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Cultivating Knowledge Promoting Research to Enrich Everyday Practice
Over the last decade or two, there has been increasing consensus that academic research, if used judiciously to guide practice, improves both educational policy and pedagogy ultimately leading to better outcomes for students. Yet, despite this potential, there remains a deep ravine between the body of knowledge built through research especially at the intersection between specific interventions…
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- 9789463006033
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- XII, 456
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- 370
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
Critical pedagogy and Marx, Vygotsky and Freire : phenomenal forms and educat…
Hidden in the depths of Marx's epistemology is his theory of the phenomenal forms, whose implications have not been sufficiently explored from an educational perspective. This book argues that phenomenal forms pose a major pedagogical obstacle to any endeavour that seeks to expand an individual's awareness of the larger social whole. After situating phenomenal forms in Marx's original framework…
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- 1
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- 9781137562449
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- v, 163 pages
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- 370
Universities in Transition: Foregrounding Social Contexts of Knowledge in the…
Universities are social universes in their own right. They are the site of multiple, complex and diverse social relations, identities, communities, knowledges and practices. At the heart of this book are people enrolling at university for the first time and entering into the broad variety of social relations and contexts entailed in their ‘coming to know’ at, of and through university. By r…
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Behind the Scenes of Artistic Creativity
hroughout the literature of creative learning, many assumptions and even stereotypes about the artists’ creativity are nurtured, often according to myths going back to the Romanticism. The authors have been investigating and describing outstanding artists’ creativity and learning/working processes, asking the question: how do artists create, learn, and organise their work? This book explore…
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- 9783631653975
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- 700 HER b
Under the Bleachers Teachers’ Reflections of What They Didn’t Learn in C…
“The field of education can be a rewarding, but ever challenging career. This book is an essential read for new teachers and veteran teachers alike. The insightful stories that Dr. Joseph Jones has masterfully chosen as part of the book will inspire a new sense of resolve and hope for those who are feeling the weight of seemingly impossible demands placed on teachers. These compelling excerpt…
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- 978-94-6300-040-6
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Garden Learning : A Study on European Botanic Gardens' Collaborative Learning…
rom 2007-2013 the European 7th Framework Program Science in Society (FP7) funded a multitude of formal and informal educational institutions to join forces and engage in alternative ways to teach science—inside and outside the classroom—all over Europe. This book reports on one of these projects named INQUIRE which was developed and implemented to support 14 Botanic Gardens and Natural Hist…
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- 9781909188648
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- 194 halaman
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- 370 KAP g
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
Designs for Research, Teaching and Learning : A Framework for Future Education
This book offers a coherent theoretical and multimodal perspective on research, teaching and learning in different non-formal, semi-formal, and formal learning environments. Drawing on examples across a range of different settings, the book provides a conceptual framework for research on learning in different environments. It provides conceptual models around learning design which act as a fram…
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- 9781000528855
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- 182 halaman
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- 370 DES
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