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Mobile technology has become a ubiquitous presence in the lives of today’s students and faculty. The maturing of this technology has led to our becoming more and more comfortable in a world where digital information flows seamlessly from screen to screen as we move about our daily lives. This evolution presents both…
The book is an essential guide to parent advocacy for gifted students. Parents and teachers can learn how to document a child’s abilities and how to approach the schools to request reasonable educational options for that child in each academic year. This book also provides information on testing, score…
Kategorier: Forskning och informationshantering Referensverk, informationshantering och tvärvetenskap Skrivande och redigering Språk och lingvistik Språk: referensverk och allmänt Vetenskapsmetod
Early career researchers seeking to pursue an academic career face many challenges. Their existence is characterized by insecure employment conditions, conflicting demands and limited experiences of acting as independent scholars. In addition, many of them are at an age when it is common to start a family. Knowledge of…
Kategorier: Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management Ekonomisk teori och filosofi Entreprenörskap Företagsekonomi och management Högre utbildning och vidareutbildning Nationalekonomi Pedagogik Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
The first part is a case story where the school’s activities are illuminated by the two of us serving as Deans. The second part can be looked upon as our effort to understand those years by means of some analytical tools. In the final part, we have included some basic statistics about courses, participants, faculty,…
Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
Traditionally, The early modern era is regarded as a down period in the history of universities, between their youthful prosperity in the Middle Ages and the idealist revival in the 19th century. Scholastic and classical tradition, religious orthodoxy, political control, and nepotism hampered progress and made science…
Are you a student embarking on an exciting educational journey, eager to develop your academic, social and personal skills? Then this book is for you. It describes what you are expected to learn, but also offers practical tools and a bank of research to give you the best conditions to learn.
Examples of questions the…
Academic exchange is one of the cornerstones of public diplomacy. Receiving foreign academics is one way of influencing foreign elites in an attempt to build goodwill and stable international networks. The result is that academic mobility and the internationalization of higher education and research have always been…
Kategorier: Etnicitet Etniska minoriteter och mångkultur Samhälle och kultur: allmänt Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Sociala grupper Ursprungsbefolkningar
RE: Mindings brings together indigenous scholars, artists and activists, and indigenous allies to speak of whose positions, contexts and experiences it is that inform the construction of knowledges, histories and sciences. In short, whose experience counts?
The purpose of RE:Mindings is to encourage its authors and…
Kategorier: Högre utbildning och vidareutbildning Pedagogik Pedagogisk metodik Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap
Academic teaching is a comprehensive, research-based textbook on teaching and learning in higher education. It is written from the point of view of teachers engaged in teaching and learning practicesin higher education. New challenges require university teachers to work very efficiently. This book forms a contribution…
Kategorier: Språk och lingvistik
An educational method that is becoming all the more common at colleges and universities is that of the seminar. In the seminar, students write academic papers and reports, present them, and act as opponents on each other’s work. The book covers all the sections that are normally included in the seminar. The learning…
Academic teaching is a comprehensive, research-based textbook on teaching and learning in higher education. It is written from the point of view of teachers engaged in teaching and learning practices in higher education.
New challenges require university teachers to work very efficiently. This book forms a contribution…
Kategorier: Språk och lingvistik
How to write academic texts: A practical guide is intended to serve as a rather brief and somewhat personal, yet instructive, treatise on how to think about academic writing. The first part of the book conceives of academic writing as based on a generic model that applies to virtually all kinds of publications…
Kategorier: Språk och lingvistik
This is a user-friendly handbook that will help students improve their academic writing in English and understand the expectations university instructors have when they assess students’ texts. The book offers various approaches to use in the planning, writing, and revision phases of assignments so that writers can…
Kategorier: Språk och lingvistik
Academic Writing offers a guided process-writing course in the most common expository text types and genres, including research papers, that students need at university and in their future professional careers. In addition, one chapter is devoted to the problem of creating coherent texts and another to business…
Kategorier: Ekonomi, finansväsen, näringsliv och management Entreprenörskap Företagsekonomi och management Forskning och informationshantering Kommersiell konst och design Konst Referensverk, informationshantering och tvärvetenskap
This study investigates the relation between the design activity and entrepreneurial ambition of three academic labs: MIT Senseable City Lab, metaLAB (at) Harvard, and Medea at Malmö University. These labs are positioned at the borderland of academic research, as they operate in connection with external stakeholders…
Denna bok finns även som e-bok med ISBN 9789140691194 och går att köpa via nätbokhandeln.
Academic Writing in English är en bok för studerande på universitet och högskolor, som har svenska som modersmål, men som måste kunna formulera sig korrekt på…
Tackling Trident is about two unique academic conferences in which an international group of academics, while discussing scientific conference papers, simultaneously blockaded Faslane Naval Base, home of the UK’s Trident system of nuclear weapons of mass destruction, in Scotland, in January and June 2007. This book…