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Education and learning for sustainable futures: 50 Years of Learning for Envi…
Responding to growing interest in the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and global concern over climate change, this volume provides an analysis of how our understanding of the relationship between environment and education has evolved during the past 50 years. Spanning from the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment through to the present day, chapters examine whether our a…
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- 9781003467007
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- xvi, 118 p. : ill.
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- 304.2071 MAC e
Multimodal literacy in school science: transdisciplinary perspectives on theo…
This book establishes a new theoretical and practical framework for multimodal disciplinary literacy (MDL) fused with the subject-specific science pedagogies of senior high school biology, chemistry and physics. It builds a compatible alignment of multiple representation and representation construction approaches to science pedagogy with the social semiotic, systemic functional linguistic-based…
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- 9780367714048
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- xvii, 286 p. : ill
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- 507.1 UNS m
Paradoxes of interculturality: a toolbox of out-of-the-box ideas for intercul…
Offering a unique reading experience, this book examines the epistemologies of interculturality and explores potential routes to review and revisit the notion anew. Grounded in different sociocultural, economic and political perspectives around the world, interculturality in education and research bears a paradoxical attribute of 'contradictions' and 'inconsistencies', making it a polysemous a…
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- 9781003371052
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- vi, 139 p.
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- 370.117 FRE p
The left hand of data: designing education data for justice
A speculative framework that imagines how we can use education data to promote play, creativity, and social justice over normativity and conformity. Educational analytics tend toward aggregation, asking what a “normative” learner does. In The Left Hand of Data, educational researchers Matthew Berland and Antero Garcia start from a different assumption—that outliers are, and must be tre…
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- 9780262377645
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- 204 p. : ill.
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- 370.285 BER l
Picture-work: how libraries, museums, and stock agencies launched a new image…
How the image collection, organized and made available for public consumption, came to define a key feature of contemporary visual culture. The origins of today's kaleidoscopic digital visual culture are many. In this book, Diana Kamin traces the sharing of photographs to an image economy developed throughout the twentieth century by major institutions. Picture-Work examines how three of the…
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- 9780262377041
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- 308 p. : ill.
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- History and foundations of information science
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- 302.23 KAM p
Constructing science: connecting causal reasoning to scientific thinking in y…
Young children have remarkable capacities for causal reasoning, which are part of the foundation of their scientific thinking abilities. In Constructing Science, Deena Weisberg and David Sobel trace the ways that young children's sophisticated causal reasoning abilities combine with other cognitive, metacognitive, and social factors to develop into a more mature set of scientific thinking abili…
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- 9780262370615
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- xi, 374 p. : ill
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- 501 WEI c
Principles of knowledge auditing: foundations for knowledge management implem…
A comprehensive theoretical and practical guide to the operating principles of knowledge auditing, illustrated with numerous case studies. A knowledge audit provides an “at a glance” view of an organization's needs and opportunities. Its purpose is to improve an organization's effectiveness through a better understanding of the dynamics and levers of knowledge production, access, and use…
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- 9780262373166
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- xi, 410 p : ill.
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- 658.4038 LAM p
Open knowledge institutions: reinventing universities
In this book, a diverse group of authors—including open access pioneers, science communicators, scholars, researchers, and university administrators—offer a bold proposition: universities should become open knowledge institutions, acting with principles of openness at their center and working across boundaries and with broad communities to generate shared knowledge resources for the benefit…
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- 9780262365154
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- xi, 177 p. : ill
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- 378.101 MON o
Cats, carpenters, and accountants: bibliographical foundations of information…
An expansive case for bibliography as infrastructure in information science. Cats, Carpenters, and Accountants argues that bibliography serves a foundational role within information science as infrastructure, and like all infrastructures, it needs and deserves attention. Wayne de Fremery's thoughtful provocation positions bibliography as a means to serve the many ends pursued by information …
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- 9780262377966
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- 279 p. : ill.
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- History and foundations of information science
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- 010 DEF c
Quantum ecology: why and how new technologies will reshape societies
An exploration of the emerging quantum technological paradigm and its effects on human consciousness and cultures. In Quantum Ecology, Stefano Calzati and Derrick de Kerckhove identify three technological ecologies—linguistic, digital, and quantum—to better understand today's shattered globalized contemporaneity and navigate the impact of soon-to-come quantum information technologies. To…
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- 9780262375405
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- 275 p. ; ill.
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- 303.483 CAL q
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