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A history of the case study : sexology, psychoanalysis, literature
This volume tells the story of the case study genre at a time when it became the genre par excellence for discussing human sexuality across the humanities and the life sciences. A History of the Case Study takes the reader on a transcontinental journey from the imperial world of fin-de-siècle Central Europe to the interwar metropolises of Weimar Germany, and to the United States of America in …
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- 9781526106117
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- VI, 240 p.
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- 300 LAN h
Mobile learning
Mobile learning has become one of the more influential aspects of the field of educational technology, given the ubiquity of modern mobile devices and proliferation of educational applications or ‘apps’. Within this volume, there are a range of studies and reviews which cover a breadth of current topics in the field, namely user motivations for using mobile learning, issues in evaluation, a…
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- 9783038976608
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- IX, 73 p.
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- 371.35 MOB m
The education system in Mexico
Over the last three decades, a significant amount of research has sought to relate educational institutions, policies, practices and reforms to social structures and agencies. A number of models have been developed that have become the basis for attempting to understand the complex relation between education and society. At the same time, national and international bodies tasked with improving …
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- 9781787350724
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- 173 p.
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- 370.972 EDU e
governance of educational welfare markets
This book is a first exploratory inquiry into possible educational selectivity effects of the European Social Fund (ESF). It assesses the extent of the gap between the social policy objectives set through regulatory competences in multi-level governance and the structure of incentives it breeds in practice, with a broad range of implications for the capacity of the government to control for an …
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- 1st edition.
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- 9783034318990 (alk. paper)
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- 379.4 STA t
Knowledge and institutions
This open access book bridges the disciplinary boundaries within the social sciences to explore the role of social institutions in shaping geographical contexts, and in creating new knowledge. It includes theorizations as well as original empirical case studies on the emergence, maintenance and change of institutions as well as on their constraining and enabling effects on innovation, entrepren…
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- 9783319753287
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- X, 310 p
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- Knowledge and Space
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- 304.2 GLU k
The European higher education area: between critical reflections and future p…
Higher Education; Educational Policy and Politics; International and Comparative Education
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- 9783319208770
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- 378.4 CUR t
Artificial societies : the computer simulation of social life
An exploration of the implications of developments in artificial intelligence for social scientific research, which builds on the theoretical and methodological insights provided by "Simulating societies".; This book is intended for worldwide library market for social science subjects such as sociology, political science, geography, archaeology/anthropology, and significant appeal within comput…
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- 9780203993699
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- ix, 257p. : ill.
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- 300.113 ART a
Citizen science : innovation in open science, society and policy
Citizen science, the active participation of the public in scientific research projects, is a rapidly expanding field in open science and open innovation. It provides an integrated model of public knowledge production and engagement with science. As a growing worldwide phenomenon, it is invigorated by evolving new technologies that connect people easily and effectively with the scientific commu…
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- 9781787352339
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- 303.483 HEC c
Interdisciplinary insights for digital touch communication
Communication is increasingly moving beyond ‘ways of seeing’ to ‘ways of feeling’. This Open Access book provides social design insights and implications for HCI research and design exploring digitally mediated touch communication. It offers a socially orientated map to help navigate the complex social landscape of digitally mediated touch for communication: from everyday touch-screens,…
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- 9783030245641
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- 004.77 JEW i
Learning legacies: archive to Action through women's cross-cultural Teaching
Learning Legacies explores the history of cross-cultural teaching approaches, to highlight how women writer-educators used stories about their collaborations to promote community-building. Robbins demonstrates how educators used stories that resisted dominant conventions and expectations about learners to navigate cultural differences. Using case studies of educational initiatives on behalf of …
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- 9780472073511
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- 371 ROB l
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