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Theorising Personalised Education

Electronically Mediated Higher Education

By: Barbara Garrick,Donna Pendergast,David Geelan

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Theorising Personalised Education

Electronically Mediated Higher Education

By: Barbara Garrick,Donna Pendergast,David Geelan

This book examines the theoretical underpinning of the concept of personalised education and explores the question: What is personalised education in the contemporary higher education sector and how is it implemented? A broad, sophisticated definition of personalised learning has the potential to serve as a basis for more effective educational practices. The term ‘personalised education’ is, and continues to be, one with a variety of definitions. The authors’ definition both incorporates earlier concepts of personalised education and critically reassesses them. The book then adds a further dimension: personalised instruction in electronically mediated environments, where the goal is to achieve learning towards mastery individually with the help of differentiated and individualised electronic learning platforms. This book assesses the various arguments concerning personalised education, examining each through the lens of educational theory and pedagogy and subsequently positing a number of qualitative characteristics of personalised education that have the potential to influence policy and practices in the higher education sector.

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Springer

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9811027005

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9789811027000

Undead Theories

Constructivism, Eclecticism and Research in Education

By: David Geelan

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Undead Theories

Constructivism, Eclecticism and Research in Education

By: David Geelan

Theory is dead. . . long live theory! In this collection of linked essays, David Geelan explores the contentious relationship between theory and research in education. The first chapter proclaims the 'death of theory' in educational research, but the remainder of the book explores a number of the ways in which theory survives and thrives. A commitment to conducting educational research that directly serves students and teachers, and that changes the life in classrooms through negotiation and collaboration, not through prescription, requires new tools and new ways of using them. Such tools include narrative modes of conducting and representing research as well as a 'disciplined eclecticism' that emphasises choosing and using competing theories in intentional ways. Metaphorical descriptions from the philosophy of science - particularly Kuhn and Popper - have been influential in science education. David explores the value of such perspectives, and argues that although they have offered important insights for science education, their use has also 'forced other perspectives into blindness’. In the contexts of research methodology, educational philosophy, science education and educational technology, David talks about new 'places to stand and ways to look' but, more importantly, gives specific examples of the ways in which these methodological tools and philosophical perspectives have been used in his own teaching and research practices.

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9087903642

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9789087903640

Beyond Left & Right

Insurgency and the Establishment

By: David A. Horowitz

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Beyond Left & Right

Insurgency and the Establishment

By: David A. Horowitz

As a study of modern American political culture, Beyond Left and Right gets high marks. This is an extremely readable book. It should quickly become a basic source, especially beneficial to scholars who are researching modern American political history. Lay readers with an interest in American politics should find it informative and accessible. Horowitz explains his ideas in clear direct prose, free of jargon." -- LeRoy Ashby, author of William Jennings Bryan: Champion of Democracy Beyond Left and Right is a sweeping overview of political insurgency in the United States from the 1880s to the present. It is at once a stunning synthesis, drawing on a large number of scholarly works, and an ambitious and original piece of research. The book ranges over diverse individuals and groups that have attacked the established order, from the left and the right, from the Populists of the 1890s to Ross Perot and the religious right of our times, dealing along the way with non-interventionists, Klans, monetary radicals, McCarthyites, Birchers, and Reaganites, among many others.

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476

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University of Illinois Press

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0252065689

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9780252065682

Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence in Your Enterprise

A Step-by-Step Guide

By: David S. Linthicum

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Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence in Your Enterprise

A Step-by-Step Guide

By: David S. Linthicum

Massive, disruptive change is coming to IT as software as a service (SaaS), SOA, mashups, Web 2.0, and cloud computing truly come of age. Now, one of the world’s leading IT innovators explains what it all means—coherently, thoroughly, and authoritatively. Writing for IT executives, architects, and developers alike, world-renowned expert David S. Linthicum explains why the days of managing IT organizations as private fortresses will rapidly disappear as IT inevitably becomes a global community. He demonstrates how to run IT when critical elements of customer, product, and business data and processes extend far beyond the firewall—and how to use all that information to deliver real-time answers about everything from an individual customer’s credit to the location of a specific cargo container. Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence in Your Enterprise offers a clear-eyed assessment of the challenges associated with this new world—and offers a step-by-step program for getting there with maximum return on investment and minimum risk. Using multiple examples, Linthicum Reviews the powerful cost, value, and risk-related drivers behind the move to cloud computing—and explains why the shift will accelerate Explains the technical underpinnings, supporting technologies, and best-practice methods you’ll need to make the transition Helps you objectively assess the promise of cloud computing and SOA for your organization, quantify value, and make the business case Walks you through evaluating your existing IT infrastructure and finding your most cost-effective, safest path to the “cloud” Shows how to choose the right candidate data, services, and processes for your cloud computing initiatives Guides you through building disruptive infrastructure and next-generation process platforms Helps you bring effective, high-value governance to the clouds If you’re ready to begin driving real competitive advantage from cloud computing, this book is the start-to-finish roadmap you need to make it happen.

