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Post-digital, post-internet art and education : the future is all-over
This open access edited volume provides theoretical, practical, and historical perspectives on art and education in a post-digital, post-internet era. Recently, these terms have been attached to artworks, artists, exhibitions, and educational practices that deal with the relationships between online and offline, digital and physical, and material and immaterial. By taking the current socio-tech…
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- 9783030737702
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- xxii, 308 p.; ill.
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- 707.1 POS p
Equity, equality and diversity in the Nordic model of education
Does the Nordic model of education still stand by its original principles and safeguard education for all? This Open Access volume is a carefully crafted collection of chapters that investigate the different aspects of equity, equality and diversity across the education systems in the Nordic countries. Based on data from various national and international large-scale assessments, the volume pro…
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- 9783030616472
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- x, 412 p.; ill
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- 379.260948 EQU e
Music technology in education: channeling and challenging perspectives
This anthology presents research projects that examine the intersection between music, technology and education from a variety of perspectives. The contributors are from a range of educational programs within traditional pre-, primary and lower secondary school education, as well as music performance and technology educational programs. Data for the studies stems from primary and lower secondar…
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- 9788202652258
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- 285p.: ill.
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- 780.7 MUS m
One hundred years of social protection : the changing social question in Braz…
While the rise of social protection in the global North has been widely researched, we know little about the history of social protection in the global South. This volume investigates the experiences of four middle-income countries - Brazil, India, China and South Africa - from 1920 to 2020, analysing if, when, and how these countries articulated a concern about social issues and social cohesio…
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- 9783030549596
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- xxiv, 437p. : ill.
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- 361.61 ONE o
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
Outdoor learning and play : pedagogical practices and children's cultural for…
This Open Access book examines children’s participation in dialectical reciprocity with place-based institutional practices by presenting empirical research from Australia, Brazil, China, Poland, Norway and Wales. Underpinned by cultural-historical theory, the analysis reveals how outdoors and nature form unique conditions for children's play, formal and informal learning and cultural formati…
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- 9783030725952
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- xv, 201p. : ill.
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- 372.1384 OUT o
The cultural identity and education of University Students in selected East-C…
In Polish and Czech pedagogy, there have not been many studies on the social, cultural and educational functioning of academic youth in a culturally diversified environment. The analysis of identity behaviours presented by university students from the Polish-Czech borderland and of their learning potentialities will provide a chance for mutual recognition, understanding and the enrichment of bo…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9783737012546
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- 238 p.
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- 374 THE t
Hip-Hop, art, and visual culture : connections, influences, and critical disc…
Visual art has been tied to hip-hop culture since its emergence in the 1970s. Commentary on these initial connections often emphasizes the importance of graffiti and fashion during hip-hop’s earliest days. Forty years later, hip-hop music has grown into a billion-dollar global industry, and its influence on visual art and society has also expanded. This book-length printed edition of Arts col…
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- 9783039284511
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- XI, 66 p.
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- 781.649 MUN h
Being a presence for students : teaching as a lived defense of liberal education
This book offers a lived defense of liberal education. How does a college professor, on a daily basis, help students feel the value of liberal education and get the most from that education? We answer this question, as professors, each day in the classroom. John William Miller, a philosophy professor at Williams College from 1924-1960 and someone noted for his exceptional teaching, developed on…
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- 9781643150086
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- VIII, 135 p.
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- 370.112 FRA b
The wealthy, the brilliant, the few : elite education in contemporary America…
How do the US make sense of their own elite educational system, given that it seems to be at odds with core American values, such as equality of opportunity or upward mobility? Sophie Spieler explores scholarly and journalistic investigations, self-representational texts, and fictional narratives revolving around the Ivy League and its peers in order to understand elite education and its peculi…
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- 9783839457290
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- 273 p.
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- Volume 33 in the series American Culture Studies
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- 370.73 SPI t
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