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Transactions on Edutainment XI
This journal subline serves as a forum for stimulating and disseminating innovative research ideas, theories, emerging technologies, empirical investigations, state-of-the-art methods, and tools in all different genres of edutainment, such as game-based learning and serious games, interactive storytelling, virtual learning environments, VR-based education, and related fields. It covers aspects …
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- 1
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- 978-3-662-48246-9
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- XIII, 266
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- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Training for Model Citizenship
This book explores the state in post-genocide Rwanda through an ethnography of a state-run civic education program and everyday forms of government. In 2007, the Rwandan government introduced a nationwide civic education program, called Itorero, to teach all inhabitants about its vision of the model Rwandan citizen. Since then, this ideal has been pursued through remote training camps, villag…
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- 1
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- 978-1-137-58421-2
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- X, 276
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- -
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Essays in the History of Irish Education
This book provides a complete overview of the development of education in Ireland including the complex issue of how religion can coexist with education and how a national identity can be aided through Irish language teaching. It also offers a comprehensive exploration of the development, issues, challenges and future of education in Ireland within the context of historical studies.
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- -
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- 978-1-137-51482-0
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- XVII, 393
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- -
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Investigating Chinese HE EFL Classrooms: Using Collaborative Learning to Enha…
This book presents a study on corpus-driven distribution as the main method of prediction, concentrating on individual semantic features to predict the senses of non-defined words by using corpora and tools, such as the Chinese Gigaword Corpus, HowNet, Chinese Wordnet, and XianDai HanYu CiDian (Xian Han). With the help of these corpora, the study determines the collocation clusters of four targ…
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- 978-3-662-44503-7
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- -
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Adapted Primary Literature: The Use of Authentic Scientific Texts in Secondar…
This book specifies the foundation for Adapted Primary Literature (APL), a novel text genre that enables the learning and teaching of science using research articles that were adapted to the knowledge level of high-school students. More than 50 years ago, J.J. Schwab suggested that Primary Scientific Articles “afford the most authentic, unretouched specimens of enquiry that we can obtain” a…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-94-017-9759-7
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- XIV, 242
- Series Title
- Innovations in Science Education and Technology
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- 507 YAR a
Activity Theory in Education: Research and Practice
Activity Theory in Education: Research and Practice brings together cutting-edge scholars from a number of continents. Through in-depth case studies the authors highlight how Activity Theory is used in education and discuss the theoretical as well as pragmatic use of Activity Theory frameworks in a range of contemporary learning contexts. The first section of the book focuses on empirical resea…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-94-6300-387-2
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- XII, 198
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- -
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- 370 ACT a
Active Collaborative Education: A Journey towards Teaching
ACE (Active Collaborative Education) set out on its educational journey in October 2001. At the time, graduates of the college were enthusiastically accepted in the field, smoothly slipping into the school system and highly appreciated as ‘good teachers’. However, this situation did not please this book’s contributors. They wanted to see ACE graduates as different teachers, agents of chan…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-94-6300-402-2
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- XVIII, 184
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- -
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- 370 ACT a
Achieving Teaching Quality in Sub-Saharan Africa: Empirical Results from Casc…
Sarah Lange examines the effectiveness of cascade training, which constitutes a cost-effective training model in teacher training. In development cooperation countries, teaching quality is expected to improve with teacher professional development; for this purpose, she explores the effectiveness of training multipliers in schools in Cameroon. This research question is analysed with a design, wh…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-658-14683-2
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- XV, 235
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- -
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- 370 LAN a
Accelerating Academia: The Changing Structure of Academic Time
Filip Vostal examines the changing nature of academic time, and analyzes the 'will to accelerate' that has emerged as a significant cultural and structural force in knowledge production.
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-1-137-47360-8
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- XI, 242
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- -
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- 372.8 VOS a
Academic Work and Careers in Europe: Trends, Challenges, Perspectives
This book explores the perceptions of academic staff and representatives of institutional leadership about the changes in academic careers and academic work experienced in recent years. It emphasizes standardisation and differentiation of academic career paths, impacts of new forms of quality management on academic work, changes in recruitment, employment and working conditions, and academics…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-10720-2
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- VI, 214
- Series Title
- The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective
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- 378 ACA a
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