Author: Gordon Wells
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470752084
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
United by the belief that the most significant factor in shaping the minds of young people is the cultural setting in which learning takes place, the twenty eminent contributors to this volume present new thinking on education across the boundaries of school, home, work and community.
Learning for Life in the 21st Century
Author: Gordon Wells
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470752084
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
United by the belief that the most significant factor in shaping the minds of young people is the cultural setting in which learning takes place, the twenty eminent contributors to this volume present new thinking on education across the boundaries of school, home, work and community.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470752084
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
United by the belief that the most significant factor in shaping the minds of young people is the cultural setting in which learning takes place, the twenty eminent contributors to this volume present new thinking on education across the boundaries of school, home, work and community.
Handbook of Individual Differences in Reading
Author: Peter Afflerbach
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135120935
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
The central unifying theme of this state-of-the-art contribution to research on literacy is its rethinking and reconceptualization of individual differences in reading. Previous research, focused on cognitive components of reading, signaled the need for ongoing work to identify relevant individual differences in reading, to determine the relationship(s) of individual differences to reading development, and to account for interactions among individual differences. Addressing developments in each of these areas, this volume also describes affective individual differences, and the environments in which individual differences in reading may emerge, operate, interact, and change. The scant comprehensive accounting of individual differences in reading is reflected in the nature of reading instruction programs today, the outcomes that are expected from successful teaching and learning, and the manner in which reading development is assessed. An important contribution of this volume is to provide prima facie evidence of the benefits of broad conceptualization of the ways in which readers differ. The Handbook of Individual Differences in Reading moves the field forward by encompassing cognitive, non-cognitive, contextual, and methodological concerns. Its breadth of coverage serves as both a useful summary of the current state of knowledge and a guide for future work in this area.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135120935
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
The central unifying theme of this state-of-the-art contribution to research on literacy is its rethinking and reconceptualization of individual differences in reading. Previous research, focused on cognitive components of reading, signaled the need for ongoing work to identify relevant individual differences in reading, to determine the relationship(s) of individual differences to reading development, and to account for interactions among individual differences. Addressing developments in each of these areas, this volume also describes affective individual differences, and the environments in which individual differences in reading may emerge, operate, interact, and change. The scant comprehensive accounting of individual differences in reading is reflected in the nature of reading instruction programs today, the outcomes that are expected from successful teaching and learning, and the manner in which reading development is assessed. An important contribution of this volume is to provide prima facie evidence of the benefits of broad conceptualization of the ways in which readers differ. The Handbook of Individual Differences in Reading moves the field forward by encompassing cognitive, non-cognitive, contextual, and methodological concerns. Its breadth of coverage serves as both a useful summary of the current state of knowledge and a guide for future work in this area.
Handbook for Synthesizing Qualitative Research
Author: Margarete Sandelowski
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
ISBN: 0826156940
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Print+CourseSmart
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
ISBN: 0826156940
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Print+CourseSmart
Meta-Study of Qualitative Health Research
Author: Barbara L. Paterson
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780761924159
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
This title provides step-by-step directions for how to conduct a meta-study, as well as recommendations for tools and standards for the application of this approach.
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780761924159
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
This title provides step-by-step directions for how to conduct a meta-study, as well as recommendations for tools and standards for the application of this approach.
Discourse as Social Interaction
Author: Teun A Van Dijk
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780803978478
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The second volume of this introduction to discourse studies focuses on the fundamental interactional, social, political and cultural functions of text and talk, and shows that discourse is not merely form and meaning, but also action.
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780803978478
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The second volume of this introduction to discourse studies focuses on the fundamental interactional, social, political and cultural functions of text and talk, and shows that discourse is not merely form and meaning, but also action.
The Philosophy of Umberto Eco
Author: Sara G. Beardsworth
Publisher: Open Court Publishing
ISBN: 0812699653
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
The Philosophy of Umberto Eco stands out in the Library of Living Philosophers series as the volume on the most interdisciplinary scholar hitherto and probably the most widely translated. The Italian philosopher’s name and works are well known in the humanities, both his philosophical and literary works being translated into fifteen or more languages. Eco is a founder of modern semiotics and widely known for his work in the philosophy of language and aesthetics. He is also a leading figure in the emergence of postmodern literature, and is associated with cultural and mass communication studies. His writings cover topics such as advertising, television, and children’s literature as well as philosophical questions bearing on truth, reality, cognition, language, and literature. The critical essays in this volume cover the full range of this output. This book has wide appeal not only because of its interdisciplinary nature but also because of Eco’s famous “high and low” approach, which is deeply scholarly in conception and very accessible in outcome. The short essay “Why Philosophy?” included in the volume is exemplary in this regard: it will appeal to scholars for its wit and to high school students for its intelligibility.
