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Through a Glass Darkly : The Social Sciences Look at the Neoliberal University
This collection of essays arose from a workshop held in Canberra in 2013 under the auspices of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia to consider the impact of the encroachment of the market on public universities. While the UK tripled fees in 2013 and determined that the teaching of the social sciences and the humanities would no longer be publicly funded, it was feared that Australia wou…
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- 17
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781925022148
- Collation
- 358
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 378.94.THO
Uses of technology in lower secondary mathematics education : a concise topic…
Digital technology1 is omnipresent in society. Revolutionary technological developments change the character of professional environments, and therefore put new demands on workers (Hoyles, Noss, Kent, & Bakker, 2010). Consequently, there are new demands on educational systems in order to prepare students for future professions. Importantly, technology also offers opportunities for teaching a…
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- 14
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783319336664
- Collation
- vii, 34 p
- Series Title
- ICME-13 Topical Surveys,
- Call Number
- 510.712 DRI u
Education Policies in the 21st Century Comparative Perspectives
The nation-state has assumed its current form after having undergone significant transformations. In the developmental and transformational process of the nation-state, the definition and expected functions of education as well as the forms of educational intervention have also transformed. This transformation became much more saturated starting in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Thi…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978981916045
- Collation
- XIV, 292p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 379 EDU a
Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis XVIII: 18th International Symposium on …
Missing data is a common occurrence in the time series domain, for instance due to faulty sensors, server downtime or patients not attending their scheduled appointments. One of the best methods to impute these missing values is Multiple Imputations by Chained Equations (MICE) which has the drawback that it can only model linear relationships among the variables in a multivariate time series. T…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030445843
- Collation
- XIV, 588p
- Series Title
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
- Call Number
- 005.74 AID r
Artificial Intelligence in Oncology Drug Discovery and Development
There exists a profound conflict at the heart of oncology drug development. The efficiency of the drug development process is falling, leading to higher costs per approved drug, at the same time personalised medicine is limiting the target market of each new medicine. Even as the global economic burden of cancer increases, the current paradigm in drug development is unsustainable. In this book,…
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- -
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- 9781789846898
- Collation
- xiii, 143
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- -
- Call Number
- 616.9940610724 CAS
No truck with the chilean junta!
When lorry drivers in Northampton slapped stickers on their cabs declaring ‘No truck with the Chilean Junta!’ they were doing more than threatening to boycott. They were asserting their own identity as proud unionists and proud internationalists. But what did trade unionists really know of what was happening in Chile? And how could someone else’s oppression become a means to solidify your…
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- -
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- 9781925021547
- Collation
- xiii + 304 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 322.2 JON n
Gender and Sexuality Diversity in a Culture of Limitation : Student and Teach…
Gender and Sexuality Diversity in a Culture of Limitation provides an outstanding and insightful critique of the ways that contemporary education is impacted by a range of political, social and cultural influences that inform the approaches that schools take in relation to gender and sexuality diversity. By applying feminist poststructural and Foucauldian frameworks, the book examines the ongoi…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781138062313
- Collation
- xi, 174 p
- Series Title
- Routledge Critical Studies in Gender and Sexuality in Education,
- Call Number
- 370.81 FER
Classroom assessment and educational measurement
Classroom Assessment and Educational Measurement explores the ways in which the theory and practice of both educational measurement and the assessment of student learning in classroom settings mutually inform one another. Chapters by assessment and measurement experts consider the nature of classroom assessment information, from student achievement to affective and socio-emotional attributes; h…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780429507533
- Collation
- xxii + 353 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 371.26 CLA c
Using evidence in policy and practice : lessons from Africa
This book asks how governments in Africa can use evidence to improve their policies and programmes, and ultimately, to achieve positive change for their citizens. Looking at different evidence sources across a range of contexts, the book brings policy makers and researchers together to uncover what does and doesn’t work and why. Case studies are drawn from five countries and the ECOWAS (west …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781003007043
- Collation
- xxvi + 254 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 320.6096 USI u
The Cold War in the classroom : international perspectives on textbooks and m…
This book explores how the socially disputed period of the Cold War is remembered in today’s history classroom. Applying a diverse set of methodological strategies, the authors map the dividing lines in and between memory cultures across the globe, paying special attention to the impact the crisis-driven age of our present has on images of the past. Authors analysing educational media point t…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030119997
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- -
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- -
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- 909.825072 chi
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