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Problem-Based Learning in Teacher Education
This book offers readers a comprehensive understanding of problem-based learning (PBL) in teacher education. Featuring the perspectives of experienced teacher educators, it details the strengths of problem-based learning pedagogy as well as identifies continuing challenges and future possibilities. The book explains the goals, content, processes and strategies of a successful and longstandin…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-02003-7
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- XII, 241
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- -
- Call Number
- 370.71 FIL p
Inclusion, Disability and Culture
This book examines some theoretical and empirical aspects about complexities of inclusion, disability and culture. It challenges the globalized technical and reductionist approach of inclusion and argues that concepts of disability and inclusion are culturally constructed. Disability and inclusion are concepts which do not define a global agenda, in the sense that one size fits all. Rather they…
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- 978-94-6209-923-4
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- VI, 212
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- 371 HAS i
Single Period Inventory Control and Pricing: An Empirical and Analytical Stud…
The price-setting newsvendor model is used to address the single period joint pricing and inventory control problem. The objective is to set the optimal price and replenishment quantity of a single product in order to maximize the expected profit. Products with a short selling season and relatively long replenishment lead times such as fashion goods are the most relevant application areas of th…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9783631753941
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- 116
- Series Title
- Forschungsergebnisse der Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien
- Call Number
- 332.4 ARI s
In Search of the Two-Handed Economist Ideology, Methodology and Marketing in…
For the economics profession, issues of marketing and ideology have often been reduced to the status of 'the love that dare not speak its name'. This volume brings these issues out of the closet and examines what effect, if any, these factors have in shaping the contours of the discipline. The way in which economists face policy issues is in part driven, even if only subconsciously, by unacknow…
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- -
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- 978-1-137-58973-6
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- XX, 418
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- -
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- 330 FRE i
In Search of a Canon European History and the Imperialist State
Harnessing Paulo Freire’s critical analysis of education and society, In Search of a Canon explores Africa and Asia, and their relationship to Europe, and Europe’s connection to the rest of the western world. As such, this book is situated in the tradition of critical scholars as it explores the relationship between historical processes and the development of a canon, or literature that is …
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- 978-94-6209-920-3
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- XVI, 92
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- -
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- 330 WIG i
In Defense of Deflation
This book analyses the causes and consequences of deflation. In contrast to the widespread belief that deflation would be harmful to the economy as a whole, the author argues that free market deflation is liberating and beneficial. Several myths of deflation are exposed and the reasons for the widespread deflation phobia that serves to justify expansionary monetary policy, i.e., inflation are i…
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- 978-3-319-13427-7
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- XVII, 215
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- -
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- 330 BAG i
Improving Workplace Learning by Teaching Literature Towards Wisdom
This book investigates the integration of literary writing into work based or business writing. It proposes ways of how to help people with considerable work experience use literature to engage with the problems they face in their work. Many people like to read for pleasure, but their skills in reading could always be improved. This book makes an original contribution to the fields of educati…
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- -
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- 978-3-319-29026-3
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- VIII, 117
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- -
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- 371 EAS i
Improving Schools Productive Tensions Between the Local, the Systemic and th…
This unique book explores school improvement policy – from its translation into national contexts and school networks to its implementation in leader and teacher practices in individual schools and classrooms within this network of schools and its impact on students’ learning. It draws on multiple conceptual and theoretical resources to explore the complexities attached to a school improvem…
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- -
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- 978-981-287-929-5
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- XXII, 135
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- -
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- 371 RAW i
Studying Diversity, Migration and Urban Multiculture: Convivial Tools for Res…
Anti-migrant populism is on the rise across Europe, and diversity and multiculturalism are increasingly presented as threats to social cohesion. Yet diversity is also a mundane social reality in urban neighbourhoods. With this in mind, Studying Diversity, Migration and Urban Multiculture explores how we can live together with and in difference. What is needed for conviviality to emerge and what…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781787354807, 9781787354791
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- 214
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- -
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- 304.82 STU s
Pandemic Media: Preliminary Notes toward an Inventory
With its unprecedented scale and consequences the COVID-19 pandemic has generated a variety of new configurations of media. Responding to demands for information, synchronization, regulation, and containment, these “pandemic media” reorder social interactions, spaces, and temporalities, thus contributing to a reconfiguration of media technologies and the cultures and polities with which the…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9783957960092, 9783957960085
- Collation
- 380
- Series Title
- Configurations of Film
- Call Number
- 302.03 PAN p
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