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  • Individuals, Essence and Identity

    Themes of Analytic Metaphysics

    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Andrea Bottani Massimiliano Carrara Pierdaniele Giaretta What do we do when we do metaphysics? The aim of this introduction is to give a provisional answer to this question, and then to explain the subtitle of the volume. It is easy to observe that when we do meta physics we engage in a linguistic activity, mainly consisting of uttering declarative sentences that are not very clear to most people. ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • In Pursuit of Equity in Education

    Using International Indicators to Compare Equity Policies

    Equity in education is a major policy concern everywhere. But there are significant differences among nations with respect to definitions and issues of equality and equity. While international comparison could help countries learn from each other, reliable tools for comparison are scarce.In this book an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars makes a compelling case for better ... Read more

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    Series series Education (R0)
    Through innovative analysis of theory and practice, this book offers refreshing critical perspectives on service-learning in higher education. It constructs a theoretical paradigm for service-learning which extends to critical pedagogy, and investigates critical reflection and academic reflective writing, supported throughout by empirical evidence. ... Read more

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  • Philosophical Devices: Proofs, Probabilities, Possibilities, and Sets

    Proofs, Probabilities, Possibilities, and Sets

    This book is designed to explain the technical ideas that are taken for granted in much contemporary philosophical writing. Notions like 'denumerability', 'modal scope distinction', 'Bayesian conditionalization', and 'logical completeness' are usually only elucidated deep within difficult specialist texts. By offering simple explanations that by-pass much irrelevant and boring detail, ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Executive Functioning

    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    Planning. Attention. Memory. Self-regulation. These and other core cognitive and behavioral operations of daily life comprise what we know as executive functioning (EF). But despite all we know, the concept has engendered multiple, often conflicting definitions and its components are sometimes loosely defined and poorly understood.The Handbook of Executive Functioning cuts through the confusion, ... Read more

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  • English Language Education and Assessment

    Recent Developments in Hong Kong and the Chinese Mainland

    Edited by David Coniam ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This volume gathers contributions in the closely linked fields of English language assessment and language education. The contributors from China and Hong Kong represent a mixture of established and new scholars. Areas covered in the language education section range across major developments in the redefining of Hong Kong’s secondary and tertiary curricula, as well as the huge field of China’s ... Read more

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  • Intercultural Studies of Curriculum

    Theory, Policy and Practice

    Series series Intercultural Studies in Education
    This book explores the philosophical, ideological and practical dimensions of curriculum using an intercultural lens. It is cross-cultural, comparative and inclusive, with each chapter featuring case studies from a minimum of three countries across different continents. By using the same methods of data collection and analysis for each country level in each chapter, the text explores relationships ... Read more

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  • Expressivism, Pragmatism and Representationalism

    Pragmatists have traditionally been enemies of representationalism but friends of naturalism, when naturalism is understood to pertain to human subjects, in the sense of Hume and Nietzsche. In this volume Huw Price presents his distinctive version of this traditional combination, as delivered in his René Descartes Lectures at Tilburg University in 2008. Price contrasts his view with other ... Read more

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  • School Leadership in the Context of Standards-Based Reform

    International Perspectives

    Edited by Louis Volante ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    “Although standards-based reform emerged in the United States and the United Kingdom, the idea has spread across the world, as an approach to systemic reform. It might appear that there is a world-wide “tsunami” of standards-based reform that will standardize and homogenize the educational system across the globe. This volume makes it very clear, however, that there is no one approach to standards ... Read more

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  • Changing Educational Landscapes

    Educational Policies, Schooling Systems and Higher Education - a comparative perspective

    Edited by Dimitris Mattheou ...
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    Analyzing educational landscapes – the fundamental values, principles and institutions of the sector – is a highly complex and demanding task for any researcher. Like shifting desert sands, these aspects of education are in a constant state of flux, changing according to the unpredictable economic, social, cultural and geo-political circumstances of late modernity. Key aspects of the intricate, ... Read more

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  • Mere Possibilities

    Metaphysical Foundations of Modal Semantics

    Series series Carl G. Hempel Lecture Series
    It seems reasonable to believe that there might have existed things other than those that in fact exist, or have existed. But how should we understand such claims? Standard semantic theories exploit the Leibnizian metaphor of a set of all possible worlds: a proposition might or must be true if it is true in some or all possible worlds. The actualist, who believes that nothing exists except what ... Read more

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  • Life in Schools and Classrooms

    Past, Present and Future

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    This book discusses key aspects of life in schools and classrooms, and surveys the changes that have occurred over the years in educational research, policy making and practice in these school and classroom settings. It not only examines cutting-edge research in these areas, but also showcases good practices in the field. Among the topics reviewed are recent developments in assessment, methods for ... Read more

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