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This book discusses how teaching and research have been weighted differently in academia in 18 countries and one region,…

The common factor, cognitive flexibility, lies at the core of effective functioning in complex, domain-specific…

The Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 2013 discusses current methodological debates on the synergy of Corpus…

This book provides a synopsis of recently published empirical research into the acquisition of reading and writing in…

A growing body of research has given critical attention to diverse theories and practices of environmental education, and…

The discipline of public administration and public policy is experiencing a renaissance of research in which explicit…

The breakneck speed of change in today's societies creates enormous challenges for educational institutions at all levels.…

How is linguistic theory related to linguistic practice?…

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This book offers a broad overview of the topic of the European enterprise: It ex- ines what the Europeanenterpriseis or…

Gendered Choices addresses issues of gendered learning in different contexts across the (adult) life span at the start of…

It is manifest in the revival of religious institutions and traditions in former communist countries, in political…

Studies project that if economic trends are not reversed in the coming years, China will surpass the US and become the…

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Global Values Education: Teaching Democracy and Peace , which is the seventh volume in the 12-volume book series…

Derrida and Phenomenology is a collection of essays by various authors, entirely devoted to Jacques Derrida's writing on…

Poetry of life in literature and through literature, and the vast territory in between - as vast as human life itself -…

Drawing on data generated by the EU's Interests and Recruitment in Science (IRIS) project, this volume examines the issue of…

This book compares Ethiopia with other African nations to discuss Ethiopia's demographic transition and development, which…

Chapter 4 moves away from Taiwan and looksat several issues of family growth and change in Hong Kong, noting the interesting…

The context in which globalisation and education is often linked is that of progression, progression realisable through…

From an analysis of international investigations of family and school influences, a context theory of students' school…

The papers in this volume explore various issues relating to theories of individual and collective choice, and theories of…

The action which follows upon an opinion depends as much upon the amount of confidence in that opinion as it does upon fav-…

This book, the seventeenth instalment in the 24-volume series Globalisation, Comparative Education and Policy Research,…

Such was the rationale for 'SOBELA': a 'Seminar on Biotechnol­ ogy in Europe and Latin America', which in April 1987 brought…

Before this one, however, Birjukov published another study on Frege: 'On Frege's Works on Philosophical Problems of Mathe­…

Iterative Design of TeachingLearning Sequences…

This book presents the latest research in the field of Political Economy, dealing with the integration of economics and…

Running contrary to much contemporary thought, this book argues that Aristotelian virtue ethics allows for at least some…

In the eighteenth century, enlig- enment philosophers such as Bentham (through utilitarianism) and Kant (through universal…

This book offers a theoretical examination of the process of imagining science in education, describing the opposing…

My studies on the "uncertain consumer" began with a research project c- ducted by the Dr. Rainer Wild-Stiftung - Foundation…

The capability approach of Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen places human capabilities at the centre stage of discussions…

From the leisure pursuits of the colonial middle class to the impact of the new urban rich on landscape of the countryside,…

A variety of psychological traditions and methodological approaches formed a body of human error research in different parts…

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Three important studies were initiated in the 19708 to investigate the relation­ ship between climatic variations and…

Robert Heeger has been professor of ethics at Utrecht University since 1977, both at the Faculty of Theology and at the…

How coherent is the claim that Catholic education is both distinctive and inclusive? This question, so crucial, both for the…

This monograph takes an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approach to 20th and 21st -century Canadian Daoist poetry,…

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This book presents ground-breaking theoretical and empirical knowledge to produce a fine-grained, comprehensive…

Country on the Move presents original research and a comprehensive multidisciplinary analysis of the spatial aspects of…

This volume is a work of philosophical thinking about ritual doing, but challenges those who think to realize that the…

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This volume is the result of years of commitment with world-wide sanitation challenges from various research networks…

Topical Themes in Argumentation Theory brings together twenty exploratory studies on important subjects of research in…

This bookanalyzes practical and moral influences on voting decisions. Voters' moral ideologies, itshows, combine with a…

A question often asked of those of us who work in the seemingly esoteric field of fish vision is, why? Secondly, if one of…

But the paradox is that if globalization facilitates terrorist violence, the fight against this war without borders is…

Advancing Social Studies Education through Self-Study Methodology provides a collection of works that highlights ways in…

This book presents accounts of the repositioning of higher education institutions across a range of contexts in the East and…