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  • 1
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    Boston : Springer Science | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9789401143998
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xvi, 266 p) , ill
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Evaluation in Education and Human Services 48
    Keywords: Education ; Educational tests and measurements ; Economic policy ; Educational tests and measurements. ; Economic policy.
    Abstract: Measuring Up revisits vital issues of equity and assessment through the research efforts and insights of many of the nation's most prominent educators and assessment experts. As its most urgent purpose, the publication aims to sensitize readers to the unfairness and inappropriate uses of testing instruments which under optimal circumstances have the potential to benefit all students. With America fervently espousing both national and state testing, the differential performance by race and social class raises the specter of tests as barriers to life milestones such as promotion, graduation, and college admissions. In response to such punitive testing, the papers included here explore a host of models and practices that are currently being piloted both in America and abroad as educators grapple with the effects the assessment is having on minority and disadvantaged students and school systems. In the process, outcomes of innovative portfolio and authentic assessments are weighed against important standards and principles of validity and consequences. As the various authors probe the gap between African-American and White test scores, they raise important questions of resources, family background and educational opportunity. Beyond their value of their recommendations to educators, their papers help to identify causes of pupil deficiencies in ways that can be addressed by policymakers. To reinforce the emphasis on equity, several authors present a definitive defense of affirmative action as a critical counter-measure to the lack of fairness in school quality, family and social supports, and educational resources
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  • 2
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    Dordrecht, Netherlands : Kluwer Academic Publishers
    ISBN: 9780585353234
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiii, 353 p) , ill., maps
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: GeoJournal Library 51
    DDC: 330.9
    Keywords: Geography ; International economics ; Economics
    Abstract: The Institutional Position of Seaports deals with the logic and functioning of international seaport administration. This volume not only contains interesting reading for public and private port administrators and managers but can offer by its international comparisons relevant insights for the deregulation, privatisation, liberalisation and deconcentration of former government duties. Every seaport hosts different port activities in which public and private actors interact in changing relations. There is a permanent question of how responsibilities among public port administrators and the private users of the port have been divided and institutionally anchored. The unique model of analysis as used in this research has been built up by the distinction in four different control relations between state and market. By means of this institutional model the division of responsibilities for nautical control, port planning and port services can be determined. The reader can also learn via this model about the specific conditions that are needed to activate the learning capabilities of the different port activities. The model of analysis can be applied to every seaport in the world. Audience: This book is essential for everyone who is in a public or private managing or policy-making position in a seaport. It can also be of great help to students in disciplines like maritime economics, strategic management, social geography and public administration; for example, to make them more aware of the specific role divisions and mechanisms between state and market in international seaports
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  • 3
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    New York, NY : Springer US | New York, NY : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9780585296012
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiv, 265 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Clinical Sociology: Research and Practice
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Economics ; Sociology ; Sociology. ; Education. ; Business. ; Management science. ; Public health.
    Abstract: This book demonstrates how and why morality can result in extremist behavior and advocates what the author calls `critical idealism' as a way of life. The author discusses radical elements of the feminist, civil rights, and `medicalist' movements as examples of the contemporary drift toward intolerance and incivility and demonstrates how idealism can contribute to misleading and dangerous behavior in some cases but in the right hands can result in positive social action
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  • 4
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    New York, NY : Springer US | New York, NY : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9780585274454
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xi, 233 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Information Systems ; Economics ; Criminology ; Social sciences. ; Electronic data processing—Management. ; Operations research. ; Criminology. ; Business. ; Management science.
