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    Borders, mobility and technologies of control (2006)
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    ISBN: 9781402048999
    Language: English
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    DDC: 320.12
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    MS 3600
    Keywords: Criminology ; Grenze ; Globalisierung ; Mobilität ; Migration ; Grenzpolizeiliche Kontrolle
    Abstract: The implications for criminology of territorial borders are relatively unexplored. This book presents the first systematic attempt to develop a critical criminology of borders, offering a unique treatment of the impact of globalisation and mobility. Providing a wealth of case material from Australia, Europe and North America, it is useful for students, academics, and practitioners working in criminology, migration, human geography, international law and politics, globalisation, sociology and cultural anthropology.
    Abstract: "Territorial borders are taking on a new significance, the implications of which are relatively unexplored within the discipline of criminology. This book presents the first systematic attempt to develop a critical criminology of the border and offers a unique treatment of the impact of globalisation and mobility. It focuses on borders and the significance of the activities which take place on and around them. For many the border is an everyday reality, a space in which to live, a land necessary to cross. For states the border space increasingly requires protection and defence, is at the centre of state ideology and performance, is the site for investing significant political and material resources, and is ultimately ungovernable. Providing a wealth of case material from Australia, Europe and North America, it is for students, academics, and practitioners working in the areas of criminology, migration, human geography, international law and politics, globalisation, sociology and cultural anthropology. ""Borders, Mobility and Technologies of Control provides a model of criminological inquiry that is global in scope, constructionist in vision, and capable of combining the insights of dialogic and political-economic analyses into a holistic understanding of the growing conflict between nation-states and multitudes. This book is an important, new step forward for all those who approach criminology, not as an adjunct to state control, but as sociological inquiry in pursuit of human justice"". Dr. Raymond Michalowski, Arizona Regents Professor, Northern Arizona University, USA ""Borders, mobility and technologies of control is a radical exploration of new terrain in transnational and comparative criminology. Crossing disciplinary boundaries, this collection charts new forms of transgression and control in the borderlands, raising new theoretical questions and topics for research."" Ben Bowling, Professor of Criminology Criminal Justice, King's College, London"
    Description / Table of Contents: Borders, Mobility and Technologies of Control; The Shifting Frontiers of Migration Control; Border Narratives; Global Flows, Semi-permeable Borders and New Channels of Inequality; Biometrics, Borders and the Ideal Suspect; Borders, Belonging and Homeland (In)security; Control, Protection and Negligence; State Crime Beyond Borders; The Gender of Control; Law and Order on the Border in the Neo-colonial Antipodes; De-territorialising Criminology
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4899-8
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    Metaphor and Analogy in Science Education (2006)
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    ISBN: 9781402038303
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Science & Technology Education Library 30
    DDC: 507
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    DP 4600
    Keywords: Education ; Science Study and teaching ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Hochschuldidaktik ; Metapher ; Analogie
    Abstract: This book brings together powerful ideas and new developments from internationally recognised scholars and classroom practitioners to provide theoretical and practical knowledge to inform progress in science education. This is achieved through a series of related chapters reporting research on analogy and metaphor in science education. Throughout the book, contributors not only highlight successful applications of analogies and metaphors, but also foreshadow exciting developments for research and practice. Themes include metaphor and analogy: best practice, as reasoning, for learning, applications in teacher development, in science education research, philosophical and theoretical foundations. Accordingly, the book is likely to appeal to a wide audience of science educators - classroom practitioners, student teachers, teacher educators and researchers.
    Description / Table of Contents: Metaphor and Analogy; Teaching and Learning with Analogies; Complementary Epistemologies of Science Teaching; Post-Festum and Heuristic Analogies; The Affective Dimension of Analogy; The Role of Models, Mental Models and Analogies in Chemistry Teaching; Metaphors for Genes; Role Play as Analogical Modelling in Science; Metaphor, Students' Conceptions of Learning and Teaching, and Metacognition; The Role of Analog Models in the Understanging of the Nature of Models in Chemistry; The Role of Metaphor in a New Science Teacher's Learning from Experience; Metaphors and Analogies in Transition
    Description / Table of Contents: Why Do Science Teachers Teach the Way They Do and How Can They Improve Practice?Can Analogy Help in Science Education Research?; Metaphors We Write by; Metaphorically Thinking
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3830-5
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    The Many Faces of Health, Competence and Well-Being in Old Age : Integrating Epidemiological, Psychological and Social Perspectives (2006)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402041389
    Language: English
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    DDC: 362.1
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    MS 2700
    Keywords: Developmental Psychology ; Geriatrics ; Quality of Life ; Social sciences ; Quality of Life Research ; Demography ; Aging ; Aged psychology ; Social Environment ; Konferenzschrift ; Gerontologie ; Altern ; Alter ; Gesundheit ; Kompetenz
    Abstract: The main aim of the book is to provide an interdisciplinary treatment of a set of key issues of current ageing research, i.e., health, competence, and well-being. These key issues are addressed based on three converging research streams: social-ecological research, which assumes that major processes and outcomes of ageing such as day-to-day competence are shaped by social and physical-spatial environments, geropsychology research, which is driven by a life-span developmental conception of ageing, and epidemiology, which offers most fundamental disease, function and prevention-related data. Each of the three major research directions are outlined by a short introduction, followed by three chapters treating in an empirical manner most recent key research questions. All chapters are then also discussed by renowned ageing experts. This volume links ageing research with policy considerations and implications and establishes a link between European research and the knowledge base of the international scientific community concerned with ageing. This book will be of great interest to scholars and graduate students in ageing research, in the social and behavioural field as well as in epidemiology, geriatrics, geropsychiatry, demography, and biogerontology.
    Description / Table of Contents: INTRODUCTION: THE PERSON-ENVIRONMENT PERSPECTIVE IN AGEING RESEARCH; THE ROLE OF THE HOME ENVIRONMENT IN MIDDLE AND LATE ADULTHOOD; COMMENTARY: A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME: BUT CAN IT BECOME ONE?; OUTDOOR MOBILITY IN LATE LIFE: PERSONS, ENVIRONMENTS AND SOCIETY; COMMENTARY: MOBILITY-A KEY TO UNDERSTANDING AND IMPROVING TRANSPORTATION SERVICES FOR SENIORS AND OTHERS; AGE-RELATED LOSS IN VISION: A CASE TO LEARN ABOUT AGEING IN CONTEXT; COMMENTARY: AGE-RELATED LOSS IN VISION: A CASE TO LEARN ABOUT AGING IN CONTEXT; INTRODUCTION: DEVELOPMENTAL PERSPECTIVES IN THE SECOND HALF OF LIFE
    Description / Table of Contents: THE INFLUENCE OF MARITAL SUPPORT ON MARITAL SATISFACTION: ARE THERE AGE AND GENDER DIFFERENCES?COMMENTARY: CHANGED GENDER ROLES AND THEIR IMPACT ON MARITAL SUPPORT AND SATISFACTION; STRESSFUL LIFE EVENTS, PROTECTIVE FACTORS AND DEPRESSIVE DISORDERS IN MIDDLE ADULTHOOD; COMMENTARY: STRESSFUL LIFE EVENTS AND DEPRESSIVE DISORDERS: THE PARADIGM SHIFT; PREDICTORS OF WELL-BEING IN VERY OLD AGE; COMMENTARY: WELL-BEING IN VERY OLD AGE: OLD AND NEW ISSUES; INTRODUCTION: EPIDEMIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES IN AGEING RESEARCH; CANCER AMONG OLDER ADULTS: INCIDENCE, PROGNOSIS AND NEW AVENUES OF PREVENTION
    Description / Table of Contents: COMMENTARY: CANCER IN THE ELDERLY: PREVENTION AND BETTER CARE NEEDEDCARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES AMONG OLDER ADULTS: INCIDENCE, PROGNOSIS AND NEW AVENUES FOR PREVENTION; COMMENTARY: CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES AMONG OLDER ADULTS: INCIDENCE, PROGNOSIS AND NEW AVENUES FOR PREVENTION; MEDICAL CARE FOR NURSING HOME RESIDENTS: NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES IN INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT; COMMENTARY: MEDICAL CARE FOR NURSING HOME RESIDENTS: NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES IN INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT; THE IMPACT OF INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL RESOURCES ON HEALTH, COMPETENCE AND WELL-BEING: LONGITUDINAL FINDINGS FROM THE ILSE
    Description / Table of Contents: DETERMINANTS, PROGNOSTIC RELEVANCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION IN PATIENTS WITH CORONARY HEART DISEASE: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH WITHIN THE KAROLA STUDYCOMMENTARY: INTERDISCIPLINARY LONGITUDINAL STUDIES OF AGEING; AGEING EUROPE: CHALLENGES FOR POLICY AND RESEARCH; ON THE RELEVANCE OF AGEING RESEARCH FOR POLICY AND PRACTICE
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4138-1
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    The Practical Critical Educator (2006)
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    ISBN: 9781402044731
    Language: English
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    DDC: 370.11
    RVK:
    DF 3000
    Keywords: Education ; Curriculum planning ; Teachers Training of ; Education Philosophy ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Kritische Theorie ; Kritische Pädagogik
    Abstract: Premised on the need for democratic education and positive social change, this book is about being sensitive to, respecting, and honoring differences. It connects the professional lives of educators with critical democratic practices. Using concrete examples, the editors promote the assertion that every educator can become an agent of change. Moreover, the book presents the experiences of professionals involved in effecting positive change.