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Pearson Education

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0321670930

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9780321670939

A Mind for Tomorrow

Facts, Values, and the Future

By: Erika Erdmann,David Stover

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A Mind for Tomorrow

Facts, Values, and the Future

By: Erika Erdmann,David Stover

Stover and Erdmann deal with the crises confronting today's world and argue that solutions will come not from new technology nor in retreating to an idealized agrarian past, but by overhauling the beliefs that structure society. They link the dilemmas facing civilization to a fundamental rift running through society—one between religion and the humanities, rooted in subjective experience, and science, which emphasizes objective knowledge. They suggest a promising way of closing this rift found in the work of Nobel Laureate and neuroscientist Roger W. Sperry. They examine Sperry's lifework, including his famous split- brain research and show how it led him to propose a theory of consciousness that challenged science's dismissal of subjective experience as irrelevant. By seeing consciousness as an emergent, causal property of brain function, Sperry reinstated subjective experience into the scientific worldview, laid the foundation for the cognitive revolution that has since swept through psychology, and created a means by which science can help create ethical systems better able to deal with today's challenges. Stover and Erdmann conclude by looking at ways in which others have built upon Sperry's ideas, and they hold out the hope that, with the creation of belief systems more compatible with science, a way out of humanity's current troubles may indeed be found. The result is an excursion through a world of exciting ideas, and a book sure to absorb anyone interested in the fate of our species—and how that fate might be influenced for the better. Students, researchers, scholars, and concerned citizens particularly interested in cognitive psychology, science and society, and futures studies will find the book intriguing.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313003750

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9780313003752

The Real Living Wage

Civil Regulation and the Employment Relationship

By: Edmund Heery,Deborah Hann,David Nash

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The Real Living Wage

Civil Regulation and the Employment Relationship

By: Edmund Heery,Deborah Hann,David Nash

The book examines the nature of the Real Living Wage as a body of civil regulation, the organizations behind the campaign and the methods they have used, the response of employers, including the motives and characteristics of businesses that have adopted the Living Wage. It also examines the responses of trade unions, which have included both cooperation and conflict, the role of public authorities, which have used a variety of non-statutory policy levers to encourage employers to adopt the Living Wage, and the outcomes of the campaign in terms of redistributive benefits for employees, economic benefits for adopting businesses, and wider social and institutional impacts. The book concludes by considering what the campaign tells us about the evolution of the employment system in the UK, noting that civil regulation and the institutions which create it have become important new system-elements.

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Oxford University Press

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019257213X

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9780192572134

Jazz Musicians, 1945 to the Present

By: David Dicaire

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Jazz Musicians, 1945 to the Present

By: David Dicaire

From its very beginnings, the nature of jazz has been to reinvent itself. As the musical genre evolved from its roots--blues, European music, Voodoo ceremonies, and brass bands that played at funerals, parades and celebrations--the sound reflected the tenor of the times, from the citified strains of the Roaring '20s to the Big Band swing of pre-World War II to the bop revolution that grew out of the minimalist sound the war forced upon the art form. That the music continued to develop and evolve is a tribute to the power and creativity of its musicians. Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Sarah Vaughan, Art Blakey, Dave Brubeck, Sun Ra, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Diana Krall, Archie Shepp, Chick Corea, Branford Marsalis, Larry Coryell, and Kenny Kirkland are just some of the jazz greats profiled here. The five major periods of jazz--the bop revolution, hard bop and cool jazz, the avant-garde, fusion, and contemporary--form the basis for the sections in this reference work, with a brief history of each period provided. The artists who were integral to the evolution of each period are then profiled. Each biographical entry focuses on the artist's life and his or her influence on jazz and on music as a whole. A complete discography for each musician is also provided.

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McFarland

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0786485574

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9780786485574

Implementing and Developing Cloud Computing Applications

By: David E. Y. Sarna

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Implementing and Developing Cloud Computing Applications

By: David E. Y. Sarna

From small start-ups to major corporations, companies of all sizes have embraced cloud computing for the scalability, reliability, and cost benefits it can provide. It has even been said that cloud computing may have a greater effect on our lives than the PC and dot-com revolutions combined.Filled with comparative charts and decision trees, Impleme

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CRC Press

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1439830835

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9781439830833

County Longford and Its People

An Index to the 1901 Census for County Longford

By: David Leahy

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County Longford and Its People

An Index to the 1901 Census for County Longford

By: David Leahy

An index to the census of 1901 for the entire county of Longford, indexing 10,000 householders and 7,000 other persons resident within these households. but whose names are different to the householder. Location of a family in the 1901 census can be very relevant to researchers of Longford families who left Ireland in the mid to late 19th Century. Attached is a map of the Townlands of Co. Longford, which is indexed within the book.