    Abstract: In a world where technology is continually advancing, and problems are becoming more and more complex, established practices for decision making and problem solving are no longer effective. In this new book, however, Enid Mumford draws on her wealth of experience in management, business schools, and working with the police and other professional problem solvers to show us how to tackle complex problems efficiently. With drugs and cyber-crime as her main examples Professor Mumford shows how these topical, yet apparently permanent problems, could be approached. She does this by looking at how the criminals themselves have overcome legal obstacles, and other problems to make the drug trafficking industry the second largest in the world today, and the relative newcomer, electronic fraud, a multi-billion dollar problem already. These crimes, which in themselves lead to more crime from petty theft to support a drug habit, to international money laundering, are incredibly complex, and yet the book shows us that there is not only a way forward with these issues, but a way to approach all complex problems with efficiency and competency, wherever they occur in our lives
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  • 5
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    Dordrecht : Springer-Science/Kluwer Academic Publishers | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9789401142557
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (x, 296 p) , ill
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Keywords: Education ; Curriculum planning ; Science Study and teaching ; Science—Study and teaching. ; Educational technology. ; Education—Curricula. ; Learning, Psychology of.
    Abstract: In our contemporary learning society, expectations about the contribution of education and training continue to rise. Moreover, the potential of information and communication technology (ICT) creates many challenges. These trends affect not only the aims, content and processes of learning, they also have a strong impact on educational design and development approaches in research and professional practices. Prominent researchers from the Netherlands and the USA present their latest findings on these issues in this volume. The major purpose of this book is to discuss current thinking on promising design approaches and to present innovative (computer-based) tools. The book aims to serve as a resource and reference work that will stimulate advancement in the field of education and training. It is intended to be useful in academic settings as well as for professionals in design and development practices
    Description / Table of Contents: I: Design and Development Approaches1. Principles and Methods of Development Research -- 2. Educational Design and Development: An Overview of Paradigms -- 3. Systems Thinking in Instructional Design -- 4. Educational Design and Development: A Study of Dutch Design Practices -- 5. A Relational Approach to Curriculum Design -- 6. Walker’s Deliberative Approach in a Small-scale Project: The SPIN-case -- 7. Design and Development of Third Generation Distance Learning Materials: From an Industrial Second Generation Approach Towards Realizing Third Generation Distance Education -- 8. The Design and Prototyping of Digital Learning Material: Some New Perspectives -- 9. Supporting Instructional Design with an Information System -- 10. Prototyping to Reach Product Quality -- 11. The Potential of Formative Evaluation in Program Design Models -- 12. Instructional Design: A Conceptual Parallel Processor for Navigating Learning Space -- II: Computer-Based Tools for Educational Design and Development -- 13. Characteristics of Computer-based Tools for Education and Training Development: An Introduction -- 14. The Guided Approach to Instructional Design Advising (GAIDA): A Case-based Approach to Developing Instructional Design Expertise -- 15. An EPSS for Instructional Design: NCR’s Quality Information Products Process -- 16. The PLATO® Courseware Development Environment -- 17. Visual Support for Authoring -- 18. Cognitive Tools to Support the Instructional Design of Simulation-based Discovery Learning Environments: The SIMQUEST Authoring System -- 19. CASCADE-SEA. Computer Assisted Curriculum Analysis, Design and Evaluation for Science Education in Africa -- 20. The TeleTOP Decision Support Tool (DST) -- 21. Enabling Technologies to Design, Produce and Exploit Flexible, Electronic Learning Materials -- 22. The IDXelerator™: Learning-Centered Instructional Design -- 23. Intelligent Support for Instructional Development: Approaches and Limits -- Information about Authors.
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  • 6
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    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9789401142571
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (p. [245]-376)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Keywords: Education ; Educational sociology. ; Learning, Psychology of. ; Education.
