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Bridging transcultural divides : Asian languages and cultures in global hight…
This volume presents the diverse approaches and achievements of scholars of Asian cultures and languages in today’s global academy. Recent vast increases in student numbers and ethnic diversity have created pressing challenges for a higher education which engages with contemporary concerns for Asian societies as well as for Asian students involved in Western education. This collection of scho…
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- 9781922064318
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- xvi, 286p. : ill.
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- 495 BRI b
Digital sound studies
The digital turn has created new opportunities for scholars across disciplines to use sound in their scholarship. This volume’s contributors provide a blueprint for making sound central to research, teaching, and dissemination. They show how digital sound studies has the potential to transform silent, text-centric cultures of communication in the humanities into rich, multisensory experiences…
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- 9780822371991
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- xii, 298p. : ill.
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- 001.30285 DIG d
Values and valuing in mathematics education : scanning and scoping the territory
This engaging open access book discusses how a values and valuing perspective can facilitate a more effective mathematics pedagogical experience, and allows readers to explore multiple applications of the values perspective across different education systems. It also clearly shows that teaching mathematics involves not only reasoning and feelings, but also students’ interactions with their cu…
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- 9783030168926
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- x, 222p. : ill.
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- 510.71 VAL v
Environmental leadership capacity building in higher education : experience a…
The Graduate Program in Sustainability Science under the Department of Urban Engineering of The University of Tokyo has been running an environmental leadership education program at the graduate student level since 2007 called the Asian Program for Incubation of Environmental Leaders (APIEL). This book describes the University’s experiences in establishing and organizing that program and prov…
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- 9784431543404
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- xi, 140p. : ill.
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- 333.7072 ENV e
Controlling knowledge : freedom of information and privacy protection in a ne…
Digital communications technology has immeasurably enhanced our capacity to store, retrieve, and exchange information. But who controls our access to information, and who decides what others have a right to know about us? In Controlling Knowledge, author Lorna Stefanick offers a thought-provoking and user-friendly overview of the regulatory regime that currently governs freedom of information a…
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- 9781926836614
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- xi, 251p. : ill.
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- 342.0853 STE c
Assessment in mathematics education : large-scale assessment and classroom as…
This book provides an overview of current research on a variety of topics related to both large-scale and classroom assessment. First, the purposes, traditions and principles of assessment are considered, with particular attention to those common to all levels of assessment and those more connected with either classroom or large-scale assessment. Assessment design based on sound assessment prin…
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- 9783319323947
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- ix, 38p. : ill.
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- 510.71 ASS a
Using brainpower in the classroom : five steps to accelerate learning
This book offers a realistic, practical and accessible model to allow teachers to incorporate the best of recent brain-based research into their teaching. The five steps involve: making learning multi-sensory ensuring activities match the dominant intelligence of the learner matching types of learning to the gender of pupils using the lesson structure to fit the natural attention span of the br…
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- 9781134288601
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- vi, 164p. : ill.
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- 371.102 GAR u
Preparing for life in a digital age : The IEA international computer and info…
Ability to use information and communication technologies (ICT) is an imperative for effective participation in today’s digital age. Schools worldwide are responding to the need to provide young people with that ability. But how effective are they in this regard? The IEA International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS) responded to this question by studying the extent to which yo…
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- 9783319142227
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- 305p. : ill.
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- 371.334 PRE p
Arguing with anthropology : an introduction to critical theories of the gift
Arguing with Anthropology is a fresh and wholly original guide to key elements in anthropology, which teaches the ability to think, write and argue critically. Using the classic 'question of the gift' as a master-issue for discussion, and drawing on a rich variety of Pacific and global ethnography, it provides a unique course in methods, aims, knowledge, and understanding. The book's highly ori…
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- 9781134523450
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- x, 244p. : ill.
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- 394 SYK a
Ancient knowledge networks : a social geography of cuneiform scholarship in f…
Ancient Knowledge Networks is a book about how knowledge travels, in minds and bodies as well as in writings. It explores the forms knowledge takes and the meanings it accrues, and how these meanings are shaped by the peoples who use it. Addressing the relationships between political power, family ties, religious commitments and literate scholarship in the ancient Middle East of the first m…
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- 9781787355941
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- XXIII, 314 p.
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- 935 ROB a
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