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The Evolution and Evaluation of Massive Open Online Courses
This book offers a re-assessment of the educational and occupational value of MOOCs based on developments since 2013. When MOOCs appeared--amidst great fanfare in 2012, leaders proclaimed an educational “revolution.” By 2013, however, dramatic failures, negative research findings, and sharp critiques ended the MOOC hype. This book examines both MOOCs and prior distance learning innovations,…
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- 978-1-349-85204-8
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- XVII, 136
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- The Cultural and Social Foundations of Education
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The Educational Significance of Human and Non-Human Animal Interactions
The Educational Significance of Human and Non-Human Animal Interactions explores human animal/non-human animal interactions from different disciplinary perspectives, from education policy to philosophy of education and ecopedagogy. The authors refute the idea of anthropocentrism (the belief that human beings are the central or most significant species on the planet) through an ethical investiga…
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- 978-1-137-50525-5
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- XIII, 234
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The Politics, Practices, and Possibilities of Migrant Children Schools in Con…
This book examines the dynamics surrounding the education of children in the unofficial schools in China’s urban migrant communities. This ethnographic study focuses on both the complex structural factors impacting the education of children attending unofficial migrant children schools and the personal experiences of individuals working within these communities. As the book illustrates in car…
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- 978-1-137-50900-0
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- XVII, 185
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- Palgrave Studies on Chinese Education in a Global Perspective
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The Reformation in Economics
This book carves the beginnings of a new path in the arguably weary discipline of economics. It combines a variety of perspectives – from the history of ideas to epistemology – in order to try to understand what has gone so wrong with economics and articulate a coherent way forward. This is undertaken through a dual path of deconstruction and reconstruction. Mainstream economics is broken d…
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- 978-3-319-40757-9
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- XV, 368
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The Proceedings of the 12th International Congress on Mathematical Education
This book comprises the Proceedings of the 12th International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME-12), which was held at COEX in Seoul, Korea, from July 8th to 15th, 2012. ICME-12 brought together 3500 experts from 92 countries, working to understand all of the intellectual and attitudinal challenges in the subject of mathematics education as a multidisciplinary research and practice. This…
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- 978-3-319-12688-3
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- XVIII, 648
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New Perspectives on Curriculum, Learning and Assessment
This book offers a detailed analysis and assessment of the state of education round the world. The argument is made that education and curriculum practices are deficient for two reasons. The first is the adoption by governments, policy-makers and practitioners of a set of knowledge practices that can be broadly characterised as empiricist and technicist, and which has come to dominate how curri…
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- 978-3-319-22830-3
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- XIII, 210
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- Evaluating Education: Normative Systems and Institutional Practices
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Understanding Social Justice in Rural Education
This book explores what social justice looks like for rural schools in Australia. The author challenges the consensus that sees the distribution of resources as the panacea for the myriad challenges faced by rural schools and argues that the solution to inequality and injustice in rural settings has to take into account other important dimensions of social justice such as recognition and associ…
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- 978-1-137-50515-6
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- VII, 215
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Learning to Teach with Assessment: A Student Teaching Experience in China
This ethnography asks the question, what does learning to teach mean to student teachers and to those around them in an exam-driven rural school in China? The author writes of the process of using the assessment as a tool for teacher learning, understanding disadvantaged students in the community of practice, and of beginning teachers seeking their identities. She offers a perspective of learni…
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- 978-981-287-272-2
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Large-Scale Studies in Mathematics Education
In recent years, funding agencies like the Institute of Educational Sciences and the National Science Foundation have increasingly emphasized large-scale studies with experimental and quasi-experimental designs looking for 'objective truths'. Educational researchers have recently begun to use large-scale studies to understand what really works, from developing interventions, to validation studi…
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- 978-3-319-07716-1
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- i-xxix hlm
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Teacher Beliefs as a Complex System: English Language Teachers in China
The volume is a practical introduction to the ways in which the teachers deal with classroom events in the context of change for researchers, teachers, administrators who wish to implement curriculum reform to EFL in schools. The author provides insights into the beliefs of Chinese teachers of English as a Foreign Language (EFL), and their pedagogical choices in the context of the National Engl…
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- 978-3-319-23009-2
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- XVII, 170
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- English Language Education
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