California Driver’s License Exam Prep: Ace the DMV Written Test on Your First Try with Confidence | Includes Practice Questions, Detailed Answer ... by Jeff Colbert (8 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

NOW AVAILABLE THE ULTIMATE 2024 EDITION PACKED WITH THE LATEST INSIGHTS, EXPERT TIPS, AND 450 PRACTICE QUESTIONS TO PASS THE EXAM WITH FLYING COLORS! AN EXCLUSIVE BONUS JUST FOR YOU! ? Unlock the incredibly useful DMV Cheat Sheets. Perfect for last-minute revisions or as a quick reference, these cheat sheets are your secret weapon to ace the California Driver's License Exam. • Feeling overwhelmed by the complexity of the DMV exam and daunted by the vast amount of rules, signs, and regulations that seem hard to memorize? • ...

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Digital SAT PREP Success 2024: Strategies, Practice Tests and Insights to maximize your score: 3 full lenght Practice Tests + detailed explanations by Academia Jones (3 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

Ace Your SAT with "Digital SAT Prep Success 2024" Are you an high school student aiming for a top-tier college or a parent dedicated to guiding your child to academic success? Get Ready to conquer the SAT and secure your place at a top U.S. college! "Digital SAT Prep Success 2024" is your ultimate guide through the digital SAT landscape, meticulously crafted to crafted to address the unique demands of the new digital SAT format, maximizing your score and boost your academic confidence. Experience a comprehensive toolkit that ...

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Called to Public Schools by Tom Deighan (1 Review)    Price verified 6 hours ago

Millions of Christians believe they have been Called to Public Schools to serve as teachers, support staff, administrators, and volunteers. They recognize the flaws of our public education system, but they consider their work in our nation's school as an act of worship and devotion to God. They are ChIPS (Christians in Public Schools). For decades, ChIPS have resisted and opposed Harmful Influences in Public Schools (HIPS) from inside local schools, but they remain unrecognized by our public school system and most churches. ...

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ChatGPT Prompts Bible: The Ultimate Guide to ChatGPT Commands and Prompts by Maxwell Steel (1 Review)    Price verified 5 hours ago

ChatGPT Prompts Bible is an all-encompassing guide that provides users with over 700 commands to help them navigate and utilize the ChatGPT language model to its fullest potential. The collection is designed to cater to a wide range of applications, including writing assistance, coding assistance, creative writing, book writing, and more. ChatGPT Prompts Bible is an essential resource for anyone looking to harness the power of AI in their daily work.

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WINNING AT BUSINESS AND THE SEVEN KEYS TO SUCCESS: Unlocking the secrets of successful business ownership by India Roberts (6 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

In this book, we will discuss the seven most important elements that might contribute to your achievement of success as an entrepreneur in the economic world. We will cover all of the fundamental aspects that may assist you in navigating the problems and possibilities that are present in the business. These factors include clearly defining your goals and objectives, constructing a powerful team, and producing a sound business strategy. In addition to this, we will discuss the significance of maintaining an orderly and effective ...

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Generalized Anxiety Disorder: The Universal Formula for Managing Stress, Building Your Self-Esteem and Self-Confidence, and Achieving Superior Mental ... by Richard Banks (49 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

Is stress keeping you up at night? Are you tired of feeling constantly worried and anxious? Are you ready to learn how to deal with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)? Feeling anxious and overwhelmed is a common experience, but it doesn't have to be a constant one. This book will walk you through precisely why, how, and what you need to do to stop worrying and start living your life. Nearly 800 million people worldwide experience mental illness. Some of the most prominent adverse mental conditions include stress, anxiety, and ...

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The Billion Dollar Metaverse Challenge by Dan Hawes (Just Virtual Publishing) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

In "The Billion Dollar Metaverse Challenge," a poignant reunion of ex-university friends at a dinner to honor a deceased comrade turns into a life-altering adventure. Twenty years had passed since their last gathering, and the realization of their unmet expectations and the untimely death of Jay Isaacson stirs a collective yearning for a second chance at greatness. Seizing a serendipitous moment presented by an eavesdropping waiter, they learn of an unprecedented competition: The Billion Dollar Metaverse Challenge. With nothing to ...

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Fundamentals of Personal Training by Trainer Academy (1 Review)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Fundamentals of Personal Training is an essential resource for both aspiring and seasoned personal trainers, providing a thorough introduction to the core principles, techniques, and practical applications of personal training. This comprehensive textbook, crafted by a team of 16 distinguished experts holding advanced degrees in Exercise Science and Kinesiology, as well as credentials as Registered Dietitians and Certified Personal Trainers, offers an extensive exploration of critical subjects in the field. Topics encompass anatomy ...

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Shadow Education in the Middle East: Private Supplementary Tutoring and its Policy Implications by Mark Bray Price verified one hour ago

This volume offers insights into the role of private supplementary tutoring in the Middle East, and its far-reaching implications for social structures and mainstream education. Around the world, increasing numbers of children receive private tutoring to supplement their schooling. In much of the academic literature this is called shadow education because the content of tutoring commonly mimics that of schooling: as the curriculum changes in the schools, so it changes in the shadow. While much research and policy attention has ...

