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Regulating Transitions from School to Work : An Institutional Ethnography of …
How are activation programs for the young unemployed implemented? How do street-level bureaucrats deal with competing rationalities and demands for action? Transition policies increasingly aim at promoting self-regulation and constructing employable subjects. Stephan Dahmen explores the practical regulation of biographical transitions in activation programs for the young unemployed by focusing …
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- 9783839457061
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- 100 DAH r
Reconceptualising Agency and Childhood : New perspectives in Childhood Studies
By regarding children as actors and conducting empirical research on children’s agency, Childhood Studies have gained significant influence on a wide range of different academic disciplines. This has made agency one of the key concepts of Childhood Studies, with articles on the subject featured in handbooks and encyclopaedias. Reconceptualising Agency and Childhood is the first collection …
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- 9781317524410
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- 314 halaman
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- 150 REC
Herbert Fröhlich A Physicist Ahead of His Time
This biography provides a stimulating and coherent blend of scientific and personal narratives describing the many achievements of the theoretical physicist Herbert Fröhlich. For more than half a century, Fröhlich was an internationally renowned and much respected figure who exerted a decisive influence, often as a ‘man ahead of his time’, in fields as diverse as meson theory and biology.…
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- 978-3-319-14850-2
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- XXI, 263
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- 189 HYL h
Heidegger in the Twenty-First Century
The current volume is comparative and inter-disciplinary, and it provides a reflection on what thinking might become after Heidegger’s philosophy. Its aim is to critically expand the current field of research by presenting unfamiliar and unchartered avenues that will guide and carry the Heidegger scholarship into the twenty-first century. By doing so, it addresses fundamental questions in the…
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- 978-3-319-19269-7
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- XII, 287
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Perspectives on Student Affairs in South Africa
The goal of Perspectives on Student Affairs in South Africa is to generate interest in student affairs in South Africa. The papers contained herein are based on best practice, local experience and well-researched international and local theories. The papers in this book deal with matters pertaining to international and national trends in student affairs: academic development, access and retenti…
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- 9781920677602
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The Voices and Rooms of European Bioethics
This book reflects on the many contributions made in and to European bioethics to date, in various locations, and from various disciplinary perspectives. In so doing, the book advances understanding of the academic and social status of European bioethics as it is being supported and practiced by various disciplines such as philosophy, law, medicine, and the social sciences, applied to a wide ra…
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- 1317804570
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- 232 halaman
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- 170 VOI
Conceptual change in biology : scientific and philosophical perspectives on e…
This volume explores questions about conceptual change from both scientific and philosophical viewpoints by analyzing the recent history of evolutionary developmental biology. It features revised papers that originated from the workshop "Conceptual Change in Biological Science: Evolutionary Developmental Biology, 1981-2011" held at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin i…
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- 9789401794121
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- xvii, 490 pages
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- 155.7
Steal This Classroom : Teaching and Learning Unbound
Jody Cohen and Anne Dalke construe “classrooms” as testing grounds, paradoxically boxed-in spaces that cannot keep their promise to enclose, categorize, or name. Exploring what is usually left out can create conditions ripe for breaking through, where real and abstract reverse and melt, the distinction between them disappearing. These are ecotones, transitional spaces that are testing groun…
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- 9781950192380
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Concreteness and Specificity in Clinical Psychology Evaluations and Intervent…
This provocative volume updates L'Abate's signature ideas, focusing in particular on the concepts of concreteness and specificity as basic tenets of evaluation and therapy. Noting society's growing familiarity with technology, current concerns about treatment accessibility, and widespread interest in wellness promotion, he argues for remote-writing exercises targeted to specific client issues a…
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- 9783319132846
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- xxi, 352 pages
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- 150
Handbook of Materials Structures, Properties, Processing and Performance
This extensive knowledge base provides a coherent description of advanced topics in materials science and engineering with an interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary approach. The book incorporates a historical account of critical developments and the evolution of materials fundamentals, providing an important perspective for materials innovations, including advances in processing, selection, chara…
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- 978-3-319-01814-0
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- XIV, 1152
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