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Author : Sharon M. Carver
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 28,24 MB
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1135648980

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This volume is based on papers presented at the 30th Carnegie Mellon Symposium on Cognition. This particular symposium was conceived in reference to the 1974 symposium entitled Cognition and Instruction. In the 25 years since that symposium, reciprocal relationships have been forged between psychology and education, research and practice, and laboratory and classroom learning contexts. Synergistic advances in theories, empirical findings, and instructional practice have been facilitated by the establishment of new interdisciplinary journals, teacher education courses, funding initiatives, and research institutes. So, with all of this activity, where is the field of cognition and instruction? How much progress has been made in 25 years? What remains to be done? This volume proposes and illustrates some exciting and challenging answers to these questions. Chapters in this volume describe advances and challenges in four areas, including development and instruction, teachers and instructional strategies, tools for learning from instruction, and social contexts of instruction and learning. Detailed analyses of tasks, subjects' knowledge and processes, and the changes in performance over time have led to new understanding of learners' representations, their use of multiple strategies, and the important role of metacognitive processes. New methods for assessing and tracking the development and elaboration of knowledge structures and processing strategies have yielded new conceptualizations of the process of change. Detailed cognitive analysis of expert teachers, as well as a direct focus on enhancing teachers' cognitive models of learners and use of effective instructional strategies, are other areas that have seen tremendous growth and refinement in the past 25 years. Similarly, the strong impact of curriculum materials and activities based on a thorough cognitive analysis of the task has been extended to the use of technological tools for learning, such as intelligent tutors and complex computer based instructional interfaces. Both the shift to conducting a significant portion of the cognition and instruction research in real classrooms and the increased collaboration between academics and educators have brought the role of the social context to center stage.

Author : Association for International Arbitration
Publisher : Maklu
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 49,3 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789046601440

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The Association for International Arbitration (AIA) was founded in order to promote Arbitration and increase the level of knowledge about Alternative Dispute Resolutions.This book is the result of a conference held in October 2007.The contributions are written by international experts and based on analytical insights and research of new tendencies that provide in-depth information.The theme is a vital issue for arbitration services users and practitioners and also an interesting topic for scholars and students.

Author : Jack D. Douglas
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 31,52 MB
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1400868114

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This book presents a review and criticism of all sociological literature on suicide, from Emile Durkheim's influential Suicide (1897) to contemporary writings by sociologists who have patterned their own work on Durkheim's. Douglas points out fundamental weaknesses in the structural-functional study of suicide, and offers an alternative theoretical approach. He demonstrates the unreliability of official statistics on suicide and contends that Durkheim's explanations of suicide rates in terms of abstract social meanings are founded on an inadequate and misleading statistical base. The study of suicidal actions, Douglas argues, requires an examination of the individual's own construction of his actions. He analyzes revenge, escape, and sympathy motives; using diaries, notes, and observers' reports, he shows how the social meanings of actual cases should be studied. Originally published in 1967. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Peter Bryant
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 10,39 MB
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1317716000

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Newly available in paperback. Results of exciting new research.

Author : Christian Bär
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 49,80 MB
Release : 2011-12-18
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 3642228429

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This volume contains a collection of well-written surveys provided by experts in Global Differential Geometry to give an overview over recent developments in Riemannian Geometry, Geometric Analysis and Symplectic Geometry. The papers are written for graduate students and researchers with a general interest in geometry, who want to get acquainted with the current trends in these central fields of modern mathematics.

Author : Thomas Henning
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 42,23 MB
Release : 2010-09-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 3642132588

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Astromineralogy deals with the science of gathering mineralogical information from the astronomical spectroscopy of asteroids, comets and dust in the circumstellar environments in general. This field has received a tremendous boost with the reliable identification of minerals by the Infrared Space Observatory. The first edition of this book, published in 2003, was the first comprehensive and coherent account of this exciting field. Data obtained in the meantime with the Spitzer Infrared Space Telescope, the stardust mission to the comet 81P / Wild 2, and with the Cassini mission, together with progress in ground-based observations and laboratory astrophysics form the basis for this updated and widely extended second edition.Beyond addressing the specialist in the field, the book is intended as a high-level but readable introduction to astromineralogy for both the nonspecialist researcher and the advanced student.

Author : Vincent C. H. Tong
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 46,2 MB
Release : 2015-06-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 1107041724

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Taking a transdisciplinary approach to seismology, this unique book reviews the most recent developments in planetary seismology, helioseismology, and asteroseismology.