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By situating teacher education policy within a larger philosophical framework regarding the relationship between the state and conceptions of the "common good," this book analyzes the ideological and political desires of the state---how the state understands the common good, the future of national identity, and to what end schooling is imagined.

This book investigates public claims for the protection of weak groups and interests in Japan and China from the nineteenth century to the present day. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it engages with ongoing global debates whilst also providing an historically informed analysis of contemporary issues.

This book describes visual perception and control methods for robotic systems that need to interact with the environment.

Learning Engineering for Online Education is a comprehensive overview of the emerging field of learning engineering, a form of educational optimization driven by analytics, design-based research, and fast-paced, large-scale experimentation.

This book argues that a key means of ensuring appropriate participation in decision-making about water management is for such participation to be legislatively mandated. To this end, the book draws on case studies in order to elaborate the legislative tools necessary to ensure Indigenous participation in the water management landscape.

Aurel Kolnai's The War against the West remains one of the most insightful analyses of Nazi thought ever written. In this edited collection published 80 years after the original book, a team of distinguished scholars reassess this classic text and also consider its continued relevance to contemporary politics.

What are the institutional politics associated with fostering trans* inclusive policies? When formalizing a policy, what unanticipated challenges may emerge? How are students, particularly trans* students, influenced by the implementation of gender-inclusive housing practices and policies? This volume discusses these issues.

There seems to be much confusion surrounding guided reading - the term even means something different from school to school. Now you can turn to the experience of authors Jan Burkins and Melody Croft to prevent guided reading from going astray. Jan and Melody present personal clarifications, adaptations, and supports that have helped them work through their own tricky parts as they guide readers.

Most teachers enter the field of education to make a difference in children's lives. But many end up, as author Lisa Lucas puts it, ""tired, wired, and running in circles."" Practicing Presence is filled with ideas, exercises, checklists, personal anecdotes, and practices you can use to reframe and establish a mindset that will enhance your focus and engagement in the classroom.

Building on more than 800 interviews with high school graduates, Martha Rush offers up strategies in all subject areas for active engagement, moving way beyond traditional passive memorization of information. She describes how to create innovative experiences in your classroom, and shares her own lessons and her students' work.

Difficult Subjects: Insights and Strategies for Teaching about Race, Sexuality and Gender is a collection of essays from scholars across disciplines, institutions, and ranks that offers diverse and multi-faceted approaches to teaching about subjects that prove both challenging and often uncomfortable for both the professor and the student.

Difficult Subjects: Insights and Strategies for Teaching about Race, Sexuality and Gender is a collection of essays from scholars across disciplines, institutions, and ranks that offers diverse and multi-faceted approaches to teaching about subjects that prove both challenging and often uncomfortable for both the professor and the student.

This is a course design book centred on the idea that the goal in the college classroom - in all classrooms, all the time - is to develop students who are not just loaded with content, but capable of using that content in thoughtful, deliberate ways to make the world a better place. Achieving this goal requires a top-to-bottom reconsideration of courses.

The book provides comprehensive, easy-to-understand, innovation management perspectives on a wide range of IPRs for practicing scientists and engineers. It will also help practicing scientists and engineers know how to strategically use them to create competitive advantage, wealth, and value.

This book explores legal issues that are encountered by Industrial Hygiene and Safety managers during their careers. The goal is to provide IH/S managers with sufficient knowledge to incorporate legal risk analysis into decision-making and policy development. This book will explore the legal issues that arise and is helpful to new IH/S managers.

The new fifth edition provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of IT governance, controls, auditing applications, systems development, and operations. It is aligned with and suppoing COBIT, filled with exercises, review questions, section summaries, and references for further reading.

The Handbook of ABC provides illuminating insight into the world of Bayesian modelling for intractable models for both experts and newcomers alike. It is an essential reference book for anyone interested in learning about and implementing ABC techniques to analyse complex models in the modern world.

This book reconstructs Hindu-Muslim relations from a European standpoint. Drawing from the Indian context, the author explores options for Western Europe ¿ a region grappling with the refugee crisis and populist reactions to growing Muslim minorities. Engaging and accessible, it speaks to a broad audience of concerned citizens and policy makers.

Bringing together both leading international scholars and emerging academic talent, Media Accountability in the Era of Post-Truth Politics maps the current state of media accountability in Europe and provides fresh perspectives for future developments in media and communication fields.

This book is an analytical account of how Ambedkar¿s socio-political ideas evolved as part of his wider politico-ideological challenge against self-motivated designs for exploitation of human beings by human beings.

This book provides the first academic survey of churches in London over recent decades, linking them to similar developments in other major cities across the West. The vitality of London¿s churches in the last four decades shows that secularisation is far from inevitable in the cities of the future.

This book gives a comprehensive view of the ongoing evolutions and multiple faces of silence as a common strand in the struggles of state-building. It explores histories of the composed silences of political violence across the emerging states of the late twentieth century, not solely as a present concern of aftermath or retrospection but as a diachronic social and political dimension of violence itself.

This is a must read and timely reference work for investigators who are interested in how spermatogenesis is currently understood and the most promising avenues for future research; an Introduction sets the context for the chapter and points out the relevance of the research for basic research scientists and clinicians.

Basic Introduction to Bioelectromagnetics, Third Edition, is a primary source for medical technologists and life scientists seeking to understand how electromagnetic fields interact with the body, and how they are used in medical applications. The third edition is updated with color graphics.

The SHES approach to sustainability education relies on complexity-based systems thinking that transcends disciplinary boundaries. This book provides a comprehensive guide to the SHES approach, including the rationale and theory behind it, its pedagogy and ways to support the approach through administration.