Chapter 1 Mathematics at the Margins -- Chapter 2 Being at the margins ≠ being unsuccessful at mathematics -- Chapter 3 Mathematics and marginality -- Chapter 4 Marginality and mathematics -- Chapter 5 Crossing the divide -- Chapter 6 Redressing the imbalance -- Chapter 7 Maintaining the momentum.This book reports the impact a four-year longitudinal study (Representations, Oral Language and E…
The Setting -- Overview -- The Development Process -- Economic Planning: History, Role and Effectiveness -- Government Finances and the Saudi Budgetary System -- The Financial Markets -- Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA) and Monetary Policy -- The Financial Markets -- The Saudi Capital Market -- The Domestic Sector -- The Private Sector: Challenges and Opportunities -- The Kingdom’s Heart:…
1 Introduction -- 2 The Thai Financial System: Characteristics of the Emerging Thai Stock -- 3 Descriptive Statistics and General Characteristics of the Stock Market -- 4 Market Efficiency Models and Tests -- 5 Stock Valuation Models -- 6 Models for Rational Speculative Bubbles -- 7 Models for Anomalies Studies -- 8 Volatility Models -- 9 Summary and Conclusions -- Appendix 1 Structure of Finan…
to Intraindividual Variation of Primate Behavior -- The Costs and Benefits of Behavioral Flexibility to Inclusive Fitness: Dispersal as an Option in Heterogeneous Regimes -- Primate Signatures and Behavioral Flexibility in Heterogeneous Regimes -- Social Cognition and Behavioral Flexibility: Categorical Decision-Making as a Primate Signature -- Female Primates as “Energy-Maximizers” in Hete…
1. Introduction -- 2. Literature Review -- 3. Parental Involvement in PIRLS-2011 -- 4. Modeling Parental Involvement -- 5. Relation between Parental Involvement and Student Achievement in PIRLS-2011 -- 6. Conclusion and Discussion -- References -- Appendix: Technical details on the implementation of the bi-factor model.Open AccessThis volume offers insights from modelling measures of parental i…
Preface: John Siraj-Blatchford -- 1. Education for Sustainable Development in Early Childhood Care and Education: An Introduction; John Siraj-Blatchford and Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson -- 2. The OMEP ESD Research and Development Project; John Siraj-Blatchford -- 3. Early Childhood Education for Sustainable Development in Chile; Selma Simonstein -- 4. Early Childhood Education For Sustainable Dev…
This book proposes a new theory on children’s thinking (cognitive) development. According to this theory, the stages of said development should be divided into four stages: first, the stage of animalistic thinking (birth–before possessing basic language ability); second, the stage of elementary thinking (beginning to possess basic language ability–beginning to possess proficient oral abil…
Introduction; Nel Noddings -- This Handbook; Helen E Lees -- Section 1: Thinking Differently -- Chapter 1: The Mind of the Educator; Kris De Meyer; Chapter 2: an ordinary day; Philipp Klaus -- Chapter 3: Mother Nature’s Pedagogy: How Children Educate Themselves; Peter Gray -- Chapter 4: Using the Future in Education: Creating Space for Openness, Hope and Novelty; Keri Facer -- Chapter 5: Prom…
Fictional Narratives in DLLs -- Collection, Analysis, and State of Research -- The Developmental Continuum of Narrative Skills -- The Role of Peers in Language Acquisition and a Conceptualization of Peer-Assisted Learning.The current work follows the premise that fictional oral narratives represent socio-emotionally and academically relevant communicative practices. Two studies are presented, a…
Environmental sustainability is one of the biggest issues faced by the mankind. Rapid & rampant industrialization has put great pressure on the natural resources. To make our planet a sustainable ecosystem, habitable for future generations & provide equal opportunity for all the living creatures we not only need to make corrections but also remediate the polluted natural resources. The low-inpu…