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The Evolution of China's Anti-Poverty Strategies Cases of 20 Chinese Changing Lives / by Brown, William N.

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Mogan Mountain's Tang Hairong -- Chapter 2: Liu Yunguang: An Entrepreneur With a Passion for Youth -- Chapter 3: Jing Xuhua - A Loving Mother Triumphs at Home and in Business -- Chapter 4: Ye Nan Brings a Bright Future to West China -- Chapter 5: Yang Ying- From House Maid to Millionaire Philanthropist -- Chapter 6: Gerile - Making Snacks to Put Her Daughter Through College -- Chapter 7: Zhang Fang - Documenting Inner Mongolia's Environmental Fight -- Chapter 8: Zhao Xuan, A Retired Teacher From Xi'an -- Chapter 9: Bu Wenjun: Inheriting Wei-family's Brick-Carving Craftsmanship -- Chapter 10: Zhang Jianlong - From Migrant Worker to Cattle King -- Chapter 11: Xin Baotong- Helping the Helpless to Dream Again -- Chapter 12: Wang Zenghao - Young Volunteer Working in Tibet -- Chapter 13: Dawa Wangdui: A Tibetan Serf -turned Entrepreneur -- Chapter 14: Xia Jiangping - Greening the Roof of the World! …”
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Knowing Home Braiding Indigenous Science with Western Science

Table of Contents: “…Theoretical, Historical and Epistemological Foundations -- Chapter 1 - Braiding Indigenous Science with Western Science -- Chapter 2 - Why Transforming the Science Curriculum is Necessary for Aboriginal Students -- Chapter 3 - “Coming to Know”: A Framework for Indigenous Science Education -- Chapter 4 - Creating Change: Instructional Strategies, Teacher Education, Teaching Science in Rural Aboriginal and Urban Multicultural Schools -- Chapter 5 - Representations of Indigenous Science in Textbooks, Curriculum Resources, and Government Documents -- II. …”
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Technical Universities Past, present and future /

Table of Contents: “…Are some technical universities better than others?; Mats Benner -- 4. The position of technical universities within changing frameworks of institutional organisation and steering: the case of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology; Agnete Vabø & Liv Langfeldt -- 5. …”
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Improving Inclusive Education through Universal Design for Learning

Table of Contents: “…Teaching for Diversity with UDL: Analysing Teacher Competence (Suvi Lakkala, Outi Kyrö-Ämmälä) -- Chapter 11. …”
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Reliability and Validity of International Large-Scale Assessment Understanding IEA's Comparative Studies of Student Achievement /

Table of Contents: “…Foreword; Dirk Hastedt -- 1 Introduction to Reliability and Validity of International Large-Scale Assessment; Hans Wagemaker -- 2 Study Design and Evolution, and the Imperatives of Reliability and Validity; Hans Wagemaker -- 3 Framework Development in International Large-Scale Assessment Studies; John Ainley and Wolfram Schulz -- 4 Assessment Content Development; Liz Twist and Julian Fraillon -- 5 Questionnaire Development in International Large-Scale Assessment Studies; Wolfram Schulz and Ralph Carstens -- 6 Translation: The Preparation of National Language Versions of Assessment Instruments; Paula Korsnakova, Steve Dept, and David Ebbs -- 7 Sampling, Weighting, and Variance Estimation; Sabine Meinck -- 8 Quality Control during Data Collection: Refining for Rigor; Lauren Musu, Sandra Dohr, and Andrea Netten -- 9 Post-collection Data Capture, Processing, and Scoring; Alena Becker -- 10 Technology and Assessment; Heiko Sibberns -- 11 Ensuring Validity in International Comparisons Using State-of-the-art Psychometric Methodologies; Matthias von Davier, Eugene Gonzalez, and Wolfram Schulz -- 12 Publishing and Dissemination; Seamus Hegarty and Sive Finlay -- 13 Consequential Validity: Data Access, Data Use, Analytical Support, and Training; Sabine Meinck, Eugene Gonzalez, and Hans Wagemaker -- 14 Using IEA Studies to Inform Policymaking and Program Development: The Case of Singapore; Hui Leng Ng, Chew Leng Poon, and Elizabeth Pang -- 15 Understanding the Policy Influence of International Large-Scale Assessments in Education; David Rutkowski, Greg Thompson, and Leslie Rutkowski.-.…”
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New Perspectives in Critical Data Studies The Ambivalences of Data Power /

