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Critical Research in Sport, Health and Physical Education : How to Make a Dif…
Within the overlapping fields of the sociology of sport, physical education and health education, the use of critical theories and the critical research paradigm has grown in scope. Yet what social impact has this research had?This book considers the capacity of critical research and associated social theory to play an active role in challenging social injustices or at least in ‘making a diff…
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- 9781351333863
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- 270 halaman
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- 370 CRI
Indigenous Culture, Education and Globalization: Critical Perspectives from Asia
The book explores the growing tension between indigenous education, the teaching and learning of native knowledge, cultural heritage and traditions and the dynamics of globalization from the Asian perspective. It brings together a distinguished and multidisciplinary group of Asian scholars and practitioners from Nepal, Korea, India, Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Taiwan…
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- 978-3-662-48158-5
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- XV, 285
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- 370 IND
Economic Growth, Biodiversity Conservation, and the Formation of Human Capita…
Can education play a role in fostering economic growth and simultaneously decrease pressure on forests? The aim of this study is to show that it can. Human capital formation is a key element in a development strategy that includes natural resource conservation within the framework of sustained economic growth and poverty alleviation. Consequently, it is not by chance that Guatemala is experienc…
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- 9783631526071
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- 266 halaman
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- 330 LON e
Early Algebra : Research into Its Nature, Its Learning, Its Teaching
This survey of the state of the art on research in early algebra traces the evolution of a relatively new field of research and teaching practice. With its focus on the younger student, aged from about 6 years up to 12 years, this volume reveals the nature of the research that has been carried out in early algebra and how it has shaped the growth of the field. The survey, in presenting examples…
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- 9783319322575
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- VIII, 42 halaman
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- ICME-13 Topical Surveys
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- 510 KIE E
Design Science and Its Importance in the German Mathematics Educational Discu…
This ICME-13 Topical Survey reviews the state-of-the-art by first exploring the roots and scope of design science. Second, it presents two examples of current design science projects that focus on substantial learning environments including a student and a teacher perspective. Subsequently, the book elaborates on how empirical research can be conceptualised within design science. Lastly, it exp…
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- 9783319435411
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- VII, 43 halaman
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- ICME-13 Topical Surveys
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- 370 NUH d
The Englishization of Higher Education in Europe
The introduction of English as a medium of instruction (EMI) has changed higher education enormously in many European countries. This development is increasingly encapsulated under the term Englishization, that is, the increasing dispersion of English as a means of communication in non-Anglophone contexts. Englishization is not undisputed: legal challenges have arisen in several countries. Nor …
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- 9789048553914
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- 370 ENG
How and Why to Read and Create Children's Digital Books : A Guide for Primary…
How and Why to Read and Create Children's Digital Books outlines effective ways of using digital books in early years and primary classrooms, and specifies the educational potential of using digital books and apps in physical spaces and virtual communities. With a particular focus on apps and personalised reading, Natalia Kucirkova combines theory and practice to argue that personalised reading…
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- 9781787353473
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- 025 KUC h
Financing Higher Education and Economic Development in East Asia
This volume addresses important issues to do with access to higher education and different models of its financing in the East Asia region. It is enriched by diverse perspectives from vastly different starting points and by the historical and institutional settings in the region. The issues are set out in the context of the value of higher education in economic development and how it contribute…
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- 9781921666636
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- 370 FIN
The Globalisation of Intercultural Education
This book examines the intersection of globalisation and intercultural education by focusing on the trajectory of education policy: from development to adoption and implementation.The centrality of the nation-state has been constrained by a wide range of new socio-cultural, political and economic phenomena over the past decade such as globalisation, Europeanisation, modernisation, and global re…
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- 978-1-137-52299-3
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- XI, 253, 2 illustrations in colour
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The Global and the Local
The book examines how the understanding of the global and the local has changed in response to ongoing reconfigurations between the state and society. It also emphasizes the importance of schooling as an institution both within and across national contexts, a holistic approach that helps us move beyond a conglomeration of isolated local events to pay attention to global trends. In this regard, …
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- 978-94-6300-654-5
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- X, 158
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- The World Council of Comparative Education Societies
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