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Paul Ricoeur : Empowering Education, Politics and Society
This open access book employs Paul Ricoeur's methodologies to identify, challenge, and replace with responsible language the many continuing abuses of power, including in the university curriculum and in the international discourse of right-wing populism. Using Ricoeur’s philosophy, the book provides a meta-frame for current debates about the university and a pragmatic micro-frame for support…
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- 978-981-99-3475-1
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- XI, 122
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- SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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- 370 SCO p
English Medium Instruction as a Local Practice : Language, culture and pedagogy
From the perspective of translanguaging and instruction theories, this Open Access book examines Chinese English Medium Instruction (EMI) lecturers’ linguistic and pedagogical characteristics. This book demonstrate that ‘English’ in EMI is not a monolingual issue and EMI lecturers have applied their bilingual advantages to systematically and strategically advance their pedagogy practices …
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- 978-3-031-19904-2
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- XV, 126
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- SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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- 370 HAN e
Higher Degree by Research : Factors for Indigenous Student Success
This open access book provides insights from Indigenous higher degree research (HDR) students on supervision practices in an Australian context. It examines findings from qualitative studies conducted with Indigenous HDR students from different academic disciplines, enrolled higher education institutions across Australia, and supervisors of Indigenous HDR students. Six types of data and their t…
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- 978-981-19-5178-7
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- XV, 112
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- SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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- 370 AND h
The Legibility of Serif and Sans Serif Typefaces : Reading from Paper and Rea…
This open access book provides a detailed and up-to-date account of the relevant literature on the legibility of different kinds of typefaces, which goes back over 140 years in the case of reading from paper and more than 50 years in the case of reading from screens. It describes the origins of serif and sans serif styles in ancient inscriptions, their adoption in modern printing techniques, an…
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- 978-3-030-90984-0
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- XIV, 161
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- SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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- 370 RIC l
The Distributed University for Sustainable Higher Education
This book is open access and discusses the re-imagining of the higher education sector. It exposes problems that relate to the way that universities have become over-managed business enterprises which may not reflect societal, national, or global educational needs. From there, it proposes some solutions, including three innovative programs, that make universities more responsive to needs, as we…
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- 978-981-16-6506-6
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- XII, 80
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- SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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- 370 HEL d
Educating Students to Improve the World
This open access book addresses how to help students find purpose in a rapidly changing world. In a probing and visionary analysis of the field of global education Fernando Reimers explains how to lead the transformation of schools and school systems in order to more effectively prepare students to address today’s’ most urgent challenges and to invent a better future. Offering a comprehensi…
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- 978-981-15-3887-2
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- X, 131
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- SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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- 370 REI e
Transforming Lives and Systems : Cultural Competence and the Higher Education…
This open access book explores the transformative experiences of participants in the University of Sydney’s National Centre for Cultural Competence (NCCC) programs. The establishment of the NCCC was viewed as a critical point of departure for developing an institution-wide agenda of cultural competence. The NCCC’s work since its inception reflects efforts to lay important foundations for cu…
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- 978-981-15-5351-6
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- VII, 95
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- SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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- 370 TRA
Higher Education Landscape 2030 : A Trend Analysis Based on the AHEAD Interna…
This open access Springer Brief provides a systematic analysis of current trends and requirements in the areas of knowledge and competence in the context of the project “(A) Higher Education Digital (AHEAD)—International Horizon Scanning / Trend Analysis on Digital Higher Education.” It examines the latest developments in learning theory, didactics, and digital-education technology in con…
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- 978-3-030-44897-4
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- XXI, 59
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- SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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- 370 LUE t
The Models of Engaged Learning and Teaching : Connecting Sophisticated Thinki…
This book provides a practical philosophy for promoting students' sophisticated thinking from Early Childhood to PhD in ways that explicitly interconnect across the years of education. It will help teachers, academics and the broader learning and teaching community to understand and implement these connections by introducing a conceptual framework, the Models of Engaged Learning and Teaching (M…
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- 978-981-15-2683-1
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- XIX, 140
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- SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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- 370 WIL m
Empowering Teachers to Build a Better World : How Six Nations Support Teacher…
This open access book presents a comparative study on how large-scale professional development programs for teachers are designed and implemented. Around the world, governments and educators are recognizing the need to educate students in a broad range of higher order cognitive skills and socio-emotional competencies, and providing effective opportunities for teachers to develop the expertise n…
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- 978-981-15-2137-9
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- VIII, 135
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- SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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- 370 EMP
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