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Mobile Learning Design
This book focuses on mobile learning design from both theoretical and practical perspectives. It introduces and discusses how mobile learning can be effectively integrated into curricula, highlighting the design of four key components of learning-centric pedagogy: Resource, Activity, Support and Evaluation in the context of mobile learning. It also investigates the learning theories underpinnin…
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- 1
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- 978-981-10-0025-6
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- XVIII, 431
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- Lecture Notes in Educational Technology
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Embracing Indigenous Knowledge in Science and Medical Teaching
The focus of the book is on different ways of knowing: the western scientific way (reductionist, dualistic and materialist) versus the indigenous approach (holistic, non-dualistic, and spiritual). It discusses both science and medicine in the context of the challenges experienced in introducing science and medicine into Africa through imperialism, colonization, and globalization. It looks at se…
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- 1
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- 978-94-017-9300-1
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- 14 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
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Embodied Relating and Transformation Tales from Equine-Facilitated Counseling
What kinds of embodied and relational learning can come from developing a responsive relationship with a horse? What insights might such ways of learning offer counselors and educators? In this book, the authors explore how women challenged by disordered eating develop transformative relational and embodied experiences through Equine-Facilitated Counseling (EFC). Embodiment refers to how we…
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- 1
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- 978-94-6300-268-4
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- VIII, 136
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- -
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Embedded Engineering Education
This book focuses on the outcome of the European research project “FP7-ICT-2011-8 / 317882: Embedded Engineering Learning Platform” E2LP. Additionally, some experiences and researches outside this project have been included. This book provides information about the achieved results of the E2LP project as well as some broader views about the embedded engineering education. It captures projec…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-27540-6
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- 66 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
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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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- 1
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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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- -
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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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- 1
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- 978-3-662-49442-4
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- 125 b/w illustrations
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- -
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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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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 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
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-94-6300-058-1
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- XVI, 346
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