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(Re)theorising More-than-parental Involvement in Early Childhood Education an…
This open access book provides a critical, thought-provoking, and stimulating overview of theories applied worldwide to conceptualise collaborations between early childhood education and children's families. The book starts with a critical reflection on the colonial undertones of parental involvement (PI) and acknowledges a strong political will to improve this aspect of early childhood educati…
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- 978-3-031-38762-3
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- XXI, 203
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- International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development (CHILD, volume 40)
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- 370 RET
Methodology for Research with Early Childhood Education and Care Professional…
This open access book addresses the growing trend in the field of early childhood education and care (ECEC) research named collaborative knowledge building in which researchers and ECEC personnel collaborate. This kind of research encompasses a number of approaches, such as design studies, action studies, Learning Studies, Lesson Studies, and combined research and development studies. There …
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- 978-3-031-14583-4
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- XII, 181
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- International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development (CHILD, volume 38)
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- 370 MET
Rural School Improvement in Developing Countries
This open access book examines the rural school improvement programs implemented in four developing countries, including China, Myanmar, Uganda, and Kenya. It analyzes research questions such as problems faced by rural schools in these countries, approaches or models adopted to improve these rural schools, specific interventions to address the problems and their effectiveness, and lessons learn…
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- 978-981-97-4917-1
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- XVII, 125
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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Play-Responsive Teaching in Early Childhood Education
This open access book develops a theoretical concept of teaching that is relevant to early childhood education, and based on children’s learning and development through play. It discusses theoretical premises and research on playing and learning, and proposes the development of play-responsive didaktik. It examines the processes and products of learning and development, teaching and its phyl…
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- 978-3-030-15958-0
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- XIII, 183
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- International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development (CHILD, volume 26)
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- 370 PRA p
Outdoor Learning and Play : Pedagogical Practices and Children's Cultural For…
This Open Access book examines children’s participation in dialectical reciprocity with place-based institutional practices by presenting empirical research from Australia, Brazil, China, Poland, Norway and Wales. Underpinned by cultural-historical theory, the analysis reveals how outdoors and nature form unique conditions for children's play, formal and informal learning and cultural formati…
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- 978-3-030-72595-2
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- XV, 201
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- International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development (CHILD, volume 34)
- Call Number
- 370 OUT
Children's Exploration and Cultural Formation
This open access book examines the educational conditions that support cultures of exploration in kindergartens. It conceptualises cultures of exploration, whether those cultures are created through children’s own engagement or are demanded of them through undertaking specific tasks within different institutional settings. It shows how the conditions for children’s exploration form a web of…
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- 978-3-030-36271-3
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- VIII, 187
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- International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development (CHILD, volume 29)
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- 370 CHI
Equity Policies in Global Higher Education
This book discusses and analyses global policies and practices aimed at promoting equity in higher education participation and attainment. Although the massification of higher education systems has facilitated the participation of students from deprived backgrounds, socioeconomic inequalities persist in access to the most prestigious institutions and programmes. Privileged students benefit from…
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- 978-3-030-69691-7
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Issues in Higher Education
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- 306
The Dynamics of Opportunity in America
Across the country, our children are beginning life from very different starting points. Some have aspirations and believe they can be achieved. For too many others, aspirations are tempered, if not dashed, by the sobering realities of everyday life. These different starting points place children on distinctly different trajectories of growth and development, ultimately leading to vastly differ…
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- 978-3-319-25991-8
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- 370
Script Effects as the Hidden Drive of the Mind, Cognition, and Culture
This open access volume reveals the hidden power of the script we read in and how it shapes and drives our minds, ways of thinking, and cultures. Expanding on the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis (i.e., the idea that language affects the way we think), this volume proposes the “Script Relativity Hypothesis” (i.e., the idea that the script in which we read affects the way we think) by offer…
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- 978-3-030-55152-0
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- XXIV, 251
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- Literacy Studies (LITS, volume 21)
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- 306 PAE s
Principles and Practice of Case-based Clinical Reasoning Education: A Method …
his book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This volume describes and explains the educational method of Case-Based Clinical Reasoning (CBCR) used successfully in medical schools to prepare students to think like doctors before they enter the clinical arena and become engaged in patient care. Although this approach poses the paradoxical problem of a lack of clinical experience that…
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- 1
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- 9783319648286
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- X, 207
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