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The Nature-Study Idea: And Related Writings (The Liberty Hyde Bailey Library) by Liberty Hyde Bailey Price verified 11 hours ago

In The Nature-Study Idea, Liberty Hyde Bailey articulated the essence of a social movement, led by ordinary public-school teachers, that lifted education out of the classroom and placed it into firsthand contact with the natural world. The aim was simple but revolutionary: sympathy with nature to increase the joy of living and foster stewardship of the earth. With this definitive edition, John Linstrom reintroduces The Nature-Study Idea as an environmental classic for our time. It provides historical context through a wealth of ...

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To Be a Minority Teacher in a Foreign Culture: Empirical Evidence from an International Perspective by Mary Gutman (Springer) Price verified 5 hours ago

This open access book offers in depth knowledge on the challenges and opportunities offered by the inclusion of minority teachers in mainstream educational settings from an international perspective. It aims to be a unique and important contribution for scholars, policy-makers, and practitioners considering the complexities brought about by global trends into national/local educational systems and settings. It will also serve to guide future research, policy, and practice in this important field of inquiry. The work will contribute ...

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Augmented Education in the Global Age: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Learning and Work by Daniel Araya (Routledge) Price verified 3 hours ago

Augmented Education in the Global Age: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Learning and Work is an edited collection that explores the social impact of Artificial Intelligence over the coming decades, specifically how this emerging technology will transform and disrupt our contemporary institutions. Chapters in this book discuss the history of technological revolutions and consider the anxieties and social challenges of lost occupations, as well as the evolution of new industries overlapping robotics, biotechnology, space ...

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The Legibility of Serif and Sans Serif Typefaces: Reading from Paper and Reading from Screens (SpringerBriefs in Education) by John T. E. Richardson (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 5 hours ago

This open access book provides a detailed and up-to-date account of the relevant literature on the legibility of different kinds of typefaces, which goes back over 140 years in the case of reading from paper and more than 50 years in the case of reading from screens. It describes the origins of serif and sans serif styles in ancient inscriptions, their adoption in modern printing techniques, and their legibility in different situations and in different populations of readers. It also examines recent research on the legibility of ...

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Educational Data Analytics for Teachers and School Leaders (Advances in Analytics for Learning and Teaching) by Sofia Mougiakou (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 5 hours ago

Educational Data Analytics (EDA) have been attributed with significant benefits for enhancing on-demand personalized educational support of individual learners as well as reflective course (re)design for achieving more authentic teaching, learning and assessment experiences integrated into real work-oriented tasks. This open access textbook is a tutorial for developing, practicing and self-assessing core competences on educational data analytics for digital teaching and learning. It combines theoretical knowledge on core issues ...

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An Academy at the Court of the Tsars: Greek Scholars and Jesuit Education in Early Modern Russia (NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian ... by Nikolaos A. Chrissidis (1 Review)    Price verified 9 hours ago

The first formally organized educational institution in Russia was established in 1685 by two Greek hieromonks, Ioannikios and Sophronios Leichoudes. Like many of their Greek contemporaries in the seventeenth century, the brothers acquired part of their schooling in colleges of post-Renaissance Italy under a precise copy of the Jesuit curriculum. When they created a school in Moscow, known as the Slavo-Greco-Latin Academy, they emulated the structural characteristics, pedagogical methods, and program of studies of Jesuit prototypes. ...

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International Students from Asia in Canadian Universities: Institutional Challenges at the Intersection of Internationalization, Racialization and ... by Ann Kim (Routledge) Price verified 10 hours ago

This book explores how the recruitment and retention of Asian international students in Canadian universities intersects with other institutional priorities. Responding to the growing need for new insights and perspectives on the institutional mechanisms adopted by Canadian universities to support Asian international students in their academic and social integration to university life, it crucially examines the challenges at the intersection of two institutional priorities: internationalization and anti-racism. This is especially ...

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Master's/Ph.D. Thesis: A Step-by-Step Writing Guide (Scientific Writing for Beginners) by Mitchell P. Jones (1 Review)    Price verified 10 hours ago

Definitive advice and recommendations on thesis writing can be hard to come by and even harder to understand. Look no further for step-by-step support to guide you through the thesis writing process with concrete instructions and examples. Mitchell P. Jones' Master's/Ph.D. Thesis: A Step-by-Step Writing Guide is a must-have for anyone about to culminate their master's or doctoral studies. In clear, concise and precise language, Jones lays out the essential steps for compiling a highly scoped and impactful master's or Ph.D. thesis. ...

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Self-Organised Schools: Educational Leadership and Innovative Learning Environments (Routledge Advances in Management Learning and Education) by Alberto F. De Toni (1 Review)    Price verified 10 hours ago

Self-Organised Schools: Educational Leadership and Innovative Learning Environments describes the results of the research we carried out at fourteen Italian schools that highlight how there is a positive correlation between the capabilities of school self-organization and the innovativeness of learning environments: in other words, the more self-organized schools are, the more innovative learning environments are. The results of this work are part of the strand of research of bottom-up emergency and self-organization, an extremely ...

