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African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation
This open access book discusses current thinking and presents the main issues and challenges associated with climate change in Africa. It introduces evidences from studies and projects which show how climate change adaptation is being - and may continue to be successfully implemented in African countries. Thanks to its scope and wide range of themes surrounding climate change, the ambition is t…
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- 9783030420918
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- 2656 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Reading Success in the Primary Years = An Evidence-Based Interdisciplinary Ap…
This open access book describes the Reading Success project, in which a 5-step, assessment-to- intervention process, based on the Simple View of Reading, was used within a primary school setting in Australia to better support those students who struggle with reading. It provides an easily accessible overview of each step of the process involved in implementing this approach and highlights the c…
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- 9789811534928
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- XVI, 149 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Educational Change Amongst English Language College Teachers in China [= Tran…
This open access book provides anthropological insights into the arduous yet rewarding journeys involved in selected TESOL teachers’ pedagogical transition to teaching English for Academic Purposes (EAP) at universities in Shanghai, the largest metropolitan area in China. Applying a unique combination of ethnography and phenomenology, the book offers innovative new perspectives on teacher e…
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- 9789811530531
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- X, 149 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Bioethics and the Holocaust = A Comprehensive Study in How the Holocaust Cont…
This open access book offers a framework for understanding how the Holocaust has shaped and continues to shape medical ethics, health policy, and questions related to human rights around the world. The field of bioethics continues to face questions of social and medical controversy that have their roots in the lessons of the Holocaust, such as debates over beginning-of-life and medical genetics…
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- 9783031019876
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- XII, 323 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- 96
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Preparing for Life in a Digital World = IEA International Computer and Inform…
This Open Access book summarizes the key findings from the second cycle of IEA’s International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS), conducted in 2018. ICILS seeks to establish how well schools around the globe are responding to the need to provide young people with the necessary digital participatory competencies. Effective use of information and communication technologies (ICT) i…
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- 9783030387815
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- XXII, 297 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Migration, Displacement, and Higher Education
This open access book is a nuanced introduction to Forced Migration Studies and a toolkit for faculty and undergraduate students, with a special emphasis on community-engaged learning. Experts from the social sciences, humanities, arts, and experimental sciences offer interdisciplinary perspectives to translate critical analysis into concrete action. The collection highlights activists, artists…
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- 9783031123504
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- XXVIII, 299 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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English Language Education for Graduate Employability in Vietnam
his chapter provides an introduction into the book. It briefly summarizes issues related to graduate employability and points out that English language competency is an essential employability capital itself, and English language education can help develop other types of employability capital. Based on evidence from the literature, it points out that there is a mismatch between the curren…
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- 9789819943388
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- XVIII, 380
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Handbook of Open, Distance and Digital Education
his chapter provides a brief overview of the overall structure by the Chief Editors of the Handbook of Open, Distance, and Digital Education (ODDE) published in Springer’s Major Reference Series. The handbook is organized along the lines of the 3M-Framework covering all important issues related to ODDE at the macro- (ODDE systems, theories, and methods), meso- (ODDE educational managemen…
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- 9789811920806
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- XXVI, 1437
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Sex Differences in Reading and Math Test Scores of Children = A Heterodoxical…
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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- 9783031412721
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- XII, 108 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Diversity and Inclusion in Global Higher Education = Lessons from Across Asia
This open access book offers pioneering insights and practical methods for promoting diversity and inclusion in higher education classrooms and curricula. It highlights the growing importance of international education programs in Asia and the value of understanding student diversity in a changing, evermore interconnected world. The book explores diversity across physical, psychological and cog…
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- 9789811516283
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- XIX, 304 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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