Publisher: Open Court Publishing
ISBN: 0812699653
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
The Philosophy of Umberto Eco stands out in the Library of Living Philosophers series as the volume on the most interdisciplinary scholar hitherto and probably the most widely translated. The Italian philosopher’s name and works are well known in the humanities, both his philosophical and literary works being translated into fifteen or more languages. Eco is a founder of modern semiotics and widely known for his work in the philosophy of language and aesthetics. He is also a leading figure in the emergence of postmodern literature, and is associated with cultural and mass communication studies. His writings cover topics such as advertising, television, and children’s literature as well as philosophical questions bearing on truth, reality, cognition, language, and literature. The critical essays in this volume cover the full range of this output. This book has wide appeal not only because of its interdisciplinary nature but also because of Eco’s famous “high and low” approach, which is deeply scholarly in conception and very accessible in outcome. The short essay “Why Philosophy?” included in the volume is exemplary in this regard: it will appeal to scholars for its wit and to high school students for its intelligibility.
Say Not to Say
Author: Luigi Anolli
Publisher: IOS Press
ISBN: 9781586032159
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This text explores the major ways in which miscommunication can be experienced in our daily life.
Publisher: IOS Press
ISBN: 9781586032159
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This text explores the major ways in which miscommunication can be experienced in our daily life.
Applied Psycholinguistics. Positive effects and ethical perspectives. Volume II
Author: AA. VV.
Publisher: FrancoAngeli
ISBN: 8856874326
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 475
Book Description
1240.371
Publisher: FrancoAngeli
ISBN: 8856874326
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 475
Book Description
1240.371
Certainty-uncertainty – and the Attitudinal Space in Between
Author: Sibilla Cantarini
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027269149
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
The selected papers of this volume cover five main topics, namely ‘Certainty: The conceptual differential’; ‘(Un)Certainty as attitudinality’; ‘Dialogical exchange and speech acts’; ‘Onomasiology’; and ‘Applications in exegesis and religious discourse’. By examining the general theme of the communication of certainty and uncertainty from different scientific fields, theoretical approaches and perspectives, this compendium of state-of-the-art research papers provides both an interdisciplinary comparison of the latest investigations, methods and findings, and new advances and theoretical insights with a common focus on human communication.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027269149
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
The selected papers of this volume cover five main topics, namely ‘Certainty: The conceptual differential’; ‘(Un)Certainty as attitudinality’; ‘Dialogical exchange and speech acts’; ‘Onomasiology’; and ‘Applications in exegesis and religious discourse’. By examining the general theme of the communication of certainty and uncertainty from different scientific fields, theoretical approaches and perspectives, this compendium of state-of-the-art research papers provides both an interdisciplinary comparison of the latest investigations, methods and findings, and new advances and theoretical insights with a common focus on human communication.
Elements of Neurogeometry
Author: Jean Petitot
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319655914
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
This book describes several mathematical models of the primary visual cortex, referring them to a vast ensemble of experimental data and putting forward an original geometrical model for its functional architecture, that is, the highly specific organization of its neural connections. The book spells out the geometrical algorithms implemented by this functional architecture, or put another way, the “neurogeometry” immanent in visual perception. Focusing on the neural origins of our spatial representations, it demonstrates three things: firstly, the way the visual neurons filter the optical signal is closely related to a wavelet analysis; secondly, the contact structure of the 1-jets of the curves in the plane (the retinal plane here) is implemented by the cortical functional architecture; and lastly, the visual algorithms for integrating contours from what may be rather incomplete sensory data can be modelled by the sub-Riemannian geometry associated with this contact structure. As such, it provides readers with the first systematic interpretation of a number of important neurophysiological observations in a well-defined mathematical framework. The book’s neuromathematical exploration appeals to graduate students and researchers in integrative-functional-cognitive neuroscience with a good mathematical background, as well as those in applied mathematics with an interest in neurophysiology.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319655914
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
This book describes several mathematical models of the primary visual cortex, referring them to a vast ensemble of experimental data and putting forward an original geometrical model for its functional architecture, that is, the highly specific organization of its neural connections. The book spells out the geometrical algorithms implemented by this functional architecture, or put another way, the “neurogeometry” immanent in visual perception. Focusing on the neural origins of our spatial representations, it demonstrates three things: firstly, the way the visual neurons filter the optical signal is closely related to a wavelet analysis; secondly, the contact structure of the 1-jets of the curves in the plane (the retinal plane here) is implemented by the cortical functional architecture; and lastly, the visual algorithms for integrating contours from what may be rather incomplete sensory data can be modelled by the sub-Riemannian geometry associated with this contact structure. As such, it provides readers with the first systematic interpretation of a number of important neurophysiological observations in a well-defined mathematical framework. The book’s neuromathematical exploration appeals to graduate students and researchers in integrative-functional-cognitive neuroscience with a good mathematical background, as well as those in applied mathematics with an interest in neurophysiology.