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Paul Ricoeur : Empowering Education, Politics and Society
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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- 978-981-99-3475-1
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- XI, 122
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- SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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- 370 SCO p
Educating Students to Improve the World
This open access book addresses how to help students find purpose in a rapidly changing world. In a probing and visionary analysis of the field of global education Fernando Reimers explains how to lead the transformation of schools and school systems in order to more effectively prepare students to address today’s’ most urgent challenges and to invent a better future. Offering a comprehensi…
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- 978-981-15-3887-2
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- X, 131
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- SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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- 370 REI e
The Models of Engaged Learning and Teaching : Connecting Sophisticated Thinki…
This book provides a practical philosophy for promoting students' sophisticated thinking from Early Childhood to PhD in ways that explicitly interconnect across the years of education. It will help teachers, academics and the broader learning and teaching community to understand and implement these connections by introducing a conceptual framework, the Models of Engaged Learning and Teaching (M…
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- 978-981-15-2683-1
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- XIX, 140
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- SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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- 370 WIL m
Open and Distance Education in Asia, Africa and the Middle East : National Pe…
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book describes the history, structure and institutions of open and distance education in six countries: China, India, Russia, Turkey, South Africa and South Korea. It describes how open and distance education is evolving in a digital age to reflect the needs and circumstances of the national higher education systems in these countries…
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- 978-981-13-5787-9
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- VIII, 140
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- SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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- 370 OPE
The Change Laboratory for Teacher Training in Entrepreneurship Education : A …
This open access book illustrates a new type of formative intervention for in-service teacher training in entrepreneurship education. The book describes a Change Laboratory and shows how teachers and workshop assistants develop the idea of a multidisciplinary project entailing the design of a self-service and parking lot in a dismissed area close to the city centre. The multidisciplinary projec…
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- 978-3-030-02571-7
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- XV, 143
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- SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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- 370 MOR c
Mathematics Teacher Education in the Andean Region and Paraguay : A Comparati…
This Open Access book is an excellent synthesis of the initial and continuing preparation for Mathematics Teaching in Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay and Peru, from which comparative analyses can be made that show similarities and differences, and highlight various perspectives. In February 2016, the 5th Capacity and Networking Project (CANP) workshop of the International Commission on Mathematic…
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- 978-3-319-97544-3
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- XXX, 106
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- SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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- 510 MAT
Open and Distance Education in Australia, Europe and the Americas : National …
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book describes the history, structure and institutions of open and distance education in six countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, the UK and the US. It discusses how open and distance education is evolving in a digital age to reflect the needs and circumstances of national higher education systems in these countries, and …
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- 978-981-13-0298-5
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- VI, 131
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- SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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- 370 OPE
Mathematics Teacher Preparation in Central America and the Caribbean : The Ca…
This Open Access book is an excellent synthesis of the initial and continuing preparation for Mathematics Teaching in Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic and Venezuela, from which comparative analyses can be made that show similarities and differences, and highlight various perspectives. In August 2012, a workshop of the Capacity and Networking Project (CANP) of the International Co…
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- 978-3-319-44177-1
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- XVI, 86
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- SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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- 510 MAT
Continuous Cover Forestry in Boreal Nordic Countries
This open access book compiles the latest research on continuous cover forestry in boreal forests, highlighting both the need for additional information and the exciting possibilities that this method presents. Experts in the field explore topics such as forest regeneration, genetic effects, wood production and yield, wood harvesting, forest damage agents, biodiversity, water effects, carbon cy…
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- 9783031704840
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- X, 292
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Forest Bioeconomy and Climate Change
This edited open access volume explores the role of forest bioeconomy in addressing climate change. The authors put a particular focus on planetary boundaries and how the linear, growth-oriented economy, is coupled with climate change and environmental degradation. Biobased products and sustainable production paths have been developed, but how can they be scaled in order to lead to an economic…
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- 9783030992064
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- XVIII, 257
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