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Decolonizing the English literary curriculum
An international team of leading scholars illustrate the necessity and advantages of reforming the English Literary Curriculum from specific decolonial perspectives in this book, using evidence-based arguments from classroom contexts, as well as establishing new critical agendas
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- 9781009299985
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- x, 522 pages; illustration
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- 820.71 MUK d
Managing the digital university:paradigms, leadership, and organization
The reflection on university management is based on the question about the shape of universities of the future. Civic, responsible, sustainable, virtual, digital, and many other universities can be mentioned among the concepts present in the literature. All these names describe an important distinctive feature of a university, which will gain more and more importance in the future. However, giv…
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- 9781003366409
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- x, 286 pages ; 24 cm.
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- 378.1 SUL m
Responsive open learning environments outcomes of research from the ROLE proj…
This book presents the outcomes of four years of educational research in the EU-supported project called ROLE (Responsive Online Learning Environments). ROLE technology is centered around the concept of self-regulated learning that creates responsible learners, who are capable of critical thinking and able to plan their own learning processes. ROLE allows learners to independently search for a…
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- 9783319023991
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- xxvi, 252 pages; illustration
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- 371.33 KRO r
Decolonizing the English literary curriculum
An international team of leading scholars illustrate the necessity and advantages of reforming the English Literary Curriculum from specific decolonial perspectives in this book, using evidence-based arguments from classroom contexts, as well as establishing new critical agendas
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- 9781009299985
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- x, 522 pages; illustration
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- 820.71 MUK d
Classroom assessment and educational measurement
Classroom Assessment and Educational Measurement explores the ways in which the theory and practice of both educational measurement and the assessment of student learning in classroom settings mutually inform one another. Chapters by assessment and measurement experts consider the nature of classroom assessment information, from student achievement to affective and socio-emotional attributes; h…
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- 9780429507533
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- xxii + 353 p
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- 371.26
Learning to diagnose with simulations :examples from teacher education and me…
This open access book presents 8 novel approaches to measure and improve diagnostic competences with simulation. The book compares the effects of interventions on these diagnostic competences in both teacher and medical education. It includes analyses showing that important aspects of diagnostic competences and effects of instructional interventions aiming to facilitate them are comparable for …
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- 9783030891473
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- vi; 157p;
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- 616.075 LEA F
Learning to diagnose with simulations :examples from teacher education and me…
This open access book presents 8 novel approaches to measure and improve diagnostic competences with simulation. The book compares the effects of interventions on these diagnostic competences in both teacher and medical education. It includes analyses showing that important aspects of diagnostic competences and effects of instructional interventions aiming to facilitate them are comparable for …
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- 9783030891473
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- vi; 157p;
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- 616.075 LEA F
Space, place, and children's reading development :mapping the connections
This open access book is a unique study of the impact of lived experience on literate life, exploring how children’s reading development is affected by their home setting, and how this sense of place influences textual interpretation of the books they read. Based on qualitative research and structured around interviews with twelve participants, Space, Place and Children's Reading Development …
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- 9781350275973
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- xiv, 256p.; ill.
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- 372.4 SPA m
Dumbing Down :The Crisis of Quality and Equity in a Once-Great School System-…
This open access book examines the challenges and issues caused by a move to a marketized education system in Sweden. Observing the introduction of the school voucher system and a postmodern social constructivist view of knowledge, the move away from objective knowledge is identified as the core reason for Sweden’s current education crisis. The impact of declining education standards on the l…
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- 9783030934293
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- XVIII, 212 p ; ill
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- 338.4737 DUM
Implementing Deeper Learning and 21st Century Education Reforms :Building an …
This open access book is a comparative analysis of recent large scale education reforms that broadened curriculum goals to better prepare students for the 21st century. The book examines what governments actually do when they broaden curriculum goals, with attention to the details of implementation. To this end, the book examines system level reforms in six countries at various levels of develo…
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- 9783030570392
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- viii, 198 p.
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- 370.116 IMP F
Intercultural Approaches to Education :From Theory to Practice
This open access book provides an analysis of contemporary societies and schools shaped by cultural diversity, globalization and migration. This diversity is necessarily reflected in education systems and requires the promotion of intercultural approaches able to improve learning processes and the quality of education. From an international and comparative perspective, this book first presen…
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- 9783030708252
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- xxii, 213 p.
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- 370.117 INT A
Uprooting Bias in the Academy :Lessons from the Field
This open access book analyzes barriers to inclusion in academia and details ways to create a more diverse, inclusive environment. It first describes what the barriers to inclusion are and how they function within the broader society, focusing on concept of implicit bias: what it is, how it develops, and the importance of training organizational members to recognize and challenge it. It then di…
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- 9783030856687
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- 255 p ; ill
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- 379.26 UPR L
AI in learning :designing the future
AI (Artificial Intelligence) is predicted to radically change teaching and learning in both schools and industry causing radical disruption of work. AI can support well-being initiatives and lifelong learning but educational institutions and companies need to take the changing technology into account. Moving towards AI supported by digital tools requires a dramatic shift in the concept of learn…
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- 9783031096877
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- xv; 344 pg; ill.
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- 607.598 AII a
Digital personalization in early childhood :impact on childhood
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Digital personalization is an emerging interdisciplinary research field, with application to a variety of areas including design, education and publication industry. This book focuses on children’s education and literacy resources, which have undergone importan…
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- 9781474290814
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- 224p
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- 371.394 NAT n
Academic pipeline programs :diversifying pathways from the bachelor's to the …
Academic pipeline programs are critical to effectively support the steady increase of diverse students entering the academy. Academic Pipeline Programs: Diversifying Bachelor's to the Professoriate describes best practices of successful academic government and privately funded pre-collegiate, collegiate, graduate, and postdoctoral/faculty development pipeline programs. The authors explore 21 ha…
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- 9781643150246
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- 305p : ill
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- 379.26 ACA a
Bridging between research and practice :supporting professional development t…
This book presents a fresh approach to bridging the perceived gap between academic and classroom cultures. It describes a unique form of research partnership whereby Cambridge University academics and school teachers together grappled with and reformulated theory—through in-depth case studies analysing practice using interactive whiteboards in five subject areas. The inquiry exploited the col…
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- 9789462094345
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- xxi ; 365p ; ill
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- 371.33 SAR b
Energy efficiency and indoor environment quality
This Special Issue addresses a topic of great relevance. In developed countries, there is a higher prevalence of people choosing to spend time indoors. Data show that the time a person spends at home ranges from 60% to 90% of the day, and 30% of that time is spent sleeping, though this varies depending on the individual. Taking into account these data, indoor residential environments have a dir…
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- 9783036525075
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- vii, 184p.: ill.
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- 690 LEZ
Energy efficiency and indoor environment quality
This Special Issue addresses a topic of great relevance. In developed countries, there is a higher prevalence of people choosing to spend time indoors. Data show that the time a person spends at home ranges from 60% to 90% of the day, and 30% of that time is spent sleeping, though this varies depending on the individual. Taking into account these data, indoor residential environments have a dir…
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- 9783036525075
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- vii, 184p.: ill.
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- 690 LEZ
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