Understanding Student Participation and Choice in Science and Technology Educ…

Drawing on data generated by the EU’s Interests and Recruitment in Science (IRIS) project, this volume examines the issue of young people’s participation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics education. With an especial focus on female participation, the chapters offer analysis deploying varied theoretical frameworks, including sociology, social psychology and gender studies. …

Surveying Human Vulnerabilities across the Life Course

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PBL across the disciplines : Research into best practice

Problem Based and Project Based Learning (PBL) has come a long way. Following the success of PBL curricula in McMaster, Canada, Maastricht, the Netherlands and Ros­kilde and Aalborg University, Denmark, a great many institutes in higher education have introduced some form of PBL. The resulting diversity of PBL varieties provides ample opportunities for research focussing on practice.

Procedural Justice in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Chan…

* Memberikan evaluasi akademis menyeluruh pertama tentang apa yang dibutuhkan keadilan prosedural untuk perubahan iklim. * Membuat rekomendasi kebijakan praktis menjelang COP21 di Paris 2015. * Memberikan argumen yang kuat untuk mendukung UNFCCC pada waktu yang sangat relevan. * Menawarkan diskusi yang terinformasi tentang masalah prosedural dan masalah UNFCCC. * Menggunakan filosofi politik an…

William Rimmer: Champion of Imagination in American Art

William Rimmer (1816–1879) is arguably the first modernist American sculptor, although his inventive originality has not been fully acknowledged. Rimmer cultivated an art of ideas and personal expression whilst supporting himself as a physician and, later, as a teacher of art anatomy at the Cooper Union School of Design for Women in New York. Unlike his contemporaries, he advocated the creati…

Understanding Social Justice in Rural Education

This book explores what social justice looks like for rural schools in Australia. The author challenges the consensus that sees the distribution of resources as the panacea for the myriad challenges faced by rural schools and argues that the solution to inequality and injustice in rural settings has to take into account other important dimensions of social justice such as recognition and associ…

New Mana: Transformations of a Classic Concept in Pacific Languages and Cultures

‘Mana’, a term denoting spiritual power, is found in many Pacific Islands languages. In recent decades, the term has been taken up in New Age movements and online fantasy gaming. In this book, 16 contributors examine mana through ethnographic, linguistic, and historical lenses to understand its transformations in past and present. The authors consider a range of contexts including Indigenou…

Understanding Science Teachers’ Professional Knowledge Growth

Science education has to be improved in order to become more responsive to the needs of society confronted with a rapidly changing world. Bringing science teaching up to a higher level is a key factor in this endeavour. The authors of this book think about teachers as part of the immediate and large communities and systems in which they function. They consider the development of teachers’ prof…

A tale of two dialect regions: Sranan's 17th-century English input

This book traces the precise origin of the early English lexical and lexico-phonetic influences in Sranan, an English-based creole spoken in Suriname. Sranan contains "fossilised" linguistic remnants of an early English colonial period. The book discusses whether Sranan’s English influence(s) originated from a single dialect from the general London area, as proposed by Norval Smith in 1987, o…

Racial Folly: A Twentieth-Centrury Aboriginal Family

Briscoe’s grandmother remembered stories about the first white men coming to the Northern Territory. This extraordinary memoir shows us the history of an Aboriginal family who lived under the race laws, practices and policies of Australia in the twentieth century. It tells the story of a people trapped in ideological folly spawned to solve ‘the half-caste problem’. It gives life to those …