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Transition and Transgression
This book conveys the story of a society in the throes of restructuring itself and struggling to find a new identity. A particularly attractive aspect of this study is the focus on young adult literature and its place in post-apartheid South Africa, as well as its potential use in the classroom and lecture hall. Intersecting these two topics provides a compelling lens for refocusing debate on …
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-25534-7
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- VI, 120
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Education
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Transforming Teacher Quality in the Global South
A common story of teachers from the Global South portrays them as deficient, unreliable and unprofessional. However, this book uses an innovative Capability Approach/Critical Realist lens to reveal the causal links between teachers' constrained capabilities and their 'criticised' behaviours and offer nuanced, creative strategies for improvements.
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- 1
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- 978-1-137-49544-0
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- X, 233
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Educating the deliberate professional : preparing for future practices
This book takes a fresh look at professional practice and professional education. In times of increased managerialism of academic teaching and a focus on graduate learning outcomes, it discusses possibilities to teach and learn otherwise. A deliberate professional is someone who consciously, thoughtfully and courageously makes choices about how to act and be in the practice world. A pedagogy of…
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- -
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- 9783319329581
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- xiii, 234 pages
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- 378
Jost Bürgi's Aritmetische und Geometrische Progreß Tabulen (1620): Edition …
This monograph presents a groundbreaking scholarly treatment of the German mathematician Jost Bürgi’s original work on logarithms, Arithmetische und Geometrische Progreß Tabulen. It provides the first-ever English translation of Bürgi’s text and illuminates his role in the development of the conception of logarithms, for which John Napier is traditionally given priority. High-resolutio…
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- 978-1-4939-3161-3
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- -
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Education reform in the Obama Era : the second term and the 2016 election
This title offers a sophisticated overview of President Obama's education agenda, exploring how and why education policy became national and ultimately presidential over the past seven decades
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- -
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- 9781137582126
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- xi, 117 pages
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- -
- Call Number
- 371
Education skills for 21st century teachers : voices from a global online educ…
This monograph presents the current views, challenges and future needs of educators from a global online exchange where educators and researchers discuss the 21st century skills needed by students and teachers. The three editors, who participated in the global online research discussion group, also assumed the role of authors to summarise, analyse and celebrate the myriad of ideas generated in …
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- -
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- 9783319226088
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- xvii, 114 pages
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- -
- Call Number
- 378
Education Technology Policies in the Middle East : Globalisation, Neoliberali…
This book explores the potential educational technologies have for transforming education in the Middle East. Although technology has increasingly become a part of classrooms around the globe over recent decades, its application in classrooms in the MENA region remains underused and this book draws on a case study from the Arabian Gulf to examine the beneficial impact technologies have on teach…
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- -
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- 9783319332666
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- xix, 191 pages 4 illustrations
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- -
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- 370
Transformative Researchers and Educators for Democracy
The 2012 Critical Transformative Educational Leadership and Policy Annual Conference hosted by the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth met head-on with issues of neoliberalism, educational democracy, cultural politics, public education, and seeing teachers and administrators as critical transformational leaders. This book is a collection of the highlights of that conference that addresses the…
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- 1
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- 978-94-6209-914-2
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- XXXVIII, 234
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- -
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Transformative Approaches to Sustainable Development at Universities
This book documents and disseminates experiences from a wide range of universities, across the five continents, which showcase how the principles of sustainable development may be incorporated as part of university programmes, and present transformatory projects and programmes, showing how sustainability can be implemented across disciplines. Sustainability in a higher education context is a fa…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-08837-2
- Collation
- Switzerland
- Series Title
- World Sustainability Series
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- -
Critical Digital Pedagogy in Higher Education
Recent efforts to solve the problems of education—created by neoliberalism in and out of higher education—have centred on the use of technology that promises efficiency, progress tracking, and automation. The editors of this volume argue that using technology in this way reduces learning to a transaction. They ask administrators, instructors, and learning designers to reflect on our relatio…
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- -
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- 9781778290015.01
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- -
- Series Title
- Issues in Distance Education
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- 6 x 9, 256
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