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National Reflections on the Netherlands Didactics of Mathematics Teaching and Learning in the Context of Realistic Mathematics Education /
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…Mathematics for teams - Developing thinking skills in mathematics education; Monica Wijers, Dédé de Haan -- 3. Task contexts in Dutch mathematics education; Pauline Vos -- 4. …”
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Teacher Education in the Nordic Region Challenges and Opportunities /
Published 2023Table of Contents: “…; Eyvind Elstad -- Part I: The evolution of teacher education in the North -- Chapter 1 An overture: A historical overview of political and cultural precursors of the Nordic school system and its variety of teacher education programmes; Eyvind Elstad -- Chapter 2 The evolution of the extended comprehensive school model and the modern profession-oriented teacher education after World War II; Eyvind Elstad -- Part II: Teacher education in Nordic countries and autonomous areas -- Chapter 3 The education of teachers in Sweden: An endeavour struggling with academic demands and professional relevance; Björn Åstrand -- Chapter 4 Tension patterns in Finnish teacher education - recruitment, reform and relevance; Sven-Erik Hansén, Jari Lavonen, Jan Sjöberg, Jessica Aspfors, Tom Wikman & Inger Eriksson -- Chapter 5 Teacher education in Norway; Kaare Skagen & Eyvind Elstad -- Chapter 6 Teacher education in Denmark; Lis Madsen & Elsebeth Jensen -- Chapter 7 Five-year teacher education for compulsory school in Iceland: Retreat from research-based to practice-oriented?…”
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The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout History
Published 2023Table of Contents: “….) -- 13: Slavery in the Mediterranean; Giulia Bonazza -- 14: Slavery in the Ottoman Empire; Hayri Gökşin Özkoray -- 15: Slavery in the Holy Roman Empire; Josef Köstlbauer -- 16: Slavery and Serfdom in Muscovy and the Russian Empire; Hans-Heinrich Nolte and Elena Smolarz -- 17: Slavery in Late Ming China; Claude Chevaleyre -- 18: Slavery in Chosŏn Korea; Sun Joo Kim -- 19: Slavery in the Indian Ocean World; Titas Chakraborty -- 20: Maritime Passages in the Indian Ocean Slave Trade; Pedro Machado -- 21: The Rise of Atlantic Slavery in the Americas; Michael Zeuske -- 22: Plantation Slavery in the British Caribbean; Trevor Burnard -- 23: Injection: Atlantic Slavery and Commodity Chains; Klaus Weber -- Part 4: Modern Societies (1800-1900 C.E.) -- 24: The Second Slavery in the Americas; Michael Zeuske -- 25: Slavery in the US South; Damian A. …”
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Quantifying Climate Risk and Building Resilience in the UK
Published 2024Table of Contents: “…-- Chapter 9 Improved understanding and characterisation of climate hazards in the UK -- Chapter 10 Future changes in indicators of climate hazard and resource in the UK -- Chapter 11 What has been learnedabout converting climate hazard data to climate risks information? …”
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Reimagining Science Education in the Anthropocene, Volume 2
Published 2024Table of Contents: “…-- Chapter 8 The Social Focus Framework: Antiracist and Anticolonial Conscientization, Consequence, and Presencing in Science Education -- Chapter 9 Breaking the Paradigm: Storying Climate Change -- Part III Politics and Political Reverberations -- Chapter 10 From False Generosity to True Generosity: Theorizing a Critical Imaginary for Science Education -- Chapter 11 Anti-racist Praxis in (Science and) Education -- Chapter 12 Science Education: From an Ideology of Greed to an Ideology of Thriving -- Chapter 13 Practices of Care with the Anthropocene: Scenes from the 2019 Nebraska Flood -- Part IV Science Education for a World Yet to Come -- Chapter 14 Science Fiction, Speculative Pedagogy, and Critical Hope: Counternarratives for/of the Future -- Chapter 15 Curriculum Beyond Apocalypse -- Chapter 16 Let's Root for Each