    Abstract: Talks about being sensitive to, respecting and honouring differences among individuals and groups of individuals. This book asks how one begins to connect the professional lives of educators with a critical democratic practice for the pluralistic milieu of the twenty-first century
    Description / Table of Contents: Critical Literacy in Action; Critical Literacy Educators at Work; Critical Theory for Schooling-Education and Society; Shared Authority in Democratic Classrooms; Teaching the Queer Character of Racism; Ghosts in the Procedure; Reaching Out and Reaching In; Opening the Text
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4473-9
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    EMBODIMENT AND EDUCATION (2006)
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    ISBN: 9781402045882
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Philosophy and Education 15
    DDC: 370.1
    RVK:
    CC 1100
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    DF 3000
    Keywords: Education ; Education Philosophy ; Education, Higher ; Humanities ; Körper ; Erziehung
    Abstract: Discursive accounts of the body have been prominent recently. While acknowledging the usefulness of these, the author, drawing upon specific philosophers of the body and a wide range of other theorists, focuses attention on the experiencing body - which she refers to as 'creatural existence'. Thinking in terms of the creatural, she argues, can better situate human beings in their environment, thus emphasizing a kind of 'ecological notion of subjectivity', in which place-based existence is understood anew. The educational implications of focusing on what bodies 'do' and not so much in terms of how they are socially inscribed, presents them as practico-sensory totalities which should perhaps be seen as systems rather than an as a mere organism or entity. Such an articulation of creatural existence emphasizes animality, and in so doing reminds us of the centrality of the senses in all knowing and doing, including crucially, in relation to those practices which we have understood as 'work'. Multi-sensorial education is a major sub-theme of the book and the author argues persuasively for this by means of a critical analysis of the ocular centrism that is characteristic of contemporary culture. With its strong philosophical anchoring and its judicial use of interdisciplinary sources this book will appeal to both undergraduate and graduate students and their teachers not only in the field of philosophy of education but those from many others disciplines. It will also interest primary and secondary school teachers, curriculum designers and education policy makers. 'Marjorie O'Loughlin shows in this book that embodiment ought to be central to human hopes to be whole persons, who are not merely productive but who are also expressive of our potentiality. Her 'creatural existence' grounds this in our fleshly selves, and she explores it through the emotions, through work, and through citizenship. Her achievement here is profound: in one book, we find an interdisciplinary account of the evidence for creatural existence, presented accessibly in first-person philosophical narrative, based mainly on Merleau-Ponty. If bodies matter more than ever in everyday life, educators should start with our fleshly selves and move creatively forward. O'Loughlin points out the direction...and pushes us persuasively: you can feel the nudge!' David Beckett, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne
    Description / Table of Contents: The Scopic Regime and the Ordering of the World; Creatural Embodiment; Working Bodies; Emotion, Sociality and Embodiment; Embodied Citizenship
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4588-3
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    Recovering Informal Learing : Wisdom, Judgement and Community (2006)
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    ISBN: 9781402053467
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    Series Statement: Lifelong Learning Book Series 7
    DDC: 371.04
    RVK:
    DL 4230
    Keywords: Education ; Education and state ; Education Philosophy ; Informelles Lernen ; Informelles Lernen
    Abstract: Educational theory and practice have long been dominated by the requirements of formal learning. This book seeks to persuade readers through philosophical argument and empirical examples that the balance should shift back towards the informal. The arguments and examples derive from informal learning in diverse situations, such as leisure activities, as a preparation for and as part of work, and as a means of surviving undesirable circumstances like dead-end jobs and incarceration.
    Abstract: For too long, theories and practices of learning have been dominated by the requirements of formal learning. Quite simply this book seeks to persuade readers through philosophical argument and empirically grounded examples that the balance should be shifted back towards the informal. These arguments and examples are taken from informal learning in very diverse situations, such as in leisure activities, as a preparation for and as part of work, and as a means of surviving undesirable circumstances like dead-end jobs and incarceration. Informal learning can be fruitfully thought of as developing the capacity to make context sensitive judgments during ongoing practical involvements of a variety of kinds. Such involvements are necessarily indeterminate and opportunistic. Hence there is a major challenge to policy makers in shifting the balance towards informal learning without destroying the very things that are desirable about informal learning and indeed learning in general. The book has implications therefore for formal learning too and the way that teaching might proceed within formally constituted educational institutions such as schools and colleges.
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-5346-0
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    Education and the Public Interest : School Reform, Public Finance, and Access to Higher Education (2006)
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    ISBN: 9781402052484
    Language: English
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    DDC: 370
    RVK:
    DI 2002
    Keywords: Education ; Political science ; Education, Higher ; Political science Philosophy ; USA ; Bildungspolitik ; Bildungsreform ; Effizienzanalyse ; USA ; Bildungsfinanzierung ; Bildungsreform ; Hochschulzulassung ; Öffentliches Interesse
    Abstract: Economic globalization has been accompanied by implementation of education reforms linked to accountability and public finance schemes that emphasize student choice in schools and student loans in higher education. This book provides a systematic evaluation of the effects of state education reforms and finance policies over the past decades. It includes a discussion of the need for a fundamental rethinking of educational policy in the United States.
