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Modelling-based Teaching in Science Education
This book argues that modelling should be a component of all school curricula that aspire to provide ‘authentic science education for all’. The literature on modelling is reviewed and a ‘model of modelling’ is proposed. The conditions for the successful implementation of the ‘model of modelling’ in classrooms are explored and illustrated from practical experience. The roles of argum…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-29038-6
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- XVIII, 264
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- Models and Modeling in Science Education
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Mindfulness and Educating Citizens for Everyday Life
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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Military Recruiting in High Schools
This book focuses exclusively on specific education policy instead of general military recruiting in high schools. "When the George W. Bush administration passed its landmark education legislation in 2001, dubbed the No Child Left Behind Act, legislators included a small section containing strict military recruiting mandates for public high schools. The law had two main provisions. First, a dat…
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- 978-94-6300-518-0
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- X, 146
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Elementary Mathematics from a Higher Standpoint Volume I: Arithmetic, Algebr…
These three volumes constitute the first complete English translation of Felix Klein’s seminal series “Elementarmathematik vom höheren Standpunkte aus”. “Complete” has a twofold meaning here: First, there now exists a translation of volume III into English, while until today the only translation had been into Chinese. Second, the English versions of volume I and II had omitted sev…
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- 978-3-662-49442-4
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- 125 b/w illustrations
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Elementary Mathematics from a Higher Standpoint Volume III: Precision Mathem…
These three volumes constitute the first complete English translation of Felix Klein’s seminal series “Elementarmathematik vom höheren Standpunkte aus”. “Complete” has a twofold meaning here: First, there now exists a translation of volume III into English, while until today the only translation had been into Chinese. Second, the English versions of volume I and II had omitted severa…
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- 978-3-662-49439-4
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- 156 b/w illustrations
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Mentoring for Learning:Climbing the Mountain
No doubt, students appreciate the talks they have with their mentors but do they learn from it as well? Conversations can be comforting or confronting, but
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- 1
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- 978-94-6300-058-1
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- XVI, 346
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Methodological Advances in Research on Emotion and Education
This volume presents different conceptual and theoretical frameworks as well as research methods that have helped educational researchers to study emotions. It includes innovative approaches that push the methodological boundaries that have served educational researchers until now and proposes new ways of researching emotions in educational contexts. In particular, this edited volume provides a…
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- 978-3-319-80481-1
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- XIV, 299
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Mentoring Processes in Higher Education
This book portrays the various ways in which mentoring occurs in higher education. Targeting the stakeholders who benefit from mentoring, namely faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, and their professional colleagues, this book supports those who are involved in the mentoring process. It synthesizes the professional literature on mentoring and shares examples of effective practices that…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-39215-8
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- XIV, 84
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- SpringerBriefs in Education SpringerBriefs in Education SpringerBriefs in Education
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Mental Health Screening at School:Instrumentation, Implementation, and Critic…
This volume examines the use of prediagnostic mental health screening as part of preventive services in primary and secondary schools. It presents the theory underlying mental health screening for children and the obstacles against its widespread implementation. Empirical findings illustrate the potential of schools as the platform for mental and general health services. The authors contribute …
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- 978-3-319-19170-6
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- XV, 136
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- Contemporary Issues in Psychological Assessment
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Mergers in Higher Education
This book addresses the critical knowledge gaps of mergers involving higher education institutions. It is based on a comparative research project (spring 2013-spring 2015) investigating the phenomena of mergers involving higher education institutions across the Nordic countries – Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark. The study involved close to 30 scholars from the region, and aimed at sheddin…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-21917-2
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- XII, 236
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- Higher Education Dynamics
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