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We live in an age of unprecedented access to information.

How is language acquired when infants are exposed to multiple language input from birth and when adults are required to learn a second language after early childhood?

Blended Learning combines the conventional face-to-face course delivery with an online component.

What if you could challenge your fifth-grade students to investigate the role of composting in solid waste management?

Originally published in 1991.

Education and Free Will critically assesses and makes use of Spinoza's insights on human freedom to construe an account of education that is compatible with causal determinism without sacrificing the educational goal of increasing students' autonomy and self-determination.

Although social, political, technological and business networks hold our modern world together, we still lack a good understanding of what business networks are, how they work, and the language of network analysis that we may apply to solve common, everyday problems.

Education and training have faced many challenges in the past five years - political, educational, and technological trends such as the European Bologna process, Lifelong Learning and the use of Social Software are just a few of the factors influencing this field.

Migration is an old, perhaps perpetual, phenomenon.

Based on the author's 20 years of teaching, Risk Analysis in Engineering: Techniques, Tools, and Trends presents an engineering approach to probabilistic risk analysis (PRA).

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

Assessment has long been recognized as a key feature inlearning efficacy, especially through formative evaluation.

Organization Design looks at how to (re)design an organizational system in order to increase productivity, performance and value, and provides the knowledge and methodology to design an adaptive, agile organization capable of handling the kind of continuous organizational change that all businesses face.

Written by former Toyota associates, Toyota By Toyota: Reflections from the Inside Leaders on the Techniques That Revolutionized the Industry focuses on the purpose of Lean methodologies, techniques, and principles.

In the 21st century governments are increasingly focusing on designing ways and means of connecting across boundaries to achieve goals.

This handbook interrogates and illustrates contemporary approaches to technical and professional communication (TPC) by focusing on emerging issues in the field.

A strong comprehension of early childhood theory is fundamental to early childhood educators' abilities to make informed decisions about the ways they support children's development and learning.

This classic text in educational research literature has been thoroughly updated to take into account new philosophical theories and the current political context for educational research.

The #1 Most Comprehensive SAT(R) Playbook Ever Available for Public Consumption!

The balance between individual independence and social interdependence is a perennial debate in Japan.

This book is based on the best papers accepted for presentation during the SLET-2022: International Conference on Innovative Approaches to the Application of Digital Technologies in Education and Research.

This book explores the history, purpose and understandings of College Based Higher Education.

This Handbook discusses the theoretical and disciplinary background to the study of English-medium instruction (EMI) in higher education worldwide.

Advancing a rapidly growing field of social science inquiry-the anthropology of policy-this volume extends and solidifies this body of work, focusing on education policy.

This volume examines the interface between the teachings of art and the art of teaching, and asserts the centrality of aesthetics for rethinking education.

This concise and accessible resource offers new college students, especially those in science degree programs, guidance on engaging successfully with the classroom experience and skillfully tackling technical or scientific questions.

Not that long ago there were fairly clear divisions between researchers at different stages throughout their career, starting with doctoral students then progressing to postdoctoral workers and finishing with academic staff.

Centred around the topic of school leadership, this book addresses the difficulties and challenges which present themselves to school leaders across the western world.

First published in 1968, An Introduction to the History of Education in Modern Egypt collects all available sources, Eastern and Western, printed and manuscript, in order to give as full an account as possible of all the education reforms undertaken in Egypt.

While the high cost of education draws headlines, the cost of not educating America's children goes largely ignored.

The second edition of Consumer Behaviour and Analytics provides a consumer behaviour textbook for the new marketing reality.

Safety and Reliability of Industrial Products, Systems and Structures deals with risk assessment, which is a fundamental support for decisions related to the design, construction, operation and maintenance of industrial products, systems and infrastructures.

The Adult Learning Project in Edinburgh, affectionately known as ALP, is a sustained experiment in applying the principles of the Brazilian educator, Paulo Freire, in a European post-industrial urban environment.

Analytics is one of a number of terms which are used to describe a data-driven more scientific approach to management.

For decades, the idea that more education will lead to greater individual and national prosperity has been a cornerstone of developed economies.

Digitalisierung, demographische Entwicklung, Wertewandel sowie Internationalisierung verändern unter dem Stichwort New Work nachhaltig die Arbeitswelt und erfordern neue Ausrichtungen des Personalmanagements.

In this positive and inspiring book, James Hilton, author of Leading from the Edge and Ten Traits of Resilience, explores how primary and secondary school leaders can find fulfilment in their challenging roles in order to lead their schools successfully.

Das Aufsatztraining zur Förderung von Schreibkompetenz und des Arbeitsverhaltens kann in den Regelunterricht für 4.

Social Research and Disability argues that the contemporary rules of sociological methods outlined in numerous research methods texts make a number of assumptions concerning the researcher including ambulance, sight, hearing and speech.

Teaching Music through Composition offers a practical, fully multimedia curriculum designed to teach basic musical concepts through the creative process of music composition.

Las creencias de autoeficacia docente pueden marcar diferencias en la enseñanza y en el uso de las estrategias didácticas que utiliza el profesorado para potenciar la calidad del aprendizaje universitario, y se convierten en un motor importante de la propia práctica profesional.

This two-volume set, CCIS 2176-2177, constitutes the proceedings from the Second International Conference on Deep Sciences for Computing and Communications, IconDeepCom 2023, held in Chennai, India, in April 2023.

Using insights drawn from the experiences of professional linguists working in a range of domains, this book is an essential resource to help you recognize the value and relevance of your skills and training as a linguist in the job market.

The workbook that helps students connect emotional intelligence with leadership skills The Emotionally Intelligent Leadership for Students: Student Workbook contains hands-on activities and case studies to help students foster the 19 capacities of emotionally intelligent leadership (EIL) presented in the main text Emotionally Intelligent Leadership: A Guide for Students.

This book examines the effects of social relations during primary school on children's neurobiology and pathways to maladaptation.

Higher education research is a developing field internationally, which is attracting more and more researchers from a great variety of disciplinary backgrounds within and beyond higher education institutions.