The Nature of SPSS -- Summarizing Data Graphically -- Summarizing Data Numerically: Measures of Central Tendency -- Summarizing Data Numerically: Measures of Variability -- Summarizing Multivariate Data: Association Between Numerical Variables -- Summarizing Multivariate Data: Association Between Categorical Variables -- Basic Ideas of Probability -- Probability Distributions -- Sampling Distri…
Chapter 1. MOOCs and Educational Value -- Chapter 2. The Economic Crisis and the Rise of MOOCs -- Chapter 3. What are MOOCs? -- Chapter 4. The Primary Educational Value of MOOCs -- Chapter 5. MOOCs and Career Qualifications: Certificates, Credits, Diplomas and Beyond -- Chapter 6. Three Contributions of MOOCs. .This book offers a re-assessment of the educational and occupational value of MOOCs …
The Educational Significance of Human and Non-Human Animal Interactions explores human animal/non-human animal interactions from different disciplinary perspectives, from education policy to philosophy of education and ecopedagogy. The authors refute the idea of anthropocentrism (the belief that human beings are the central or most significant species on the planet) through an ethical investiga…
Family Environment -- Peer Relations -- Teacher Interpersonal Behaviour -- Cooperative Learning Outcomes and Cooperative Learning Environments.Weiping Liu contends that the impacts of learning environments on Chinese only children must be studied from a bioecological systems perspective by considering the direct and joint effects of learning environments and personality within the macro-environ…
Preface; Part I: Ethics, Islam and Education -- Chapter 1. Qurānic Conceptual Framework of Ethics -- Chapter 2. The Qurān and the Espousal of Ethics -- Chapter 3. Qurānic Conceptions of being Muslim -- Chapter 4. Qurānic Conceptions of Education -- Part II. Participants in Muslim Education -- Chapter 5. The Qurān and Individual Autonomy -- Chapter 6. Qurānic Conceptions of Community -- Ch…
The Main Theorem: Cyclic Algebras -- The Paper: Dedication to Hensel -- The Local-Global Principle -- From the Local-Global Principle to the Main Theorem -- The Brauer Group and Class Field Theory -- The Team: Noether, Brauer and Hasse -- The American Connection: Albert -- Epilogue: Käte Hey.The unpublished writings of Helmut Hasse, consisting of letters, manuscripts and other papers, are kept…
Chapter 1. Introduction: Context and Connections -- Chapter 2. Alex C. Michalos: Pioneer of Quality of Life and Social Indicators; Bruno Zumbo -- Chapter 3. An Interview with Alex C. Michalos; Dan Weijers -- Chapter 4. The Best Teacher I Ever Had Was J. Coert Rylaarsdam -- Chapter 5. The Case for Atheism, Notes for a Discussion; Alex C. Michalos -- Chapter 6. Logic, Philosophy of Science and th…
The image of the university is tarnished: economists argue that modern universities foster 'meritocratic extremism'; educationalists say they perpetuate inequality; novelists describe for us the 'barbaric rituals' of academics and philosophers say universities are engaged in 'practices of barbarism'. This book examines how these aspects of the modern university have transformed its educational …
1: Introduction -- 2: Ibn Khaldun -- 3: Karl Marx -- 4: Harriet Martineau -- 5: Max Weber -- 6: Jose Rizal -- 7: Emile Durkheim -- 8: Said Nursi -- 9: Pandita Ramabai Saraswati -- 10: Florence Nightingale -- 11: Benoy Kumar Sarkar -- 12: Epilogue.-.This book expands the sociological canon by introducing non-Western and female voices, and subjects the existing canon itself to critique. Including…
1. Context: “Cyberspace”, “Race” and Community Resilience -- 2. Researching Cyber Racism: Methodologies and Methods Across Disciplines -- 3. How Cyber Users Experience and Respond to Racism: Evidence from an Online Survey -- 4. Racism and the Affordances of the Internet -- 5. Targets -- 6. Racist Narratives Online -- 7. Building Online Communities of Resistance and Solidarity -- …