    Abstract: Economic globalization has been accompanied by implementation of education reforms linked to accountability and public finance schemes that emphasize student choice in schools and student loans in higher education. In the U.S. these reforms are rationalized based on intermediate variables, like the number of math credits completed in high school and net prices. However, the reforms rationalized based on this research are seldom evaluated in relation to outcomes (i.e., measures of student achievement and equal opportunity to attain an education). In Education and the Public Interest the editor re-examines the political rationales for these reforms. John Rawls's theory of justice is reconstructed to develop a framework for assessing the effects of public policy on these outcomes. This volume undertakes a comparative study of the states in the U.S. to examine how education reforms influence student achievement, high school graduation, and college access, and finance schemes influence college access. Policies implemented by states in the 1990s were associated with improved achievement, as measured by test scores for high school students. These policies also correlate with increased high school drop out rates and the widening gap in college enrolment rates across income groups. This volume considers how privatization and accountability policies can be reconstructed to reduce inequality while continuing to improve student achievement and college enrolment. 'I enjoyed reading the book and benefited from it, and I feel confident others will as well. I am particularly taken by its sweep and by the skill and persuasiveness with which the author ties together the broad trends and themes of privatization, globalization, school reform, preparation, equity, equality and college access.' Prof. James C. Hearn, Vanderbilt University, USA '(What I)...especially like about this book is the framing of the importance of the topic in terms of the global political and economic changes and the notion of access to quality education as a basic right.' Prof. Laura W. Perna, College of Education, University of Maryland, USA
    Description / Table of Contents: Pages:1 to 25; Pages:26 to 50; Pages:51 to 75; Pages:76 to 100; Pages:101 to 125; Pages:126 to 150; Pages:151 to 175; Pages:176 to 200; Pages:201 to 225; Pages:226 to 250; Pages:251 to 275; Pages:276 to 284
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-5248-0
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    Programming for Peace : Computer-Aided Methods for International Conflict Resolution and Prevention (2006)
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    ISBN: 9781402043901
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    Series Statement: Advances in Group Decision and Negotiation 2
    DDC: 303.69
    RVK:
    ST 270
    Keywords: Political Science ; Artificial intelligence ; Computer simulation ; Social sciences ; Social sciences Methodology ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konfliktlösung ; Computerunterstütztes Verfahren ; Computerunterstütztes Verfahren ; Friedenssichernde Maßnahme
    Abstract: Sadly enough, war, conflicts and terrorism appear to stay with us in the 21st century. But what is our outlook on new methods for preventing and ending them? Present-day hard- and software enables the development of large crisis, conflict, and conflict management databases with many variables, sometimes with automated updates, statistical analyses of a high complexity, elaborate simulation models, and even interactive uses of these databases. In this book, these methods are presented, further developed, and applied in relation to the main issue: the resolution and prevention of intra- and international conflicts. Conflicts are a worldwide phenomenon. Therefore, internationally leading researchers from the USA, Austria, Canada, Germany, New Zealand and Switzerland have contributed.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; Conflict Resolution by Democracies and Dictatorships: Are Democracies Better in Resolving Conflicts?; Trade Liberalization and Political Instability in Developing Countries; Computer Assisted Early Warning - the FAST Example; Country Indicators for Foreign Policy Developing an Indicators-Based User Friendly Risk Assessment and Early Warning Capability; The Confman.2002 Data Set Developing Cases and Indices of Conflict Management to Predict Conflict Resolution; Events, Patterns, and Analysis Forecasting International Conflict in the Twenty-First Century
    Description / Table of Contents: Forecasting Conflict in the Balkans using Hidden Markov ModelsNeural Computation for International Conflict Management; Modeling International Negotiation Statistical and Machine Learning Approaches; Machine Learning Methods for Better Understanding, Resolving, and Preventing International Conflicts; Information, Power, and War; Modeling Effects of Emotion and Personality on Political Decision-Making; New Methods for Conflict Data; Peacemaker 2020 A System for Global Conflict Analysis and Resolution; A Work of Fiction and A Research Challenge
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4390-2
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    Human Longevity, Individual Life Duration, and the Growth of the Oldest-Old Population (2006)
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    ISBN: 9781402048487
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    Series Statement: International Studies in Population 4
    DDC: 304.645
    RVK:
    QU 300
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    MS 4050
    Keywords: Sterblichkeit ; Ältere Menschen ; Alternde Bevölkerung ; Altersstruktur ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung ; Geriatrics ; Aging Research ; Demography ; Longevity Statistics ; Aged, 80 and over statistics & numerical data ; Life Expectancy Statistics trends ; Mortality Statistics ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung ; Langlebigkeit ; Alter ; Lebensdauer
    Abstract: Old-age survival has considerably improved in the second half of the twentieth century. Why has such a substantial extension of human lifespan occurred? How long can we live? In this book, these fundamental questions are explored by experts from diverse fields. They report on recent cutting-edge studies about essential issues of human longevity and social factors of long survival in old age.
    Abstract: Old-age survival has considerably improved in the second half of the twentieth century. Life expectancy in wealthy countries has increased, on average, from 65 years in 1950 to 76 years in 2005. The rise was more spectacular in some countries: the life expectancy for Japanese women rose from 62 years to 86 years during the same period. Driven by this longevity extension, the population aged 80 and over in those countries has grown fivefold from 8.5 million in 1950 to 44.5 million in 2005. Why has such a substantial extension of human lifespan occurred? How long can we live? In this book, these fundamental questions are explored by experts from such diverse fields as biology, medicine, epidemiology, demography, sociology, and mathematics: they report on recent cutting-edge studies about essential issues of human longevity such as evolution of lifespan of species, genetics of human longevity, reasons for the recent improvement in survival of the elderly, medical and behavioral causes of deaths among very old people, and social factors of long survival in old age.
    Description / Table of Contents: Front Matter; Introduction; Research Issues On Human Longevity; Patterns In Mammalian Ageing: Demography And Evolution; Life Span Extension In Humans Is Self-Reinforcing: A General Theory Of Longevity; Oldest-Old Mortality In China; Central and Disperson Indicators Of Individual Life Durations: New Methods; Recent Trends In Life Expectancy And Rectangularisation Of The Survival Curve At Advanced Ages In The Netherlands; The Validation Of Exceptional Male Longevity In Sardinia; Mortality at Extreme Ages and Data Quality: The Canadian Experience
    Description / Table of Contents: Causes of Death Among the Oldest-Old: Validity and ComparabilityCauses of Death Among the Oldest-Old: Age-Related Changes in the Cause-of-Death Distribution; Genetic Factors Associated with Individual Life Duration: Heritability; Mortality among the Least Frail: Lessons from Research On The Apoe Gene; Social Determinants of Mortality in the Oldest-Old: Social Class and Individual Way-Of-Life; Social Differences in Older Adult Mortality in the United States: Questions, Data, Methods, and Results; Mortality Differences by Sex Among the Oldest-Old
    Description / Table of Contents: Explanation of the Decline in Mortality among the Oldest-Old: The Impact of Circulatory DiseasesExplanation of the Decline in Mortality among the Oldest-Old: A Demographic Point of View; Marital Status and Family Support for the Oldest-Old in Great Britain; Back Matter
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    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-4848-7
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    Work, Subjectivity and Learning : Understanding Learning through Working Life (2006)
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    ISBN: 9781402053603
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects 6
    DDC: 306.36
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    DL 2000
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    DL 4000
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    Keywords: Education ; Education and state
    Abstract: This book focuses on relations among subjectivity, work and learning that represent a point of convergence for diverse disciplinary traditions and practices. There are contributions from leading scholars in the field. They provide emerging perspectives that are elaborating the complex relations among subjectivity, work and learning, and circumstances in which they are played out.
    Abstract: In recent year, efforts to understand learning for and throughout working life have moved away from a focus on workplace training to concerns about learning as a component and outcome of engaging in work and work-related activities and interactions. This shift acknowledges a broader set of workplace factors that shape workers' learning and development. Yet equally, it acknowledges that this learning through engagement is also necessarily shaped by the diverse ways that individuals elect to engage or participate in workplace activities. Central here is the issue of individuals' subjectivity and how this is shaped by but shapes engagement in work and, therefore, what learning flows from their participation. It is in considering the relations among subjectivity, learning and work that it is possible to advance both the conceptual and procedural bases for understanding learning through and for working life. Moreover, the focus on relations among subjectivity, work and learning represents a point of convergence for diverse disciplinary traditions and practices that are provided by the book's contributors. In this way, the contributions represent something of the emerging perspectives that are elaborating the complex relations among subjectivity, work and learning, and circumstances in which they are played out.
    Description / Table of Contents: Work, subjectivity and learning / Stephen BillettEscaping/becoming subjects : learning to work the boundaries in boundaryless work / Tara Fenwick -- Subjected bodies, or embodied subjects : subjectivity and learning safety at work / Margaret Somerville -- Learning and experience / Henning Salling Olesen -- Dressing corporate subjectivities : learning what to wear to the bank / Kathryn Church with Catherine Frazee, Teresa (Tracy) Luciani, Melanie Panitch and Patricia Seeley -- The moving subject : shifting work(ers) across and beyond organisational boundaries / Hermine Scheeres and Nicky Solomon -- Exploring construction of gendered identities at work / Lena Abrahamsson -- Epistemological beliefs and their impact on work, subjectivity and learning / Christian Harteis, Hans Gruber, and Franz Lehner -- Personal agency and epistemology at work / Stephen Billett and Ray Smith -- Developing subjective identities through collective participation / Anneli Eteläpelto and Jaana Saarinen -- Action at a distance: governmentality, subjectivity and workplace learning / Richard Edwards and Katherin Nicoll -- Integrating life, work and identity : farm women transforming 'self' through personal struggle and conflict / Jan Allan -- Work, subjectivity, and learning in the diaspora : immigrant women of colour in white academe / Mary V. Alfred -- Workers, subjectivity and decent work / Catherine Casey -- Work, subjectivity and learning : prospects and issues / Tara Fenwick and Margaret Somerville.