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Words Made Flesh: Nineteenth-Century Deaf Education and the Growth of Deaf Culture (The History of Disability Book 4) by R. A. R. Edwards (14 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

During the early nineteenth century, schools for the deaf appeared in the United States for the first time. These schools were committed to the use of the sign language to educate deaf students. Manual education made the growth of the deaf community possible, for it gathered deaf people together in sizable numbers for the first time in American history. It also fueled the emergence of Deaf culture, as the schools became agents of cultural transformations. Just as the Deaf community began to be recognized as a minority culture, in ...

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Teaching What You're Not: Identity Politics in Higher Education by Katherine Mayberry (NYU Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 6 hours ago

Examines the roles of historical, cultural, and personal identities in the classroom Can whites teach African-American literature effectively and legitimately? What is at issue when a man teaches a women's studies course? How effectively can a straight woman educate students about gay and lesbian history? What are the political implications of the study of the colonizers by the colonized? More generally, how does the identity of an educator affect his or her credibility with students and with other educators? In incident after ...

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Japanese Lessons: A Year in a Japanese School Through the Eyes of An American Anthropologist and Her Children by Gail R. Benjamin (NYU Press) (11 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

Benjamin dismantles Americans' preconceived notions of the Japanese education system "Gail R. Benjamin reaches beyond predictable images of authoritarian Japanese educators and automaton schoolchildren to show the advantages and disadvantages of a system remarkably different from the American one... " -- The New York Times Book Review Americans regard the Japanese educational system and the lives of Japanese children with a mixture of awe and indignance. We respect a system that produces higher literacy rates and superior math ...

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Teaching Engineering, Second Edition by Phillip C. Wankat (Purdue University Press) (5 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

The majority of professors have never had a formal course in education, and the most common method for learning how to teach is on-the-job training. This represents a challenge for disciplines with ever more complex subject matter, and a lost opportunity when new active learning approaches to education are yielding dramatic improvements in student learning and retention. This book aims to cover all aspects of teaching engineering and other technical subjects. It presents both practical matters and educational theories in a format ...

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Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel $c translated and annotated by Emilie Michaelis ... and H. Keatley Moore. by Friedrich Fröbel (2 Reviews)    Price verified 11 hours ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

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Radical Solutions and Open Science: An Open Approach to Boost Higher Education (Lecture Notes in Educational Technology) by Daniel Burgos (Springer) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

This open access book presents how Open Science is a powerful tool to boost Higher Education. The book introduces the reader into Open Access, Open Technology, Open Data, Open Research results, Open Licensing, Open Accreditation, Open Certification, Open Policy and, of course, Open Educational Resources. It brings all these key topics from major players in the field; experts that present the current state of the art and the forthcoming steps towards a useful and effective implementation. This book presents radical, transgenic ...

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Sensei Self Development Mental Health Chronicles Series An Introduction To Mindfulness by Sensei Paul David (Get/Share Your FREE eBook Now at www.senseiselfdevelopment.care) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Get/Share Your FREE SSD Journal and more at senseiselfdevlopment.care & senseiselfdevelopment.com Learn calming mindfulness techniques for everyday life! Dear Reader, Welcome to the world of mental health journaling - a sacred space for self-reflection, growth, and healing. Within these pages, you can uplift your spirit, invigorate your mind, and nourish your goals. In a world that often moves at blink-and-you'll-miss-it speed, it's crucial to make time for self-care and self-discovery. Anxiety, stress, and emotional turbulence ...

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Teacher Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship: Critical Perspectives on Values, Curriculum and Assessment (Critical Global ... by Philip Bamber (Routledge) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

This book examines how educators internationally can better understand the role of education as a public good designed to nurture peace, tolerance, sustainable livelihoods and human fulfilment. Bringing together empirical and theoretical perspectives, this insightful text develops new understandings of education for sustainable development and global citizenship (ESD/GC) and illustrates how these might impact on educational research, policy and practice. The text recognizes the ESD/GC as pivotal to the universal ambitions of ...

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Nimble Tongues: Studies in Literary Translingualism (Comparative Cultural Studies) by Steven G. Kellman (Purdue University Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 5 hours ago

Nimble Tongues is a collection of essays that continues Steven G. Kellman's work in the fertile field of translingualism, focusing on the phenomenon of switching languages. A series of investigations and reflections rather than a single thesis, the collection is perhaps more akin in its aims -- if not accomplishment -- to George Steiner's Extraterritorial: Papers on Literature and the Language Revolution or Umberto Eco's Travels in Hyperreality. Topics covered include the significance of translingualism; translation and its ...

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Pandemic Teaching: A Survival Guide for College Faculty (Lion Tamers Guide to Teaching Book 1) by Kevin Patton (Lion Den Inc.) (17 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

As teaching faculty across the globe scramble to move their on-campus courses to a remote-learning format, veteran teaching mentor Kevin Patton provides a quick and dirty survival guide to get things started -- and keep things going. Having had the experience of moving from on-campus to online teaching, Kevin leverages his failures and triumphs into a quick guide to what's important and what's not as you make your transition in this disorienting time of pandemic teaching. The first section of the book provides a list of quick tips, ...

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Transforming Education for Sustainability: Discourses on Justice, Inclusion, and Authenticity (Environmental Discourses in Science Education Book 7) by María S. Rivera Maulucci (Springer) Price verified 3 hours ago

This book investigates how educators and researchers in the sciences, social sciences, and the arts, connect concepts of sustainability to work in their fields of study and in the classrooms where they teach the next generation. Sustainability, with a focus on justice, authenticity and inclusivity, can be integrated into many different courses or disciplines even if it is beyond their historical focus. The narratives describe sustainability education in the classroom, the laboratory, and the field (broadly defined) and how the ...

