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Teaching through stories: renewing the Scottish storyline approach in teacher…
This book aims to meet the demands on teaching and learning in the twenty-first century, and in specific, how teacher education may transform pedagogical approaches and didactic methods to support future teachers in enhancing needful skills. In particular, it focuses on the pedagogical approach of Storyline, and how a Storyline can be applied in teacher education. It argues that teacher educati…
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- 9783830989868
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- 444p.: ill.
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- 371.172 KAR t
politics of vaccination: a global history
Mass vaccination campaigns are political projects that presume to protect individuals, communities, and societies. Like other pervasive expressions of state power - taxing, policing, conscripting - mass vaccination arouses anxiety in some people but sentiments of civic duty and shared solidarity in others. This collection of essays gives a comparative overview of vaccination at different times,…
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- 9781526110916
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- xiii, 343 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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- Social histories of medicine
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- 610.9 POL p
Key to the treasure of the Hakīm: artistic and humanistic aspects of Nizā…
This "Key" to the Khamsa consists of thirteen essays by eminent scholars in the field of Persian Studies, each focusing on different aspects of the Khamsa, which is a collection of five long poems written by the Persian poet Nizami of Ganja. Nizami (1141-1209) lived and worked in Ganja in present-day Azerbaijan. He is widely recognized as one of the main poets of Medieval Persia, a towering fig…
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- 9789087280970
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- 304 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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- Iranian studies series (Leiden, Netherlands)
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- 891.5511 KEY k
Fact and Fiction
Fact and Fiction explores the intersection between literature and the sciences, focusing on German and British culture between the eighteenth century and today. Observing that it was in the eighteenth century that the divide between science and literature as disciplines first began to be defined, the contributors to this collection probe how authors from that time onwards have assessed and affe…
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- 9781487511401
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- 830.936 LEH f
Place, (In) equality and gender
This mapping presents a selected overview of existing research on gender, education and population flows in the Nordic peripheral areas. These areas are faced with a series of challenges that cannot be analyzed nor solved without taking a gender perspective into account. The challenges relate to, for instance, altered living conditions caused by global changes, stagnated or negative economic de…
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- 9789289342674
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- 194 p.; 22 cm
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- 306.0948 FAB p
Interdisciplinary perspectives on mortality and its timings : when is death?
This volume provides a series of illuminating perspectives on the timings of death, through in-depth studies of Shakespearean tragedy, criminal execution, embalming practices, fears of premature burial, rumours of Adolf Hitler’s survival, and the legal concept of brain death. In doing so, it explores a number of questions, including: how do we know if someone is dead or not? What do people ex…
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- 9781137583284
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- xv, 167p. : ill.
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- 306.9 INT i
The EU and China in African authoritarian regimes : domestic politics and gov…
This open access book analyses the domestic politics of African dominant party regimes, most notably African governments’ survival strategies, to explain their variance of opinions and responses towards the reforming policies of the EU. The author discredits the widespread assumption that the growing presence of China in Africa has made the EU’s task of supporting governance reforms difficu…
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- 9783319635910
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- xvi, 261p. : ill.
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- 341.2422096 HAC e
Character, responsibility, and well-being: influences on mental health and co…
Character can be defined as self-aware knowledge that helps the individual to set goals, values and ethical principles (Cloninger, 2004). This meta-cognitive dimension of human personality involves ‘Theory of Mind’, and is positively related to measures of well-being, mental health, and constructive behavior patterns. Research from at least three different fields, cultural (Shweder, Much, M…
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- 9782889198221
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- 138 p.; 22 cm.
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- 155.2 ARC c
Intercultural dialogue in the european education policies : a conceptual appr…
This open access book analyses intercultural dialogue as a concept, policy and ideal in European education policy documentation. The core European transnational organizatons – the Council of Europe and the European Union – have actively promoted policies to engender inclusive societies and respond to challenges that diversification may entail. This book, in turn, offers suggestions for impr…
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- 9783030415174
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- xiv, 114p. : ill.
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- 370.117 LAH i
Conceptualizing Environmental Citizenship for 21st Century Education
This open access book is about the development of a common understanding of environmental citizenship. It conceptualizes and frames environmental citizenship taking an educational perspective. Organized in four complementary parts, the book first explains the political, economic and societal dimensions of the concept. Next, it examines environmental citizenship as a psychological concept with a…
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- 9783030202491
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- XIII, 261 p.
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- Environmental Discourses in Science Education
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- 370 CON c
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