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Bread and Roses : Voices of Australian Academics from the Working Class
Bread and Roses is an Australian first, a collection of stories from academics who identify as coming from working-class backgrounds. At once inspiring and challenging, the collection demonstrates how individual narratives are both personal and structural, in that they illustrate the ways in which social forces shape individual lives. Central themes in the book are generational changes in unive…
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- 978-94-6300-127-4
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- 370
Widening Participation, Higher Education and Non-Traditional Students Suppor…
This book highlights the problems that have developed as students lack either the social or cultural capital to take the opportunity of Higher Education through conventional routes. This might be due to leaving school early, lacking entry qualifications or wanting to further their education and prospects after entering the workplace. Foundation courses help to widen participation and create a r…
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- 978-1-349-94969-4
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- XIX, 198
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Why We Need Arts Education Revealing the Common Good: Making Theory and Prac…
This is a book that will be of interest to those who teach, know, care, theorise, administer, set policies and discuss the arts in education. Each chapter in this book makes various references to actual arts teaching practices. Teaching and learning examples figure prominently. Concrete teaching incidents are covered throughout the book. Various actual classroom teaching situations are given. H…
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- 978-94-6300-094-9
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- XII, 116
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Why Multimodal Literacy Matters (Re)conceptualizing Literacy and Wellbeing t…
Literacy research has focused increasingly on the social, cultural, and material remaking of human communication. Such research has generated new knowledge about the diverse and interconnected modes and media through which people can and do make meaning and opened up definitions of literacy to include image, gaze, gesture, print, speech, and music. And yet, despite all of the attention to multi…
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- 978-94-6300-708-5
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- XII, 156
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New Directions in Language Learning Psychology
This book explores potential new directions in the growing field of language learning psychology. The individual chapters cover theoretical and conceptual developments and innovative methodological designs, while also exploring practical implications. Language learning psychology is a vibrant field of research that typically involves constructs from social and educational psychology, which it c…
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- 978-3-319-23490-8
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- X, 259
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- Second Language Learning and Teaching
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New Digital Technology in Education:Conceptualizing Professional Learning for…
This book addresses the issues confronting educators in the integration of digital technologies into their teaching and their students’ learning. Such issues include a skepticism of the added value of technology to educational learning outcomes, the perception of the requirement to keep up with the fast pace of technological innovation, a lack of knowledge of affordable educational digital to…
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- 978-3-319-05821-4
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- XXI, 226
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New Developments in Science and Technology Education
This book explores the beneficial impact of pedagogically updated practices and approaches in the teaching of science concepts as well as elaborates on future challenges and emerging issues that address Science and Technology Education. By pointing out new research directions it informs educational practices and bridges the gap between research and practice providing information, ideas and new …
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- 978-3-319-22932-4
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- IX, 203
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- Innovations in Science Education and Technology
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White Bread Weaving Cultural Past into the Present
In White Bread, readers accompany Jessica on a journey into her family’s past, into herself, and into the bicultural community she teaches but does not understand. Jessica, a fictional White fifth-grade teacher, is prompted to explore her family history by the unexpected discovery of a hundred-year-old letter. Simultaneously, she begins to grapple with culture and racism, principally through …
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- 978-94-6300-067-3
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- XVI, 284
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What’s a Cellphilm? Integrating Mobile Phone Technology into Participatory…
What’s a Cellphilm? explores cellphone video production for its contributions to participatory visual research. There is a rich history of integrating participants’ videos into community-based research and activism. However, a reliance on camcorders and digital cameras has come under criticism for exacerbating unequal power relations between researchers and their collaborators. Using cellph…
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- 978-94-6300-573-9
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- VIII, 220
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What is the Genus
Exploring several of the evolutionary branches of the mathematical notion of genus, this book traces the idea from its prehistory in problems of integration, through algebraic curves and their associated Riemann surfaces, into algebraic surfaces, and finally into higher dimensions. Its importance in analysis, algebraic geometry, number theory and topology is emphasized through many theorems. Al…
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- 978-3-319-42312-8
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- XVII, 184
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