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The Praxis of English Language Teaching and Learning (PELT)
This edition of Critical New Literacies: The Praxis of English Language Teaching and Learning (PELT) begins with an examination of bricolage as a way to engage in critical research in TEFL/TESOL teaching and research. The volume considers the quality of ‘encounter’ needed in the global and intercultural classroom. The authors address validity, reliability and an authentic need for research …
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- 978-94-6300-112-0
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- VI, 162
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- Critical New Literacies: The Praxis of English Language Teaching and Learning (PELT) Critical New Literacies: The Praxis of English Language Teaching and Learning (PELT)
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The Practice of Enterprise Modeling
This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 8th IFIP WG 8.1 Conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modeling held in November 2015 in Valencia, Spain. The PoEM conference series started in 2008 and aims to provide a forum sharing knowledge and experiences between the academic community and practitioners from industry and the public sector. The 23 short papers accepted were carefully revi…
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- 978-3-319-25897-3
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- XIII, 389, 122 illustrations in colour
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- Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
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The Practical Compendium of Immunisations for International Travel
This inclusive work presents a comprehensive update on vaccines for the international traveller. In over 21 chapters, written by leading writers in travel medicine from Australia, New Zealand and Singapore, vaccinology for travel is explained in accessible terms with a focus on practical information. An initial introduction to immunology proceeds into common travel-related diseases and a ris…
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- 978-3-319-15922-5
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- X, 242, 8 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
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A Farewell to Fragmentation Reassertion and Convergence in International Law
Fragmentation has been much discussed as a threat to international law as a legal system. This book contends that the fragmentation of international law is far exceeded by its convergence, as international bodies find ways to account for each other and the interactions of emerging sub-fields. Reasserting its role as the 'principal judicial organ of the United Nations', the International Court o…
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- 9781139979498
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- Studies on International Courts and Tribunals
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The Power of the Chinese Dragon
This important reader brings together published articles from Palgrave's journal The European Journal of Development Research on the development between China and Africa as well as emerging national economies in the BRICs group. Topics include trade relations, investment in sub-Saharan Africa, global politics of development and more.
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- 978-1-137-57449-7
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- XII, 275
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- Palgrave Readers in Economics
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The Power of Identity and Ideology in Language Learning
This critical ethnographic school-based case study offers insights on the interaction between ideology and the identity development of individual English language learners in Singapore. Illustrated by case studies of the language learning experiences of five Asian immigrant students in an English-medium school in Singapore, the author examines how the immigrant students negotiated a standard En…
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- 978-3-319-30211-9
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- XVII, 173, 1 b/w illustrations
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- Multilingual Education
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The Power of Education
This book is about the power of education: the kind of education that simultaneously improves the quality of life both of individuals and the wider society. It explains why education must be viewed as a basic human right, as a value in and of itself, and reviews the evidence on how education builds the human resources that individuals and nations need to be productive, to continue to learn, to …
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- 978-981-287-221-0
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- XIX, 280
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- Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects
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The Post-Election Violence in Kenya
Since the historic Nuremberg Trial of 1945 an international customary law principle has developed that commission of a core crime under international law – war crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity and aggression – should not go unpunished. History shows, that when in Africa such violations occurred, especially as a result of election disputes, national and regional actors, including…
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- 978-94-6265-041-1
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- XVIII, 275
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- International Criminal Justice Series
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The Portable Medical Mentor
This text is directed at every student of medicine regardless of level of training or specialty ambitions. Without imparting any education in medicine per se, each chapter teaches the prospective medical trainee the art of being a physician. The reader will be convinced early on, that there is more to being a good doctor than medical school didactics. They will learn what residency admission ch…
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- 978-3-319-09852-4
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- XXVII, 209, 6 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
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The Politics, Practices, and Possibilities of Migrant Children Schools in Con…
This book examines the dynamics surrounding the education of children in the unofficial schools in China’s urban migrant communities. This ethnographic study focuses on both the complex structural factors impacting the education of children attending unofficial migrant children schools and the personal experiences of individuals working within these communities. As the book illustrates in car…
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- 978-1-137-50900-0
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- XVII, 185
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- Palgrave Studies on Chinese Education in a Global Perspective
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