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-5360-6
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    Simulation : pragmatic construction of reality (2006)
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    ISBN: 9781402053740 , 9781402053757
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 211 S.) , Ill., graph. Darst.
    Series Statement: Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook 25
    Series Statement: Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook
    DDC: 303.4834
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    Keywords: Simulation ; Soziologie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Soziologie ; Simulation
    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-5375-4
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    The Roots of Educational Change : International Handbook of Educational Change (2005)
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    ISBN: 9781402044519
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: International handbook of educational change
    DDC: 371.2070973
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    Keywords: Education
    Abstract: This volume attempts to delineate the roots of a self-conscious field of educational change that grew up in – and grew out of – the turbulent political, social, economic and cultural life of the post-World War II years. Its authors, who provided many of the seminal writings that helped to create and shape the field, examine their work from current perspectives. The issues they raise allow the reader to see the connections between the recent history of education in general, and the field of educational change in particular. In the 50s and 60s these scholars represented a broad spectrum of innovative thought and action shifting the focus of research in education and school improvement to studying – and interacting with – schools as organizations and cultures. The range of issues that the authors deal with – from the effects of the GI Bill to the effects of school environment on student learning, from the political realities of educational policy to social realities of teachers – are explored and revisited. These issues, leading to controversial themes involving change, school and community, continue to nourish the field and its many branches. This volume (part of 4 volumes) is the first section in the International Handbook of Educational Change. The volumes are a state-of-the-art collection of the most important ideas and evidence of educational change. The volumes bring together some of the most influential thinkers and writers on educational change. It deals with issues like educational innovation, reform, restructuring, culture-building, inspection, school-review, and change management. School leaders, system administration, teacher leaders, consultants, facilitators, educational researchers, staff developers and change agents of all kinds will find these volumes an indispensable resource for guiding them to both classic and cutting-edge understandings of educational change.
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4451-8
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    The Integration of Phonetic Knowledge in Speech Technology (2005)
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    ISBN: 9781402026379
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    Series Statement: Text, Speech and Language Technology 25
    RVK:
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    Keywords: Applied Linguistics ; Computational Linguistics ; Linguistics ; Translators (Computer programs) ; Sprachverarbeitung ; Phonetik
    Abstract: Continued progress in Speech Technology in the face of ever-increasing demands on the performance levels of applications is a challenge to the whole speech and language science community. Robust recognition and understanding of spontaneous speech in varied environments, good comprehensibility and naturalness of expressive speech synthesis are goals that cannot be achieved without a change of paradigm. This book argues for interdisciplinary communication and cooperation in problem-solving in general, and discusses the interaction between speech and language engineering and phonetics in particular. With a number of reports on innovative speech technology research as well as more theoretical discussions, it addresses the practical, scientific and sometimes the philosophical problems that stand in the way of cross-disciplinary collaboration and illuminates some of the many possible ways forward. Audience: Researchers and professionals in speech technology and computational linguists.
    Description / Table of Contents: Phonetic Knowledge in Speech Technology; Can Phonetic Knowledge be Used to Improve the Performance of Speech Recognisers and Synthesisers?; Prosodic Models, Automatic Speech Understanding, and Speech Synthesis: Towards the Common Ground?; Phonetic Time Maps; Introducing Phonetically Motivated, Heterogeneous Information into Automatic Speech Recognition; Introducing Contextual Transcription Rules in Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition; From Here to Utility; Pronunciation Modeling; Phonetic Knowledge in Text-to-Speech Synthesis; Is Phonetic Knowledge of Any Use for Speech Technology?
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-2637-4
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    International Handbook on Globalisation, Education and Policy Research : Global Pedagogies and Policies (2005)
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    ISBN: 9781402029608
    Language: English
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    DDC: 379.9
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    Keywords: Comparative Education ; Education ; Education and state ; Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft ; Bildungspolitik ; Globalisierung ; Bildungspolitik ; Bildungsreform ; Globalisierung ; Kulturvergleich
    Abstract: The aim of this Handbook is to present a global overview of developments in education and policy change during the last decade. It has the objective of providing both a strategic education policy statement on recent shifts in education and policy research globally and offers new approaches to further exploration, development and improvement of education and policy making. The Handbook attempts to address some of the above issues and problems confronting educators and policy makers globally. Different articles seek to conceptualize the on-going problems of education policy formulation and implementation, and provide a useful synthesis of the education policy research conducted in different countries, and practical implications. The Handbook, by focusing on such issues as - the OECD (2001) model of the knowledge society, and associated strategic challenge and 'deliverable goals' (OECD 2001:139)- UNESCO-driven lifelong learning paradigm, and its relevance to education policy makers, globally - different models of policy planning, and equity questions that are raised by centralization/decentralization, diversity/uniformity and curriculum standardization issues - the 'crises' of educational quality, the debate of standards and excellence, and good and effective teaching. - will contribute to a better and more holistic understanding of the education policy and research nexus, offering possible strategies for the effective and pragmatic policy planning and implementation at the local, regional and national levels.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preliminaries; TABLE OF CONTENTS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; OVERVIEW AND INTRODUCTION; Globalisation, Education and Policy Research; Globalisation and Higher Education; Globalisation, Education Policy and Change; Policy Issues: Gender, Equity, Minorities, and Human Rights; Education, Policy, and Curricula Issues; Curriculum and Policy Change; Globalisation, Education Policy and Reform: Changing Schools; Curriculum in the Global Culture; Index of Names; Index of Subjects
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-2960-8
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    Visualization in Science Education (2005)
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    ISBN: 9781402036132
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    Series Statement: Models and Modeling in Science Education 1
    DDC: 507.1
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    Keywords: Education ; Science Study and teaching ; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This book addresses key issues concerning visualization in the teaching and learning of science at any level in educational systems. It is the first book specifically on visualization in science education. The book draws on the insights from cognitive psychology, science, and education, by experts from five countries. It unites these with the practice of science education, particularly the ever-increasing use of computer-managed modelling packages.
