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Mobilities of knowledge
This collection of essays examines how spatial mobilities of people and practices, technologies and objects, knowledge and ideas have shaped the production, circulation, and transfer of knowledge in different historical and geographical contexts. Targeting an interdisciplinary audience, Mobilities of Knowledge combines detailed empirical analyses with innovative conceptual approaches. The first…
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- 9783319446530
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- x, 303p. : ill.
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- 304.2 MOB m
Childlessness in Europe : contexts, causes, and consequences
This open access book provides an overview of childlessness throughout Europe. It offers a collection of papers written by leading demographers and sociologists that examine contexts, causes, and consequences of childlessness in countries throughout the region. The book features data from all over Europe. It specifically highlights patterns of childlessness in Germany, France, the United Ki…
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- 9783319446677
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- xi, 370p. : ill.
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- 306.85094 CHI c
A designer’s log case studies in instructional design
Books and articles on instructional design in online learning abound but rarely do we get such a comprehensive picture of what instructional designers do, how they do it, and the problems they solve as their university changes. Power documents the emergence of an adapted instructional design model for transforming courses from single-mode to dual-mode instruction, making this designer’s log a…
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- 9781897425466
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- 378.199 POW a
Bridging educational leadership, curriculum theory and didaktik : non-affirma…
This volume argues for the need of a common ground that bridges leadership studies, curriculum theory, and Didaktik. It proposes a non-affirmative education theory and its core concepts along with discursive institutionalism as an analytical tool to bridge these fields. It concludes with implications of its coherent theoretical framing for future empirical research.Recent neoliberal policies an…
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- 9783319586502
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- xx, 474p. : ill.
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- 375 BRI b
Political parties in the Pacific Islands
While political parties remain an indispensable institutional framework for representation and governance in a democracy, the democracies of many Pacific Islands nations are undermined by the weakness and inefficacy of their local political parties. Addressing the implications of the lack of established party systems across the Pacific, this collection seeks to illuminate the underlying assumpt…
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- 9781921313769
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- xiv, 229 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
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- 324.291823 RIC p
Pharmacovigilance in the European Union : practical implementation across mem…
The book presents the results of an in-depth comparative study assessing the implementation of the EU Pharmacovigilance Directive in six EU Member States. By going beyond legal transposition and instead focusing on practical implementation, this study aims to close a gap in EU compliance research. Based on qualitative interviews with relevant actors in Germany, Poland, Portugal, France, Finland…
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- 9783658172763
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- xiv, 124p. : ill.
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- 615.7042 KAE p
A Life-Course Perspective on Migration and Integration
Over the last four decades the sociological life course approach with its focus on the interplay of structure and agency over time life course perspective has become an important research perspective in the social sciences. Yet, while it has successfully been applied to almost all fields of social inquiry it is much less used in research studying migrant populations and their integration patter…
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- 9789400715455
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- 304.82 WIN a
Building state capability: evidence, analysis, action
Governments play a major role in the development process, and constantly introduce reforms and policies to achieve developmental objectives. Many of these interventions have limited impact, however; schools get built but kids don’t learn, IT systems are introduced but not used, plans are written but not implemented. These achievement deficiencies reveal gaps in capabilities, and weaknesses in…
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- First edition.
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- 9780198747482
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- xii, 257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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- 320 AND b
Formative assessment for mathematics teaching and learning : teacher professi…
This book aims at describing pathways and achievements of the LLP Comenius Project “FAMT&L – Formative Assessment in mathematics for teaching and learning”. The main purpose of this research project was to encourage the use of formative assessment in the teaching-learning process carried out by mathematics teachers in lower secondary school. Through the voices of the several actors involv…
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- 9788891774637
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- 177 p.
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- Ricerca e formazione, 2
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- 371.3 FER f
Evaluating evidence of mechanisms in medicine : principles and procedures
This book is the first to develop explicit methods for evaluating evidence of mechanisms in the field of medicine. It explains why it can be important to make this evidence explicit, and describes how to take such evidence into account in the evidence appraisal process. In addition, it develops procedures for seeking evidence of mechanisms, for evaluating evidence of mechanisms, and for combini…
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- 9783319946108
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- xviii, 125p. : ill.
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- 610.1 EVA e
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