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English as a Medium of Instruction in Higher Education
This book presents the multiple facets of English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) in higher education across various academic disciplines, an area that is expected to grow constantly in response to the competitive global higher education market. The studies presented were conducted in various EMI classrooms, with data collected from observing and documenting the teaching activities, and from i…
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- 978-981-10-4645-2
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- English Language Education
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- XIII, 213
Riskante Nähe
Ausgangspunkt der Arbeit ist eine neue, mediale Thematisierung sexueller Gewalt durch pädagogische Fachkräfte seit 2010. Dieser wird zu Beginn der Arbeit als Gegenstand seine ambivalenten Folgen dargestellt. Zum einen entwickelte sich ein großes Potential für Prävention, Intervention und längst überfällige Aufarbeitung. Zum anderen kommt es zu einem gesellschaftlichen Generalverdacht ge…
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- 978-3-658-43049-8
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- XIX, 403
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Sex Differences in Reading and Math Test Scores of Children
This open access book examines why reading and math test scores for boys and girls have differed since the origins of testing in the United States. It details the pattern of differences that have remained largely unchanged for more than 100 years in the United States and worldwide. The book explores why boys have modestly larger math test score means than girls, and why girls have far larger re…
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- 978-3-031-41271-4
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- XII, 108
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New Approaches to Understanding Trends and Patterns
In diesem Open-Access-Buch geht der Autor der Frage nach, warum Technik als wesentlicher Bestandteil der Kultur in der Bildung nur eine untergeordnete Bedeutung hat und begründet mit Hilfe technikphilosophischer Analysen einen Kulturreihenansatz für die Auswahl von Inhalten für den Technikunterricht. Aus dem Doppelauftrag von Schule, Persönlichkeitsbildung und Enkulturation wird zunächst e…
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- 978-3-658-42582-1
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- XXII, 469
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Media-Related Out-of-School Contact with English in Germany and Switzerland
This open access book aimes to close a critical research gap in understanding how frequently German-speaking adolescents come into contact with the English language through various media channels, such as television, books, or the internet, and how this contact influences learners’ English competences. In addition, this research project explores the effect of family background and gender on…
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- 978-3-031-32799-5
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Paul Ricoeur
This open access book employs Paul Ricoeur's methodologies to identify, challenge, and replace with responsible language the many continuing abuses of power, including in the university curriculum and in the international discourse of right-wing populism. Using Ricoeur’s philosophy, the book provides a meta-frame for current debates about the university and a pragmatic micro-frame for support…
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- 978-3-031-32799-5
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Building the intentional university :Minerva and the future of higher education
Includes index."We start with a simple question: If you could reinvent higher education for the 21st century, what should it look like? We began by taking a hard look at problems in traditional higher education, and innovated in many ways to address these problems head-on: We have created a new curriculum, focusing on what we call "practical knowledge"; we have developed new pedagogy, based on …
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- 9780262343695
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- 1 online resource
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Robot-proof :higher education in the age of artificial intelligence
"How to educate the next generation of college students to invent, to create, and to discover--filling needs that even the most sophisticated robot cannot. Driverless cars are hitting the road, powered by artificial intelligence. Robots can climb stairs, open doors, win Jeopardy, analyze stocks, work in factories, find parking spaces, advise oncologists. In the past, automation was considered a…
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- 9780262344319
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- 1 online resource (xxi, 187 pages)
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Good Reception: Teens, Teachers, and Mobile Media in a Los Angeles High School
A year in the life of a ninth-grade English class shows how participatory culture and mobile devices can transform learning in schools.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262343480
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- 1 online resource (xii, 230 pages).
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After America's midlife crisis
A longtime community organizer outlines a way to reverse the fifty-year decline in social mobility and economic progress. Michael Gecan, a longtime community organizer, offers in this book a disturbing conclusion: the kinds of problems that began to afflict large cities in the 1970s have now spread to the suburbs and beyond. The institutional cornerstones of American life are on an extended …
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- 9780262258791
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- 1 online resource (128 pages).
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