    Abstract: This volume, edited by Linda King, brings together contributions on indigenous knowledge, the cultural context of learning and the interplay between so-called `traditional' and `modern' forms of education. Various different communities and cultures are examined, ranging from Egypt to Benin, and from central Brazil to New Caledonia. The contributions bear witness to the extraordinary diversity and richness of educational approaches found in these communities. At the same time, the approach of this volume is to emphasize not so much the exotic nature of otherness and difference, but rather the sense of common humanity which all cultures share with one another and which can lead us to appreciate the universal joy of learning
    Description / Table of Contents: Editorial IntroductionEnfants autochtones et apprentissage: la corporalité comme langage en Amérique du Sud tropicale -- Other Ways to Wisdom: Learning Through the Senses Across Cultures -- Education traditionnelle au Bénin, la place du sacré dans les rites initiatiques -- Community as Classroom: Dilemmas of Valuing African Indigenous Literacy in Education -- Mayan Education in Guatemala: A Pedagogical Model and Its Political Context -- Islamic Versus Western Conceptions of Education: Reflections on Egypt -- New Caledonia: Coutume and Culture in Education/Pierre Clanché -- Learning Through the Soul: Concepts Relating to Learning and Knowledge in the Mayan Cultures of Mexico -- Book Reviews.
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  • 7
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    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9789401154703
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (2 v. in 1 (xiii, 576 p.)) , ill
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: New ICMI Studies Series 4
    Keywords: Education ; Mathematics ; Mathematics—Study and teaching . ; Mathematics.
    Abstract: The present book is the result of the reflection of many individuals in mathematics education on this and related questions. Is mathematics education a science? Is it a discipline? In what sense? What is its place within other domains of research and academic disciplines? What accounts for its specificity? In the book, the reader will find a range of possible answers to these questions, a variety of analyses of the actual directions of research in different countries, and a number of visions for the future of research in mathematics education. The book is a result of an ICMI Study, whose theme was formulated as: `What is Research in Mathematics Education and What are Its Results?'. One important outcome of this study was the realization of the reasons for the difficulty of the questions that the study was posing, leading possibly to a set of other questions, better suited to the actual concerns and research practices of mathematics education researchers
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  • 8
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    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9780585276243
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xviii, 323 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Issues in Business Ethics 11
    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Ethics ; Economics ; Political science ; Ethics. ; Business. ; Management science. ; Political science.
    Abstract: Education, Leadership and Business Ethics: New Essays on the Work of Clarence Walton includes a history and anecdotes of Clarence Walton's professional and personal life; a discussion of the controversial introduction of ethics into the field of management studies; contributions on a variety of subjects connected to leadership and business ethics from experts in the field; and critical essays reviewing Clarence's most recent work in social criticism. The book gives a history of the rise of the fields of business and society and business ethics, details the events leading to its acceptance in academic circles and gives personal accounts by Clarence Walton, one of the people most responsible for its creation. Intended target groups are students, former academic peers, and friends of Clarence Walton, as well as anyone interested in the history of business ethics or connected to Columbia University of America, or The American College
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  • 9
    ISBN: 9780306472084
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (v. 〈1-2 〉) , ill
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Keywords: Education ; Comparative education ; Mathematics ; Science Study and teaching ; International education . ; Comparative education. ; Science—Study and teaching. ; Mathematics—Study and teaching .
    Abstract: Which goals and standards guide science education across the world? This first report of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) explores this question by examining the rich data collected in the TIMSS Curriculum Analysis. This is a study without precedent in scale or detail. It includes an exhaustive, page-by-page inventory of science content and other pedagogical characteristics collected from hundreds of textbooks and curriculum guides from almost 50 countries. These data document many important features of these countries' mathematics education curricula. The book examines important features of curriculum policy across the TIMSS countries, especially the role of textbooks and curriculum guides. It also portrays similarities and differences in science curricula in the succession of objectives across grades. Additionally, it details characteristics of the science curriculum as embodied in textbooks and curriculum guides intended for select grades. This book will be of interest to anyone concerned with science education standards, curriculum policy, cross-national educational comparisons, and science pedagogy
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  • 10
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    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9780585345871
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xix, 214 p) , ill
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Innovations in Science Education and Technology 3
    Keywords: Education ; Computer science ; Education. ; Computer science.
