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Researching and Transforming Adult Learning and Communities
Can adult education and learning be understood without reference to community and people’s daily lives? The response to be found in the chapters of this volume say emphatically no, they cannot. Adult learning can be best understood if we look at the social life of people in communities, and this book is an attempt to recover this view. The chapters of this volume reflect ongoing research i…
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- 978-94-6300-358-2
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Health and economic growth : findings and policy implications
While human capital is a clear determinant of economic growth, only recently has health's role in this process become a focus of serious academic inquiry. By marrying the separate fields of health economics and growth theory, this groundbreaking book explores the explicit mechanisms by which a population's individual and collective health status affects a nation's economic development and perfo…
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- 9780262290586
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- 1 online resource (x, 385 pages) : illustrations
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- 330 HEA
Helping children left behind : state aid and the pursuit of educational equity
Federal reform legislation declares, through its title, that no child should be left behind. Despite this, the sad truth is that many children are being left behind, particularly in large, poor, urban school districts. Because of this inequity, state supreme courts have thrown out the education finance systems in eighteen states, and many states have implemented major education finance reforms.…
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- 9780262286534
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- 1 online resource (ix, 404 pages) : illustrations
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- 370 HEL
Heuristics and the law
"Report of the 94th Dahlem Workshop on Heuristics and the Law, Berlin, June 6-11, 2004"--Page ii.Series from jacket.Experts in law, psychology, and economics explore the power of "fast and frugal" heuristics in the creation and implementation of law.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262273824
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 485 pages) : illustrations.
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- Dahlem Workshop Reports
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- 340 HEU
The high price of materialism
A study of how materialism and consumerism undermine our quality of life. In The High Price of Materialism, Tim Kasser offers a scientific explanation of how our contemporary culture of consumerism and materialism affects our everyday happiness and psychological health. Other writers have shown that once we have sufficient food, shelter, and clothing, further material gains do little to impr…
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- 9780262276764
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 149 pages) : illustrations.
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Human rights in the global information society
Papers originally presented at the World Summit on the Information Society, November 2005.International organizations, governments, academia, industry, and the media have all begun to grapple with the information society as a global policy issue. The first United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), held in December 2003, recognized the connections between information technol…
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- 9780262256445
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- 1 online resource (x, 324 pages)
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- 320 HUM
Quality in Higher Education; Developing a Virtue of Professional Practice
Diskusi mengenai kualitas pendidikan tinggi mempunyai banyak segi dan seringkali menimbulkan perdebatan, mencerminkan kompleksitas dan interpretasi yang beragam. Kualitas memang dapat mencakup berbagai dimensi, seperti efektivitas pengajaran di universitas, pengalaman belajar mahasiswa, dampak penelitian, praktik pengawasan, mekanisme dukungan kelembagaan, dan kepatuhan terhadap standar pendidi…
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- 978-94-6300-666-8
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- 378.106 CHE q
Quality and Change in Teacher Education; Western and Chinese Perspectives
Topik “Kualitas dan Perubahan dalam Pendidikan Guru; Perspektif Barat dan Tiongkok” mengeksplorasi perbedaan dan persamaan pendekatan pendidikan guru antara konteks Barat dan Tiongkok. Kemungkinan besar diskusi ini membahas berbagai aspek seperti pengembangan kurikulum, metodologi pengajaran, filosofi pendidikan, dan integrasi teknologi dalam pelatihan guru. Analisis komparatif ini memberik…
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- 978-3-319-24139-5
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- Professional Learning and Development in Schools and Higher Education
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- 370.71 LEE q
Quality Assurance in LIS Education; An International and Comparative Study
Buku ini diterbitkan sebagai bagian dari proyek GlobaLIS (Ilmu Perpustakaan dan Informasi Global), yang dimulai pada tahun 2010 untuk mengglobalkan pendidikan profesional LIS Jepang (lihat Bab 2). Anggota utama proyek ini adalah Dr. Miwa (Universitas Terbuka Jepang), Dr. Kasai (Universitas Tamagawa), Prof. Takeuchi (Universitas Chiba), dan Ms. Miyahara (Universitas Wanita Sagami), yang membawa …
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- 978-1-4614-6495-2
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- 371.2607 MIW q
Qualitative Studies in Quality of Life; Methodology and Practice
Tujuan buku ini adalah untuk menunjukkan pentingnya pengembangan studi kualitatif di bidang kualitas hidup. Ini disusun dalam dua bagian, dan telah dibagi menjadi sepuluh bab. Bagian I, yang terdiri dari empat bab, membahas refleksi teoritis-metodologis studi kualitatif; ia mengkaji produksi tertulis mengenai subjek tersebut, peran peneliti kualitatif, peran yang dimainkan oleh budaya dalam stu…
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- 978-3-319-13779-7
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- Social Indicators Research Series
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- 304.645 TON q
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