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Knowledge of word meanings is critical to success in reading. A reader cannot fully understand a text in which the meaning to a significant number of words is unknown. Vocabulary knowledge has long been correlated with proficiency in reading. Yet, national surveys of student vocabulary knowledge have demonstrated that student growth in vocabulary has been stagnant at best. This volume offers ne…
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- 9783038977353
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- X, 142 p.
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- 428.81 VOC v
Contemporary culture : new directions in arts and humanities research
Are the humanities still relevant in the twenty-first century? In the context of pervasive economic liberalism and shrinking budgets due to a deep and prolonged recession, the exigency of humanities research for society is increasingly put into question. This volume claims that the humanities do indeed matter by offering empirically-grounded critical reflections on contemporary cultural practic…
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- 9789089644749
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- 250 p.
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- 701.03 ZIJ c
Adult education and lifelong learning in Europe and beyond : comparative pers…
This volume presents comparisons of adult education and lifelong learning with a focus on educational policies, professionalization in adult education, participation in adult learning and education, quality in adult education, and educational guidance and counselling. The essays are based on comparisons discussed at the international Winter School «Comparative Studies in Adult and Lifelong Lea…
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- 9783653059731
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- 276 p.
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- 374 ADU a
Metacognition in language learning and teaching
The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351049139, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. This volume offers an exhaustive look at the latest research on metacognition in language learning and teaching. While other works have explored certain notions of metacognition in language…
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- 9781351049146
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- XIII, 269 p.
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- 418.0071 MET m
Social participation of students with special educational needs in mainstream…
Advocates of inclusive education argue that the social inclusion of students with special educational needs (SEN) increases when they are educated with typically developing peers. However, research indicates that this is not apparent for all students with SEN. Students with social, emotional and behavioural diffi culties (SEBD) are often socially excluded. To understand the situation of th…
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- 9780429264184
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- 24 p.
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- Student voices on social exclusion in general primary schools (Chapter 1)
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- 371.1 LEE s
Mobile learning
Mobile learning has become one of the more influential aspects of the field of educational technology, given the ubiquity of modern mobile devices and proliferation of educational applications or ‘apps’. Within this volume, there are a range of studies and reviews which cover a breadth of current topics in the field, namely user motivations for using mobile learning, issues in evaluation, a…
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- 9783038976608
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- IX, 73 p.
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- 371.35 MOB m
Conservation of natural and cultural heritage in Kenya : a cross-disciplinary…
In Kenya, cultural and natural heritage has a particular value. This book brings together essays by heritage experts from different backgrounds, including conservation, heritage management, museum studies, archaeology, environment and social sciences, architecture and landscape, geography, philosophy and economics to explore three key themes: the underlying ethics, practices and legal issues of…
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- 9781910634844
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- XVIII, 249 p.
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- 363.69 CON c
New horizons for Asian museums and museology
This book presents up-to-date information about museums and museology in present-day Asia, focusing on Japan, Mongolia, Myanmar, and Thailand.Asian countries today have developed or are developing their own museology and museums, which are not simple copies of European or North American models. This book provides readers with carefully chosen examples of museum activities—for example, exhibit…
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- 9789811008863
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- VI, 204 p.
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- 069.095 NEW n
Sensitive objects : affect and material culture
"The study of affect has become a dynamic field spanning a range of disciplines from psychology over neuroscience to philosophy and cultural studies. Little attention however has been payed to material culture. This book presents an innovative set of ethnographies of the affective relations between people and things. It tackles the sensual experiences of materiality, through taste, sounds, smel…
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- 9789188168610
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- 285 p.
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- 152.4 SEN s
Theoretical and methodological perspectives on higher education management an…
As an interdisciplinary field of study, higher education research is still underdeveloped in terms of theoretical matureness and rigour. This book offers perspectives on how a range of methodological choices, theoretical approaches and conceptualisations from other disciplines can be successfully applied and utilised in the context of higher education. As a reader compiled of independent chapte…
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- 9789520308438
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- 218 p.
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- 378 THE t
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