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Digital humanities pedagogy : practices, principles and politics
Academic institutions are starting to recognize the growing public interest in digital humanities research, and there is an increasing demand from students for formal training in its methods. Despite the pressure on practitioners to develop innovative courses, scholarship in this area has tended to focus on research methods, theories and results rather than critical pedagogy and the actual prac…
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- 9782821854031
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- xix, 426p. : ill.
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- 001.30711 DIG d
Thinking literature across continents
'Thinking Literature across Continents' finds Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller—two thinkers from different continents, cultures, training, and critical perspectives—debating and reflecting upon what literature is and why it matters. Ghosh and Miller do not attempt to formulate a joint theory of literature; rather, they allow their different backgrounds and lively disagreements to stimulate…
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- 9780822373698
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- xiii, 316p. : ill.
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- 809 GHO t
Bridging transcultural divides : Asian languages and cultures in global hight…
This volume presents the diverse approaches and achievements of scholars of Asian cultures and languages in today’s global academy. Recent vast increases in student numbers and ethnic diversity have created pressing challenges for a higher education which engages with contemporary concerns for Asian societies as well as for Asian students involved in Western education. This collection of scho…
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- 9781922064318
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- xvi, 286p. : ill.
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- 495 BRI b
Values and valuing in mathematics education : scanning and scoping the territory
This engaging open access book discusses how a values and valuing perspective can facilitate a more effective mathematics pedagogical experience, and allows readers to explore multiple applications of the values perspective across different education systems. It also clearly shows that teaching mathematics involves not only reasoning and feelings, but also students’ interactions with their cu…
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- 9783030168926
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- x, 222p. : ill.
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- 510.71 VAL v
Assessment in mathematics education : large-scale assessment and classroom as…
This book provides an overview of current research on a variety of topics related to both large-scale and classroom assessment. First, the purposes, traditions and principles of assessment are considered, with particular attention to those common to all levels of assessment and those more connected with either classroom or large-scale assessment. Assessment design based on sound assessment prin…
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- 9783319323947
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- ix, 38p. : ill.
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- 510.71 ASS a
Using brainpower in the classroom : five steps to accelerate learning
This book offers a realistic, practical and accessible model to allow teachers to incorporate the best of recent brain-based research into their teaching. The five steps involve: making learning multi-sensory ensuring activities match the dominant intelligence of the learner matching types of learning to the gender of pupils using the lesson structure to fit the natural attention span of the br…
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- 9781134288601
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- vi, 164p. : ill.
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- 371.102 GAR u
Teacher's work in a globalizing economy
Extended critical case studies provide a tangible working expression of the labour process of teaching, showing how teachers are simultaneously experiencing significant changes to their work, as well as responding in ways that actively shape these processes. For teachers and researchers, this book shows what processes are at work in the global economy which impact on, and sometimes control, the…
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- 9781135700256
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- xvi, 222p. : ill.
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- 371.1 SMY t
In this together : teachers' experiences with transnational, telecollaborativ…
This book provides a nexus between research and practice through teachers’ narratives of their experiences with telecollaboration. The book begins with a chapter outlining the pedagogical and theoretical underpinnings of telecollaboration (also known as Virtual Exchange), followed by eight chapters that explain telecollaborative project design, materials and activities as well as frank discus…
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- 9783034335010
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- 230p. : ill.
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- 418.00785678 IN i
Towards excellence in engineering education
Acquiring knowledge is a life-long process; we constantly need to keep abreast of developments and progress in science and other disciplines. Embracing a scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) means practicing constant self-reflection, involving evaluation of the academic career and the ways in which strategies are designed to examine, interpret, and share learning about teaching. This pra…
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- 9783039212521
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- IX, 162 p.
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- 620.005 TOW t
Teaching under pressure : looking at primary teachers' stress
This text is based on the author's research into primary school teacher's stress. The research has been linked with the author's belief in the need to understand ourselves, our personal and professional situations and how they relate. The resulting book is a practical text designed to address the reader in such a way that they can readily identify with what is being discussed. Futhermore, reade…
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- 9781135717544
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- vii, 159p. : ill.
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- 371.10019 COC t
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