    Abstract: 'Visualization in Science Education' draws on the insights from cognitive psychology, science, and education, by experts from Australia, Israel, Slovenia, UK, and USA. It unites these with the practice of science education, particularly the ever-increasing use of computer-managed modelling packages, especially in chemistry. The first section explores the significance and intellectual standing of visualization. The second section shows how the skills of visualization have been developed practically in science education. This is followed by accounts of how the educational value of visualization has been integrated into university courses in physics, genomics, and geology. The fourth section documents experimental work on the classroom assessment of visualization. An endpiece summarises some of the research and development needed if the contribution of this set of universal skills is to be fully exploited at all levels and in all science subjects.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; Visualization: A Metacognitive Skill in Science and Science Education; Prolegomenon to Scientific Visualizations; Mental Models: Theoretical Issues for Visualizations in Science Education; A Model of Molecular Visualization; Leveraging Technology and Cognitive Tehory on Visualization to Promote Students' Science; Teaching and Learning with Three-dimensional Representations; Students Becoming Chemists: Developing Representationl Competence; Imagery in Physics Learning - from Physicists' Practice to Naive Students' Understanding; Imagery in Science Learning in Students and Experts
    Description / Table of Contents: Learning Electromagnetism with Visualizations and Active LearningVisualizing the Science of Genomics; Visualization in Undergraduate Geology Courses; Evaluating the Educational Value of Molecular Structure Representations; Assessing Learning from the Use of Multimedia Chemical Visualiztion Software; Endpiece: Research and Development on Visualization in Science Education
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3613-2
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    Research and the Quality of Science Education (2005)
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    ISBN: 9781402036736
    Language: English
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    DDC: 507.1
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    Keywords: Education ; Curriculum planning ; Science Study and teaching ; Teachers Training of ; Konferenzschrift 2003 ; Forschung ; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung ; Forschung ; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht
    Abstract: In August 2003 over 400 researchers in the field of science education from all over the world met at the 4th ESERA conference in Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands. During the conference 300 papers about actual issues in the field, such as the learning of scientific concepts and skills, scientific literacy, informal science learning, science teacher education, modeling in science education were presented. The book contains 40 of the most outstanding papers presented during the conference. These papers reflect the quality and variety of the conference and represent the state of the art in the field of research in science education.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preliminaries; TABLE OF CONTENTS; 1: THE QUALITY OF SCIENCE EDUCATION; 2: SCIENCE CURRICULUM INNOVATION; 3: SCIENCE TEACHER EDUCATION; 4: TEACHING-LEARNING SEQUENCES IN SCIENCE EDUCATION; 5: TEACHING THE NATURE OF SCIENCE; 6: MODELS, MODELLING AND ANALOGIES IN SCIENCE EDUCATION; 7: DISCOURSE AND ARGUMENTATION IN SCIENCE EDUCATION; 8: TEACHING AND LEARNING SCIENTIFIC CONCEPTS; NAME INDEX
    Note: Selection of papers presented at the 4th conference organized by the European Science Education Research Association (ESERA) , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3673-6
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    Fundamental Change : International Handbook of Educational Change (2005)
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    ISBN: 9781402044540
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    Series Statement: International handbook of educational change
    DDC: 371.2/07
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    Keywords: Education
    Abstract: The chapters in this volume are divided into three broad categories: (1) those dealing with macro educational change at the societal level (2) those relating to large scale initiatives based on particular reform strategies (3) those pertaining to fundamental transformations of professional development strategies, indeed to fundamental reform in the profession of teaching itself. There has been a growing dissatisfaction over the past two decades about the slow pace of educational reform. Whatever successes that have been obtained have been confined to individual schools what succeeded here and there. Missing was any sense that educational change could be accomplished on a large scale sustained basis. The chapters in this book attempt to push forward on the agenda of fundamental change. This volume (part of 4 volumes) is the third section in the International Handbook of Educational Change.
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4454-2
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    The Practice and Theory of School Improvement : International Handbook of Educational Change (2005)
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    ISBN: 9781402044526
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    Series Statement: International handbook of educational change
    DDC: 370
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    Keywords: Education
    Abstract: The purpose of this volume is to locate school improvement within a theoretical and practical framework, to illustrate the challenges facing school improvement strategies from a policy context, to demonstrate the evolution of a range of school improvement strategies in recent times, and through reports of recent research to challenge the assumptions underlying contemporary school improvement approaches. These concerns are reflected in the four major sections of the book. (1) Towards a Theory of School Development, (2) The Contemporary Context of School Improvement, (3) Tensions and Contrasts in School Improvement Strategies, (4) The Effectiveness of School Improvement Strategies. This volume (part of 4 volumes) is the fourth section in the International Handbook of Educational Change. The volumes are a state-of-the-art collection of the most important ideas and evidence of educational change. The volumes bring together some of the most influential thinkers and writers on educational change. It deals with issues like educational innovation, reform, restructuring, culture-building, inspection, school-review, and change management. School leaders, system administration, teacher leaders, consultants, facilitators, educational researchers, staff developers and change agents of all kinds will find these volumes an indispensable resource for guiding them to both classic and cutting-edge understandings of educational change, no other work provides as comprehensive coverage of the field of educational change.
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4452-6
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    International Handbook of Educational Policy (2005)
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    ISBN: 9781402032011
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    Series Statement: Springer International Handbooks of Education 13
    DDC: 379
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    Keywords: Education ; Comparative education ; Education and state ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Bildungspolitik
    Abstract: This Handbook is for policy researchers, analysts, academics and graduate students interested in educational policy, educational reform, educational governance and leadership, teacher quality, literacy, and workplace learning. This Handbook is the only one of its kind. It has over fifty chapters written by nearly ninety leading researchers from a number of countries and presents contemporary and emergent trends in educational policy research. It captures many of the current dominant educational policy foci, situating current understandings historically, in terms of both how they are conceptualized and in terms of past policy practice. The chapters are empirically grounded, providing illustrations of the conceptual implications contained within them as well as allowing for comparisons across them. The self-reflexivity within chapters with respect to jurisdictional particularities and contrasts allows readers to consider not only a range of approaches to policy analysis but also the ways in which policies and policy ideas play out in different times and places. Sections cover the contemporary strategic emphasis on large-scale reform, substantive emphases at several levels – on leadership and governance, improving teacher quality and conceptualizing learning in various domains around the notion of literacies and concluding, finally, with a contrasting topic, workplace learning, which has had less policy attention and thus allows readers to consider both the advantages and disadvantages of learning and teaching under the bright gaze of policy.
    Description / Table of Contents: Globalization and Educational Change: New Policy Worlds; Marketization in Education: Looking Back to Move Forward with a Stronger Critique; Multicultural Education in the United States and Canada: The Importance of National Policies; International Comparative Studies of Education and Large-Scale Change; A Changed Policy Environment for US Universities; The Implications of Policy Decisions on Practices in Early Childhood Education; Policy-Practice Connections in State Standards-Based Reform; Informed Consent? Issues in Implementing and Sustaining Government-Driven Educational Change
    Description / Table of Contents: School District-Wide Reform Policies in EducationFive Key Factors in Supporting Comprehensive School Reform; Knowledge Producers and Policymakers: Kissing Kin or Squabbling Siblings?; Linkages Between Federal, State and Local Levels in Educational Reform; Educational Governance Reforms: The Uncertain Role of Local School Boards in the United States; Accountability Policies and Their Effects; Parent and Community Involvement in Schools: Policy Panacea or Pandemic?; Democratic Values in Bureaucratic Structures: Interrogating the Essential Tensions
    Description / Table of Contents: Approaches to the Funding of Schools and Their Effects on CapacityFormulaic Approaches to the Funding of Colleges and Universities; The UK Policy for School Leadership: Uneasy Transitions; Educational Leadership in Policy Contexts That Strive for Equity; Accountable Schools and the Leadership They Need; The Recruitment and Retention of School Leaders: Understanding Administrator Supply and Demand; Teacher Certification Policy: Multiple Treatment Interactions on the Body Politic; Retaining Teachers in High-Poverty Schools: A Policy Framework
    Description / Table of Contents: The Cultural Context of Teachers' Work: Policy, Practice and PerformanceSchool Improvement Within a Knowledge Economy: Fostering Professional Learning from a Multidimensional Perspective; Teacher Informal Learning and Teacher Knowledge: Theory, Practice and Policy; No Teacher Left Untested: Historical Perspectives on Teacher Regulation; Teacher Professional Standards: A Policy Strategy to Control, Regulate or Enhance the Teaching Profession?; Triage or Tapestry? Teacher Unions' Work in an Era of Systemic Reform; Improving Research-Policy Relationships: The Case of Literacy
    Description / Table of Contents: Literacies in Early Childhood: The Interface of Policy, Research, and PracticeBalanced Elementary Literacy Instruction in the United States: A Personal Perspective; Evidence-Based State Literacy Policy: A Critical Alternative; Literacies in Adolescence: An Analysis of Policies from the United States and Queensland, Australia; Assessing Literacies; Literacies in Families and Communities; Literacies and Media Culture; Technology and Literacies: From Print Literacy to Dialogic Literacy; Adult Literacy Policy: Mind the GAP; Shaping Literacy Policy: From Abstract Ideals to Accountable Practices
    Description / Table of Contents: Literacy in Developed and Developing Countries
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    Making a Difference in Teacher Education Through Self-Study : Studies of Personal, Professional and Program Renewal (2005)
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    ISBN: 9781402035289
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    Series Statement: Self Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices 2
    DDC: 370.711
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    Keywords: Education ; Curriculum planning ; Teachers Training of ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Lehrerbildung ; Selbsttätigkeit ; Lehrerfortbildung ; Selbsttätigkeit
    Abstract: * examples of research conducted on 15 different teacher education programs* the impact the research had on the development of the program is included* the text systematically describes 15 teacher education programs* engaging stories of teacher educators working to renew their programs* The studies include a description of the research methodology used
    Abstract: Making a difference in Teacher Education through Self-Study: Studies of Personal, Professional, and Program Renewal describes the systematic efforts of committed and creative teacher educators to improve their teacher education programs. It describes the accomplishments of individuals (and in part the programs in which they work) who have overcome many of the hurdles teacher educators typically face. These individuals have made a difference in the lives of their students, their colleagues, and many classroom teachers. The book presents research on 15 different teacher education programs and describes individual renewal efforts. The stories - including both the successes and challenges - are inspiring and informative. In this age of accountability these teacher educators have used a range of research methods to gather data on their work and in turn used it to guide future decisions. The text includes examples of both large scale research and individual efforts. The common thread among the authors is a commitment to 'walking the talk'.
