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A Metaphoric Mind Selected Writings of Joseph Couture
With a foreword by Lewis Cardinal, A Metaphoric Mind brings together for the first time key works selected from among Dr. Joe’s writings, published and unpublished. Spanning nearly thirty years, the essays invite us to share in his transformative legacy through a series of encounters, with Aboriginal spirituality and ancestral ways of knowing, with Elders and their teachings, with education a…
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- 9781926836522.01
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- 329 pages
Spotlight on China
Fuelled by forces of globalization, China has gradually shifted from a centrally planned economy to a socialist market economy. Under the market economy China has experienced a massive and protracted economic boom. It is not clear however whether recent economic changes have brought the same miracle to education in China. Spotlight on China brings together established and emerging scholars from…
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- 978-94-6209-881-7
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The Business of Social and Environmental Innovation
In the face of limited progress toward meeting Millennium Development Goals or addressing climate change and resource degradation, increasing attention turns to harnessing the entrepreneurial, innovative, managerial and financial capacities of business for improved social and environmental outcomes. A more proactive role for business in sustainable development is especially pertinent in sub-Sah…
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- 978-3-319-04051-6
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- XI, 235
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Exploring New Horizons in Career Counselling Turning Challenge into Opportun…
This book brings together eminent global theorists and practitioners to share their views on the evolution of career counselling in recent decades. Multiple changes of a fundamental and complex nature, as well as related challenges in the world of work, have necessitated career counselling to undergo such an evolution. The authors examine the future nature and scope of new directions in the fie…
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- 978-94-6300-154-0
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- X, 350
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Exploring Literacies Theory, Research and Practice
This book is a guide to current research and debate in the field of literacies practice and education. It provides both an historical and lifespan view of the field as well as an overview of research methodologies with first-hand examples from a range of researchers involved in literacy research.
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- 978-1-137-31903-6
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- XXI, 420
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Exploring Learning & Teaching in Higher Education
The focus of this book is on exploring effective strategies in higher education that promote meaningful learning and go beyond discipline boundaries, with a special emphasis on Subjectivity Learning, Refreshing Lecturing, Learning through Construction, Learning through Transaction, Transformative Learning, Using Technology, and Assessment for Learning and Teaching in particular. The research co…
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- 978-3-642-55352-3
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- 16 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
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Exploring Innovative Pedagogy in the Teaching and Learning of Chinese as a Fo…
Teachers of Chinese as a foreign language in many international contexts are searching for pedagogic solutions to promote effective learning. Models of innovative and successful approaches are urgently needed. This volume presents a collection of compelling and empirically rich research studies that showcases innovative developments in the practice of teaching Chinese as a foreign language. The…
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- 978-981-287-772-7
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- 23 b/w illustrations
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Advances in Child Abuse Prevention Knowledge: The Perspective of New Leadership
This book addresses new avenues in child abuse prevention research that will expand our capacity to protect children. These new avenues result from the emergence of new research methods made possible through technologic advances, an understanding of the benefits of cross-disciplinary research and learning and the entrance of many young scholars in the field. The book explores what these avenues…
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- 978-3-319-16327-7
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- XVIII, 257
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- Child Maltreatment
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Experiencing the Outdoors
The space is outdoors. The experience is personal and the journey can be solitary or take place in groups. Informal or formal the places visited are sites of learning. Locked in memory our experiences in the outdoors are a constant source of wonderment and food to replenish our sense of wellbeing. Our experiences in the outdoors can endure in the abstract as ideas for developing a sense of a we…
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- 978-94-6209-944-9
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- XIV, 256
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Experiences in Liberal Arts and Science Education from America, Europe, and Asia
This book highlights the experiences of international leaders in liberal arts and science education from around the world as they discuss regional trends and models, with a specific focus on developments in and cooperation with China. Focusing on why this model responds to the twenty-first century requirements for excellence and relevance in undergraduate education, contributors examine if it c…
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- 978-1-349-94892-5
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