Table of Contents: “…New Perspectives in Critical Data Studies: The Ambivalences of Data Power-An Introduction -- Part I Global Infrastructures and Local Invisibilities -- Data Power and Counter-power with Chinese Characteristics -- Transnational Networks of Influence: The Twitter Presence of the Quantified Self and Maker Movements' Organizational Elites -- The Power of Data Science Ontogeny: Thick Data Studies on the Indian IT Skill Tutoring Microcosm -- Fighting the "System": A Pilot Project on the Opacity of Algorithms in Political Communication -- Indigenous Peoples, Data, and the Coloniality of Surveillance -- Part II State and Data Justice -- The Datafied Welfare State: A Perspective from the UK -- The Value Dynamics of Data Capitalism: Cultural Production and Consumption in a Datafied World -- Mapping Data Justice as a Multidimensional Concept Through Feminist and Legal Perspectives -- Reconfiguring Education Through Data: How Data Practices Reconfigure Teacher Professionalism and Curriculum -- Public Values and Technological Change: Mapping how Municipalities Grapple with Data Ethics -- Welfare Data Society? …”
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Global Perspectives of COVID-19 Pandemic on Health, Education, and Role of Media

Table of Contents: “…Impact of COVID on adolescents, nodal teachers and front-line workers -- 12. The disparate impact of COVID-19 on higher education in India -- 13. …”
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The Centrality of Style by Duncan, Mike, M. Vanguri, Star

Table of Contents: “…Paul's Grammar School and Today's Stylistic Classroom, Tom Pace -- The Research Paper As Stylistic Exercise, Mike Duncan -- Part Two: Applying Style -- Introduction to Part Two: Applying Style, Mike Duncan & Star Medzerian Vanguri -- Style in Academic Writing, Nora Bacon -- Tracking Interpersonal Style: The Use of Functional Language Analysis in College Writing Instruction, Zak Lancaster -- Multimodal Style and the Evolution of Digital Writing Pedagogy, Moe Folk -- Voice, Transformed: The Potentialities of Style Pedagogy in the Teaching of Creative Nonfiction, Crystal Fodrey -- Fighting Styles: The Pedagogical Implications of Applying Contemporary Rhetorical Theory to the Persuasive Prose of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Hays, Luke Redington -- Style and the Professional Writing Curriculum: Teaching Stylistic Fluency through Science Writing, Jonathan Buehl -- Toward a Pedagogy of Psychic Distance, Erik Ellis -- What Scoring Rubrics Teach Students (and Teachers) about Style, Star Medzerian Vanguri…”
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Insurance Distribution Directive A Legal Analysis /

Table of Contents: “…The Insurance Distribution Directive as a "Benchmark" for National Legislators: The Notion of "Employee" in the IDD: A Harmonized Interpretation Based on the EU Law by Anna Tarasiuk and Bartosz Wojno -- Ensuring the Customer's Best Interest in the Polish Insurance Market by Wojciech Paś -- Insurance Distribution Carried Out by Insurers in Spain by Javier Vercher-Moll -- Enaction of Chapter VII of the Insurance Distribution Directive - What Can Member States Learn from the Enforcement Failures of the United States? …”
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AI in Learning: Designing the Future

Table of Contents: “…1.Introduction to AI in Learning - Designing the Future -- Part I: AI expanding learning and wellbeing throughout life -- 2.Artificial Intelligence Innovations for Multimodal Learning, Interfaces, and Analytics -- 3.Curiosity and Interactive Learning in Artificial Systems -- 4.Assessing and Tracking Students' Wellbeing through an Automated Scoring System: Schoolday Wellbeing Model -- 5.Learning from Intelligent Social Agents as Social and Intellectual Mirrors -- 6.An AI-Powered Teacher Assistant for Student Problem Behavior Diagnosis -- 7.Analysis and Improvement of Classroom Teaching Based on Artificial Intelligence -- Part II. …”
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Surveying Human Vulnerabilities across the Life Course

Table of Contents: “…Sources of bias and ways around them:Isabel Baumann, Oliver Lipps, Daniel Oesch, Caroline Vandenplas -- Using Life History Calendars to Survey Vulnerability: Davide Morselli, Nora Dasoki, Rainer Gabriel, Jacques-Antoine Gauthier, Julia Henke, Jean-Marie LeGoff -- Data collection through a social network: First impressions: Véronique Eicher, Mouna Bakouri, Christian Staerklé, Marlene Carvalhosa Barbosa, Alain Clémence -- Attrition in the Swiss Household Panel: are vulnerable groups more affected than others: Martina Rothenbühler, Marieke Voorpostel.…”
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Electromechanobiology of Cartilage and Osteoarthritis A Tribute to Alan Grodzinsky on his 75th Birthday /