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The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon ... by Lewis Madison Terman (7 Reviews)    Price verified 6 minutes ago

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Scientific Writing Prompts for ChatGPT (Scientific Writing for Beginners) by Mitchell P. Jones (4 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

Scientific manuscripts can be written much more quickly and easily with the assistance of artificial intelligence (AI). But as smart as AI is, it needs detailed instructions to write like a true scientist would. Mitchell P. Jones' Scientific Writing Prompts for ChatGPT provides pre-written prompts that can be used with ChatGPT to roughly simulate the steps required to create high-quality titles, keywords, abstracts, introductions, and conclusions for an original research scientific manuscript, be it a bachelor's, master's or ...

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Construction Work for Rural and Elementary Schools by Virginia McGaw (1 Review)    Price verified 5 hours ago

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Translating Human Rights in Education: The Influence of Article 24 UN CRPD in Nigeria and Germany by Julia Biermann (University of Michigan Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 2 hours ago

The 2006 United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD) is the first human rights treaty to explicitly acknowledge the right to education for persons with disabilities. In order to realize this right, the convention's Article 24 mandates state parties to ensure inclusive education systems that overcome outright exclusion as well as segregation in special education settings. Despite this major global policy change to tackle the discriminations persons with disabilities face in education, this has yet to ...

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Reimagining Nabokov: Pedagogies for the 21st Century by José Vergara (Amherst College Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 5 hours ago

In Reimagining Nabokov: Pedagogies for the 21st Century, eleven teachers of Vladimir Nabokov describe how and why they teach this notoriously difficult, even problematic, writer to the next generations of students. Contributors offer fresh perspectives and embrace emergent pedagogical methods, detailing how developments in technology, translation and archival studies, and new interpretative models have helped them to address urgent questions of power, authority, and identity. Practical and insightful, this volume features exciting ...

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University Autonomy Decline: Causes, Responses, and Implications for Academic Freedom (Routledge Research in Higher Education) by Kirsten Roberts Lyer (Routledge) (1 Review)    Price verified 10 hours ago

This book provides empirically grounded insights into the causes, trajectories, and effects of a severe decline in university autonomy and the relationship to other dimensions of academic freedom by comparing in-depth country studies and evidence from a new global timeseries dataset. Drawing attention to ongoing discussions on standards for monitoring and assessment of academic freedom at regional and international organizations, this book identifies a need for clearer standards on academic freedom and a human rights-based ...

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Social Change in the Gulf Region: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Gulf Studies Book 8) by Md Mizanur Rahman (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 9 hours ago

This open access book, comprising thirty-nine chapters divided into social, cultural, economic, and political spheres, offers a unique opportunity to dive into the complex, dynamic, and sometimes contradictory transformation of Gulf societies in the last few decades. Whilst the Gulf region has at times been seen as impervious to this natural phenomenon of transformation -- timeless, never changing, deeply rooted in its ancient tribal customs and traditions and able to blend past and present seamlessly without suffering the wrenching ...

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On the Firing Line in Education by Adoniram Judson Ladd (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

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Student Feedback on Teaching in Schools: Using Student Perceptions for the Development of Teaching and Teachers by Wolfram Rollett (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 10 hours ago

This open access book provides a comprehensive and informative overview of the current state of research about student perceptions of and student feedback on teaching. After presentation of a new student feedback process model, evidence concerning the validity and reliability of student perceptions of teaching quality is discussed. This is followed by an overview of empirical research on the effects of student feedback on teachers and instruction in different contexts, as well as on factors promoting the successful implementation of ...

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The Importance and Value of Older Employees: Wise Workers in the Workplace by Anne Inga Hilsen (Palgrave Macmillan) (1 Review)    Price verified 11 hours ago

This open access book makes a contribution to our understanding of one of the social challenges facing many western nations i.e. the challenge of an ageing population. It specifically addresses the issue of competence among older employees. Others have studied ageing populations in terms of the economic burden or the pressure on healthcare services and generally view the rising numbers of seniors more as a challenge than an opportunity. In this book, authors discuss ways of gaining positive benefits from our ageing and more ...

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Low Back Pain by NetCE (9 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

The purpose of this course is to provide healthcare professionals with a greater understanding of the pathophysiology and differential diagnosis of low back pain conditions so they may effectively treat or manage low back pain, resulting in improved patient health, quality of life, and satisfaction. In addition, members of the public may use this course to enhance their personal knowledge of the subject matter presented. Upon completion of this course, you should be able to: 1. Outline the epidemiology of back pain, including ...

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Reliability and Validity of International Large-Scale Assessment: Understanding IEA’s Comparative Studies of Student Achievement (IEA Research for ... by Hans Wagemaker (Springer) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This open access book describes and reviews the development of the quality control mechanisms and methodologies associated with IEA's extensive program of educational research. A group of renowned international researchers, directly involved in the design and execution of IEA's international large-scale assessments (ILSAs), describe the operational and quality control procedures that are employed to address the challenges associated with providing high-quality, comparable data. Throughout the now considerable history of IEA's ...

