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Adult education and work contexts : international perspectives and challenges…
Adult education has deep connections with employment contexts. This volume discusses interrelations within transnational contexts studied during the Würzburg Winter School on Comparative Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning (COMPALL). The book shows that adult education and work contexts are influenced by international and transnational developments. The findings are presented in t…
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- 9783631737033
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- 223 p. ; ill
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- Call Number
- 374 EGE a
Vocational education and training in the age of digitization : challenges and…
The increasing digitization of the world of work is associated with accelerated structural changes. These are connected with changed qualification profiles and thus new challenges for vocational education and training (VET). Companies, vocational schools and other educational institutions must respond appropriately. The volume focuses on the diverse demands placed on teachers, learners and educ…
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- Vol. 4
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- 9783847413356
- Collation
- 273 p.
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- -
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- 370.113 WUT v
Multimodal literacy in school science : transdisciplinary perspectives on the…
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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- 9781003150718
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- XVIII, 267 p.
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- 507.12 MUL m
Teaching languages to adolescent learners : from theory to practice
Teaching languages to adolescents can be a challenge. . . but one that is most rewarding! What works? What doesn't work? This book provides a reader friendly overview on teaching modern languages to adolescents (Years 7–13). Each chapter takes an aspect of language teaching and learning, and explains the underlying theory of instructed language acquisition and its application through examples…
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- 9781108869812
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- ix, 188 p. : ill
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- 418.00712 ERL t
Schoolteachers and the Nordic model : comparative and historical perspectives
Schoolteachers and the Nordic Model examines the cultural distinctiveness of the Nordic teaching profession and teacher training compared to examples from Europe and North America. The book explores the concept of these ‘teacher cultures’ as various dimensions of professional identities, recruitment patterns, teachers’ social status, values and knowledge. It considers how Nordic teachersÂ…
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- 9781003082514
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- XIII, 245 p.
- Series Title
- Oxford Studies in Comparative Education
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- 371.1020948 SCH s
Teaching for excellence and equity : analyzing teacher characteristics, behav…
This open access book examines the interrelationship of national policy, teacher effectiveness, and student outcomes with a specific emphasis on educational equity. Using data from the IEA’s Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) conducted between 1995 and 2015, it investigates grade four and grade eight data to assess trends in key teacher characteristics (experience, …
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- 9783030161514
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- xii, 212 p. : ill.
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- IEA Research for Education
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- 371.26 BUR t
Measuring professional competence for the teaching of Mathematical Modelling:…
This open access book presents a structural model and an associated test instrument designed to provide a detailed analysis of professional competences for teaching mathematical modelling. The conceptualisation is based on the COACTIV model, which describes aspects, areas and facets of professional competences of teachers. The manual provides an overview of the essential teaching skills in appl…
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- 9783030780715
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- x, 129p.: ill.
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- 370.7 WES m
Improving working memory in learning and intellectual disabilities
The last forty years of research have demonstrated that working memory (WM) is a key concept for understanding higher-order cognition. To give an example, WM is involved in reading comprehension, problem solving and reasoning, but also in a number of everyday life activities. It has a clear role in the case of atypical development too. For instance, numerous studies have shown an impairment in …
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- 9782889198979
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- 158p.: ill.
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- -
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- 370.15 IMP i
Northern lights on civic and citizenship education : a cross-national compari…
This open access book presents an in-depth analysis of data from ICCS. An international group of scholars critically address the state of civic and citizenship education in the four Nordic countries that participated in the IEA International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS) in 2009 and 2016. The findings are of particular relevance to educators at all levels, from school education t…
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- 9783030667887
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- viii, 160 p.; ill
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- 372.830948 NOR n
Becoming a teacher : research on the work-integrated learning of student teac…
This book disseminates original research on learning in and from practice in pre-service teacher education. Authors such as Lederman and Lederman describe the student teaching practicum (or work-integrated learning [WIL]), which is an essential component of pre-service teacher education, as the ‘elephant in the room’. These authors note that 'the capstone experience in any teacher education…
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- 9781928523369
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- xxxviii, 432p.: ill.
- Series Title
- NWU Self-Directed Learning Series vol. 4
- Call Number
- 371.102 BEC b
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