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Analysis of education policy often follows a particular orientation, such as conservative or neo-liberal. Yet, readers are often left to wonder the true meaning and conceptual framing behind these orientations. Without this knowledge, the policy analysis lacks true...
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Springer
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2013-02-26
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Good Video Games andGood Learning presents the most important essays by James Paul Gee devoted to the ways in which good video games create good learning. The chapters in this book argue that good games teach through well-designed problem-solving experiences. They also...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-01-29
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We live in the age of global science – but not, primarily, in the sense of ‘universal knowledge’ that has characterized the liberal metanarrative of ‘free’ science and the ‘free society’ since its early development in the Enlightenment. Today, an economic logic links...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-01-01
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The book studies transformations of European universities in the context of globalization and Europeanization, the questioning of the foundations of the «Golden Age» of the Keynesian welfare state, public sector reforms, demographic changes, the massification and...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-12-10
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Die UN-Behindertenrechtskonvention (2006) fördert den gleichberechtigten und benachteiligungsfreien Zugang von Menschen mit Behinderungen auf allen Bildungsstufen. Dies eröffnet nicht nur in der Schweiz, sondern für den gesamten deutschsprachigen Raum neue Perspektiven...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-12-10
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Das Buch untersucht den Zusammenhang zwischen gesellschaftlichen Repräsentationen von Arbeit, Beruf und Bildung und der Ausgestaltung von Berufsbildungsstrukturen in Argentinien. Im Mittelpunkt stehen die verstärkten Debatten zur Berufsbildung in den ersten Jahrzehnten...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-12-06
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Action research was conceived as a method of collaborative, self-reflective problem-solving in a community context. Yet many believe it has evolved too far away from its original, directly activist roots. As a direct response to calls for a rejuvenation of the social...
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Springer
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2012-12-05
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This book addresses the following research questions: What are the main transformations in European higher education? How do these transformations affect the national higher education systems of Norway and Poland? How do European-level higher education policy processes...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-27
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Der Band dokumentiert die Ergebnisse einer internationalen Tagung der Leibniz-Sozietät zu Berlin, deren Anlage den Prinzipien der Historischen und Vergleichenden Pädagogik folgte. Die Tagungsbeiträge untersuchen Stand und Entwicklungslinien der allgemeinen technischen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-19
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Within the European and Asian context scientists from nine different countries are concerned with political and social interactional structures between schools as public institutions and the local political actors which influence the school environment. The...
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Springer VS
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2012-11-01
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?While the analysis is not the first to investigate empirically the effects of different individual or household factors on school access and completion of Ghanaians, it extends previous work by simultaneously incorporating individual, household, community, regional and...
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Springer
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2012-10-29
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Even as Anglophone power wanes in Asia, and China and India rise, the role of the English language in the region continues to develop. How are students in Asian nations such as Vietnam, Malaysia and China itself being taught English? This much-needed overview analyzes...
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Springer
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2012-10-12
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Bringing together a group of international researchers from two educational sub-disciplines – «History of Education» and «Intercultural Education» – the contributions to this volume provide insights into the (pre-)history of intercultural issues in education across a...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-09-12
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The legacy of crimes committed during the Second World War in East Asia is still a stumbling block for reconciliation and trustful cultural relations between South Korea, China and Japan.The presentation of this issue in history school books is in the focus of a heated...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-09-05
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A collection of the finest works of scholarship examining education - mostly higher education - as civic engagement published over the last decade in JAC, an award-winning journal of rhetoric, politics, and culture.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-08-16
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This book offers a comprehensive analysis of President Obama's education agenda. Obama's reforms have drawn skepticism from supporters of traditional public schools. Robert Maranto and Michael McShane believe that the Obama-era reforms have led to successful innovation...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-08-16
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Angesichts der gegenwärtigen Diskussionen um die PISA-Ergebnisse in Deutschland zeigt sich erneut die Notwendigkeit, Grundfragen des Verhältnisses von Bildungstheorie und Bildungspolitik zu analysieren. Eine wesentliche Herausforderung für die sich als demokratisch...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-08-06
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Through fifty-two interviews with New York City parents in gentrifying neighborhoods, this book examines the school choice process to determine how, through the compounding effect of these parents' many individual choices, a segregated urban school in a gentrifying...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-08-05
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A new edition - revised and updated with over 100 pages of new material - of the groundbreaking book that brings the principles of organizational learning to today s schools and classrooms.
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Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Parution :
2012-07-31
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As education becomes increasingly global, the processes and politics of transfer have become a central focus of research. This study provides a comprehensive analysis of contemporary theoretical and analytical work aimed at exploring international educational reform and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-06-28
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