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McGill and its Story, 1821-1921 by Cyrus MacMillan (2 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

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Meaning-Making for Living: The Emergence of the Presentational Self in Children’s Everyday Dialogues (SpringerBriefs in Psychology) by Koji Komatsu (Springer) (8 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

This Open Access Brief analyzes the dynamics in which children's selves emerge through their everyday activities of meaning construction, both in their relationships with family and within school education. It begins with a discussion of new psychological inquiries into children's selves and builds upon the innovative theoretical notion of the Presentational Self, developed by the author over the last decade. The book illustrates how the observation of children's meaning construction in their everyday lives becomes a starting point ...

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The Canine-Campus Connection: Roles for Dogs in the Lives of College Students (New Directions in the Human-Animal Bond) by Mary Renck Jalongo (Purdue University Press) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

A primary mission of universities is promoting student success and well-being. Many college and university personnel have implemented initiatives that offer students the documented benefits of positive human-animal interaction (HAI). Accumulating evidence suggests that assistance dogs, therapy dogs, and shelter dogs can support student wellness and learning. The best programs balance the welfare of humans and canines while assessing students' needs and complying with all laws and regulations. Contributors to this edited volume have ...

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Journeys Towards Intercultural Capability in Language Classrooms: Voices from Students, Teachers and Researchers (Intercultural Communication and ... by Martin East (Springer) Price verified 11 hours ago

This open access book presents an account of five teacher educators who, over a two-year period, undertook a research project with five teachers of languages other than English in pre-secondary schools in New Zealand. Their collaborative aim was to develop students' intercultural capability in the context of learning a new language. The school participants were typical of many in New Zealand's pre-secondary sector; the teachers had limited language-teaching experience and limited prior knowledge of how to develop the intercultural ...

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The Distributed University for Sustainable Higher Education (SpringerBriefs in Education) by Richard Frederick Heller (Springer) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

This book is open access and discusses the re-imagining of the higher education sector. It exposes problems that relate to the way that universities have become over-managed business enterprises which may not reflect societal, national, or global educational needs. From there, it proposes some solutions, including three innovative programs, that make universities more responsive to needs, as well as reduce their impact on the environment. The central idea of this book is developing the 'Distributed University,' which distributes ...

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Education Systems and Inequalities: International comparisons by Andreas Hadjar (Policy Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 10 hours ago

EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. How do education systems shape educational inequalities and differences in educational outcomes? And how do advantages and disadvantages in educational attainment translate into privileges and shortcomings in labour market and general life chances? Education systems and inequalities compares different education systems and their impact on creating and sustaining social inequalities. The book considers key questions such as how education systems impact educational ...

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Powering a Learning Society During an Age of Disruption (Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects Book 58) by Sungsup Ra (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 10 hours ago

This open access book presents contemporary perspectives on the role of a learning society from the lens of leading practitioners, experts from universities, governments, and industry leaders. The think pieces argue for a learning society as a major driver of change with far-reaching influence on learning to serve the needs of economies and societies. The book is a testimonial to the importance of 'learning communities.' It highlights the pivotal role that can be played by non-traditional actors such as city and urban planners, ...

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The Crisis for Young People: Generational Inequalities in Education, Work, Housing and Welfare by Andy Green (Palgrave Macmillan) (14 Reviews)    Price verified 11 hours ago

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book provides an original and challenging analysis of one of the most pressing social issues of our times: intergenerational inequality. Based on recent mixed-method research, it explores the extent and scope of generational divides through an up-to-date analysis of the changing opportunities for young people in Britain across different life domains. A central question addressed is whether current changes are best understood as growing inequalities within and across age groups, ...

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Illinois DMV Exam Workbook: 400+ Practice Questions to Navigate Your DMV Exam With Confidence (DMV practice tests Book 8) by Eric Miles (6 Reviews)    Price verified 11 hours ago

The Ultimate DMV Exam Guide is Your Roadmap to First-Attempt Success • Feeling the pressure of the upcoming DMV test? • In search of a tool that simplifies the process, boosts your confidence, and increases your chances of success? • Want to ace the driving test on your first attempt? This comprehensive guide is your go-to resource, packed with original test questions crafted to mirror the real DMV exam, taking the uncertainty out of your preparation. This complete, easy-to-follow DMV exam workbook, offers: • Two ...

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Ohio DMV Exam Workbook: 400+ Practice Questions to Navigate Your DMV Exam With Confidence (DMV practice tests Book 7) by Eric Miles (5 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

The Ultimate DMV Exam Guide is Your Roadmap to First-Attempt Success • Feeling the pressure of the upcoming DMV test? • In search of a tool that simplifies the process, boosts your confidence, and increases your chances of success? • Want to ace the driving test on your first attempt? This comprehensive guide is your go-to resource, packed with original test questions crafted to mirror the real DMV exam, taking the uncertainty out of your preparation. This complete, easy-to-follow DMV exam workbook, offers: • Two ...

