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This volume considers, rethinks and reorganizes how support for learning across working lifecan be best conceptualized, organized and enacted.

This volume looks forward and re-examines present day education and pedagogical practices in music and dance in the diverse cultural environments found in Oceania.

This book examines the mathematics achievement of immigrant students on the basis of data from the IEA Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS).

This volume provides an in-depth discussion on the central question - how can people express and survive dissent and disagreement in confined habitats in space?

This book collects recent research on posing and solving mathematical problems.

This book presents contributions from researchers, practitioners and professional institutions that published papers in the Proceedings of the Educating Enterprising Engineers and Scientists conference, held in London, UK on 17th June 2015.

This book is an in-depth guide to effective scientific research.

This book defends that math education should systematically start out from the diverse out-of-school knowledge of children and develop trajectories from there to the Academic Mathematics   tower of knowledge.

This book explores the relationship between the content of chemistry education and the history and philosophy of science (HPS) framework that underlies such education.

This book reports the results of a three-year research program funded by the National Science Foundation which targeted students and teachers from four Detroit high schools in order for them to learn, experience, and use IT within the context of STEM (IT/STEM), and explore 21st century career and educational pathways.

This book, the outcome of a conference organised in 2012 in Paris as a homage to Michele Artigue, is based on the main component of this event.

This is a critical introduction to the educational thought of F.

Simulation in healthcare education has a long history, yet in many ways, we have been reinventing the wheel during the last 25 years.

This book addresses the cognitive, social, and psychological dimensions that shape students' mathematics experience to help students become more capable, cooperative, and confident in the process of engaging mathematics.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution, and Perspectives, ISSEP 2015, held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in September/October 2015.

This book fills a clear gap in the literature for a technically-focused book covering nuclear proliferation and related issues post-9/11.

This book contributes to both mathematical problem solving and the communication of mathematics by students, and the role of personal and home technologies in learning beyond school.

This book provides a history of the efforts of the US National Science Foundation to broaden participation in computing.

This text examines in detail the issue of the underrepresentation of women, African Americans, American Indians, and Hispanics in the computing disciplines in the U.

This book features a diverse set of perspectives all focused towards questioning the role schools actually play in society and, more importantly, the role they could potentially play.

This book outlines key issues for addressing the grand challenges posed to educators, developers, and researchers interested in the intersection of simulations and science education.

This book, comprising contributions presented at the XIX Edoardo Amaldi Conference, examines important aspects of international cooperation aimed at enhancing nuclear safety, security, safeguards (the "e;3S"e;), and non-proliferation, thereby assisting in the development and maintenance of the verification regime and progress toward a nuclear weapon-free world.

This is a practical guide to the use of simulation in pediatric training and evaluation, including all subspecialty areas.

This is the first volume of a book series dedicated to "e;Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Scientific and Scholarly Communication"e;.

The book offers a new approach to the study of Alice Munro's fiction.

This book presents chapters based onpapers presented at the second POEM conference on early mathematics learning.

This book provides the information that is required to start a small spacecraft program for educational purposes.

Alexus McLeod explores every aspect of the lesser-known history of astronomy in the Americas (Mesoamerica and North America), China and India, each through the frame of a particular astronomical phenomena.

This book presents the breadth and diversity of empirical and practical work done on statistics education around the world.

This book explores the beneficial impact of pedagogically updated practices and approaches in the teaching of science concepts as well as elaborates on future challenges and emerging issues that address Science and Technology Education.

This volume offers educators, higher education institutions, communities and organizations critical understandings and resources that can underpin respectful, reciprocal and transformative educative relationships with First Peoples internationally.

This undergraduate textbook educates non-science majors-our future policy makers-on how science works, the rules that underpin our existence, our impact on nature, and nature's impact on us.

Creative Contradictions in Education is a provocative collection of essays by international experts who tackle difficult questions about creativity in education from a cross-disciplinary perspective.

This book presents theoretical and methodical discussions on local knowledge and indigenous knowledge.

This volume covers invited papers presented during the La Rabida 2015 International Scientific Meeting on Nuclear Physics, which can be considered heir of a well known series of triennial international summer schools on Nuclear Physics organized from 1982 till 2003 by the Basic Nuclear Physics group in the University of Sevilla.

This book provides a chronological introduction to modern atomic theory, which represented an attempt to reconcile the ancient doctrine of atomism with careful experiments-performed during the 19th century-on the flow of heat through substances and across empty space.

This collection of articles by Susan W.

The fourteen award-winning essays in this volume discuss a range of novel ideas and controversial topics that could decisively influence the course of human life on Earth.

This book pays tribute to an extraordinary researcher and personality, Manuel Cardona.

This book includes studies that represent the state of the art in science education research and convey a sense of the variation in educational traditions around the world.

This book, written by an accomplished female mathematician, is the second to explore nonstandard mathematical problems - those that are not directly solved by standard mathematical methods but instead rely on insight and the synthesis of a variety of mathematical ideas.

This book is a collection of selected papers presented at the SIGEF conference, held at the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Girona (Spain), 06-08 July, 2015.

This book provides information to the state of art of research in nanotechnology and nano medicine and risks of nano technology.

This book combines information communication technology (ICT) with the creative interdisciplinary teaching approach known as STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics).

This book exposes, and fills, a notable void in the educational content generally covered in modern schools of medicine.

This book extends the discussion of the nature of freedom and what it means for a human to be free.

In this volume cultural, social and cognitive influences on the research and teaching of mathematical modelling are explored from a variety of theoretical and practical perspectives.

This book comprises the full selected Regular Lectures from the Proceedings of the 12th International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME-12), which was held at COEX in Seoul, Korea, from July 8th to 15th, 2012.

This volume considers the future of science learning - what is being learned and how it is being learned - in formal and informal contexts for science education.

This book provides an international perspective of current work aimed at both clarifying the theoretical foundations for the use of multimodal representations as a part of effective science education pedagogy and the pragmatic application of research findings to actual classroom settings.