Other and Grow: Interconnectedness (with)in Science Education -- Chapter 17 Perturbing Current Boundary Conditions in Discipline-Based and Science Education Research in the Anthropocene: Implications for Research and Teaching Communities -- Part V Complicated Conversations -- Chapter 18 In Conversation with SharonTodd: Rethinking the Future in a Time of Sorrow -- Chapter 19 In Conversation with Max Liboiron: Towards an Everyday, Anticolonial Feminist Science (Education) Practice -- Chapter 20 In Conversation with Isabelle Stengers: Ontological Politics in Catastrophic Times -- Chapter 21 In Conversation with Steven Khan: Sensible and Sense-able Qualitative Literacies for Multi-species Flourishing -- Conclusion Amplifying Science Education Research with(in) a Minor Key. .…”
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Migration and Environmental Change in Morocco In search for Linkages Between Migration Aspirations and (Perceived) Environmental Changes /
Published 2021Table of Contents: “…Environmental Change and Migration in Morocco: What Has Been Done So Far? (Lore Van Praag and Loubna Ou-Salah) -- Chapter 4. …”
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Studies in Global Animal Law
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…Animal Production, the Ambivalence of Humanizing the Inhumane, and What International Humanitarian Law Has to Do with It -- Part IV: New Protective Legal Strategies: Trophy Hunting, the Race to the Bottom, and the Law of Jurisdiction -- Protection of Animals Through Human Rights: The Case-Law of the European Court of Human Rights -- Challenges Regarding the Protection of Animals During Warfare.…”
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Sustainable Resource Development in the 21st Century Essays in Memory of Peter Berck /
Published 2023Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Part 1: Forestry -- Peter Berck's Contributions to Forestry Economics -- Integrated Management of Bark Beetles: Economic Contributions of Peter Berck and Foundational Entomological Research -- A Green Revolution in the Woods: The Potential of Eucalyptus Plantations -- Hedging with a Housing Starts Futures Contract -- Part 2: Agriculture and Fisheries -- The Future of Agriculture -- How Is Farm Income Affected When Each Farm Has to Produce Its Own Animal Feed? -- Estimating Agricultural Acreage Responses to Input Prices: Groundwater in California -- Fisheries Management Implications of Intrinsic Under-identification of Growth Equation Parameters -- Efficiency Controls and the Captured Fisheries Regulator -- Part 3: Conservation and Development -- Peter Berck's contribution to the Environment for Development Initiative -- Environmental Attitudes in Developing Countries -- Armed Conflict Increases Elephant Poaching -- Bioprospecting and Biodiversity Conservation: What Happens When Discoveries Are Made? …”
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Contemporary Perspectives on Ageism
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…Ageism-Concept and Origins: Liat Ayalon & Clemens Tesch-Römer -- Ageism: The Relationship between Age Stereotypes and Age Discrimination: Peggy Voss & Klaus Rothermund -- Multiple Marginalizations Based on Age: Gendered Ageism and Beyond: Clary Krekula, Pirjo Nikander, & Monika Wilińska -- Origins of Ageism at the Individual Level: Sagit Lev -- Work Environment and the Origin of Ageism: Laura Naegele, Wouter De Tavernier & Moritz Hess -- Ageism and Age Discrimination in the Labour Market: A Macrostructural Perspective: Justyna Stypińska & Pirjo Nikander -- On the Manifestations and Consequences of Ageism: Liat Ayalon & Clemens Tesch-Römer -- Ageism in the Third Age: Angela Kydd, Anne Fleming, Sue Gardner, Patricia Hafford Letchfield -- Pathways from Ageism to Loneliness: Sharon Shiovitz-Ezra, Jonathan Shemesh, & Mary McDonnell/Naughton -- Ageism and sexuality: Ateret Gewirtz-Meydan, Patricia Hafford-Letchfield, Yael Benyamini, Amanda Phelan, Jeannie Jackson & Liat Ayalon -- Visual Ageism in the Media: Eugène Loos & Loredana Ivan -- Ageism and Older Immigrants: Pnina Dolberg, Sigurveig, Sigurðardóttir, & Ursula Trummer -- Ageism in the Health Care System: Providers, Patients, and Systems: Mary F. …”
