New Perspectives on Learning and Instruction
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By Natallia Bahdanovich Hanssen, Sven-Erik Hansén, Kristina Ström
March 01, 2021
The concepts of inclusion and inclusive education for children with special education needs (SEN) have been widely accepted as imperative undertakings in the education spectrum. This book posits the practice of these ideas by scrutinizing the methodologies adopted by varied nations of the two ...
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By Åsa Mäkitalo, Todd E. Nicewonger, Mark Elam
June 25, 2019
Designs for Experimentation and Inquiry examines how digital media is reconfiguring the established worlds of research, education and professional practice. It reflects on the theoretical, methodological and ethical issues shaping contemporary engagements with digital learning and offers insights ...
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By Gerhard Messmann, Mien Segers, Filip Dochy
January 24, 2018
Informal Learning at Work reflects the growing interest in changing the way the workplace encourages and enhances learning and professional development. Due to societal, economic, and technological developments, organisations face the pressure of growing knowledge-intensity and the need for ...
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By Eva Kyndt, Vincent Donche, Keith Trigwell, Sari Lindblom-Ylänne
May 09, 2017
In the current era where lifelong learning is brought to the fore, higher education can no longer be regarded as an isolated trajectory within one’s educational career as many students face substantial challenges in crafting their professional future. More specifically, the transition from school ...
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By Divya Jindal-Snape, Bart Rienties
February 03, 2016
International students experience multiple and multi-dimensional educational and life transitions: moving to a new country, moving to a new educational system and moving to higher educational degree programmes. Within these transitions, they experience differences in the social and organisational ...
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By David Gijbels, Vincent Donche, John T. E. Richardson, Jan D. Vermunt
August 09, 2013
Learning Patterns in Higher Education brings together a cutting edge international team of contributors to critically review our current understanding of how students and adults learn, how differences and changes in the way students learn can be measured in a valid and reliable way, and how the ...
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By Michael Baker, Jerry Andriessen, Sanna Järvelä
January 28, 2013
In the twenty-first century, being able to collaborate effectively is important at all ages, in everyday life, education and work, within and across diverse cultural settings. People are increasingly linked by networks that are not only means for working and learning together, but are also ways of ...
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By Simone Volet, Marja Vauras
December 05, 2012
Interpersonal Regulation of Learning and Motivation is the first book in the field to focus on major methodological advances in research on interpersonal regulation of learning and motivation. Interest in developing ways of capturing the dynamics of interpersonal regulation in real-life learning ...
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By Sten Ludvigsen, Andreas Lund, Ingvill Rasmussen, Roger Säljö
September 20, 2010
The ever evolving, technology-intensive nature of the twenty-first century workplace has caused an acceleration in the division of labour, whereby work practices are becoming highly specialised and learning and the communication of knowledge is in a constant state of flux. This poses a ...
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By Lieven Verschaffel, Erik de Corte, Ton de Jong, Jan Elen
July 28, 2010
Within an increasingly multimedia focused society, the use of external representations in learning, teaching and communication has increased dramatically. Whether in the classroom, university or workplace, there is a growing requirement to use and interpret a large variety of external ...
By Robert McCormick, Alison Fox, Patrick Carmichael, Richard Procter
June 21, 2010
In the twenty-first century, what could be more important than networks? Such is the power of their influence and attendant technologies that it is unsurprising that our thinking about networks is permeated with images and metaphors from electronic networks. This orientation may equally influence ...
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By Clare Wood, Vincent Connelly
July 17, 2009
With contributions from leading international researchers, Contemporary Perspectives on Reading and Spelling offers a critique of current thinking on the research literature into reading, reading comprehension and writing. Each paper in this volume provides an account of empirical research that ...