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Media and education in the digital age : concepts, assessments, subversion
This book is an invitation to informed and critical participation in the current debate on the role of digital technology in education and a comprehensive introduction to the most relevant issues in this debate. After an early wave of enthusiasm about the emancipative opportunities of the digital «revolution» in education, recent contributions invite caution, if not scepticism. This collectio…
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- 9783653044379
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- 371.33 MED m
Global education policy and international development
Exploring the interplay between globalization, education and international development, this book surveys the impact of global education policies on local policy in developing countries. With chapters written by leading international scholars, drawing on a full range of theoretical perspectives and offering a diverse selection of case studies from Africa, Asia and South America, this book consi…
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- 9781472544575
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- 240 p.; 22 cm.
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- 373.01 GLO g
Consciousness and moral status
In this book Joshua Shepherd presents a systematic account of the value present within conscious experience. This account emphasizes not only the nature of consciousness, but also the importance of items within experience such as affect, valence, and the complex overall shape of particular valuable experiences. Shepherd also relates this account to difficult cases involving non-humans and h…
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- 9781138221611
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- 122 p.; 23 cm.
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- Routledge Focus on Philosophy
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- 155 SHE c
Fluency and reading comprehension in typical readers and dyslexics readers
Reading involves decoding and comprehension components and, to become efficient, it requires a large number of cognitive and linguistic processes. Among those, the phonological awareness, the alphabetic principle, the decoding, the fluency, the lexical development and the text comprehension development. The reading comprehension is strongly related with the development of vocabulary, oral langu…
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- 9782889454150
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- 175 p.; 22 cm.
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- Frontiers Research Topics
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- 155 CAP f
European Studies and Europe: Twenty Years of Euroculture
In 1998, the Master’s programme Euroculture started with the aim to offer, amid the many existing programmes that focused on European institutional developments, a European studies curriculum that puts the interplay of culture, society and politics in Europe at the heart of the curriculum. Among other topics, the programme focused on how Europe and European integration could be contextualised…
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- 9783863954314
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- 227 p.
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- 370 EUR e
The identity of the contemporary public library
The volume deals with some of the most relevant issues related to the identity of the public library and its historical, cultural, social, organizational changes, according to a comparative perspective. The topics are covered in four sections (History, Present and Future of the Public Library; Models of Analysis, Measurement, Evaluation; Complexity Challenges; Work in Progress), thus providing …
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- 9788867054688
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- 2016 p.; 22 cm.
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- 025 IDE i
The future of dialects: selected papers from methods in dialectology XV
Traditional dialects have been encroached upon by the increasing mobility of their speakers and by the onslaught of national languages in education and mass media. Typically, older dialects are “leveling” to become more like national languages. This is regrettable when the last articulate traces of a culture are lost, but it also promotes a complex dynamics of interaction as speakers shift …
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- 9783946234180
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- v, 411 p.; 22 cm.
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- Language Variation; Vol. 1
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- 417 NER f
Lessons in perception : the avant-garde filmmaker as practical psychologist
Lessons in Perception seeks to clarify notoriously elusive themes of the avant-garde with the use of existing research from the field of psychology. There is a long-standing history of reference to psychological concepts in relation to avant-garde film, such as its unique relationship to memory, visual perception, narrative comprehension, and synesthesia. Yet direct analysis of these topics in …
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- 9781785336423
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- XI, 213 p.
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- 611 TAB l
Architects of Buddhist leisure
Buddhism, often described as an austere religion that condemns desire, promotes denial, and idealizes the contemplative life, actually has a thriving leisure culture in Asia. Justin McDaniel looks at the growth of Asia’s culture of Buddhist leisure through a study of architects responsible for monuments, museums, amusement parks, and other sites. In conversation with noted theorists of materi…
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- 9780824865986
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- xi, 215 p.; 22 cm.
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- Contemporary Buddhism
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- 155.09 MCD a
Aesthetics and subjectivity: from Kant to Nietzsche
This new, completely revised and re-written edition of aesthetics and subjectivity brings up to date the original book's account of the path of German philosophy from Kant, via Fichte and Holderlin, the early Romantis, Schelling, Hegel, Schleimacher, to Nietzsche, in view of recent historical research and contemporary arguments in philosophy and theory in the humanities. The original book helpe…
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- 2nd ed.
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- 9780719024450
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- vii, 342 p.; 22 cm.
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- 155.01 BOW a
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