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College Success Through Psychology: Insight from Experts Backed by Science by Devon Salvin (10 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

Success Through Psychology is a concise yet impactful booklet featuring exclusive, empirically-based advice from esteemed professors at the University of California, Irvine. This booklet offers a unique perspective on achieving success by focusing on often overlooked pieces of advice that all college freshmen should hear before entering University. Featured Professors Dr. Peter Ditto Dr. Elizabeth Loftus Dr. Roxane Cohen Silver Dr. Gloria Mark Dr. Sarah Pressman Dr. Candice Odgers Dr. Kate Kuhlman Dr. Penelope Collins Dr. Joanne ...

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Secret Gems - not Misfits!: True tales of school refusers and the case for alternative schools by Gab McIntosh (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Quirky learning and unexpected happiness for school refusers at alternative schools - really? Who would have thought that school refusers turn out to be secret gems rather than sad misfits? The reader learns how the principal began her alternative schools with no money, no teaching resources, no premises, and few guidelines. One trained teacher; she was it. The only truly dependable resource was unhappy school kids, more than anyone expected. The results are both surprising and delightful. "Secret Gems - not Misfits! True tales of ...

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Proceedings of the Fifth Sriwijaya University Learning and Education International Conference (SULE-IC 2022) (Advances in Social Science, Education ... by Meilinda (Atlantis Press) Price verified 11 hours ago

This is an open access book. The 5th Sriwijaya University Learning and Education International Conference (5th SULE-IC 2022) was held on October 5, 2022 in Palembang, South Sumatera, Indonesia. Palembang is a historic city located on the island of Sumatera. It was the capital of the Empire of Sriwijaya. During the glory of the Empire, it was one of the major learning centers in Asia. To continue the legacy of the Empire's spirit of learning, the conference will, once more, be the gathering for academicians and professionals from ...

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A Force for Change: The Class of 1950 (The Founders Series) by John Norberg (1 Review)    Price verified 5 hours ago

Some of them were grown men going to college on the new G.I. Bill, and some were boys -- eighteen years old, straight out of high school. There were also young women coming to campus, rich in the traditions of their mothers and grandmothers. These women didn't know it, but the seeds of the modern women's movement had been planted during the war and in their generation. There were African-Americans who came to campus and found segregation and racial stereotypes, even after some of them had fought a war for freedom. This mixture of ...

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Spaces for Intecultural Learning: an interactive ebook by Carolina Carotta (Self-Publishing) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This ebook is the product of an Erasmus Plus project, "Spaces for Intercultural Learning". The partnership be-tween six partners was born thanks to the new on-line platforms, mainly EPALE - Electronic Platform for Adult Learning in Europe. After a first contact through mail, the six partners - representing six European countries - were ready to start designing the project and exchanging their ideas and work methods through steady online meet-ings (GoToMeeting). With the good news of the project acceptance by the Eu-ropean Commission, ...

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Social and Economic Vulnerability of Roma People: Key Factors for the Success and Continuity of Schooling Levels by Maria Manuela Mendes (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 10 hours ago

This open access volume provides an understanding of the different aspects of success, school continuity and social mobility among European Roma, including the motives justifying the high rates of school dropout and failure among this group. It offers a critical and reflexive perspective about social reality from a multidisciplinary and transversal point of view, sharing knowledge and practices in different countries about the articulations between Roma families, individuals, school and public policies. Over time, there has been an ...

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Universities in Imperial Austria 1848–1918: A Social History of a Multilingual Space (Central European Studies) by Jan Surman (Purdue University Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 6 hours ago

Combining history of science and a history of universities with the new imperial history, Universities in Imperial Austria 1848-1918: A Social History of a Multilingual Space by Jan Surman analyzes the practice of scholarly migration and its lasting influence on the intellectual output in the Austrian part of the Habsburg Empire. The Habsburg Empire and its successor states were home to developments that shaped Central Europe's scholarship well into the twentieth century. Universities became centers of both state- and ...

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Schools as Community Hubs: Building ‘More than a School’ for Community Benefit by Benjamin Cleveland (Springer) Price verified 2 hours ago

This open access book brings together research on the planning, design, governance and management of schools as community hubs -- places that support the development of better-connected, more highly integrated, and more resilient communities with education at the centre. It explores opportunities and difficulties associated with bringing schools and communities closer together, with a focus on the facilities needed to accommodate shared experiences that generate social capital and deliver reciprocal benefits. This book discusses the ...

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The Cure For HIV and Aids by Dr. Hulda Regehr Clark (New Century Press) (55 Reviews)    Price verified one hour ago

In Six Weeks You Are: HIV NEGATIVE What really causes HIV/AIDS, even in Africa, is astonishing, but your body's recovery will convince you. There is no conflict with any clinical treatment. Even near terminal victims can recover. Read How Others Recovered including some with clinical verification. You have no time to lose and everything to gain-start today! A 2-Week Program gives step-by-step instructions on how to clear your body of the five immunity-destroying toxins that cause AIDS. There are only five. The ability to kill HIV ...

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Technical Universities: Past, present and future (Higher Education Dynamics Book 56) by Lars Geschwind (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 2 hours ago

This Open Access book analyses the past, present and future of the technical university as a single faculty independent institution. The point of departure is a view of changing academic realities, through which the identity as a technical university is challenged and reconstituted. More specifically, the book connects the development of technical universities to changes in the structure and dimensioning of national higher education systems, to changes in the disciplinary basis of academic research and to changes in the governance of ...

