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Manifesto for the humanities : transforming doctoral education in good enough…
After a remarkable career in higher education, Sidonie Smith offers Manifesto for the Humanities as a reflective contribution to the current academic conversation over the place of the Humanities in the 21st century. Her focus is on doctoral education and opportunities she sees for its reform. Grounding this manifesto in background factors contributing to current “crises” in the humanitie…
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- 9780472073047
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- xi, 225p. : ill.
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- 378.2 SMI m
governance of educational welfare markets
This book is a first exploratory inquiry into possible educational selectivity effects of the European Social Fund (ESF). It assesses the extent of the gap between the social policy objectives set through regulatory competences in multi-level governance and the structure of incentives it breeds in practice, with a broad range of implications for the capacity of the government to control for an …
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- 1st edition.
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- 9783034318990 (alk. paper)
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- 379.4 STA t
The psychology of study success in universities
Universities around the world are under increasing pressure to maintain high levels of graduation and to make study processes as efficient as possible, with teachers and students struggling to meet the expectations placed upon them as a result. The Psychology of Study Success in Universities asks whether it is possible to meet these demands at the same time as protecting the well-being of stude…
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- 9781315212104
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- x, 143p. : ill.
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- 378.101094897 MAA p
Extending educational reform : from one school to many
In an effort to improve student achievement, thousands of US schools have adopted school reform models devised externally by universities and other organizations. Such models have been successful in improving individual schools or groups of schools, but what happens when educational reform attempts to extend from one school to many? Through qualitative data from several studies, this book explo…
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- 9780203993965
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- xi, 179p. : ill.
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- 371.200973 DAT e
Innovative school principals and restructuring : life history portraits of su…
Restructuring is an international phenomenon, and great stress is placed on the role of the innovative principal in the process. This book offers insights into the ways in which six principals go about leading the change process in their schools, and looks for ways of understanding why and how principals behave and think in the way they do. Its edited topical life history approach identifies ke…
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- 9780203985946
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- vi, 182p. : ill.
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- 371.200994 DIM i
English language learning and technology : lectures on applied linguistics in…
This book explores implications for applied linguistics of recent developments in technologies used in second language teaching and assessment, language analysis, and language use. Focusing primarily on English language learning, the book identifies significant areas of interplay between technology and applied linguistics, and it explores current perspectives on perennial questions such as how …
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- 9789027217042
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- xvi, 213p. : ill.
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- 428.0071 CHA e
Information and communications technology : in the 21st century classroom
Are you a student who wants to become an effective teacher in the 21st century? Maybe you are a teacher already? Would you like to learn how to take advantage of educational technologies in order to achieve your pedagogic goals? Nowadays, technology is all around us, but how do we, as teachers, make the best use of it?Technology has entered the classroom and most teachers are not trained in usi…
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- 9783110401455
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- viii, 195p. : ill.
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- 371.33 MRE i
In this together : teachers' experiences with transnational, telecollaborativ…
This book provides a nexus between research and practice through teachers’ narratives of their experiences with telecollaboration. The book begins with a chapter outlining the pedagogical and theoretical underpinnings of telecollaboration (also known as Virtual Exchange), followed by eight chapters that explain telecollaborative project design, materials and activities as well as frank discus…
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- 9783034335010
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- 230p. : ill.
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- 418.00785678 IN i
Change in classroom practice
Over the last ten years deliberate and determined efforts have been made to improve schooling. This book charts recent and current developments in the practical business of changing classroom practice to make schools more effective. It is devoted to detecting the effects on classroom practice of the efforts made to improve schools and classrooms, and to understanding how classroom practice chan…
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- 9781135721251
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- vi, 158p. : ill.
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- 371.10240941 CHA c
Research in multicultural education : from the margins to the mainstream
First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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- 9781135388683
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- vi, 267p. : ill.
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- 370.19341072 RES r
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