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The Philosophy of Mathematics Education
This survey provides a brief and selective overview of research in the philosophy of mathematics education. It asks what makes up the philosophy of mathematics education, what it means, what questions it asks and answers, and what is its overall importance and use? It provides overviews of critical mathematics education, and the most relevant modern movements in the philosophy of mathematics. …
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- 978-3-319-40569-8
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- VII, 26
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- ICME-13 Topical Surveys
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Integrating Emotions and Cognition Throughout the Lifespan
This book synthesizes the literature on emotional development and cognition across the lifespan. The book proposes a core language by which to describe positive and problematic developmental changes by recourse to a parsimonious set of core principles, such as elevations or declines in tension thresholds and their relation to the waxing and waning of the cognitive system over the life course. I…
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- 978-3-319-09822-7
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Young Children Playing Relational Approaches to Emotional Learning in Early …
The subject of this book is young children’s emotional-social learning and development within early childhood care and education settings in Aotearoa-New Zealand. The focus on emotional complexity fills a gap in early childhood care and education research where young children are frequently framed narrowly as ‘learners,’ ignoring the importance of emotional functioning and the feelings wi…
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- 978-981-10-1207-5
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Reflections on Life in Higher Education
This book explores the challenges of an academic teaching career. The authors discuss the issues that may arise in the tenure process, scholarship activities, publishing, and providing service to their academic communities as well as how to keep teaching lessons relevant and fresh.
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- 978-1-137-56045-2
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- 370.1
Alternative Theoretical Frameworks for Mathematics Education Research: Theory…
This book explicates some of the fundamental philosophical tenets underpinning key theoretical frameworks, and demonstrates how these tenets inform particular kinds of research practice in mathematics education research. We believe that a deep understanding of significant theories from the humanities and social sciences is crucial for doing high-quality research in education. For that reason, t…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-33961-0
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- IX, 193
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- 510.07 FRE a
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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Ethics and Science Education: How Subjectivity Matters
This book encapsulates a line of research that looks at how students are positioned as ethical actors/decision makers in biology education by science policy, curriculum, and classroom resources. Its basis comes from a textbook study that examined how biology texts work to constitute subjectivities related to neoliberalism and global capitalism, sex/gender and sexuality, and ethics. The study fo…
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- 978-3-319-39132-8
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- 1 illustrations in colour
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Ethical Dimensions of Muslim Education
This book draws upon ethical dimensions of Muslim education as a means through which to address contemporary issues, such as social and societal conflicts, exclusion and marginalisation, and violence. It argues that an ethical Muslim education is underscored by the practice of autonomous, critical and deliberative engagement that can engender reflective judgement, compassionate recognition and …
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- 978-3-319-29317-2
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- XXX, 162
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Academic Barbarism, Universities and Inequality
The image of the university is tarnished: this book examines how recent philosophies of education, new readings of its economics, new technologies affecting research and access, and contemporary novelists' representations of university life all describe a global university that has given up on its promise of greater educational equality.
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-1-137-54761-3
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- X, 175
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- Palgrave Critical University Studies
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- 378 OSU a
A Philosophy of Israel Education: A Relational Approach
This book develops a new philosophy of Israel education. “Person-centered” Israel education is concerned with developing in individual learners the ability to understand and make rational, emotional, and ethical decisions about Israel, and about the challenges Israel regularly faces, whether they be existential, spiritual, democratic, humanitarian, national, etc. Chazan begins by laying out…
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- 978-3-319-30779-4
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- 200.11 CHA p
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