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Horizontal learning in the high middle ages: peer-to-peer knowledge transfer …
The history of medieval learning has been studied both as a vertical master-student phenomenon, and as part of a broad 'educational environment'. This volume centers on the ways in which cohabiting peers learned and taught one another in a dialectical process - how they acquired knowledge and skills, but also how they developed concepts, beliefs, and adapted their behavior to suit the group: ev…
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- 9789048532919
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- 301p. : ill
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- 370.902 HOR h
Rethinking health care ethics
The goal of this open access book is to develop an approach to clinical health care ethics that is more accessible to, and usable by, health professionals than the now-dominant approaches that focus, for example, on the application of ethical principles. The book elaborates the view that health professionals have the emotional and intellectual resources to discuss and address ethical issues in …
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- 9789811308307
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- xv, 169p.
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- 171.7 SCH r
Children's exploration and cultural formation
This open access book examines the educational conditions that support cultures of exploration in kindergartens. It conceptualises cultures of exploration, whether those cultures are created through children’s own engagement or are demanded of them through undertaking specific tasks within different institutional settings. It shows how the conditions for children’s exploration form a web of…
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- 9783030362713
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- VIII, 187 p.
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- International Perspectives on Early Childhood Education and Development
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- 374 CHI c
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
Learning and teaching in adult education : contemporary theories
Learning is a key issue in education. Being familiar with contemporary learning theory, therefore, is an essential prerequisite for education scholars and practitioners alike
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- 9783866494435
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- 132 p.
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- 374 PAT l
Opening up education : the collective advancement of education through open t…
Experts discuss the potential for open education tools, resources, and knowledge to transform the economics and ecology of education.Given the abundance of open education initiatives that aim to make educational assets freely available online, the time seems ripe to explore the potential of open education to transform the economics and ecology of education. Despite the diversity of tools and re…
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- 9780262033718
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- 477 p.
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- 378.1758 LIY o
Approaches to English for Specific and Academic Purposes : Perspectives on Te…
This volume presents a selection of eight papers presented at three symposia on English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and English for Academic Purposes (EAP) that were held at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. The experiences detailed in the chapters offer a representative sample of the diversity of approaches to teaching and assessing ESP and EAP that were shared on those occasions. T…
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- 9788860461704
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- 808.02 ENN a
The lecturer's guide to quality and standards in colleges and universities
A follow-up volume to "Managing Teaching and Learning in Further Education and Higher Education", this text provides a guide to managing quality and standards from the lecturer's point of view. It covers key issues such as teaching, learning, student support, assessment, evaluation, course design, bidding for and managing resources, marketing and research.; Based on the model of lecturer as ref…
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- 9780203975534
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- viii, 224p. : ill.
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- 378.1250941 ASH l
Learning outside the academy : international research perspectives on lifelon…
This book weaves together different strands of research in the area of lifelong learning that concentrates particularly on learning in alternative settings and ways, such experiential learning and informal and community learning. Drawing upon international research, the book examines how these strands of research can contribute to each other. The contributions to this book are based on material…
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- 9780203018385
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- xii, 239p. : ill
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- 374 LEA l
Opening science : the evolving guide on how the Internet is changing research…
Modern information and communication technologies, together with a cultural upheaval within the research community, have profoundly changed research in nearly every aspect. Ranging from sharing and discussing ideas in social networks for scientists to new collaborative environments and novel publication formats, knowledge creation and dissemination as we know it is experiencing a vigorous shift…
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- 9783319000268
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- ix, 339p. : ill.
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- 502.854678 OPE o
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