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Cover of Transformative Approaches to New Technologies and Student Diversity in Futures Oriented Classrooms
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012

In this book we outline an optimistic, aspirational and unashamedly ambitious agenda for schooling. We make cautious use of the concept of ‘future proofing’ to signal the commitment of the various authors to re-thinking the purposes, content and processes of schooling with a view to ensuring that...
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Education for Self-transformation

Essay Form as an Educational Practice

by Duck-Joo Kwak
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011

Exemplifying what it advocates, this book is an innovative attempt to retrieve the essay form from its degenerate condition in academic writing. Its purpose is to create pedagogical space in which the inner struggle of ‘lived experience’ can articulate itself in the first person. Working through...
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Teaching Science and Investigating Environmental Issues with Geospatial Technology

Designing Effective Professional Development for Teachers

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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013

The emerging field of using geospatial technology to teach science and environmental education presents an excellent opportunity to discover the ways in which educators use research-grounded pedagogical commitments in combination with their practical experiences to design and implement effective teacher...
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by Mihalis Lazaridis
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010

This book’s main objective is to decipher for the reader the main processes in the atmosphere and the quantification of air pollution effects on humans and the environment, through first principles of meteorology and modelling/measurement approaches. The understanding of the complex sequence of...
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by Sarah Mercer
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011

This book contributes to our growing understanding of the nature and development of language learner self-concept. It assesses the relevant literature in the disciplines of psychology and applied linguistics and describes in-depth, qualitative research examining the self-concepts of tertiary-level...
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Flexible Syntax

A Theory of Case and Arguments

by A. Neeleman, F. Weerman
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

Most linguistic theories assume that each grammatical relation is established in a unique structural configuration. Neeleman and Weerman take issue with this view, arguing for a more flexible approach on the basis of conceptual considerations and data taken mostly, but not exclusively, from the Germanic...
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Inner Aspect

The Articulation of VP

by Lisa deMena Travis
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010

Finishing this book was one of the most difficult things I have ever done. It took far too long from original idea to page proofs and suffered from being relegated to small corners of my life. It was very rarely on the front burner. Since I started working on this topic in 1991, there has been a lot...
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The German Perfect

Its semantic composition and its interactions with temporal adverbials

by R. Musan
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

OUTLINE German has the three main perfect constructions which are illustrated in (1. 1). 1 In each of these constructions, the verb appears in the past participial form and is combined with an auxiliary - in this case, haben ('have'); other verbs form their perfect constructions with the auxiliary sein...
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Transitions to Early Care and Education

International Perspectives on Making Schools Ready for Young Children

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Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011

Transitions to new educational experiences are a universal rite of passage encountered by children worldwide.  This volume in the Educating the Young Child:  Advances in Theory and Research, Implications for Practice series provides early childhood educators with a resource that focuses on the transitions...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2011

This book presents a new and refreshing look at student assessment from the perspective of leading educational theorists, researchers, and practitioners. The authors call for boundary-breaking assessment that reflects clear understandings of the purposes of assessment, a balance of assessment creativity...
Cover of Gender, Work, and Family in a Chinese Economic Zone
by Nancy E Riley
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012

This book examines the dynamics of power within the families of married women who have migrated from rural areas to China's Dalian Economic Zone.  Engaging the question of whether waged work gives women power in their families, this ethnographic study finds that women do indeed use their new positions...
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From Syntax to Discourse

Pronominal Clitics, Null Subjects and Infinitives in Child Language

by C. Hamann
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

claim is that such morphological processes can be learnt without symbolization and innate knowledge. See Rumelhart and McClelland (1986) for the original model of past tense acquisition, Plunkett and Marchman (1993), Nakisa, Plunkett and Hahn (1996) and Elman et al. (1996) for developments and extensions...
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by Sergei Abramovich
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014

This book promotes the experimental mathematics approach in the context of secondary mathematics curriculum by exploring mathematical models depending on parameters that were typically considered advanced in the pre-digital education era. This approach, by drawing on the power of computers to perform...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013

Science teacher educators prepare and provide professional development for teachers at all grade levels. They seek to improve conditions in classroom teaching and learning, professional development, and teacher recruitment and retention. Science Teacher Educators as K-12 Teachers: Practicing What...
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