    Description / Table of Contents: How 20 Years of Self-Study Changed My Teaching; From the Inside Out and the Outside In; Using an Existential Form of Reflection to Understand My Transformation as a Teacher Educator; Exploring the Concept of Dialogue in the Self-Study of Teaching Practices; Transformation Through Self-Study; From Self-Study to Collaborative Self-Study to Collaborative Self- Study of Collaboration; Is Virtual Teaching, Real Teaching?; In My Own Handwriting; Theater of the Oppressed as an Instructional Practice; Spheres of Learning in Teacher Collaboration; Through a Murky Mirror; Unsquaring Teacher Education
    Description / Table of Contents: Learning About TeachingCourse Assignments for Self and Program Renewal; The Impact of a Preservice Teacher Education Program on Language Arts Teaching Practices
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3528-4
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    Teacher Professional Development in Changing Conditions (2005)
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    DDC: 370.71
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    Keywords: Education ; Teachers Training of ; Lehrerfortbildung
    Abstract: This book presents some highlights from the deliberations of the 2003 conference of the International Study Association on Teachers and Teaching (ISATT). Part 1 presents the five keynote addresses of the conference, while Parts 2 through 4 present selected papers related to each of three sub-themes: knowledge construction and learning to teach, perspectives on teachers' personal and professional lives, and teachers' workplace as context for learning. The chapters in this book provide an array of approaches to understanding the process of teacher learning within the current context of the changing workplace environment. They also provide an important international perspective on the complex issues revolving around the international educational reform movement. Basically, they show how teachers' workplace (inside and outside schools) are more than ever subject to continuous change and that, subsequently, standards for teaching must be flexible to these changing conditions. This asks for a redefinition of teacher professionalism in which the role of context in teacher learning is emphasized as well as the improvement of the quality of teacher thinking and learning. Related to the ever-changing context of teaching, a dynamic approach to teaching and teacher learning is required, in which identity development is crucial. Researchers have an important role to play in revealing and explaining how teachers can build their professional identity, through self-awareness and reflection, in the ever-changing educational contexts throughout the world.
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    Teaching about Technology : An Introduction to the Philosophy of Technology for Non-philosophers (2005)
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    ISBN: 9781402034107
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Science & Technology Education Library 27
    DDC: 601
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    DP 4600
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    CC 8700
    Keywords: Education ; Teachers Training of ; Lehrbuch ; Technikphilosophie
    Abstract: Teaching about technology, at all levels of education, can only be done properly when those who teach have a clear idea about what it is that they teach. In other words: they should be able to give a decent answer to the question: what is technology? In the philosophy of technology that question is explored. Therefore the philosophy of technology is a discipline with a high relevance for those who teach about technology. Literature in this field, though, is not always easy to access for non-philosophers. This book provides an introduction to the philosophy of technology for such people. It offers a survey of the current state-of-affairs in the philosophy of technology, and also discusses the relevance of that for teaching about technology. The book can be used in introductory courses on the philosophy of technology in teacher education programs, engineering education programs, and by individual educators that are interested in the intriguing phenomenon of technology that is so important in our contemporary society.
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3410-5
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    Governing Knowledge : A Study of Continuity and Change in Higher Education A Festschrift in Honour of Maurice Kogan (2005)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402035043
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Higher Education Dynamics 9
    DDC: 378
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    AL 11800
    Keywords: Comparative Education ; Education ; Education and state ; Education, Higher ; Studium ; Governance ; Kogan, Maurice 1930-
    Abstract: " In this book, an international group of leading higher education researchers draw on a wealth of social theory and comparative, empirical research to analyse current developments and their implications. Different contributions focus on different levels of higher education, the system, the institution and the academic practitioner, in different national and international contexts. However, strong common themes bind these contributions together. They include not only the significance of massification, globalisation, neo-liberalism and managerialism for the governance of higher education, its knowledge and values, but also the complexities of change processes, the importance of context and history and the strength of the stabilities that remain.The inspiration for this work comes from the career and personal influence of an individual scholar, Maurice Kogan. A central feature of his work has been empirically grounded analysis of interconnections between knowledge, values, authority and power and how these are reflected in institutional structures and individual practices. As a historian as well as a political scientist, he has always insisted on locating contemporary developments in a longer term perspective. This volume is for researchers in higher education studies, students in postgraduate courses in higher education policy and management, higher education policy makers in national and international organisations, higher education institutional leaders, senior academics, managers and administrators. Professor Teboho Moja, New York University, USA: ""It will be an invaluable resource inter alia for higher education students, scholars, and institutional leadership."" ""The book could provide a major contribution to the field of higher education because of the different perspective different authors present and an array of issues as well as frameworks to discuss them.""""This book is bound for the desktops instead of the bookshelves of administrators, researchers, and graduate students. It is likely to be used time and again as readers explore new ways to transform education systems or institutions, meet their needs for program improvement, policy development, and general research. I expect that most readers will weave through the chapters (...) on an as-needed basis, until they have engaged all its excellent content."""
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; Distinctive Local Continuities Amidst Similar Neo-Liberal Changes: The Comparative Importance of the Particular; Higher Education in Times of Discontent?; Reform and Transformation Following Regime Change; Change or Continuity in Higher Education Governance?; The Governance and Management of Student Learning in Universities; New Patterns of Diversity in Higher Education: Towards a Convergent Knowledge; The Organisation of Knowledge: Imperatives for Continuity and Change in Higher Education; The Endurance of the Disciplines; Academic Identity and Autonomy Revisited.
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3504-7
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    Reasoning Robots : The Art and Science of Programming Robotic Agents (2005)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402030697
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Applied Logic Series 33
    RVK:
    ST 308
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    CC 5200
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Technology Philosophy ; Computer science ; Artificial intelligence ; Roboter ; Programmierung ; Prädikatenlogik ; Stufe 1
    Abstract: "The book provides an in-depth and uniform treatment of a mathematical model for reasoning robotic agents. The book also contains an introduction to a programming method and system based on this model. The mathematical model, known as the ""Fluent Calculus'', describes how to use classical first-order logic to set up symbolic models of dynamic worlds and to represent knowledge of actions and their effects. Robotic agents use this knowledge and their reasoning facilities to make decisions when following high-level, long-term strategies. The book covers the issues of reasoning about sensor input, acting under incomplete knowledge and uncertainty, planning, intelligent troubleshooting, and many other topics. The mathematical model is supplemented by a programming method which allows readers to design their own reasoning robotic agents. The usage of this method, called ""FLUX'', is illustrated by many example programs. The book includes the details of an implementation of FLUX using the standard programming language PROLOG, which allows readers to re-implement or to modify and extend the generic system. The design of autonomous agents, including robots, is one of the most exciting and challenging goals of Artificial Intelligence. Reasoning robotic agents constitute a link between knowledge representation and reasoning on the one hand, and agent programming and robot control on the other. The book provides a uniform mathematical model for the problem-driven, top-down design of rational agents, which use reasoning for decision making, planning, and troubleshooting. The implementation of the mathematical model by a general PROLOG program allows readers to practice the design of reasoning robotic agents. Since all implementation details are given, the generic system can be easily modified and extended."
