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Holocaust Education : Contemporary challenges and controversies
Teaching and learning about the Holocaust is central to school curriculums in many parts of the world. As a field for discourse and a body of practice, it is rich, multidimensional and innovative. But the history of the Holocaust is complex and challenging, and can render teaching it a complex and daunting area of work. Drawing on landmark research into teaching practices and students’ knowle…
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- 9781787355699
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- 234p. ; ill.
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- 940.5318071 STU h
Contemporary Teacher Education: A Global Perspective
The research in this Special Issue is an international collection of studies focusing on the current challenges and possibilities in teacher education. The contributors examine teacher education with theoretical and empirical approaches including both qualitative and quantitative research methods. The studies demonstrate that future teachers need high-level ethical and pedagogical skills to cop…
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- 9783036516899
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- 168 p. : ill.
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- 001.3 KIR c
A bowl for a coin : a commodity history of Japanese tea
A Bowl for a Coin is the first book in any language to describe and analyze the history of all Japanese teas. To understand the triumph of the tea plant in Japan, Wayne Farris begins with its cultivation and goes on to describe the myriad ways in which the herb was processed into a palatable beverage. Along the way, he traces the shift in tea's status from exotic gift item from China to its com…
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- 9780824876609
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- x, 227 p. : ill
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- 338.173720952 FAR a
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, 212 p. : ill.
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- IEA Research for Education
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- 371.26 BUR t
Teaching health care in virtual space : best practices for educators in multi…
Teaching Health Care in Virtual Space is the first “how-to” manual for health educators on the instructional use of three-dimensional, computer-generated virtual environments, called “multi-user virtual learning environments” or MUVE. Dr. Estelle Codier has written a step-by-step handbook based on her experience supervising more than 400 learning activities in Second Life®. The book pr…
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- 9780824882525
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- xxi, 289 p. ; ill
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- 610.73076 COL t
Learning the nuclear : educational tourism in (post) industrial sites
This book illuminates the educational potential of nuclear tourism and learning about nuclear power in informal and non-formal learning settings. The authors present a case of elaboration of the educational virtual nuclear route in the Ignalina Power Plant Region, Lithuania. Nuclear tourism takes its shape at the junction of several types of tourism – energy, industrial, cultural, and heritag…
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- 9783631847343
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- 388 p. ; ill
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- 539.7071 LUB l
Entrepreneurship education : scholarly progress and future challenges
"The discussion around whether entrepreneurship can be taught is becoming obsolete as the number of entrepreneurship courses, specializations and degrees is rising at an unprecedented rate all over the world and the demand for entrepreneurial education teachers or instructors is constantly growing. The global community of entrepreneurial education proponents is enthusiastic about the possibilit…
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- 9781003194972
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- XVI, 84 p.
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- Routledge Focus on Business and Management
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- 658.0071 HAA e
Teaching learners with visual impairment
This book, Teaching Learners with Visual Impairment, focuses on holistic support to learners with visual impairment in and beyond the classroom and school context. Special attention is given to classroom practice, learning support, curriculum differentiation and assessment practices, to mention but a few areas of focus covered in the book. In this manner, this book makes a significant contribut…
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- 9781928523819
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- xxxix, 376 p.
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- Opening Eyes, 2
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- 371.9 TEA t
Foundational principles of task-based language teaching
The Open Access version of this book will be available soon. This book introduces readers to the concept of task-based language teaching (TBLT), a learner-centred and experiential approach to language teaching and learning. Based on the premise that language learners can enhance their second language acquisition (SLA) through engagement in communicative tasks that compel them to use language fo…
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- 9781003039709
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- XVI, 198 p.
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- ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series
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- 418.0071 EAS f
Theory and methods for sociocultural research in science and engineering educ…
Introducing original methods for integrating sociocultural and discourse studies into science and engineering education, this book provides a much-needed framework for how to conduct qualitative research in this field. The three dimensions of learning identified in the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) create a need for research methods that examine the sociocultural components of scienc…
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- 9781351139915
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- xiv, 279 p.; ill
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- 306.450721 THE t
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