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Design Ethnography : Epistemology and Methodology
This open access book describes methods for research on and research through design. It posits that ethnography is an appropriate method for design research because it constantly orients itself, like design projects, towards social realities. In research processes, designers acquire project-specific knowledge, which happens mostly intuitively in practice. When this knowledge becomes the subject…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-030-60396-0
- Collation
- IX, 93 halaman
- Series Title
- Springer Briefs in Anthropology
- Call Number
- 305 MUL d
Actuarial Sciences and Quantitative Finance: ICASQF, Bogotá, Colombia, June …
Featuring contributions from industry and academia, this volume includes chapters covering a diverse range of theoretical and empirical aspects of actuarial science and quantitative finance, including portfolio management, derivative valuation, risk theory and the economics of insurance. Developed from the First International Congress on Actuarial Science and Quantitative Finance, held at the U…
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-18239-1
- Collation
- XI, 98
- Series Title
- Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics
- Call Number
- 332 ACT a
Activity Theory in Education: Research and Practice
Activity Theory in Education: Research and Practice brings together cutting-edge scholars from a number of continents. Through in-depth case studies the authors highlight how Activity Theory is used in education and discuss the theoretical as well as pragmatic use of Activity Theory frameworks in a range of contemporary learning contexts. The first section of the book focuses on empirical resea…
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-94-6300-387-2
- Collation
- XII, 198
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 370 ACT a
Active Collaborative Education: A Journey towards Teaching
ACE (Active Collaborative Education) set out on its educational journey in October 2001. At the time, graduates of the college were enthusiastically accepted in the field, smoothly slipping into the school system and highly appreciated as ‘good teachers’. However, this situation did not please this book’s contributors. They wanted to see ACE graduates as different teachers, agents of chan…
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-94-6300-402-2
- Collation
- XVIII, 184
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 370 ACT a
Acting to Manage Conflict and Bullying Through Evidence-Based Strategies
This book offers a complete and detailed account of the evolution of an internationally successful, evidence-based program that has been the result of almost two decades of action research into conflict and bullying. It addresses one of the most serious problems encountered in schools and work places worldwide: that of bullying and inter-personal conflict. The book presents a comprehensive acco…
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-17882-0
- Collation
- XII, 199
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 364 ACT a
Achieving Teaching Quality in Sub-Saharan Africa: Empirical Results from Casc…
Sarah Lange examines the effectiveness of cascade training, which constitutes a cost-effective training model in teacher training. In development cooperation countries, teaching quality is expected to improve with teacher professional development; for this purpose, she explores the effectiveness of training multipliers in schools in Cameroon. This research question is analysed with a design, wh…
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-658-14683-2
- Collation
- XV, 235
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 370 LAN a
Achieving Dynamism in an Anaemic Europe
This book explores the reasons behind Europe’s poor performance in terms of overall growth and its progressively diminishing role in the global context. Recognizing that the big challenge is to restore confidence and hope in Europe, potential solutions are discussed. The volume comprises a selection of contributions to the XXVI Villa Mondragone International Economic Seminar (Rome, 2014), the…
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- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-14099-5
- Collation
- VI, 302
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 339 ACH a
Past and Present Interactions in Legal Reasoning and Logic
This volume explores the relation between legal reasoning and logic from both a historical and a systematic perspective. The topics addressed include, among others, conditional legal acts, disjunctions in legal acts, presumptions and conjectures, conflicts of values, Jørgensen´s Dilemma, the Rhetor´s Dilemma, the theory of legal fictions and the categorization of contracts. The unifying prob…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-16021-4
- Collation
- XI, 270 halaman
- Series Title
- Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning
- Call Number
- 340.1 PAS
Rebalancing for Sustainable Growth: Asia’s Postcrisis Challenge
The Asian model of export-led growth served it well in the post-war period, but prolonged sluggish growth of the developed economies following the global financial crisis, together with growing inequality and rising environmental problems, point to the need for a new growth model. The purpose of this book is to describe the challenges facing Asian economies in the post-global financial crisis e…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-4-431-55321-2
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 337.1
Geographies of Urban Governance
With a current population inflow into cities of 200,000 people per day, UN Habitat expects that up to 75% of the global population will live in cities by 2050. Influenced by forces of globalization and global change, cities and urban life are transforming rapidly, impacting human welfare, economic development and urban-regional landscapes. This poses new challenges to urban governance, while em…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-21271-5
- Collation
- XXIX, 235
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 330 GEO
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