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Invited Lectures from the 13th International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME-13 Monographs) by Gabriele Kaiser (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 10 hours ago

The book presents the Invited Lectures given at 13th International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME-13). ICME-13 took place from 24th- 31st July 2016 at the University of Hamburg in Hamburg (Germany). The congress was hosted by the Society of Didactics of Mathematics (Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik - GDM) and took place under the auspices of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI). ICME-13 - the biggest ICME so far - brought together about 3500 mathematics educators from 105 countries, ...

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Seven Democratic Virtues of Liberal Education: A Student-Inspired Agenda for Teaching Civic Virtue in European Universities (Routledge Research in ... by Teun J. Dekker (1 Review)    Price verified 9 hours ago

This book argues that the liberal arts and sciences (LAS) model of education can inspire reform across higher education to help students acquire crucial civic virtues. Based on interviews with 59 students from LAS programmes across Europe, the book posits that LAS education can develop a range of citizenship skills that are central to the democratic process. The interviews provide insight into how studying LAS prepares students for citizenship by asking them to reflect on their education, what it taught them, and how it did so. ...

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Formação de professores para uma educação plural e democrática: narrativas, saberes, práticas e políticas educativas na América Latina ... by Luiz Fernando Conde Sangenis (SciELO - EDUERJ) (44 Reviews)    Price verified 10 hours ago

"Na atual realidade brasileira e latino-americana, está em curso um projeto político, ideológico e econômico - determinado a restringir direitos políticos, sociais, civis e fazer avançar formas de capitalismo concentrador de riqueza que aumentam velozmente o fosso entre ricos e pobres. Sinais desse processo ganham visibilidade nas privatizações dos serviços públicos, nos cortes profundos no investimento em saúde e em educação e na tentativa de desapropriação docente do exercício autônomo de sua profissão. Esta ...

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Revista Observatório Itaú Cultural - N° 09: Novos Desafios da Cultura Digital (Portuguese Edition) by Alfons Martinell Sempere (Itaú Cultural) (8 Reviews)    Price verified 10 hours ago

As novas tecnologias transformaram a indústria cultural em todas as suas fases, da produção à distribuição, assim como o acesso aos produtos culturais. Em 12 artigos, esta edição discute as questões que a era digital impõe à indústria cultural, os desafios que permeiam políticas públicas de inclusão digital, a necessidade de pensar os direitos autorais e como trabalhar a cultura na era digital. E traz também entrevista com Rosalía Lloret, da Rádio e TV Espanhola, e Valério Cruz Brittos, professor e pesquisador da ...

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Reforms, Organizational Change and Performance in Higher Education: A Comparative Account from the Nordic Countries by Rómulo Pinheiro (Palgrave Macmillan) (1 Review)    Price verified 11 hours ago

This open access book investigates the effects of changes in leadership and managerial structures of Nordic universities resulting from reforms in the last decade. It builds on a rich, comparative dataset across a multiplicity of system-wide (macro) and organisational (meso and micro) dimensions, namely: reform or policy initiatives; drivers, aims, instruments and actors; structural changes within universities; strategic and performance management; the rise of accountability regimes; incentive and evaluative systems; and perceived ...

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The Dynamics of Opportunity in America: Evidence and Perspectives by Irwin Kirsch (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 4 hours ago

Across the country, our children are beginning life from very different starting points. Some have aspirations and believe they can be achieved. For too many others, aspirations are tempered, if not dashed, by the sobering realities of everyday life. These different starting points place children on distinctly different trajectories of growth and development, ultimately leading to vastly different adult outcomes. How did we get to a place where circumstances of birth have become so determinative? And what must we do, within ...

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Dismantling Institutional Whiteness: Emerging Forms of Leadership in Higher Education (Navigating Careers in Higher Education) by M. Cristina Alcalde (Purdue University Press) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

Dismantling Institutional Whiteness: Emerging Forms of Leadership in Higher Education focuses on the experiences of women of color in leadership roles in higher education. Top roles historically have gone to white men, and leadership has not reflected the range of identities and people who make up higher education. Why? And why does this problem continue to this day? Most importantly, what can be done to bring about meaningful change? Dismantling Institutional Whiteness gathers a range of first-person narratives from women of color ...

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On the Politics of Educational Theory: Rhetoric, theoretical ambiguity, and the construction of society (Theorizing Education) by Tomasz Szkudlarek (Routledge) (1 Review)    Price verified 6 hours ago

On the Politics of Educational Theory considers the political significance of educational theory as a specific genre of public discourse. Rather than understanding educational theories solely as addressing issues of childrearing and instruction, this book aims to view educational theories in a broader socio-political context. It explores the role of educational theories in the construction of collective and political identities, and analyses them as rhetorical strategies operating as political discourses. Defining the methodological ...

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Black Campus Life: The Worlds Black Students Make at a Historically White Institution (SUNY Press Open Access) by Antar A. Tichavakunda (SUNY Press) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 10 hours ago

An in-depth ethnography of Black engineering students at a historically White institution, Black Campus Life examines the intersection of two crises, up close: the limited number of college graduates in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields, and the state of race relations in higher education. Antar Tichavakunda takes readers across campus, from study groups to parties and beyond as these students work hard, have fun, skip class, fundraise, and, at times, find themselves in tense racialized encounters. By ...