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Flyleaf Press

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0950846627

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9780950846620

Light, Freedom and Song

A Cultural History of Modern Irish Writing

By: David Pierce

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Light, Freedom and Song

A Cultural History of Modern Irish Writing

By: David Pierce

In this absorbing analysis of modern Irish writing, an acknowledged expert considers the hybrid character of modern Irish writing to show how language, culture, and history have been affected by the colonial encounter between Ireland and Britain. Examining the great themes of loss and struggle, David Pierce traces the impact on Irish writing of the Great Famine and cultural nationalism and considers the way the work of Ireland’s two leading writers, W. B.Yeats and James Joyce, complicate and elucidate our view of "the harp and the crown.” The book draws a contrast between the West of Ireland in the 1930s, when the new Irish State enjoyed its first full independent decade, and the North of Ireland in the 1980s, when the spectre of British imperialism threatened the stability of Ireland. Pierce then surveys contemporary Irish writing and reflects on the legacy of the colonial encounter and on the passage to a postmodern or postnationalist Ireland in the work of such crucial living writers as John Banville, Derek Mahon, and John McGahern.

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380

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Yale University Press

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0300109946

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9780300109948

Undead Theories

Constructivism, Eclecticism and Research in Education

By: David Geelan

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Undead Theories

Constructivism, Eclecticism and Research in Education

By: David Geelan

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Theorising Personalised Education

Electronically Mediated Higher Education

By: Barbara Garrick,Donna Pendergast,David Geelan

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Electronically Mediated Higher Education

By: Barbara Garrick,Donna Pendergast,David Geelan

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Springer

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Science Focus 2

By: Greg Rickard,Nici Burger,Warrick Clarke,David Geelan,Faye Jeffery,Kerry Whalley,Karin Johnstone,Carol Neville,Geoff Phillips,Peter Roberson,Cherine Spirou

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Science Focus 2

By: Greg Rickard,Nici Burger,Warrick Clarke,David Geelan,Faye Jeffery,Kerry Whalley,Karin Johnstone,Carol Neville,Geoff Phillips,Peter Roberson,Cherine Spirou

The Science Focus Second Edition is the complete science package for the teaching of the New South Wales Stage 4 and 5 Science Syllabus. The Science Focus Second Edition package retains the identified strengths of the highly successful First Edition and includes a number of new and exciting features, improvements and components. The student book includes: Chapter opening pages which include the key prescribed focus area for the chapter and a clear distinction between essential and additional content; Updated and revised content, photos, illustrations and 'science clip' boxes in a format that is easy to read and follow; Unit questions under headings that are structured in a hierarchical progression using Bloom's Revised Taxonomy; Additional questions which include research, creative writing, investigations and internet activities; Practical activities at the end of each unit allowing teachers to choose when to do practical work.; Student CD which contains an electronic version of the student book.

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Heinemann

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1442515252

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9781442515253

Science Ways 3

By: Greg Rickard,Rochelle Manners,David Geelan,Ann Manion

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Science Ways 3

By: Greg Rickard,Rochelle Manners,David Geelan,Ann Manion

Science Ways is an exciting three-level series designed for the teaching of Science for the new Queensland Essentials. The content covers the five strands of Science: Science as a Human Endeavour, Earth and beyond, Enegry and change, Life and living and Natural and processed materials. The Science in Society features engage students in the aspects of Science that influence their daily lives.Features: The innovative Teacher Edition is designed to support the novice and the experienced science teacher. The Teacher Edition includes: pages from the workbook with wrap-around teacher notes and outlines the learning standards covered by activities and section of the book. Included with the Teacher Edition is the Teacher Edition CD which includes: The student CD; Student book answers; Workbook answers; Chapter tests; Risk assessment and safety notes; Curriculum grid; Teaching programs that maps the package components.

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0733993036

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Theorising Personalised Education

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Undead Theories

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Beyond Left & Right

Beyond Left & Right

Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence in Your Enterprise

Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence in Your Enterprise

A Mind for Tomorrow

A Mind for Tomorrow

The Real Living Wage

The Real Living Wage

Jazz Musicians, 1945 to the Present

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Implementing and Developing Cloud Computing Applications

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County Longford and Its People

County Longford and Its People

Light, Freedom and Song

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Undead Theories

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Theorising Personalised Education

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Science Focus 2

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