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25 Years of Transformations of Higher Education Systems in Post-Soviet Countries Reform and Continuity /
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…Latvia: A Historical Analysis of Transformation and Diversification of Higher Education System; Ali Ait Si Mhamed, Zane Vārpiņa, Indra Dedze & Rita Kaša -- Chapter 11. Lithuanian Higher Education: Between Path-Dependency and Change; Liudvika Leisyte, Anna-Lena Rose & Elena Schimmelpfennig -- Chapter 12. …”
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Skills Development for Inclusive and Sustainable Growth in Developing Asia-Pacific
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…, Margarita Pavlova and Rupert Maclean -- Education, Employability Employment and Entrepreneurship; Meeting the Challenge of the 4Es, Manish Sabharwal -- Coping with Rural Transformation and the Movement of Workers from Rural Areas to Cities: the China Sunshine Project, Li Wang and Greg Shaw -- TVET and ICT Acquisition Process, Tapio Varis -- From TVET to Workforce Development, Robin Shreeve, Jennifer Gibb and Shayla Ribeiro -- Qualifications, skills and workforce effectiveness: the relevance of the OECD's Survey of Adult Skills to Asia, William Thorn and Andreas Schleicher -- Skills Development Pathways in Asia, Cristina Martinez-Fernandez and Kyungsoo Choi -- Private Public Partnership to meet the skills challenges in India, Dilip Chenoy -- Skill training and workforce development with reference to underemployment and migration, Brajesh Panth -- Rural Transformation Index - Measuring Rural-Urban Disparities, Li Wang, Qutub Khan and Dian Zhang -- Retire or Rehire: Learning from the Singapore Story, James Yonghwee Lim -- PART 3: TVET AND THE GREENING OF ECONOMIES -- Skills for a Green Economy: Practice, Possibilities and Prospects, John Fien and Jose Roberto Guevara -- Education and Skills in Asia - Responding to Greening Economies, Shanti Jagannathan -- Redesigning of Curriculum and Training for Skills for Green Jobs in Korea, Namchul Lee -- Hong Kong Employers' Perspectives on a Carbon Constrained Economy and How Technical and Vocational Education and Training Should Respond, Rupert Maclean, Eric Tsang and John Fien -- Advancing employability and green skills development: Values education in TVET in China, Margarita Pavlova and Chun Lin Huang -- Schooling's Contribution to a Sustainable Future in Asia: Can Schools Develop 'Green' Citizens?…”
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The Economics of Big Science Essays by Leading Scientists and Policymakers /
Published 2021Table of Contents: “…A Philosopher's Perspective -- Investing in Fundamental Research: Evaluation of the Benefits that the UK Has Derived from CERN -- Fundamental Science Drives Innovation -- Epilogue: Productive Collisions-Blue-Sky Science and Today's Innovations.…”
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Exploring Resilience A Scientific Journey from Practice to Theory /
Published 2019Table of Contents: “…Dang -- Precursor resilience in practice - an organizational response to weak signals, by Kenneth Pettersen Gould -- Leadership in resilient organizations, by Gudela Grote -- Modelling the influence of safety management tools on resilience, by Teemu Reiman and Kaupo Viitanen -- Resilient characteristics as described in empirical studies on health Care, by Siv Hilde Berg and Karina Aase -- Resilience from the UnitedNations Standpoint: The Challenges of "Vagueness", by Leah R. …”
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West African Youth Challenges and Opportunity Pathways
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…"To become somebody in the future": Exploring the Content of Youth Aspirations in Urban Nigeria; Dabesaki Mac-Ikemenjima -- 6. Someone has to tell these children: You can be as good as anybody!…”