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Learning to Diagnose with Simulations: Examples from Teacher Education and Medical Education by Frank Fischer (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 10 hours ago

This open access book presents 8 novel approaches to measure and improve diagnostic competences with simulation. The book compares the effects of interventions on these diagnostic competences in both teacher and medical education. It includes analyses showing that important aspects of diagnostic competences and effects of instructional interventions aiming to facilitate them are comparable for teachers and doctors. Through closely analyzing projects from medical education, mathematics education, biology education, and psychology, ...

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Coal in our Veins: A Personal Journey by Erin Ann Thomas (Utah State University Press) (7 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

In Coal in Our Veins, Erin Thomas employs historical research, autobiography, and journalism to intertwine the history of coal, her ancestors' lives mining coal, and the societal and environmental impacts of the United States' dependency on coal as an energy source. In the first part of her book, she visits Wales, native ground of British coal mining and of her emigrant ancestors. The Thomases' move to the coal region of Utah -- where they witnessed the Winter Quarters and Castle Gate mine explosions, two of the worst mining ...

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Education for Children with Disabilities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Developing a Sense of Belonging (Inclusive Learning and Educational Equity Book 4) by Margarita Schiemer (Springer) (8 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book presents insights into the lived realities of children with disabilities in primary schools in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It examines specific cultural and societal characteristics of Ethiopia that influence the education of children with disabilities. The book presents findings drawn from interviews with, and participant observation of the schoolchildren, family members, teachers and other "experts", and places these findings in a cultural-historical context. The ...

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Space, Place and Educational Settings (Knowledge and Space Book 16) by Tim Freytag (Springer) Price verified 4 hours ago

This open access book explores the nexus between knowledge and space with a particular emphasis on the role of educational settings that are, both, shaping and being reshaped by socio-economic and political processes. It gives insight into the complex interplay of educational inequalities and practices of educational governance in the neighborhood and at larger geographical scales. The book adopts quantitative and qualitative methodologies and explores a wide range of theoretical perspectives by drawing upon empirical cases and ...

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The Changing Landscape of the Academic Profession: Faculty Culture at For-Profit Colleges and Universities by Vicente M. Lechuga (Routledge) (1 Review)    Price verified 2 hours ago

The rapid success of for-profit colleges and universities (FPCUs) only recently has caught the attention of scholars in academe. The continuing expansion of the proprietary higher education sector has lead to fundamental questions regarding the purpose and function of FPCUs. As new technologies continue to emerge, education is becoming of increasing import to employees seeking to upgrade their skills and employers in search of individuals who possess the necessary expertise and training to help their organizations succeed. For-profit ...

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Traditions in German-Speaking Mathematics Education Research (ICME-13 Monographs) by Hans Niels Jahnke (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This open access book shares revealing insights into the development of mathematics education research in Germany from 1976 (ICME 3 in Karlsruhe) to 2016 (ICME 13 in Hamburg). How did mathematics education research evolve in the course of these four decades? Which ideas and people were most influential, and how did German research interact with the international community? These questions are answered by scholars from a range of fields and in ten thematic sections: (1) a short survey of the development of educational research on ...

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Pandemics: Insurance and Social Protection (Springer Actuarial) by María del Carmen Boado-Penas (Springer) (2 Reviews)    Price verified one hour ago

This open access book collects expert contributions on actuarial modelling and related topics, from machine learning to legal aspects, and reflects on possible insurance designs during an epidemic/pandemic. Starting by considering the impulse given by COVID-19 to the insurance industry and to actuarial research, the text covers compartment models, mortality changes during a pandemic, risk-sharing in the presence of low probability events, group testing, compositional data analysis for detecting data inconsistencies, behaviouristic ...

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Responsive Open Learning Environments: Outcomes of Research from the ROLE Project by Sylvana Kroop (Springer) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

This book presents the outcomes of four years of educational research in the EU-supported project called ROLE (Responsive Online Learning Environments). ROLE technology is centered around the concept of self-regulated learning that creates responsible learners, who are capable of critical thinking and able to plan their own learning processes. ROLE allows learners to independently search for appropriate learning resources and then reflect on their own learning process and progress. To accomplish this, ROLE´s main objective is to ...

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Life Skills Education for Youth: Critical Perspectives (Young People and Learning Processes in School and Everyday Life Book 5) by Joan DeJaeghere (Springer) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This open access volume critically reviews a diverse body of scholarship and practice that informs the conceptualization, curriculum, teaching and measurement of life skills in education settings around the world. It discusses life skills as they are implemented in schools and non-formal education, providing both qualitative and quantitative evidence of when, with whom, and how life skills do or do not impact young women's and men's lives in various contexts. Specifically, it examines the nature and importance of life skills, and how ...

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The Prevent Duty in Education: Impact, Enactment and Implications by Joel Busher (Palgrave Macmillan) (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This open access book explores the enactment, impact and implications of the Prevent Duty across a range of educational contexts. In July 2015 the UK became the first country to place a specific legal requirement on those working in education to contribute to efforts to 'prevent people from being drawn into terrorism'. Drawing on extensive research with staff, children and young people, the editors and contributors provide new insight into how this high-profile - and highly contentious - policy has shaped educational practice in ...

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