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Academia in crisis : the rise and risk of neoliberal education in Europe
Academia is standing at a junction in time. Behind lies the community of the curious, ahead the mass and the market. This book joins in a growing stream of works that explore the vicissitudes of present-day European universities in what Bauman coined as liquid times. Here, a number of concerned (engaged) European scholars attempt to defend and brush up academic core values and practices, starti…
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- 9789004402034
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- ix, 201p. : ill.
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- 378.4 ACA a
The societal unconscious : psychosocial perspectives on adult learning
The Societal Unconscious presents an innovative development of theory and methodology for adult education and learning research, recognizing psychodynamic dimensions of learning processes. With few exceptions the unconscious has been neglected in critical adult education research. The psychosocial approach in this book seeks to re-integrate the societal and the psychodynamic dimensions in analy…
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- 9789004420274
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- xvi, 251p. : ill.
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- 374.0019 SOC s
Doing critical and creative research in adult education : case studies in met…
Scholarship on adult education has fueled a high level of methodological creativity and innovation in order to tackle a diverse range of issues in a wide range of settings and locations in a critical and participatory manner. Adult education research is marked by the desire to do research differently and to conduct critical research with rather than about people which requires theoretical and m…
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- 9789004420755
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- xx, 228p. : ill.
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- 374 DOI d
Grading goal four : tensions, threats, and opportunities in the sustainable d…
For the third time in three decades world leaders reaffirmed their promise of "Education For All" when adopting Sustainable Development Goal 4 in 2015. It is the most far-reaching commitment to quality and equity in education so far, yet, there is no consensus on what the agenda means in practice. With a decade left until the 2030 deadline, Grading Goal Four calls upon the education communi…
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- 9789004430365
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- xxviii, 469 p. : ill.
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- 379 GRA g
The civilising offensive : social and educational reform in 19th-century Belgium
"This volume offers a multifaceted selection of studies on 19th-century Belgian reformers and initiatives they instigated to solve the ‘social question’ by ‘civilising’ and moralising the lower classes. Around 1850 Belgium was continental Europe’s most heavily industrialised state. From the mid-century until the Belle Époque many international social reform associations were based in…
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- 9783110581546
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- VI, 238 p.
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- New Perspectives on the History of Liberalism and Freethought, 1
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- 306.09493 CIV c
Language and discourse in special education: understanding ethnographic inter…
Interdisciplinary teamwork has significantly improved the education of children with special needs. Because the students' needs are complex, the responses of the diverse professionals working together to provide services must be equally multifaceted. Language and Discourse in Special Education analyzes how interdisciplinary teams work in school settings, specifically how members convey their kn…
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- 9783319090245
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- xiv, 142 p. 11 illus.; 22 cm.
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- 371.9 MAN l
Public history and school : international perspectives
How do schools and public history influence each other? Cases studies focusing on school and public history around the world shed light on the intricate relationships between schools, students, teachers, policy makers and public historians. From why Robben Island is not included in South African curriculum to how German schools shape Holocaust memory, the case studies offered in this book sheds…
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- 9783110466133
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- X, 220 p.
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- 943 PUB p
Computational thinking education
This book offers a comprehensive guide, covering every important aspect of computational thinking education. It provides an in-depth discussion of computational thinking, including the notion of perceiving computational thinking practices as ways of mapping models from the abstraction of data and process structures to natural phenomena. Further, it explores how computational thinking education …
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- 9789811365287
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- ix, 382p. : ill.
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- 370.1523 KON c
Proceedings of the 13th International Congress on Mathematical Education : IC…
The book presents the Proceedings of the 13th International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME-13) and is based on the presentations given at the 13th International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME-13). ICME-13 took place from 24th- 31st July 2016 at the University of Hamburg in Hamburg (Germany). The congress was hosted by the Society of Didactics of Mathematics (Gesellschaft fÃ…
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- 9783319625973
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- xviii, 766p. : ill.
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- 370 PRO p
Mobilities of knowledge
This collection of essays examines how spatial mobilities of people and practices, technologies and objects, knowledge and ideas have shaped the production, circulation, and transfer of knowledge in different historical and geographical contexts. Targeting an interdisciplinary audience, Mobilities of Knowledge combines detailed empirical analyses with innovative conceptual approaches. The first…
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- 9783319446530
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- x, 303p. : ill.
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- 304.2 MOB m
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