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Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
This volume reflects the multiplicity of perspectives in the theory and practice of creativity, while it is broadly accepted that the dynamism of humanity’s responses to our evolving scientific, social and environmental needs depends on our creativity. It examines the central issues that animate...
Resurgence of Nuclear Power
Challenges and Opportunities for Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
This book focuses on the issue of ‘resurgence of nuclear power’ and discusses the feasibility of nuclear in the energy mix of Asian economies. It discusses nuclear energy sector in detail in the context of India, a country where currently overseas supply of hydrocarbon fuels plays a major role...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
The International Handbooks of Teacher Education cover major issues in the field through chapters that offer detailed literature reviews, designed to help readers to understand the history, issues and research developments across those topics most relevant to the field of teacher education from an...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2014
As children, we would have spilt glasses of milk, dropped things, and broken things. As children, therefore, we would have developed intuitions about how the world ‘works’, but we would not necessarily have been able to explain these ‘workings’. It would only have been till we entered formal...
Learning Cities
Multimodal Explorations and Placed Pedagogies
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
This book is an interdisciplinary text exploring the learning and educative potentials of cities and their spaces, including urban and suburban contexts, at all stages of life. Drawing on the insights of researchers from diverse fields, such as education, architecture, history, visual sociology, applied...
Validating Technological Innovation
The Introduction and Implementation of Onscreen Marking in Hong Kong
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2016
This book discusses Hong Kong’s use of onscreen marking (OSM) in public examinations. Given that Hong Kong leads the way in OSM innovation, this book has arisen from a recognised need to provide a comprehensive, coherent account of the findings of various separate but linked validation studies of...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD) is a highly prevalent hereditary renal disorder in which fluid-filled cysts are appeared in both kidneys. Main causative genes of ADPKD are PKD1 and PKD2, encoding for polycystin-1 (PC1) and polycystin-2 (PC2) respectively. Those proteins are localized...
Empowering Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Critical Decision-making for Quality Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
This book presents an international research-based framework that has empowered parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to become critical decision makers to actively guide their child’s learning and self-advocacy. Parents can use this framework to identify their child’s vision...
Teaching Shakespeare to ESL Students
The Study of Language Arts in Four Major Plays
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
This is a teacher’s resource book tailor-made for EFL teachers who want to bring Shakespeare into their classes. It includes forty innovative lesson plans with ready-to-use worksheets, hands-on games and student-oriented activities that help EFL learners achieve higher levels of English proficiency...
Multilingualism in the Australian Suburbs
A framework for exploring bilingual identity
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2015
This book introduces a framework for examining bilingual identity and presents the cases of seven individual children from a study of young students’ bilingual identities in an Australian primary school. The new Bilingual Identity Negotiation Framework brings together three elements that influence...
by Steve McCarty, Hiroyuki Obari, Takeshi Sato
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
This book explores theoretical and practical aspects of implementing mobile language learning in university classrooms for English as a Foreign Language in Japan. The technologies utilized, such as smartphones, iPads, and wi-fi, integrate students’ hand-held devices into the campus network infrastructure....
Reconceptualizing English Education in a Multilingual Society
English in the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
This book brings together chapters that describe, investigate, and analyze the place of English in education in multilingual Philippines. Unlike most studies on languages in education, which take a neutral, de-contextualized stance, this volume take a pluricentric view of the English language by positioning...
The “States” in Villages
A Look at Schools in Rural China
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
This book presents a study in educational sociology, exploring the function of rural schools, which are a symbol of the state in rural society, in a time characterized by local cultural transition.
The book begins with an investigation of the status quo, background and history of...
A School in Ren Village
A Historical-Ethnographical Study of China's Educational Changes
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
By adopting oral history and fieldwork methods and exploring historical data, this book chronologically depicts the development of the schools and education in a village in North China over a century. The book reveals how education and school life in the rural village are being impacted not only...