Computer Science category: 2288 books
by Nuraan Davids, Yusef Waghid
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Education, Assessment, and the Desire for Dissonance aims to address the contentious practice of assessment in schools and universities within a poststructuralist educational paradigm. Within the theoretical paradigm of Foucault’s (1994) notions of governmentality, subjectification and dissonance,...
by Barbara Thayer-Bacon
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Relational Ontologies uses the metaphor of a fishing net to represent the epistemological and ontological beliefs that we weave together for our children, to give meaning to their experiences and to help sustain them in their lives. The book describes the epistemological threads we use to help determine...
Inclusion in Context
Policy, Practice and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Recent years have seen a rapid policy transformation from segregation to inclusion in the education of children with special educational needs in Ireland. This book investigates how resource teachers and class teachers interpret the policy and principles of inclusion and enact these in their practice....
Researching New Literacies
Design, Theory, and Data in Sociocultural Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
This book provides an expansive guide for designing and conducting robust qualitative research across a diverse range of purposes concerned with understanding new literacies in theory and in practice. It is based on the idea that one of the best ways of learning how to do good research is by closely...
Educating for Sexual Virtue
A Moral Vision for Relationships and Sex Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) is an issue surrounded by controversy and debate, with important implications for the interconnected roles of the state, the school and the home and for the way we understand ourselves, our sexual identity and our personal relationships.
This book charts...
Reshaping Learning
Frontiers of Learning Technology in a Global Context
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
This edited volume with selected papers from extinguished experts and professors in the field of learning technology and the related fields who are far-sighted and have his/her own innovative thoughts on the development of learning technology. This book will addresses the main issues concerned with...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2011
The recent re-emergence of serious games as a branch of video games and as a promising frontier of education has introduced the concept of games designed for a serious purpose other than pure entertainment. To date the major applications of serious games include education and training, engineering,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
The research in A Guide to LGBTQ+ Inclusion on Campus, Post-PULSE is premised on the notion that, because we cannot choose our sexual, racial, ethnic, cultural, political, geographic, economic, and chronological origins, with greater advantage comes greater responsibility to redistribute life’s...
Fair Cooperation
A New Paradigm for Cultural Diplomacy and Arts Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
European cultural policy is based on the exchange of artists. It has devoted decades to the objective of encouraging dialogue and enabling cooperative production; especially between the countries of the so-called ‘Global North’ and ‘Global South’. Cultural policy makers and agents in Europe,...
Representation and Reception
Brechtian 'Pedagogics of Theatre' and Critical Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
Representation and Reception: Brechtian ‘Pedagogics of Theatre’ and Critical Thinking deploys German playwright Bertolt Brecht’s theory of drama and performance, what he calls "the pedagogics of theatre", to create modes of critical thinking in the classroom. Extrapolating on Brecht’s estranged...
Proceedings of ELM-2015 Volume 1
Theory, Algorithms and Applications (I)
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015
This book contains some selected papers from the International Conference on Extreme Learning Machine 2015, which was held in Hangzhou, China, December 15-17, 2015. This conference brought together researchers and engineers to share and exchange R&D experience on both theoretical studies and practical...
The Nordic PhD
Surviving and Succeeding
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
The Nordic PhD: Surviving and Succeeding is an edited book written for prospective and current doctoral students by a mix of doctoral students and those who have recently completed their doctorates. The premise is simple: if you could go back in time and talk with yourself when you began your studies,...
MMOs from the Inside Out
The History, Design, Fun, and Art of Massively-multiplayer Online Role-playing Games
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
This is an astonishing collection of ideas, information, and instruction from one of the true pioneers of Massively-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games. MMOs from the Inside Out: The History, Design, Fun, and Art of Massively-Multiplayer Role-playing Games speaks to the designers and players of...
Adult Learning and Education in International Contexts: Future Challenges for its Professionalization
Comparative Perspectives from the 2016 Wuerzburg Winter School
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
This volume analyses adult education and lifelong learning as international phenomena, which have a strong influence on professionals working in this field. Based on the 2016 Würzburg Winter School, the book identifies influences on policy at local, national and international levels. It examines...