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From Bricks to Brains The Embodied Cognitive Science of LEGO Robots
From Bricks to Brains introduces embodied cognitive science, and illustrates its foundational ideas through the construction and observation of LEGO Mindstorms robots. Discussing the characteristics that distinguish embodied cognitive science from classical cognitive science, From Bricks to Brains places a renewed emphasis on sensing and acting, the importance of embodiment, the exploration of …
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- 9781897425787.01
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- 354 pages
Connectionist Representations of Tonal Music Discovering Musical Patterns by…
Intended to introduce readers to the use of artificial neural networks in the study of music, this volume contains numerous case studies and research findings that address problems related to identifying scales, keys, classifying musical chords, and learning jazz chord progressions. A detailed analysis of the internal structure of trained networks could yield important contributions to the fiel…
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- 9781771992206.01
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- 6 x 9, 312 pages
The Body in Professional Practice, Learning and Education
Body/Practice is an extensive volume dedicated to exploring these and related questions, philosophically and empirically. It constitutes a rare but much needed reframing of scholarship relating to professional practice and its relation with professional learning and professional education more generally. It takes bodies seriously, developing theoretical frameworks, offering detailed analyses fr…
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- 978-3-319-00140-1
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- XVI, 265
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- Professional and Practice-based Learning
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Expansive Learning in Professional Contexts A Materialist Perspective
This book discusses approaches to organizational learning from a materialist point of view. Inspired by research into Police Firearms training, features of expansive learning inform the development of perspectives on training which challenge traditional modes of research and delivery. The book critically reviews a range of approaches to expansive learning and organizational research, establishi…
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- 978-1-137-57436-7
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- XI, 119
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Mind, State and Society: Social History of Psychiatry and Mental Health in Br…
The present work emerged from more than a decade of conversations, co-organising events and co-authoring articles. Much of this has taken place through the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) Psychiatry Section activities, especially at its programme on Psychiatry in Dialogue with Neuroscience Medicine and Society.
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Learning and Teaching Real World Problem Solving in School Mathematics: A Mul…
The ultimate aim of this book is to identify the conceptual tools and the instructional modalities which enable students and teachers to cross the boundary between school mathematics and real world problem solving. The book identifies, examines, and integrates seven conceptual tools, of which five are constructs (activity theory, narrative, modeling, critical mathematics education, ethnomathema…
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- 978-3-319-08204-2
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Learning Technologies and Globalization: Pedagogical Frameworks and Applications
his brief describes the evolutionary and global impact of the techno-social transformation on learning technologies in terms of emerging pedagogical frameworks and applications. it provides examples of such applications in higher education, K-12, and the workplace, across the globe. The transformation and diffusion of ICT into an ever-present and accessible phenomenon is fundamentally shapi…
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- 978-3-319-22963-8
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Educational Contexts and Borders through a Cultural Lens
This book provides a “context” of discussion for researchers and educational experts in order to rethink the relationship between actors, practices and borders within the educational contexts. The research in educational psychology has often challenged the concept of “educational context”. According to the different theoretical frameworks, the construct of contexts, their borders and th…
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- 7 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
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- XXI, 366
Leadership of Assessment, Inclusion, and Learning
This book provides pragmatic strategies and models for student assessment and ameliorates the heightened sense of confusion that too many educators and leaders experience around the complexities associated with assessment. In particular, it offers guidance to school and district personnel charged with fair and appropriate assessment of students who represent a wide variety of abilities and cult…
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- 978-3-319-23347-5
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Leadership and Organizational Outcomes: Meta-Analysis of Empirical Studies
This book focuses on the effect of leadership on organizational outcomes and summarizes the current research findings in the field. It addresses the need for inclusive and interpretive studies in the field in order to interpret leadership literature and suggest new pathways for further studies. Appropriately, a meta-analysis approach is used by the contributors to show the big picture to the re…
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