. In Teaching for Critical Thinking, Stephen...
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Jossey-Bass
Parution :
2011-10-18
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Academic literacy has always been a key underlying theme in English for academic purposes and practitioners and researchers in the field have always had one eye on its development in students. In recent years it has moved into the foreground and become a central field...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-10-18
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This volume originates from a workshop entitled ‘Revisiting advanced varieties in L2 learning’ organized by the editors at Aston University (Birmingham, UK) in June 2006. It consists of a peer-reviewed selection of the best contributions. Many different approaches have...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-10-17
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Praise for On Being Presidential "This is the best book I've ever read on being a college president."—Arthur Levine, president, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, and president emeritus, Teachers College, Columbia University "A must-read for anyone involved...
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Jossey-Bass
Parution :
2011-10-13
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Exemplifying what it advocates, this book is an innovative attempt to retrieve the essay form from its degenerate condition in academic writing. Its purpose is to create pedagogical space in which the inner struggle of ‘lived experience’ can articulate itself in the...
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Springer
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2011-10-12
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The only evidence-based program available for teaching social skills to adolescents with autism spectrum disorders Two nationally known experts in friendship formation and anxiety management address the social challenges faced by adolescents with autism spectrum...
Editeur :
Jossey-Bass
Parution :
2011-10-11
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Chairing an academic department comes with a multitude of responsibilities in a wide variety of areas. As a new department chair, you immediately confront many of the basics of academic leadership: managing budgets, supporting faculty, resolving conflict, and...
Editeur :
Jossey-Bass
Parution :
2011-10-11
Collection :
The Department Chair
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Of interest to scholars both within and outside the U.S., this volume reports how curriculum studies scholars in Mexico understand their field's intellectual history, its present circumstances, and the relations among these intersecting domains with globalization.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-10-10
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Across much of the world there is now a standard secondary school curriculum based on a traditional array of subjects. This is the first work to tell the story of its invention, from the sixteenth century until the present day. The book concludes with a sketch of an...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-10-10
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Sport, Spectacle, and NASCAR Nation critically interrogates stockcar racing's ascendance into the upper-echelon of the North American sporting popular. While most contributions to the public discourse gloss over NASCAR's exclusively white racial identity politics, its...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-10-10
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Applying Theory to Educational Research provides educational researchers with an accessible introduction to the process of selecting and applying theories in their work. Offers an innovative and accessible approach to educational research by providing practical...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2011-10-07
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Information Retrieval has become a very active research field in the 21st century. Many from academia and industry present their innovations in the field in a wide variety of conferences and journals. Companies transfer this new knowledge directly to the general public...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2011-10-06
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Based on the awesome Moshi Monsters, this Pick Your Path book allows you to explore Monstro City and decide how the story ends!Poor Buster Bumblechops can't cope! Dr. Strangeglove has been sneaking naughty sweets to Moshlings all over Monstro City and they have all gone...
Editeur :
Sunbird
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2011-10-06
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Interpreting the voices of under three year olds is central to early childhood education. Yet entering into their life-worlds is fraught with challenges and unrealised possibilities. This ground-breaking book generates a dialogue about the multiple ways researchers have...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2011-10-05
Collection :
International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development
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Using a platform of substantial theories and applications, this book explores approaches taken to university leadership, how leadership is formed, and challenges that leadership of universities experiences within the context of Europe.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-10-04
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Dieser Sammelband entstand anlässlich des 20-jährigen Bestehens des Instituts für Interkulturelle Kommunikation e.V. (www.iik.de). Er reflektiert die Grundlagen sowie die inhaltliche, sprachliche, interkulturelle und didaktische Gestaltung des modernen Zweit- und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-10-04
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