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Art's Teachings, Teaching's Art: Philosophical, Critical and Educational Musings
This volume examines the interface between the teachings of art and the art of teaching, and asserts the centrality of aesthetics for rethinking education. Many of the essays in this collection claim a direct connection between critical thinking, democratic dissensus, and anti-racist pedagogy with aesthetic experiences. They argue that aesthetics should be reconceptualized less as mere art appr…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-94-017-7191-7
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- XI, 249
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- Contemporary Philosophies and Theories in Education
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- 370 ART a
Wandering the Wards : An Ethnography of Hospital Care and its Consequences fo…
Wandering the Wards provides a detailed and unflinching ethnographic examination of life within the contemporary hospital. It reveals the institutional and ward cultures that inform the organisation and delivery of everyday care for one of the largest populations within them: people living with dementia who require urgent unscheduled hospital care. Drawing on five years of research embedded in …
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- 9780367644482
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- 301
Steal This Classroom : Teaching and Learning Unbound
Jody Cohen and Anne Dalke construe “classrooms” as testing grounds, paradoxically boxed-in spaces that cannot keep their promise to enclose, categorize, or name. Exploring what is usually left out can create conditions ripe for breaking through, where real and abstract reverse and melt, the distinction between them disappearing. These are ecotones, transitional spaces that are testing groun…
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- 9781950192380
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- 101
Heidegger and Development in the Global South
Taking the Heideggerian critical ontology of technology as its base, this volume looks at postcolonial modernization and development in the global south as the worldwide expansion of the western metaphysical understanding of reality. We live today in an increasingly globalizing technological society that Martin Heidegger described in the middle of the last century as ‘the planetary imperialis…
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- 978-81-322-2303-0
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- XIX, 309
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- 300 GEO h
Art and Illusionists
We delight in using our eyes, particularly when puzzling over pictures. Art and illusionists is a celebration of pictures and the multiple modes of manipulating them to produce illusory worlds on flat surfaces. This has proved fascinating to humankind since the dawning of depiction. Art and illusionists is also a celebration of the ways we see pictures, and of our ability to distil meaning from…
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- 978-3-319-25229-2
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- XII, 386
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- Vision, Illusion and Perception
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- 006.3 WAD a
Handbook of the Band Structure of Elemental Solids From Z = 1 To Z = 112
This handbook presents electronic structure data and tabulations of Slater-Koster parameters for the whole periodic table. This second edition presents data sets for all elements up to Z = 112, Copernicium, whereas the first edition contained only 53 elements. In this new edition, results are given for the equation of state of the elements together with the parameters of a Birch fit, so that…
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- 978-1-4419-8263-6
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- XV, 655
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- 530 PAP h
Visual Methodology in Migration StudiesNew Possibilities, Theoretical Implica…
This open access book explores the use of visual methods in migration studies through a combination of theoretical analyses and empirical studies. The first section looks at how various visual methods, including photography, film, and mental maps, may be used to analyse the spatial presence of migrants. The second section addresses the processual building of narratives around migration, thereby…
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- 9783030676087
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- 778.53
Handbook of Analytic Philosophy of Medicine
Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh (born 23 April 1942) is an analytic philosopher of medicine. He studied medicine and philosophy at the German universities of Münster, Berlin, and Göttingen with Internship and residency 1967-1971, assistant professor 1972-1982, full professor of philosophy of medicine at the University of Münster 1982-2004. Sadegh-Zadeh was born in Tabriz, Iran. He has made significant co…
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- 978-94-017-9578-4
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- XXXVIII, 1224
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- 610 SAD h
Guide to Process Based Modeling of Lakes and Coastal Seas
This new edition of Guide to Process Based Modeling of Lakes and Coastal Seas brings the modeling up to date, taking into account multiple stressors acting on aquatic systems. The combination of acidification and increasing amounts of anoxic waters associated with eutrophication puts severe stress on the marine environment. The detection and attribution of anthropogenic changes in coastal seas …
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- 978-3-319-17989-6
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- 978-3-319-17989-6
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Rhythms in Plants
This second edition of a well-received book focuses on rhythmic behaviour in plants, which regulates all developmental and adaptive responses and can thus be regarded as quintessential to life itself. The chapters provide a timely update on recent advances in this field and comprehensively summarize the current state of knowledge concerning the molecular and physiological mechanisms behind circ…
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