Table of Contents: “…Mechanical Articular Cartilage Injury Models and Their Relevance in Advancing Therapeutic Strategies (Bodo Kurz, Melanie L Hart, Bernd Rolauffs) -- Chapter 9. Hip Osteoarthritis: Bench to Bedside Perspective (Young-Jo Kim) -- Chapter 10. …”
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Schools and Society During the COVID-19 Pandemic How Education Systems Changed and the Road Ahead /

Table of Contents: “…Understanding potential causes of learning loss in Mexico: Teachers´ perceptions regarding educational challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic (SergioCárdenas, Ignacio Ruelas, and Edson Sánchez) -- Chapter 7. …”
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Powering a Learning Society During an Age of Disruption

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Overview of Challenges and Characteristics of Learning Societies in an Age of Disruption -- Part 1: Developing Learn-Ability in an Age of Disruption and The Learning Crisis -- Chapter 2: Addressing the Syndrome of the Learning Deficit - Basic Skills and 21st Century Skills -- Chapter 3: Towards a New Global Compact on Student Learning Assessment -- Chapter 4: Title to be decided -- Chapter 5: Approaches to Improving Teacher Quality and Effectiveness - What Works and What Does Not? …”
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Foundations of Robotics A Multidisciplinary Approach with Python and ROS /

Table of Contents: “…Multi-robot systems: bio-inspired concepts and deployment challenges (Vivek Shankar Varadharajan and Giovanni Beltrame) -- Chapter 12 - The Embedded design process: CAD/CAM and prototyping (Eddi Pianca) -- PART III: Interaction Design -- Chapter 13 - Social robots: Principles of interaction design and user studies (Janie Busby Grant & Damith Herath) -- Chapter 14 - Safety first: On the safe deployment of robotic systems (Bruno Belzile and David St-Onge) -- Chapter 15 - Managing the world complexity: from linear regression to deep learning (Yann Bouteiller) -- Chapter 16 - Robot ethics: Ethical design considerations (Dylan Cawthorne) -- Chapter 17 - Robot Hexapod Build Labs (David Hinwood and Damith Herath) -- Chapter 18 - ROS Mobile Manipulator labs (David St-Onge, Corentin Boucher and Bruno Belzile).…”
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Buildings for Education A Multidisciplinary Overview of The Design of School Buildings /

Table of Contents: “…Inveruno New School -- Field of education and "corpus socialis" -- Space-Places and the Third Teacher. The Issue of Architectural Space in the Age of Knowledge Cities and Schools 3.0 -- PART 3: MANAGEMENT, TRANSFORMATION AND ENHANCEMENT OF THE BUILT HERITAGE, The school building surveying: a support tool for School Building Registry Office -- Extension for the Accademia di Brera at the Farini Marshalling Yard in Milan. …”
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Green-blue space exposure changes and impact on individual-level well-being and mental health: a population-wide dynamic longitudinal panel study with linked survey data by Rebecca S Geary, Daniel A Thompson, Joanne K Garrett, Amy Mizen, Francis M Rowney, Jiao Song, Mathew P White, Rebecca Lovell, Alan Watkins, Ronan A Lyons, Susan Williams, Gareth Stratton, Ashley Akbari, Sarah C Parker, Mark J Nieuwenhuijsen, James White, Benedict W Wheeler, Richard Fry, Dialechti Tsimpida, Sarah E Rodgers

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Conceptualizing Environmental Citizenship for 21st Century Education

Table of Contents: “…Hadjichambis, Daphne Goldman, Demetra Paraskeva-Hadjichambi, Per Sund, Louise Sund, Niklas Gericke, Daniela Conti -- PART IV: Environmental Citizenship in Educational Levels -- Environmental Citizenship in Primary Formal Education; Jan Čincera, Marta Romero-Ariza, Mirjana Zabic, Marianna Kalaitzidaki, María del Consuelo Díez-Bedmar -- Environmental Citizenship in the Context of Primary Non-Formal Education; Jelle Boeve-de Pauw, Rares Halbac-Zamfir -- Environmental Citizenship in Secondary Formal Education - The importance of curriculum and subject teachers; Niklas Gericke, Lihong Huang, Marie-Christine Knippels, Andri Christodoulou, Frans van Dam, Slaven Gasparovic -- Educating for Environmental Citizenship in Non-Formal Frameworks for Secondary Level Youth; Demetra Paraskeva-Hadjichambi, Daphne Goldman, Andreas Ch. …”
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Mathematics Curriculum Reforms Around the World The 24th ICMI Study /