    Abstract: Based on the author's experience using computers and multimedia in teaching large, multisection courses, this groundbreaking text demonstrates how teaching professionals at all levels of instruction can use `paperless' electronic dialoguing to dramatically improve classroom instruction. The book explains how to employ such tools as: hypertext, animation, morphs, CAD, and virtual reality interactive strategies using of e-mail `self-regulation', a means of enhancing students'independence and efficiency and `intranets', networks that are off the Web but operate on the same basic principle
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  • 11
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    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9789401145312
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiv, 319 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Encyclopedia of Language and Education 5
    Keywords: Education ; Psycholinguistics ; Sociolinguistics ; Education. ; Sociolinguistics. ; Psycholinguistics.
    Abstract: This volume provides a comprehensive account of the implementation of bilingual education programs in countries throughout the world. Bilingual programs have been implemented to achieve a variety of educational and social goals in different contexts. Some programs are intended to support the maintenance of national minority languages or to revitalize languages whose long-term survival is threatened; others aim to help recent immigrants succeed academically while making the transition to instruction taught primarily through the majority language of the society. In addition, bilingual programs have been used to teach additional languages to students from the majority or dominant language group. Similar theoretical principles underlie the development of bilingual conversational and academic skills in all these diverse contexts. For academics, graduate students, and policy-makers, this volume clearly outlines the social and educational goals that can be achieved through bilingual education. It also highlights the need to take account of the complex political context of inter-group relationships within which bilingual programs are inevitably embedded
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  • 12
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    Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9789401148863
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xii, 820 p) , ill
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Keywords: Education ; Public health ; Medical Education ; Medical education. ; Public health.
    Abstract: The Ottawa conferences, which are well known in the field of medical education, are interesting to both researchers and teachers because of the quality of the papers presented. This book gives an overview of the most recent advances in medical education in more than 20 countries. Such themes as continuing medical education, faculty development, information technology, standardized patients, and innovations in assessment are among those highlighted. Name and subject indexes are provided for quick and easy reference
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  • 13
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    New York, NY : Springer US | New York, NY : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9780585346496
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xv, 476 p) , ill
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Economics ; Political science ; Sociology ; Labor economics. ; Sociology. ; Economics. ; Political science.
    Abstract: As China, Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia become world economic powers, questions arise regarding the fate of workers in these countries. This book examines the difficult road traveled by human rights movements in these nations when trying to create independent labor organizations free from governmental interference. The in-depth treatment includes: a worker's rights/labor standards model individumental interference comprehensive data tables on many aspects of the labor struggle ally crafted for each of these nations comprehensive data tables on many aspects of the labor struggle China's problems as it moves from complete state economic control to a modified form of capitalism
    Description / Table of Contents: PrologueChina -- The Political and Economic Background -- The Industrial Relations Scene: The Players, Problems, and Prospects -- The ACFTU, Labor Law, and Labor Reform -- The Law, Contracts, Strikes, and Dispute Settlement -- Worker Rights Issues -- Indonesia -- A Political, Economic, and Demographic Overview -- Unions, Employers, and Labor Market Developments -- The Legal Framework -- Labor Disputes and International Pressures -- Thailand -- The Institutional Background -- The Labor Law Framework -- Labor-Management Relations -- Worker Rights Issues -- International Developments -- Malaysia -- Political Events, Economic Facts, and Demographic Variables -- The Law and the Reality -- Labor Relations: Structure, Process, and Practice -- Unresolved Issues -- Malaysia and the World Scene -- Epilogue.
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  • 14
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    Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers | Dordrecht : Imprint: Springer
    ISBN: 9780585327679
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (viii, 468 p) , ill
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
    Series Statement: Technology-Based Education Series 1
    Keywords: Education ; Computer science ; Educational technology. ; Computer science.
    Abstract: This book reports on the policies and practices regarding computers in education in 20 countries, representing Northern America, Asia, and both the Eastern and Western parts of Europe. Moreover, the editors have analysed and reflected from several perspectives on the richness of the national reports, resulting in chapters on curricular, (in)equity and education paradigmatic aspects of the introduction of computers in education
    Description / Table of Contents: ""COVER""; ""COPYRIGHT""; ""FOREWORD""; ""CONTENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""
    Note: Description based upon print version of record
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