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Theorizing teaching : current status and open issues
This open access book seeks to create a forum for discussing key questions regarding theories on teaching: Which theories of teaching do we have? What are their attributes? What do they contain? How are they generated? How context-sensitive and content-specific do they need to be? Is it possible or even desirable to develop a comprehensive theory of teaching? The book identifies areas of conver…
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- 1
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- 9783031256134
- Collation
- xx, 367p: ill.
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- -
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- 375 THE t
Learning to diagnose with simulations : examples from teacher education and m…
This open access book presents 8 novel approaches to measure and improve diagnostic competences with simulation. The book compares the effects of interventions on these diagnostic competences in both teacher and medical education. It includes analyses showing that important aspects of diagnostic competences and effects of instructional interventions aiming to facilitate them are comparable for …
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- 5
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- 978-3-030-89147-3
- Collation
- vi; 157p;
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- -
- Call Number
- 616.075 LEA F
Motivational profiles in TIMSS mathematics : exploring student clusters acros…
This open access book presents a person-centered exploration of student profiles, using variables related to motivation to do school mathematics derived from the IEA’s Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) data. Statistical cluster analysis is used to identify groups of students with similar motivational profiles, across grades and over time, for multiple participating…
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- -
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- 9783030261832
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- xi, 144 p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 510.71 MOT M
Reimagining the higher education student : constructing and contesting identi…
Drawing on the perspectives of scholars and researchers from around the world, this book challenges dominant constructions of higher education students. Given the increasing number and diversity of such students, the book offers a timely discussion of the implicit and sometimes subtle ways that they are characterised or defined. Topics vary from the ways that curriculum designers ‘imagine’ …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780367854171
- Collation
- xix, 249 p. : bnw, ill.
- Series Title
- Research into higher education
- Call Number
- 378.198 BRO r
Makers at school, educational robotics and innovative learning environments :…
This open access book contains observations, outlines, and analyses of educational robotics methodologies and activities, and developments in the field of educational robotics emerging from the findings presented at FabLearn Italy 2019, the international conference that brought together researchers, teachers, educators and practitioners to discuss the principles of Making and educational roboti…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030770402
- Collation
- xvii, 376 p. : ill.
- Series Title
- Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems volume 240
- Call Number
- 629.892071 SCA m
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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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030640224
- Collation
- lx, 126p. : ill.
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- -
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- 370.15 ENG p
Dialogue for intercultural understanding : placing cultural literacy at the h…
This open access book is a result of an extensive, ambitious and wide-ranging pan-European project focusing on the development of children and young people’s cultural literacy and what it means to be European in the 21st century prioritising intercultural dialogue and mutual understanding. The Horizon 2020 funded, 3-year DIalogue and Argumentation for cultural Literacy Learning (DIALLS) proje…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030717780
- Collation
- xiii, 163p. : ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 370.15 DIA d
History education and confict transformation : social psychological theories,…
This volume discusses the effects, models and implications of history teaching in relation to conflict transformation and reconciliation from a social-psychological perspective. Bringing together a mix of established and young researchers and academics, from the fields of psychology, education, and history, the book provides an in-depth exploration of the role of historical narratives, history …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783319546810
- Collation
- IX, 384 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 370.09 PSA h
Wellbeing in educational contexts
Wellbeing has been identified as a serious issue for principals, teachers and students within educational contexts. The problem of principal health and wellbeing has also been recognised at both national and state levels in Australia for the at least a decade and has been acknowledged as an issue of concern by the state, private, and independent school sectors. The first full scale independent …
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- -
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- -
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- 155p. : ill.
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- -
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- 370.15 CAR w
Trauma-informed school practices : building expertise to transform schools
This textbook represents the combined insight and experience of Morton, a k12 educator, and Berardi, a psychotherapist, both of whom are also university educators with extensive work experience serving districts and their teachers seeking to incorporate trauma-informed principles into their school culture and classroom. The authors identify that the field of education is now ready to deepen its…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780999829226
- Collation
- 318p. : ill.
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- -
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- 371.7 BER t
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