Table of Contents: “…: Berta Barquero, Britta Eyrich Jessen, Juan Ruiz-Hidalgo and Jennie Golding -- 14: Conclusion: Achieving Coherence and Relevance in Mathematics Curriculum Reforms: Some Guiding Principles: Will Morony -- Part IV: Theme C -Implementation of Reformed Mathematics Curricula Within and Across Different Contexts and Traditions -- 15: Introduction: Angel Ruiz -- 16: A First Exploration to Understand Mathematics Curricula Implementation: Results, Limitations and Successes: Angel Ruiz, Mogens Niss, Michèle Artigue, Yiming Cao and Enriqueta Reston -- 17: Towards a Model for Monitoring and Evaluating Curricular Reforms: Steve Thornton, Maitree Inprasitha, Angel Ruiz, Masami Isoda, Narumon Changsri and Kristen Tripet -- 18: Teachers, Resources, Assessment Practices: Role and Impact on the Curricular Implementation Process: Alf Coles, Luis Rodríguez-Muñiz, Ida Ah Chee Mok, Angel Ruiz, Ronnie Karsenty, Francesca Martignone, Iman Osta, Federica Ferretti and Thi Tan An Nguyen -- 19: Conclusion: 'Laws' of Curriculum Implementation and the Future in which We Are Living: Angel Ruiz -- Part V: Theme D - Globalisation and Internationalisation and their Impacts on Mathematics Curriculum Reforms -- 20: Introduction: Max Stephens, Djordje Kadijevich, Mogens Niss, Nadia Azrou and Yukihiko Namikawa -- 21: The Evolution and Uptake of Numeracy and Mathematical Literacy as Drivers for Curriculum Reform: Merrilyn Goos and Kathy O'Sullivan -- 22: Impacts of TIMSS and PISA on Mathematics Curriculum Reforms: Djordje Kadijevich, Max Stephens, Armando Solares-Rojas and Raisa Guberman -- 23: Emergence of Computational/Algorithmic Thinking and its Impact on the Mathematics Curriculum: Djordje Kadijevich, Max Stephens and Abolfazl Rafiepour -- 24: Conclusion: Future Visions of the Impact of Internationalisation and Globalisation on School Mathematics Curriculum: Max Stephens, Merrilyn Goos and Djordje Kadijevich -- Part VI: Theme E - Agents and Processes of Curriculum Design, Development and Reforms in School Mathematics: 25: Introduction: Ellen Jameson, Peter Sullivan and Ferdinando Arzarello -- 26: Case Studies in Agents andProcesses of Mathematics Curriculum Development and Reform: Iman Osta, Fidel Oteiza, Peter Sullivan and John Volmink -- 27: Modelling Curriculum Reforms: A System of Agents, Processes and Objects: Ellen Jameson and Janette Bobis -- 28: Boundary in Curriculum Reform: Alon Pinto and Jason Cooper -- 29: Teacher Professional Identity and Curriculum Reform: Stephen Quirke, Lorena Espinoza and Gérard Sensevy -- 30: Conclusion: Implications for Active Curriculum Reform Work and Future Research: Ellen Jameson, Peter Sullivan and Ferdinando Arzarello -- Part VII: International Perspectives and Influences on School Mathematics Curriculum Reforms: 31: Introduction: Yoshinori Shimizu and Renuka Vithal -- 32: OECD Learning Compass 2030: Implications for Mathematics Curricula: Miho Taguma, Kelly Makowiecki and Florence Gabriel -- 33: Making Sense of Mathematics and Making Mathematics Make Sense: William McCallum -- 34: School Mathematics Curriculum Reforms: Insights and Reflections: Berinderjeet Kaur -- Part VIII: Commentaries on ICMI Study 24: 35: Introduction: Renuka Vithal and Yoshinori Shimizu -- 36: Language of Teaching and Learning and School Mathematics Curriculum Reform: Tensions in Equity and Access: Anjum Halai -- 37: A Cultural-Political Reading of School Mathematics Curriculum Reform: Paola Valero -- Part IX: Conclusion to ICMI Study 24: 38: Key Messages and Lessons from Mathematics Curriculum Reforms around the World: Renuka Vithal and Yoshinori Shimizu -- Afterword: Jill Adler -- Subject Index / Author Index.…”
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Non-affirmative Theory of Education and Bildung

Table of Contents: “…On affirmativity and non-affirmativity in the context of theories of education and 'Bildung' (Dietrich Benner) -- Part II. Non-affirmative interpretations of Didaktik -- Chapter 3. …”
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