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Social Development in the World Bank Essays in Honor of Michael M. Cernea /
Published 2021Table of Contents: “…Growing Social Science Demand at the World Bank -- The Important Contribution of Social Knowledge to International Development -- The Road to Achieving Critical Mass of Sociologists and Anthropologists in the World Bank -- Address to the World Bank Sociological Group -- Working Together: Broadening the World Bank's Development Paradigm -- Social Analysis in the World Bank -- Resettlement, Impoverishment, and Development's Pathologies -- The Direct and Major Operational Relevance of Social Assessments -- Writing New Rules and Changing Old Practices -- Social Development Work - Live -- Malinowski Award Lecture 1996 Social Organization and Development Anthropology -- Anthropology at Work -- Social Development (excerpts from her 2004 Oral History) -- Putting People First in Practice: Indonesia and the Kecamatan Development Program -- The World Bank and Indigenous Peoples -- The Need for Social Research and the Broadening of CGIAR's Paradigm -- Fighting Poverty, Combatting Social Exclusion -- Involuntary Resettlement -- The Risk and Reconstruction Model for Resettling Displaced Populations -- Muddy Waters: Inside The World Bank As It Struggled With The Narmada Irrigation And Resettlement Projects, Western India -- Performance in Resettlement -- From Onlookers to Participants: How the Role of Social Scientists has Changed in India's Development in the last Seventy Years -- Social Assessment and Resettlement Policies and Practice in China: Contributions by Michael Cernea to Development in China -- Retrospective & Outlook -- A Retrospective: MICHAEL M. …”
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Values for a Post-Pandemic Future
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1:Values for a Post-Pandemic Future -- Part I: Learning from COVID-19 -- Chapter 2: COVID-19 and Changing Values -- Chapter 3: What Has COVID-19 Taught Us About Democracy? Relational Democracy and Digital Surveillance Technologies -- Chapter 4: Contact Tracing Apps for the COVID-19 Pandemic: a Responsible Innovation Perspective -- Chapter 5: Uncertainty, Vaccination, and the Duties of Liberal States -- Chapter 6: Conspiracism as a Litmus Test for Responsible -- Chapter 7: Confronting Ableism in a Post-COVID World: Designing for World-Familiarity Through Acts of Defamiliarization Innovation -- Chapter 8: Values as hypotheses and messy institutions: What ethicists can learn from the COVID-19 crisis -- Part II: Envisioning a Post-Pandemic Future -- Chapter 9: Offsetting Present Risks, Preempting Future Harms, and The Ethics of a 'New Normal' -- Chapter 10: Designing in Times of Uncertainty: what virtue ethics can bring to engineering ethics in the 21st century -- Chapter 11: "Understanding Risks and Moral Emotions in the context of COVID-19 Policy making: the case of the Netherlands" -- Chapter 12: How to balance individual and collective values after COVID-19? …”
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Digital Kenya An Entrepreneurial Revolution in the Making /
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…-- PART IV MANAGING THE FINE DETAILS OF DOING BUSINESS IN KENYA -- Chapter 11 Inside a Policy Maker's Mind: An Entrepreneurial Approach to Policy Development and Implementation (Bitange Ndemo) -- Conversation 11 with Ory Okolloh: Why Policy matters for Entrepreneurs -- Chapter 12 The Art of Managing World Views in Kenya's International Technology Sector (Tim Weiss & Klaus Weber) -- Conversation 12 with Ken Njoroge of Cellulant: How to Be a Rebel and Build a Business at the Same Time -- Chapter 13 Developing Strategies to Harness the Power of Parallel Entrepreneurship (Eskor John) -- Conversation 13 with Mikul Shah & Ritesh Doshi of Naked Pizza: The Hustling Entrepreneur on Trial -- Chapter 14 Venture Capital in East Africa: Is There a Right Model? …”
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