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Music technology in education: channeling and challenging perspectives
This anthology presents research projects that examine the intersection between music, technology and education from a variety of perspectives. The contributors are from a range of educational programs within traditional pre-, primary and lower secondary school education, as well as music performance and technology educational programs. Data for the studies stems from primary and lower secondar…
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- 9788202652258
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- 285p.: ill.
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- 780.7 MUS m
Community and identity in contemporary technosciences
This open access edited book provides new thinking on scientific identity formation. It thoroughly interrogates the concepts of community and identity, including both historical and contemporaneous analyses of several scientific fields. Chapters examine whether, and how, today’s scientific identities and communities are subject to fundamental changes, reacting to tangible shifts in research f…
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- 9783030617288
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- xii, 315p. : ill.
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- 305.96 COM c
Anisotropy across fields and scales
This open access book focuses on processing, modeling, and visualization of anisotropy information, which are often addressed by employing sophisticated mathematical constructs such as tensors and other higher-order descriptors. It also discusses adaptations of such constructs to problems encountered in seemingly dissimilar areas of medical imaging, physical sciences, and engineering. Featuring…
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- 9783030562151
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- x, 280p. : ill.
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- 515.63 ANI a
Re/assembling the pregnant and parenting teenager : narratives from the field(s)
Drawing in contributions from the United States, the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland and Aotearoa New Zealand, this book seeks to foreground shifting experiences of teenage pregnancy and parenting in time and space. In the process, the work cuts across enduring ‘stigma’ contests and dominant discourses which seek to capture, understand and render fixable the ‘problem’ of teenage …
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- 9781787075139
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- XIV, 309 p.
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- 618.200835 RE r
Innovative learning environments in STEM higher education : opportunities, ch…
As explored in this open access book, higher education in STEM fields is influenced by many factors, including education research, government and school policies, financial considerations, technology limitations, and acceptance of innovations by faculty and students. In 2018, Drs. Ryoo and Winkelmann explored the opportunities, challenges, and future research initiatives of innovative learning …
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- 9783030589486
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- xv, 137p. : ill.
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- 507.11 INN i
Narratives and comparisons : adversaries or allies in understanding science?
As a powerful tool in the production of knowledge, comparing plays a crucial part in the sciences and the humanities. This volume explores the relationship between comparing and narrating in epistemic practices and clarifies the ways in which narratives enable or impede practices of comparing. It takes into account related activities, such as measuring and classifying, modeling, establishing no…
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- 9783839454152
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- 202 p.
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- 501 NAR n
Transnational solidarity in times of crises : citizen organisations and colle…
This open access collection is devoted to an in-depth, qualitative analysis of practices of cross-national solidarity in response to the current political and social crises, from citizens’ initiatives to networks of cooperation among civil society actors. The book analyses existing informal groups at the grassroots, furthering transnational solidarity in three thematic areas: disabili…
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- 9783030496593
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- xv, 305p. : ill.
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- 306.2094 TRA t
Taming the big green elephant : setting in motion the transformation towards …
In this open access publication it is shown, that sustainable low carbon development is a transformative process that constitutes the shifting from the initially chosen or taken pathway to another pathway as goals have been re-visited and revised to enable the system to adapt to changes. However, shifting entails transition costs that are accrued through the effects of lock-ins that have framed…
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- 9783658318215
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- xxvii, 400p. : ill.
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- 338.927 HER t
Divination on stage : prophetic body signs in early modern theatre in Spain a…
Magicians, necromancers and astrologers are assiduous characters in the European golden age theatre. This book deals with dramatic characters who act as physiognomists or palm readers in the fictional world and analyses the fictionalisation of physiognomic lore as a practice of divination in early modern Romance theatre from Pietro Aretino and Giordano Bruno to Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Bar…
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- 9783110695755
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- VIII, 252 p.
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- 862.309377 GER d
The leading world's most innovative universities
This open access book is unique in its contents. No other title in the book market has tackled this important subject. It introduces innovation as a way of practice for world-class universities. It, then, discusses the criteria for being innovative in the academic world. The book selects some of the top innovative world-class universities to study the factors that qualified them to be innovativ…
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- 9783030596941
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- xiv, 106p. : ill.
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- 607.21722 LEA l
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