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Vocational teacher education in central Asia : developing skills and facilita…
Over the last 3 years, internationally approved curricula have been developed in the GIZ programme “Professional Education and Training in Central Asia” in the area of food technology and vocational training. With the aim to ensure sustainability and to assisst in the implementation of the programme, an 18-month-strategy for “project-based learning” titled USPECH (Russian for “suc…
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- 9783319730936
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- 370.113 DRU v
Play-Responsive teaching in early childhood education
One of the central problems facing early childhood education is the push down of an academic curriculum. The pressure for the schoolification of play-based settings has become increasingly prevalent in many Northern Hemisphere continents. Sweden – where the content of this book has been conceptualised and studied – is no exception. Despite the Swedish early childhood education syst…
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- 9783030159580
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- 372.21 FEE p
Leadership in early education in times of change
The collection brings together the latest work of researchers from Australia, Africa, Asia, and Europe focusing on early childhood leadership matters. It covers different aspects of leadership in early education: professional education and development, identity and leadership strategies as well as governance and leadership under different frame conditions.
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- 9783847412243
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- 310 p.
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- 372.21 LEA l
Student misconceptions and errors in physics and mathematics
This open access report explores the nature and extent of students’ misconceptions and misunderstandings related to core concepts in physics and mathematics and physics across grades four, eight and 12. Twenty years of data from the IEA’s Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and TIMSS Advanced assessments are analyzed, specifically for five countries (Italy, Norway,…
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- 9783030301880
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- VIII, 165 p.
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- IEA Research for Education
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- 370.9 STU s
European strategies in lifelong learning : a critical introduction
Lifelong learning and education is a key concept for the development of adult education as an area of practice and theoretical consideration. In recent decades, meanwhile, the idea of lifelong education and learning has been central to the guidance of various international organisations of many countries.
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- 9783866494442
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- 165p. : ill.
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- 371.30281094 LIM e
Teaching for excellence and equity : analyzing teacher characteristics, behav…
This open access book examines the interrelationship of national policy, teacher effectiveness, and student outcomes with a specific emphasis on educational equity. Using data from the IEA’s Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) conducted between 1995 and 2015, it investigates grade four and grade eight data to assess trends in key teacher characteristics (experience, …
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- 9783030161514
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- xii, 212p. : ill.
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- 371.26 BUR t
Gender differences in computer and information literacy : an in-depth analysi…
This open access book presents a systematic investigation into internationally comparable data gathered in ICILS 2013. It identifies differences in female and male students’ use of, perceptions about, and proficiency in using computer technologies. Teachers’ use of computers, and their perceptions regarding the benefits of computer use in education, are also analyzed by gender. When compute…
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- 9783030262037
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- xi, 73p. : ill.
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- 370.81 GEB g
Socioeconomic inequality and educational outcomes : evidence from twenty year…
This open access book focuses on trends in educational inequality using twenty years of grade 8 student data collected from 13 education systems by the IEA’s Trends in Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) between 1995 and 2015. While the overall positive association between family socioeconomic status (SES) and student achievement is well documented in the literature, the magnitude of this r…
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- 9783030119911
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- viii, 83p. : ill.
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- 379.26 BRO s
Education and development in colonial and postcolonial Africa : policies, par…
This open access edited volume offers an analysis of the entangled histories of education and development in twentieth-century Africa. It deals with the plurality of actors that competed and collaborated to formulate educational and developmental paradigms and projects: debating their utility and purpose, pondering their necessity and risk, and evaluating their intended and unintended consequen…
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- 9783030278014
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- xix, 321p.: ill.
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- 370.96 EDU e
The change laboratory for teacher training in entrepreneurship education : a …
This open access book illustrates a new type of formative intervention for in-service teacher training in entrepreneurship education. The book describes a Change Laboratory and shows how teachers and workshop assistants develop the idea of a multidisciplinary project entailing the design of a self-service and parking lot in a dismissed area close to the city centre. The multidisciplinary projec…
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- 9783030025717
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- xv, 144p.: ill.
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- 370.113 MOR c
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