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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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- 370.15 IMP i
The evolutionary dynamics of discursive knowledge : communication-theoretical…
This open access book have three themes have been central to Leydesdorff's research: (1) the dynamics of science, technology, and innovation; (2) the scientometric operationalization of these concept; and (3) the elaboration in terms of a Triple Helix of university-industry-government relations. In this study, I discuss the relations among these themes. Using Luhmann's social-systems theory for…
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- 9783030599515
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- x, 247p. : ill.
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- 301.072 LEY e
Teaching through stories : renewing the Scottish storyline approach in teache…
This book aims to meet the demands on teaching and learning in the twenty-first century, and in specific, how teacher education may transform pedagogical approaches and didactic methods to support future teachers in enhancing needful skills. In particular, it focuses on the pedagogical approach of Storyline, and how a Storyline can be applied in teacher education. It argues that teacher educati…
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- 9783830989868
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- 444 p.
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- 371.102 KAR t
P.Y. Galperin's development of human mental activity : lectures in educationa…
This open access book introduces the legacy of Piotr Galperin to a wider audience of researchers, educators and psychologists. Previous translations of Galperin’s work present only some aspects of his conceptual thinking; however, his main contribution to the general, genetic and pedagogical psychology as a unique holistic and systemic approach to studying of psychological phenomena and proc…
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- 9783030640224
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- lx, 126p. : ill.
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- 370.15 ENG p
Education materialised : reconstructing teaching and learning contexts throug…
Manuscripts have played a crucial role in the educational practices of virtually all cultures that have a history of using them. As learning and teaching tools, manuscripts become primary witnesses for reconstructing and studying didactic and research activities and methodologies from elementary levels to the most advanced. The present volume investigates the relation between manuscripts and e…
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- 9783110741124
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- XII, 495 p.
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- Volume 23. In the series Studies in Manuscript Cultures
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- 091 EDU e
Powering a learning society during an age of disruption
This open access book presents contemporary perspectives on the role of a learning society from the lens of leading practitioners, experts from universities, governments, and industry leaders. The think pieces argue for a learning society as a major driver of change with far-reaching influence on learning to serve the needs of economies and societies. The book is a testimonial to the importa…
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- 9789811609831
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- xvii, 321p. : ill.
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- 374 POW p
Diversity dimensions in mathematics and language learning: perspectives on cu…
Extensive research is available on language acquisition and the acquisition of mathematical skills in early childhood. But more recently, research has turned to the question of the influence of specific language aspects on acquisition of mathematical skills. This anthology combines current findings and theories from various disciplines such as (neuro-)psychology, linguistics, didactics and anth…
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- 9783110661941
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- XV, 417 p.
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- 370 DIV d
Young adults and active citizenship: towards social inclusion through adult e…
This open access book sheds light on a range of complex interdependencies between adult education, young adults in vulnerable situations and active citizenship. Adult education has been increasingly recognized as a means to engage and re-engage young adults and facilitate their life chances and social inclusion thus contributing to an active citizenship within their societal contexts. This coll…
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- 9783030650025
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- XV, 182 p.
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- Lifelong Learning Book Series, 26
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- 374 YOU y
Learning policy, doing policy : interactions between public policy theory, pr…
When it comes to policymaking, public servants have traditionally learned 'on the job', with practical experience and tacit knowledge valued over theory-based learning and academic analysis. Yet increasing numbers of public servants are undertaking policy training through postgraduate qualifications and/or through short courses in policy training. Learning Policy, Doing Policy explores how poli…
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- 9781760464219
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- XXI, 329 p.
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- Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG)
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- 374.934 LEA l
The scholar as human : research and teaching for public impact
The Scholar as Human brings together faculty from a wide range of disciplines—history; art; Africana, American, and Latinx studies; literature, law, performance and media arts, development sociology, anthropology, and Science and Technology Studies—to focus on how scholarship is informed, enlivened, deepened, and made more meaningful by each scholar's sense of identity, purpose, and place i…
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- 9781501750632
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- VI, 265 p.
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- 378.103 SCH s
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