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Educating desire : autobiographical impressions of addiction in alcoholics an…
This impressionistic autobiographical inquiry is an attempt to connect the personal with the socio-historical--addiction with Addiction; it is also an attempt to demonstrate that knowledge production can be generated through radically non-traditional means. Narrative serves as method and methodology in a mostly first person account of a fictional open AA meeting. A suspicious hermeneutics is ap…
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- xviii, 81 pages
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- 362.292
Education, equity, economy : crafting a new intersection
This volume will introduce the readers to an alternative nexus of education, equity and economy, pointing to economies and educations that promote a less stratified and exploitive world, and as the chapter authors demonstrate, this view has a wide range of applications, from technology, mathematics, to environmental catastrophes and indigenous cultures. This first volume in the new book series …
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- 9783319216430
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- xi, 237 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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- 306.43
Educational technology and pedagogic encounters : democratic education in pot…
This book looks at some of the underlying theories of educational technology (means), and ways in which this technology is guided in practice (ends). The authors are intent on producing ends that prepare students to undertake new analyses and evaluations that can result in new possibilities for democratic action. Emphasis is on their understanding of and position within educational technology -…
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- 9789463005456
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- ix, 132 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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- 371.3342
A New Science for Future: Climate Impact Modeling and the Quest for Digital O…
Building on concepts from Science & Technology Studies, Simon David Hirsbrunner investigates practices and infrastructures of computer modeling and science communication in climate impact research. The book characterizes how scientists calculate future climate risks in computer models and scenarios, but also how they circulate their insights and make them accessible and comprehensible to others…
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- 9783839452653
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- 302.23 HIR n
Gute Technik für ein gutes Leben im Alter?: Akzeptanz, Chancen und Herausfor…
Längst gibt es altersgerechte digitale Assistenzsysteme. Doch sind Umfang und Geschwindigkeit ihrer Verbreitung sowohl in Pflegeeinrichtungen als auch in privaten Haushalten weitgehend unbekannt. Informationen zu tatsächlich eingesetzten Systemen, realisierten Umsätzen und Marktvolumen sind kaum zu finden. Obwohl es viele Vermutungen hinsichtlich der Hindernisse bei der Einführung altersger…
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- 9783839454695
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Academics in Exile: Networks, Knowledge Exchange and New Forms of Internation…
Restrictions on academic freedom, persecution and armed conflict have forced many scholars into exile. So far, the professional trajectories of these scholars and their contributions to knowledge exchange have not been studied comprehensively. The contributors to this volume address the situations and networks of scholars in exile, the challenges they face in their host countries and the opport…
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- 9783839460894
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Electronic Government 14th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, EGOV 2015, …
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Government, EGOV 2015, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in August/September 2015 in conjunction with the 7th International Conference on eParticipation, ePart 2015. The 25 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions. The papers have been organized…
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Media, Knowledge & Education Exploring New Spaces, Relations and Dynamics in…
In recent years, new and established media have penetrated, challenged, and often surpassed in significance traditional institutions of socialization and education. Moreover, the social organization of knowledge production and distribution has become highly mediated through increasingly complex combinations of information and communication technologies. The papers in this volume are exploring i…
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Music as Labour: Inequalities and Activism in the Past and Present
This book brings together research at the intersection of music, cultural industries, management, antiracist politics and gender studies to analyse music as labour, in particular highlighting social inequalities and activism. Providing insights into labour processes and practices, the authors investigate the changing role of manifold actors, institutions and technologies and the corresponding s…
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- 9781000615760
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Media, Knowledge & Education Exploring New Spaces, Relations and Dynamics in…
In recent years, new and established media have penetrated, challenged, and often surpassed in significance traditional institutions of socialization and education. Moreover, the social organization of knowledge production and distribution has become highly mediated through increasingly complex combinations of information and communication technologies. The papers in this volume are exploring i…
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