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Global citizenship education : critical and international perspectives
This open access book takes a critical and international perspective to the mainstreaming of the Global Citizenship Concept and analyses the key issues regarding global citizenship education across the world. In that respect, it addresses a pressing need to provide further conceptual input and to open global citizenship agendas to diversity and indigeneity. Social and political changes brought …
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- 9783030446178
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- vii, 217 p.; 22 cm.
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- 373.07 GLO g
Technical universities : past, present and future
This Open Access book analyses the past, present and future of the technical university as a single faculty independent institution. The point of departure is a view of changing academic realities, through which the identity as a technical university is challenged and reconstituted. More specifically, the book connects the development of technical universities to changes in the structure and di…
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- 9783030505554
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- viii, 242p. : ill.
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- 378 TEC t
Design science and its importance in the German mathematics educational discu…
This ICME-13 Topical Survey reviews the state-of-the-art by first exploring the roots and scope of design science. Second, it presents two examples of current design science projects that focus on substantial learning environments including a student and a teacher perspective. Subsequently, the book elaborates on how empirical research can be conceptualised within design science. Lastly, it exp…
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- 9783319435428
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- vii, 43p. : ill.
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- 510.71 DES d
Assessment strategies for online learning: engagement and authenticity
For many learners, assessment conjures up visions of red pens scrawling percentages in the top right-hand corner of exams and feelings of stress, inadequacy, and failure. Although learners sometimes respond negatively to evaluation, assessments have provided educational institutions with important information about learning outcomes and the quality of education for many decades. But how accurat…
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- 9781771992336
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- xiii, 203 p.; 22 cm.
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- 371.26 CON a
The Prevent duty in education : impact, enactment and implications
This open access book explores the enactment, impact and implications of the Prevent Duty across a range of educational contexts. In July 2015 the UK became the first country to place a specific legal requirement on those working in education to contribute to efforts to ‘prevent people from being drawn into terrorism’. Drawing on extensive research with staff, children and young people, the…
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- 9783030455590
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- 176 p.; 23 cm.
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- 370.1 PRE p
Boundaries of the educational imagination
The educational imagination is the capacity to think critically beyond our located, daily experiences of education. It breaks away from the immediacy of personal understanding by placing education within wider, deeper and longer contexts. Boundaries of the Educational Imagination develops the educational imagination by answering six questions: What happens when we expand continuously outwards f…
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- 9781928331018
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- 184 p.; 22 cm.
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- 370.1 HUG b
The Gender-sensitive university : a contradiction in terms?
The Gender-Sensitive University explores the prevailing forces that pose obstacles to driving a gender-sensitive university, which include the emergence of far-right movements that seek to subvert advances towards gender equality and managerialism that promotes creeping corporatism. This book demonstrates that awareness of gender equality and gender sensitivity are essential for pulling contemp…
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- 9780367431174
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- 208 p.; 22 cm.
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- 378.1982 GEN g
Access to knowledge in Africa : the role of copyright
The emergence of the Internet and the digital world has changed the way people access, produce and share information and knowledge. Yet people in Africa face challenges in accessing scholarly publications, journals and learning materials in general. At the heart of these challenges, and solutions to them, is copyright, the branch of intellectual property rights that covers written and related w…
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- 9781552504901
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- xv, 357 p.; 22 cm.
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- 346.60482 ACC a
Teaching and learning mathematical modelling : approaches and developments fr…
This survey provides an overview of the German discussion on modelling and applications in schools. It considers the development from the beginning of the 20th century to the present, and discusses the term “mathematical model” as well as different representations of the modelling process as modelling cycles. Different trends in the historical and current debate on applications and modellin…
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- 9783319450049
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- vii, 42p. : ill.
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- 370 GRE t
Designing knit designers
"Traditionally associated with craftmanship and manual work, knitwear seems a quite unusual subject of investigation for scientific research. This book places it as an integrative part of the industrial design culture where the dialogue between a productive system of excellence and the design discipline taught in universities becomes a topic of central concern. From an industrial standpoint, kn…
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- 9788891797797
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- 233p.: ill.
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- 391 MOT d
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