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The Future in Learning Science: What’s in it for the Learner?
This volume considers the future of science learning - what is being learned and how it is being learned - in formal and informal contexts for science education. To do this, the book explores major contemporary shifts in the forms of science that could or should be learned in the next 20 years, what forms of learning of that science should occur, and how that learning happens, including from th…
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- 978-3-319-16543-1
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- XV, 299, 11 b/w illustrations
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The Foxfire Approach
"This collection of essays by Foxfire practitioners represents the wide range of adaptations by educators of the pedagogical orientation of the Foxfire Magazine and Foxfire Programs for Teachers. Former students in the magazine class at Rabun County High School share the continuing impact of that experience on their lives, including a former student who is pioneering the magazine project with h…
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- 978-94-6300-564-7
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- XVIII, 162
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The Financial Crisis
This book brings together a good mix of academics and practitioners for a discussion that focuses on how to change financial practice and the academic field of finance in order to understand the current financial crisis and deal with future turbulent financial times. The volume is based on contributions by prominent academics and practitioners from Europe, Asia and the USA. The book contains se…
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- 978-3-319-20588-5
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- XI, 175, 3 b/w illustrations, 22 illustrations in colour
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The Evolution and Evaluation of Massive Open Online Courses
This book offers a re-assessment of the educational and occupational value of MOOCs based on developments since 2013. When MOOCs appeared--amidst great fanfare in 2012, leaders proclaimed an educational “revolution.” By 2013, however, dramatic failures, negative research findings, and sharp critiques ended the MOOC hype. This book examines both MOOCs and prior distance learning innovations,…
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- 978-1-349-85204-8
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- XVII, 136
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- The Cultural and Social Foundations of Education
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The Education Systems of Europe
This updated second edition presents an analytical description of the education systems of all European countries, following common guidelines. These conceptual guidelines consider various criteria concerning presumptions as to the quality of a good education system. One of the book central aims is to explore the paradoxical character of education, i.e. the relationship between universal values…
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- 978-3-319-07473-3
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- XX, 908, 46 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
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- Global Education Systems
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The Ecology of Home
Education researchers worldwide face a basic question: Is their purpose to use people to develop knowledge, or use knowledge to develop people This book offers an exploration to this fundamental question by examining what three core disciplines – ecology, economics, and ecumenism – have in common. These disciplines have roots in the ancient Greek notion of the household (oikos). By examini…
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- 978-94-6300-579-1
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- XVI, 106
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- Researching Environmental Learning
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The Psychology of Asian Learners
This book celebrates the scholarly achievements of Prof. David A. Watkins, who has pioneered research on the psychology of Asian learners, and helps readers grasp the cognitive, motivational, developmental, and socio-cultural aspects of Asian learners learning experiences. A wide range of empirical and review papers, which examine the characteristics of these experiences as they are shaped by b…
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- 978-981-287-576-1
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- XXVI, 664
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The Dynamic Interplay between Context and the Language Learner
This edited volume offers a series of state-of-the-art conceptual papers and empirical research studies which consider how contextual factors at multiple levels dynamically interact with individuals to influence how they go about the complex business of learning and using a second language.
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- 978-1-137-45713-4
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- XIX, 251
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The Contested Role of Education in Conflict and Fragility
"This book brings together new thinking on education’s complex and evolving role in conflict and fragility. The changing nature of conflict, from inter- to intra-state, and with shifting geopolitical power balances, demands a reconceptualization of where education is positioned. Claims that education on its own can be an agent of conflict transformation are disputed. Deliberate attempts at pe…
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- 978-94-6300-010-9
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- VIII, 266
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- The World Council of Comparative Education Societies
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The Relevance of Academic Work in Comparative Perspective
This book is the first of two volumes that look at the changed landscape of higher education and the academic profession. This volume focuses on academic work, examining the significant changes that have taken place in the backgrounds, specialisations, expectations and work roles of academic staff. The academic profession is ageing, and becoming increasingly insecure, more accountable, more int…
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- 978-3-319-11767-6
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- X, 252, 16 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour
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- The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective
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