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History of Mathematics Teaching and Learning: Achievements, Problems, Prospects
This work examines the main directions of research conducted on the history of mathematics education. It devotes substantial attention to research methodologies and the connections between this field and other scholarly fields. The results of a survey about academic literature on this subject are accompanied by a discussion of what has yet to be done and problems that remain unsolved. The m…
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- 978-3-319-31615-4
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- X, 40
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- 510 KAR h
Early career teachers : stories of resilience
This book addresses one of the most persistent issues confronting governments, educations systems and schools today: the attraction, preparation, and retention of early career teachers. It draws on the stories of sixty graduate teachers from Australia to identify the key barriers, interferences and obstacles to teacher resilience and what might be done about it. Based on these stories, five int…
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- 9789812871732
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Early childhood education in three cultures : China, Japan and the United States
This book, written by an international team of experienced researchers, investigates unique and dynamic approaches to key issues in policy transformation, curriculum reforms and teacher training in three cultures? China, Japan and the United States? in a globalized world. By examining their respective policy choices and evidence-based practices, the authors show how best to provide for young ch…
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- 9783662449868
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- 370.9
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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Organizational Change in the Field of Education Administration
Organizational Change in the Field of Education Administration" is one of the free open textbooks for Tertiary level. Feel free to use, adapt and modify the content to your own needs, and share the improved content with others because the book is offered under Creative Commons (CC) license. It allows users to repurpose the materials under the condition that original authors’ contribution is a…
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Mindfulness and Educating Citizens for Everyday Life:Mindfulness and Educatin…
Mindfulness and Educating Citizens for Everyday Life invites readers to explore the role mindfulness can play in mediating how we enact social life in today’s increasingly challenging and challenged world. The educators and researchers who have contributed to this book use mindfulness as a lens to address and untangle what is becoming a profoundly complicated way of being within the reality o…
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- 978-94-6300-570-8
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- X, 280
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- Bold Visions in Educational Research
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Early study-abroad and identities : Korean early study-abroad undergraduates
This book investigates how transnational English learning experiences can influence students' identities. More specifically, it delineates how Korean early study abroad undergraduates perceive English and how they have formed their ethnic identities based on their early study abroad experiences. They tend to see themselves "in between" two cultures/languages and this in-between-ness is the most…
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- 9789812879103
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- 353.8
Local Languages as a Human Right in Education: Comparative Cases from Africa
There seems to be general agreement that children learn better when they understand what the teacher is saying. In Africa this is not the case. Instruction is given in a foreign language, a language neither pupils nor the teachers understand well. This is the greatest educational problem there is in Africa. This is the problem this book discusses and it is therefore an important book. The recen…
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- 978-94-6209-947-0
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Facing Trajectories from School to Work Towards a Capability-Friendly Youth …
This book promotes a radical alternative impact on youth policy in Europe to overcome the situation of vulnerability and discrimination of a growing number of youngsters in their transition from school to work. It follows a Human Development perspective in using the Capability Approach (CA) as analytical and methodological guiding tool to improve the social conditions of the most socially vulne…
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- 978-3-319-11436-1
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Spotlight on China Changes in Education under China’s Market Economy
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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