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Young people as agents of sustainable society : reclaiming the future
This book analyses young people’s societal participation as a central dimension of their well-being and as vitally important to secure the sustainable future of humankind and the whole eco-social system. It develops a theoretical framework for analysing youth participation holistically, embedded in its everyday context, and as a relational phenomenon, underpinned by universal human needs. …
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781003345114
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- 258 p.
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- 304.2 YOU y
Literacy for digital futures : mind, body, text
The unprecedented rate of global, technological, and societal change calls for a radical, new understanding of literacy. This book offers a nuanced framework for making sense of literacy by addressing knowledge as contextualised, embodied, multimodal, and digitally mediated. In today’s world of technological breakthroughs, social shifts, and rapid changes to the educational landscape, lite…
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- 9781003137368
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- 274 p.
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- 370 MIL l
Leading change in gender and diversity in higher education from margins to ma…
This edited book provides international insights and recommendations around topics of gender and diversity in higher education linking to larger societal goals of improving equality. Within each of the four sections – Student recruitment and retention, Student experience, Faculty and staff experiences and culture, and Higher education cultures of teaching and research – topics unpack and…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781003286943
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- 348 p.
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- 378 LEA l
Justice, education, and the world of today philosophical investigations
This edited book challenges the limits of current educational philosophical discourse and argues for a restored normativisation of education through a powerful notion of justice. Moving beyond conventional paradigms of how justice and education relate, the book rethinks the promotion of justice in, for, and through education in its current state. Chapters combine international and diverse ph…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781003327332
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- 262 p.
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- 370.1 JUS j
Learning, marginalization, and improving the quality of education in low-inco…
Improving learning evidence and outcomes for those most in need in developing countries is at the heart of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal on Education (SDG4). This timely volume brings together contributions on current empirical research and analysis of emerging trends that focus on improving the quality of education through better policy and practice, particularly for those…
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- 9781800642027
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- 371.102 LEA l
Effective teaching around the world : theoretical, empirical, methodological …
This open access book brings together theoretical, empirical, methodological, and practical insights from various countries on effective teaching. It particularly focuses on discussing issues pertaining to effective teaching behaviour including definitions and conceptualizations, measurement, differences, and importance to student outcomes from international perspectives. The book will draw upo…
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- 9783031316784
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- 371.102 EFF e
Mathematics Teacher Preparation in Central America and the Caribbean : the ca…
This Open Access book is an excellent synthesis of the initial and continuing preparation for Mathematics Teaching in Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic and Venezuela, from which comparative analyses can be made that show similarities and differences, and highlight various perspectives. In August 2012, a workshop of the Capacity and Networking Project (CANP) of the International Co…
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- 9783319441771
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- xvi, 86p. : ill.
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- SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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- 370 MAT m
Proof and Proving in Mathematics Education : the 19th ICMI study
One of the most significant tasks facing mathematics educators is to understand the role of mathematical reasoning and proving in mathematics teaching, so that its presence in instruction can be enhanced. This challenge has been given even greater importance by the assignment to proof of a more prominent place in the mathematics curriculum at all levels. Along with this renewed emphasis, the…
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- 9789400721296
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- xii, 475p. : ill.
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- 511.36071 PRO p
The Legacy of Felix Klein
This open access book provides an overview of Felix Klein’s ideas, highlighting developments in university teaching and school mathematics related to Klein’s thoughts, stemming from the last century. It discusses the meaning, importance and the legacy of Klein’s ideas today and in the future, within an international, global context. Presenting extended versions of the talks at the Themati…
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- 9783319993867
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- vi, 226p. : ill.
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- 510. 92 THE t
Decolonising Higher Education in the Era of Globalisation and Internationalis…
Conceived within a context of transdisciplinarity and pluriversalism, and in rigorous response to the Eurocentric, globalising and nationalising structures of power that undergird and inhabit contemporary praxis in higher education – especially in African higher education – this collection of essays brings to the on-going discourse on decolonisation fresh, rich, probing and multilayered per…
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- 9781928424277
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- x, 293p. : ill.
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- 378.68 DEC d
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