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Pandemics: Insurance and Social Protection
This open access book collects expert contributions on actuarial modelling and related topics, from machine learning to legal aspects, and reflects on possible insurance designs during an epidemic/pandemic. Starting by considering the impulse given by COVID-19 to the insurance industry and to actuarial research, the text covers compartment models, mortality changes during a pandemic, risk-shari…
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- 9783030783341
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- 298p. ; ill.
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- 368.400 952 MAR p
Women's choices in Europe : influence of gender on education, occupational ca…
The options women have to shape their lives have dramatically increased in the last decades, and this is true for all European countries. Changes in their societies with respect to women’s rights have been fundamental, amongst other things as a result of the women’s movement, which caused one of the greatest social revolutions of the 20th century. But considering the different starting poin…
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- 9783830977438
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- vi, 229 p. : ill
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- 305.4094 QUA w
Plurilingual classroom practices and participation : analysing interaction in…
Plurilingual Classroom Practices and Participation contributes to a better understanding of plurilingual education in Catalonia by providing a description of the interactional resources mobilised by learners as social actors. This volume is a collection of studies that show interactions containing plurilingual and multimodal sequences that illustrate moments of potential acquisition of aspects …
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- 9781003169123
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- XXVI, 216 p.
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- 370.117509467 PLU p
Outcomes of open adoption from care : an Australian contribution to an intern…
This Open Access book presents unique evidence from the first comprehensive study of the outcomes of open adoption from care in Australia. It contributes to the international debate concerning the advantages and disadvantages of face-to-face post adoption contact with birth families. The chapters assess whether adoption provides a better chance of permanence and more positive outcomes than long…
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- 9783030764296
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- 321p. ; ill..
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- 362.734 HAR o
Transforming Early Childhood in England : Towards a Democratic Education
Early childhood education and care has been a political priority in England since 1997, when government finally turned its attention to this long-neglected area. Public funding has increased, policy initiatives have proliferated and at each general election political parties aim to outbid each other in their offer to families. Transforming Early Childhood in England: Towards a Democratic Educat…
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- 9781787357167
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- xv, 244 p. : ill.
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- 372.210942 CAM t
Managing change at universities : volume iii
In dem Sammelband werden Reformprojekte vorgestellt, die Teilnehmende eines afrikanisch-asiatischen Qualifizierungsprogramms für Dekane an ihren Heimathochschulen umgesetzt haben. In den Projekten haben sie Veränderungen in verschiedenen Bereichen initiiert. Dazu gehören Verbesserungen in Forschung und Lehre sowie die Einführung einer Qualitätssicherung. Im "DIES International Deans' Cours…
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- 9783763960330
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- 202 p. ; ill
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- 370 BAS m
Knowing History in Schools : Powerful knowledge and the powers of knowledge
The ‘knowledge turn’ in curriculum studies has drawn attention to the central role that knowledge of the disciplines plays in education, and to the need for new thinking about how we understand knowledge and knowledge-building. Knowing History in Schools explores these issues in the context of teaching and learning history through a dialogue between the eminent sociologist of curriculum Mic…
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- 9781787357303
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- 266p. ; ill.
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- Knowledge and the Curriculum
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- 372.89 ART k
Improving Inclusive Education through Universal Design for Learning
This open access international scientific study provides an analysis of how the educational strategy of Universal Design for Learning can stimulate the process of inclusive education in different educational-cultural contexts and different areas of the educational system. The findings of the research deepen the conception of inclusive education and present an analysis of factors that are signif…
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- Vol.5
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- 9783030806583
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- 323p. ; ill.
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- Inclusive Learning and Educational Equity
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- 371.9046 ALV i
Holocaust Education : Contemporary challenges and controversies
Teaching and learning about the Holocaust is central to school curriculums in many parts of the world. As a field for discourse and a body of practice, it is rich, multidimensional and innovative. But the history of the Holocaust is complex and challenging, and can render teaching it a complex and daunting area of work. Drawing on landmark research into teaching practices and students’ knowle…
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- 9781787355699
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- 234p. ; ill.
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- 940.5318071 STU h
Higher education revolutions in the Gulf : globalization and institutional vi…
Over the past quarter century, the people of the Arabian Peninsula have witnessed a revolutionary transformation in higher education. In 1990, there were fewer than ten public universities that offered their Arabic-language curricula in sex-segregated settings to national citizens only. In 2015, there are more than one hundred public, semi-public, and private colleges and universities. Most of …
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- 9780203796139
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- xix, 236 p. : ill.
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- Routledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies
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- 378.536 BAD h
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