    Description / Table of Contents: Special Fluent Calculus; Special FLUX; General Fluent Calculus; General FLUX; Knowledge Programming; Planning; Nondeterminism; Imprecision*; Indirect Effects: Ramification Problem*; Troubleshooting: Qualification Problem; Robotics
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3069-X
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    The Professoriate : Profile of a Profession (2005)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402033834
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Higher Education Dynamics 7
    DDC: 378.12
    RVK:
    AL 31600
    RVK:
    AL 32600
    RVK:
    CW 5500
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    MS 5200
    Keywords: Education ; Comparative Education ; Education and state ; Education, Higher ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Hochschulunterricht ; Internationaler Vergleich
    Abstract: This indispensable guide provides a unique insight into the academic profession at a time of major change. It is organized both thematically and geographically with attention given to regions rarely covered, such as China and Latin America. For the first time, here is a book that critically assesses the condition of the professoriate at a time of momentous change when the profession is fracturing along fault lines.
    Abstract: This volume provides a unique insight into the academic profession at a time of major change. It is organized both thematically and geographically with attention given to regions rarely covered, such as China and Latin America. For the first time, here is a book that critically assesses the condition of the professoriate at a time of momentous change. The profession is fracturing along fault lines associated with gender, tenure, age, rank and system and institutional status. Globalization is also re-shaping the world of higher education, including academic work practices. This book draws upon a major international study of the academic profession, as well as upon new data. Both thematic treatments and case studies of the academic profession in various parts of the world present challenging insights into the tensions in the profession, as well as some of the aspects that, despite all the changes, bind academics in very different institutions and systems, together. Researchers, planners, students and national and international agencies concerned with the changing world of higher education, will find this book an indispensable guide to understanding the forms and directions of change in the professoriate, as well as some of the continuities.
    Description / Table of Contents: Challenge and Change: The Academic Profession in Uncertain Times; Globalisation's Impact on the Professoriate in Anglo-American Universities; Academics and Institutional Governance; Faculty Perceptions of University Governance in Japan and the United States; From Peregrinatio Academica to Global Academic: The Internationalisation of the Profession; Academics' View of Teaching Staff Mobility; How Satisfied Are Women and Men with Their Academic Work?; Academic Work Satisfaction in the Wake of Institutional Reforms in Australia
    Description / Table of Contents: Academic Challenges: The American Professoriate in Comparative PerspectiveImprove Teaching Methods or Perish; The Chinese Professoriate in Comparative Perspective; The Academic Profession in Hong Kong; Conclusion: New Millennium, New Milieu?
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3383-4
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    Internationalizing Higher Education : Critical Explorations of Pedagogy and Policy (2005)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402037849
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: CERC Studies in Comparative Education 16
    DDC: 370.116
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    DV 1000
    Keywords: Education ; Comparative Education ; Education and state ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Hochschulbildung ; Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft
    Abstract: Globalization is a multifaceted phenomenon, and one of its major components is the internationalization of education. The increasing pace and complexity of global knowledge flows, and the accelerating exchange of educational ideas, practices and policies, are important drivers of globalization. Higher Education is a key site for these flows and exchanges. This book casts a critical eye on the internationalization of higher education. It peels back taken-for-granted practices and beliefs, explores the gaps and silences in current pedagogy and practices, and addresses the ambiguities, tensions and contradictions in internationalization. In this volume, scholars from a range of disciplines and regions critically examine the co modification of higher education, teaching and support for international students, international partnerships for aid and trade, and the impacts on academics' work.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Critical Engagements with the Internationalization of Higher Education; Enabling Transnational Learning Communities: Policies, Pedagogies and Politics of Educational Power; Knowledge in the Marketplace: The Global Commodification of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education; How the West is Done: Simulating Western Pedagogy in a Curriculum for Asian International Students; Hanging Together Even with Non-Native Speakers: The International Student Transition Experience; Internationalizing Chinese Higher Education: A Case Study of a Major Comprehensive University
    Description / Table of Contents: Internationalization of Australian Higher Education: A Critical Review of Literature and ResearchHigher Education Engaging with the 'Developing' World: The Case of the Virtual Colombo Plan; The Viability of Aid Scholarship-Funded Study in Australian Universities: The Case of Indonesia; Managerialism, Internationalization, Taylorization and the Deskilling of Academic Work: Evidence from an Australian University; International Policy Convergence in Higher Education: An Analysis from the Periphery
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3784-8
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    Critical Graphicacy : Understanding Visual Representation Practices in School Science (2005)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402033766
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Science & Technology Education Library 26
    DDC: 371.3
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    Keywords: Education ; Science Study and teaching ; Unterricht ; Sachverhalt ; Veranschaulichung
    Abstract: This book explores reading and interpretation practices related to visual materials - here referred to as inscriptions - that accompany texts. Guiding questions include: 'What practices are required for reading inscriptions?' and 'Do textbooks allow students to develop graphicacy skill required to critically read scientific texts?' The book reveals what it takes to interpret, read, and understand visual materials, and what it takes to engage inscriptions in a critical way.
    Abstract: School science is dominated by textbook-oriented approaches to teaching and learning. Some surveys reveal that students have to read, depending on academic level, between ten and thirty-six pages per week from their textbook. One therefore has to ask, To what degree do textbooks introduce students to the literary practices of their domain? Few studies have addressed the quality of science curriculum materials, particularly textbooks, from a critical perspective. In this light, we are concerned in this book with better understanding the reading and interpretation practices related to visual materials - here referred to as inscriptions - that accompany texts. Our overarching questions included: What practices are required for reading inscriptions? and Do textbooks allow students to develop levels of graphicacy required to critically read scientific texts? Some of the more specific questions included: What are the practices of relating inscriptions, captions, and main text?, and What practices are required to read inscriptions in school textbooks? That is, we are interested not only in understanding what it takes to interpret, read, and understand visual materials (i.e., inscriptions), but also in understanding what it takes to engage inscriptions in a critical way. It is only when citizens can critically engage with language (texts, speech) and inscriptions that they become knowledgeable users of television, newspapers, and magazines, who can choose or leave aside particular expressions as part of the particular politics that they participate in.
