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Teaching Living Legends
This book traces the research on the design, implementation and outcomes of a professional development program for in-service primary and secondary school teachers aimed at enhancing their understanding of living music traditions in Singapore and how these could be taught in the 21st century music classroom. It proposes a professional development framework comprising the areas of Pedagogy, Prac…
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- 978-981-10-1482-6
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- XI, 115
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- SpringerBriefs in Education
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Large Deviations and Asymptotic Methods in Finance
Topics covered in this volume (large deviations, differential geometry, asymptotic expansions, central limit theorems) give a full picture of the current advances in the application of asymptotic methods in mathematical finance, and thereby provide rigorous solutions to important mathematical and financial issues, such as implied volatility asymptotics, local volatility extrapolation, systemic …
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- 978-3-319-11605-1
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Teaching At Work
This book presents a new and important scholarship on teaching, at the time when studies on teaching in teacher education are long overdue. This book is designed to put together such a set of chapters contributed by those teacher educators who are not only taking teaching as a professional practice, but also upholding teaching improvement as a scholarly pursuit that needs collaboration and syst…
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- 978-94-6300-082-6
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- VIII, 268
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- Advances in Teaching and Teacher Education
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Teaching And Researching The Pronunciation Of English
The book contains contributions from practitioners and theoreticians who explore the pronunciation of English from various perspectives: phonetic, phonological, psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic. In accordance with the unifying theme of the volume, individual contributions investigate the characteristics of a foreign accent, its production and perception, study the development of methods and…
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- 978-3-319-11092-9
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- XV, 247
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- Second Language Learning and Teaching
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Teaching And Learning Mathematics In Multilingual Classrooms
Contemporary concerns in mathematics education recognize that in the increasingly technological and globalized world, with concomitant change in population demographics (e.g. immigration, urbanization) and a change in the status of languages (e.g. English as a dominant language of science and technology) multilingualism in classrooms is a norm rather than an exception. Shifts in perspective als…
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- 978-94-6300-229-5
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Teaching And Learning Like A Feminist
Teaching and learning like a feminist is a playful, sophisticated and creative theoretical and pedagogical story about feminist academics in the contemporary university This book is a love story about teaching and learning like a feminist in higher education Teaching and learning like a feminist is a creative and serious autoethnography which brings to life the experiences of feminist aca…
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- 978-94-6300-678-1
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T-type Calcium Channels In Basic And Clinical Science
T-type calcium channels are prevalent in every organ of the body, and are believed to play a part in a variety of physiological processes, including contraction, shape change, secretion, endo- and exocytosis, cell proliferation and differentiation, modulation of enzyme function, and cell cycle progression. As such, research on the roles of these channels in a wide range of diseases has attracte…
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- 978-3-7091-1413-1
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- X, 154
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Teaching English Reading in the Chinese-Speaking World
This book investigates inherent, structural differences in the Chinese and English writing systems which predispose learners from childhood to develop specific literacy-learning strategies, which can impair later efforts at learning foreign language literacy if the foreign language script varies significantly from the native language script. It compares educational practices and philosophies in…
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- 978-981-10-0643-2
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- XIV, 185
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- Springer Texts in Education
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Adult Education in Communities: Approaches From A Participatory Perspective
Participation can be a double-edged sword in that it can be used to bind people into agendas and policies they have little control over or it can help enable them to give voice to real and significant issues. Drawing on the work of Raymond Williams, genuine participation has to be an open and democratic process which enables all to contribute to the creation of meanings. Adult education in comm…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-94-6300-043-7
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- XII, 140
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- International Issues in Adult Education
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- 370 LUC a
Optimization Methods for Gas and Power Markets
As power and gas markets are becoming more and more mature and globally competitive, the importance of reaching maximum potential economic efficiency is fundamental in all the sectors of the value chain, from investments selection to asset optimization, trading and sales. Optimization techniques can be used in many different fields of the energy industry, in order to reduce production and finan…
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- 1
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- 978-1-137-41296-6
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- XVII, 192
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- Applied Quantitative Finance
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