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Education in Scotland : policy and practice from pre-school to secondary
Education in Scotland is markedly different from what happens in the rest of the UK - with a different National Curriculum, school boards to oversee school management and a General Teaching Council which has been in existence since 1965. Whilst there are many examples of successful and innovative practice in Scotland, the system is quite often not recognised as different by writers who talk abo…
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- 9780203974841
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- xv, 186p. : ill.
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- 370.9411 EDU e
Deep stories : practicing, teaching, and learning anthropology with digital s…
Have you ever wondered what makes storytelling and digital media a powerful combination? This edited volume examines the opportunities to think, do, and/or create jointly afforded by digital storytelling. The editors of this volume contend that digital storytelling and digital media can create spaces of empowerment and transformation by facilitating multiple kinds of border crossings and conver…
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- 9783110539363
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- xiv, 194p. : ill.
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- 360 DEE d
Opening science : the evolving guide on how the Internet is changing research…
Modern information and communication technologies, together with a cultural upheaval within the research community, have profoundly changed research in nearly every aspect. Ranging from sharing and discussing ideas in social networks for scientists to new collaborative environments and novel publication formats, knowledge creation and dissemination as we know it is experiencing a vigorous shift…
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- 9783319000268
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- ix, 339p. : ill.
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- 502.854678 OPE o
Patterns of change in 18th-century English : a sociolinguistic approach
Eighteenth-century English is often associated with normative grammar. But to what extent did prescriptivism impact ongoing processes of linguistic change? The authors of this volume examine a variety of linguistic changes in a corpus of personal correspondence, including the auxiliary do, verbal -sand the progressive aspect, and they conclude that direct normative influence on them must have b…
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- 9789027263834
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- xi. 311p. : ill.
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- 427.009033 PAT p
Organic creativity and the physics within
A group of international top scientists from a diversity of disciplines sat together for five days with artists, designers, and entrepreneurs to develop a trans-disciplinary theory of creativity. Organic Creativity and the Physics Within assumes that creativity is a quality of nature visible in physics as well as in psychology, its basis being combinatorics, coincidence, complementarity, and fr…
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- 9789027212030
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- 60p. : ill.
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- 153.35 LOW o
New insights in the history of interpreting
Who mediated intercultural exchanges in 9th-century East Asia or in early voyages to the Americas? Did the Soviets or the Americans invent simultaneous interpreting equipment? How did the US government train its first Chinese interpreters? Bringing together papers from an international symposium held at Rikkyo University in 2014 along with two select pieces, this volume pursues such questions i…
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- 9789027258670
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- xvi, 278p. : ill.
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- 418.0209 NEW n
Moving ourselves, moving others : motion and emotion in intersubjectivity, co…
The close relationship between motion (bodily movement) and emotion (feelings) is not an etymological coincidence. While moving ourselves, we move others; in observing others move – we are moved ourselves. The fundamentally interpersonal nature of mind and language has recently received due attention, but the key role of (e)motion in this context has remained something of a blind spot. The pr…
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- 9789027241566
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- viii, 492p. : ill.
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- 401 MOV m
Loan phonology
For many different reasons, speakers borrow words from other languages to fill gaps in their own lexical inventory. The past ten years have been characterized by a great interest among phonologists in the issue of how the nativization of loanwords occurs. The general feeling is that loanword nativization provides a direct window for observing how acoustic cues are categorized in terms of the di…
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- 9789027288967
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- vii, 273p. : ill.
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- 414 LOA l
Letters as loot : a sociolinguistic approach to seventeenth- and eighteenth-c…
The study of letter writing is at the heart of the historical-sociolinguistic enterprise. Private letters, in particular, offer an unprecedented view on language history. This book presents an in-depth study of the language of letters focussing on a unique collection of Dutch private letters from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which comprises letters from the lower, middle and upper …
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- 9789027269577
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- xiii, 426p. : ill.
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- 306.44 RUT l
Technologies for development
This open access book presents 18 case studies that explore current scientific and technological efforts to address global development issues, such as poverty, from a holistic and interdisciplinary point of view, putting actual impacts at the centre of its analysis. It illustrates the use of technologies for development in various fields of research, such as humanitarian action, medical and inf…
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- 9783319910673
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- 621 HOS t
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