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Teaching And Learning Of Calculus
This survey focuses on the main trends in the field of calculus education. Despite their variety, the findings reveal a cornerstone issue that is strongly linked to the formalism of calculus concepts and to the difficulties it generates in the learning and teaching process. As a complement to the main text, an extended bibliography with some of the most important references on this topic is inc…
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- 978-3-319-32975-8
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- VII, 37
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- ICME-13 Topical Surveys
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Teaching And Learning In Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia is witnessing unprecedented progress in the field of higher education. Even though the country opened its first university in 1957, so far there seems to be little English scholarly writing about Saudi education in general and higher education in particular. The current expansion of Saudi Arabias higher-education system has put a spotlight on this serious gap in the international…
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- 978-94-6300-205-9
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- XVIII, 226
Teaching And Learning Mathematics In Multilingual Classrooms
Contemporary concerns in mathematics education recognize that in the increasingly technological and globalized world, with concomitant change in population demographics (e.g. immigration, urbanization) and a change in the status of languages (e.g. English as a dominant language of science and technology) multilingualism in classrooms is a norm rather than an exception. Shifts in perspective als…
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- 978-94-6300-229-5
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Teaching And Learning Mathematical Modelling
This survey provides an overview of the German discussion on modelling and applications in schools. It considers the development from the beginning of the 20th century to the present, and discusses the term “mathematical model” as well as different representations of the modelling process as modelling cycles. Different trends in the historical and current debate on applications and modellin…
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- 978-3-319-45004-9
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- VII, 42
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- ICME-13 Topical Surveys
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Teaching And Learning About Whole Numbers In Primary School
This book offers a theory for the analysis of how children learn and are taught about whole numbers. Two meanings of numbers are distinguished – the analytical meaning, defined by the number system, and the representational meaning, identified by the use of numbers as conventional signs that stand for quantities. This framework makes it possible to compare different approaches to making numbe…
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- 978-3-319-45113-8
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- Number of Pages IX, 50
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- ICME-13 Topical Surveys
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Adult Learning for Self and Relational Growth (ALG): An Integrative Developme…
This book describes an adult non-formal learning model, Adult Learning for Self and Relational Growth (ALG), aimed at promoting adults’ development in autonomy and interdependence, from early adulthood to old age. Grounded on tenets from cognitive psychology, philosophy, sociology, and adult education, the model assumes that human development is propelled by two psychological needs, person…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-94-6300-417-6
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- International Issues in Adult Education
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- 370 BOR a
Teaching Gender through Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Texts and Cultures
Teaching Gender through Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Texts and Cultures provides a dynamic exploration of the subject of teaching gender and feminism through the fundamental corpus encompassing Latin American, Iberian and Latino authors and cultures from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. The four editors have created a collaborative forum for both experienced and new voices to share m…
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- 978-94-6300-091-8
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- XII, 230
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- Teaching Gender
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Adult Education, Museums and Art Galleries: Animating Social, Cultural and In…
This is a book about adult education in the sphere of public museums and art galleries. It aims to enrich and expand dialogue and understanding amongst adult and community educators, curators, artists, directors, and cultural activists who work within and beyond the walls of these institutions. The various chapters take up the complex and interconnected pedagogics of subjectivity, identity, mea…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-94-6300-687-3
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- XXII, 264
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- International Issues in Adult Education
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- 370 ADU a
Teaching English Reading in the Chinese-Speaking World
This book investigates inherent, structural differences in the Chinese and English writing systems which predispose learners from childhood to develop specific literacy-learning strategies, which can impair later efforts at learning foreign language literacy if the foreign language script varies significantly from the native language script. It compares educational practices and philosophies in…
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- 978-981-10-0643-2
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- XIV, 185
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- Springer Texts in Education
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Adult Education in Communities: Approaches From A Participatory Perspective
Participation can be a double-edged sword in that it can be used to bind people into agendas and policies they have little control over or it can help enable them to give voice to real and significant issues. Drawing on the work of Raymond Williams, genuine participation has to be an open and democratic process which enables all to contribute to the creation of meanings. Adult education in comm…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-94-6300-043-7
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- XII, 140
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- International Issues in Adult Education
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- 370 LUC a
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