    Description / Table of Contents: Toward a critical graphicacy; The work of reading graphs; Graphicacy and context; Photographs in biology texts; Graphicacy in lectures; Interpretive graphicacy in practice; Layered inscriptions: what does it take to get their point?; Semiotics of chemical inscriptions; Reading layered, dynamic inscriptions; Epilogue: steps toward critical graphicacy
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3376-1
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    Meeting Basic Learning Needs in the Informal Sector : Integrating Education and Training for Decent Work, Empowerment and Citizenship (2005)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402034275
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects 2
    DDC: 371.38
    RVK:
    DL 4000
    Keywords: Education ; Education and state ; Antineoplastic Agents therapeutic use ; Neoplasms drug therapy
    Abstract: This anthology brings together basic facts and features about basic learning needs and skills of people working and living in the informal economy and presents case studies from different countries examining educational and training strategies for meeting these learning needs. It portrays the grave problems facing educational and training systems vis-á-vis informal sector workers, even as they look at holistic solutions that take into account principles of lifelong learning and innovations in informal, non-formal and formal adult learning, and show a growing awareness that education is a human right of fundamental significance to promoting decent work and humane living conditions. The size, diversity, and the strength and sheer tenacity of workers and owners in the informal sector as well as the stress on globalisation and technological changes have combined to bring about a reappraisal of the links between education and training and the informal labour market. The book looks at the interlinkages between EFA and work and takes the stance that promoting the right to basic education is crucial for overcoming oppression and indecent working conditions. Basic education in its current state is not imparting the necessary skills for entry to the labour market. In view of this gap, the case studies pose the crucial question of what essential skills and which basic learning needs have to be addressed for productive and decent work. Although this book mainly provides cases of learning programmes for the informal economy in countries in South Asia, Latin America and Egypt, the lessons learnt have much to offer to researchers, policy makers and practitioners working in other parts of the world.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction; Schooling and Basic Skills: Training Programmes and Challenges in the Informal Sector: Latin America; Informal Learning and the Role of Social Movements; The Informal Sector: Non-Formal Education Settings for Working Children; Institutional Support Structures and Modes of Skills Transmission; Gender and the Informal Economy in Latin America: New Challenges and Possible Answers for Labour Training Policies; Trade Unions and Adult Learning for Women Construction Workers in the Informal Sector; Skills Formation for the Informal Sector in Bangladesh: A Strategic Framework
    Description / Table of Contents: Training and Skills Development for Decent Work in the Informal Sector: Case Studies from South IndiaEducation, Training and Skills Formation for Decent Work in the Informal Sector: Case Studies from Northern India; Educational Reform for Linking Skills Development with Employment in Nepal; Training in Modest Housing Construction for Those Who Need it Most: An Example from Nicaragua
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3427-X
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    The Inclusion of Other Women : Breaking the Silence through Dialogic Learning (2005)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402036811
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Lifelong Learning Book Series 4
    DDC: 374.0082
    RVK:
    DW 1500
    Keywords: Education ; Social sciences ; Erwachsenenbildung ; Frau ; Lebenslanges Lernen ; Frau
    Abstract: "The Inclusion of Other Women brings together insights and narratives of three women, of European, Arab and of Romà descent, who address issues of feminism and social inclusion within the framework of adult education and learning. The authors discuss the experiences of the ""other women"": non-academic women who have been historically silenced from the feminist mainstream discourse and are now claiming their voice. This volume provides a rigorous theoretical analysis of feminist thought and real women's lives, drawing the connection between marginalized women's social participation, dialogically oriented adult education and solidarity, as key elements in the creation of personal meaning and social transformation. Grounded in a dialogic educational perspective, the authors' insightful work and the voices of the ""other women"" make this a highly unique, engaging, accessible reading experience. This book will prove of great value to professors, researchers, graduate students, teachers and teacher trainers with a strong interest in Adult Education, Lifelong Learning and Women's Studies."
    Description / Table of Contents: From Imposition to Negotiation and Consensus; From Academic Feminism (of the élite) to Universal Feminism (for All); We are Women for Transformation, We are not Women for Accommodation; Creation of Meaning Through Lifelong Learning; From Competition to Complexity: Solidarity; The Equal Right to be Different
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3681-7
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    Extending Educational Change : International Handbook of Educational Change (2005)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402044533
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: International handbook of educational change
    DDC: 371.2/07
    RVK:
    DK 1000
    Keywords: Education ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Bildungspolitik ; Bildungsreform
    Abstract: Deals with the idea and necessity of extending educational change - conceptually and in action. This volume (part of 4 volumes) is the second section in the "International Handbook of Educational Change". It is a collection of the important ideas and evidence of educational change
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4453-4
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    Democratization of Expertise? : Exploring Novel Forms of Scientific Advice in Political Decision-Making (2005)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9781402037542
    Language: English
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    Series Statement: Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook 24
    DDC: 303.483
    RVK:
    MG 10084
    RVK:
    MS 4500
    RVK:
    MS 6950
    Keywords: Political Science ; Sociology ; Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Political science ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift 2003 ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wissenschaftssoziologie ; Entscheidungsfindung ; Demokratisierung ; Politik ; Wissenschaftliche Beratung ; Politische Entscheidung
    Abstract: "'Scientific advice to politics', the 'nature of expertise', and the 'relation between experts, policy makers, and the public' are variations of a topic that currently attracts the attention of social scientists, philosophers of science as well as practitioners in the public sphere and the media. This renewed interest in a persistent theme is initiated by the call for a democratization of expertise that has become the order of the day in the legitimation of research funding. The new significance of 'participation' and 'accountability' has motivated scholars to take a new look at the science - politics interface and to probe questions such as ""What is new in the arrangement of scientific expertise and political decision-making?"", ""How can reliable knowledge be made useful for politics and society at large, and how can epistemically and ethically sound decisions be achieved without losing democratic legitimacy?"", ""How can the objective of democratization of expertise be achieved without compromising the quality and reliability of knowledge?"" Scientific knowledge and the 'experts' that represent it no longer command the unquestioned authority and public trust that was once bestowed upon them, and yet, policy makers are more dependent on them than ever before. This collection of essays explores the relations between science and politics with the instruments of the social studies of science, thereby providing new insights into their re-alignment under a new régime of governance."
    Description / Table of Contents: What's New in Scientific Advice to Politics?; Bioethical Controversies and Policy Advice: The Production of Ethical Expertise and its Role in the Substantiation of Political Decision-Making; Advisory Systems in Pluralistic Knowledge Societies: A Criteria-Based Typology to Assess and Optimize Environmental Policy Advice; Institutional Design for Socially Robust Knowledge: The National Toxicology Program's Report on Carcinogens; Representation, Expertise, and the German Parliament: A Comparison of Three Advisory Institutions
    Description / Table of Contents: Expertise and Political Responsibility: The Columbia Shuttle CatastropheKnowledge and Decision-Making; Science/Policy Boundaries: A Changing Division of Labour in Dutch Expert Policy Advice; Inserting the Public Into Science; Between Policy and Politics; Participation as Knowledge Production and the Limits of Democracy; Judgment Under Siege: The Three-Body Problem of Expert Legitimacy
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    DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3754-6
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    Colonial Cities (1984)
    Dordrecht : Springer
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    ISBN: 9789400961197
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (264p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Comparative Studies in Overseas History 5
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Colonial cities
    RVK:
    LB 73000
    RVK:
    MS 4745
    RVK:
    NQ 9300
    RVK:
    NQ 9200
    RVK:
    RB 10627
    Keywords: History ; Kolonie ; Stadtentwicklung ; Geschichte ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Kolonialstadt
    Abstract: I: Introduction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Colonial Cities: Global Pivots of Change -- II: Case Studies -- 3. Central America’s Autarkic Colonial Cities (1600–1800) -- 4. Zeelandia, A Dutch Colonial City on Formosa (1624–1662) -- 5. An Insane Administration and an Unsanitary Town: The Dutch East India Company and Batavia (1619–1799) -- 6. Eighteenth-Century Calcutta -- 7. Cape Town (1750–1850): Synthesis in the Dialectic of Continents -- 8. Rio de Janeiro: From Colonial Town to Imperial Capital (1808–1850) -- 9. A Caribbean Creole Capital: Kingston, Jamaica (1692–1938) -- 10. Algiers: Colonial Metropolis (1830–1961) -- 11. Saigon, or the Failure of an Ambition (1858–1945) -- 12. Dakar, Ville impériale (1857–1960) -- 13. Bombay: From Fishing Village to Colonial Port City (1662–1947) -- III: Epilogue -- 14. The Colonial City and the Post-Colonial World -- Notes on the Contributors.
    Abstract: by ROBERT ROSS and GERARD J. TELKAMP I In a sense, cities were superfluous to the purposes of colonists. The Europeans who founded empires outside their own continent were primarily concerned with extracting those products which they could not acquire within Europe. These goods were largely agricultural, and grown most often in a climate not found within Europe. Even when, as in India before 1800, the major exports were manufactures, in general they were still made in the countryside rather than in the great cities. It was only on rare occasion when great mineral wealth was discovered that giant metropolises grew up around the site of extraction. Since their location was deter­ mined by geology, not economics, they might be in the most inaccessible and in­ convenient areas, but they too would draw labour off from the agricultural pursuits of the colony as a whole. From the point of view of the colonists, the cities were therefore in some respects necessary evils, as they were parasites on the rural producers, competing with the colonists in the process of surplus extraction. Nevertheless, the colonists could not do without cities. The requirements of colonisation demanded many unequivocally urban functions. Pre-eminent among these was of course the need for a port, to allow the export of colonial wares and the import of goods from Europe, or from other parts of the non-European world, in the country-trade as it was known around India.
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-6119-7
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