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Overview: 978-3-322-82609-1978-3-322-82608-4

Overview: Offers a critical analysis of reflective practice as a key professional attribute of teachers.Presents cutting-edge critiques of taken-for-granted educational practice from the viewpoint of often margThis book offers a detailed examination of reflective practice in teacher education. In the current educational context, where reflective practice has been mandated in professional standards for teachers in many countries, it analyses research-based evidence for the power of reflective practice to shape better educational outcomes. The book presents multiple theoretical and practical vie

Overview: Explores the writings of Jacques Rancière in relation to educational studies.Includes insights and personal reflections from the author.Contributes to scholarship in‘art education.This book introduces readers to the writing of the French philosopher, Jacques Rancière, and discusses the uptake of his work in education. Written from a personal perspective, the book tells the story of the author’s engagement with Rancière’s writing as an educational researcher. The first part of the book introduces Rancière’s interventions on democracy and politics, art and aesthetics, emancipation, and

Overview: Provides a systematic review and assessment of PPPs during the COVID-19 pandemic.Addresses fault lines in current governance strategies.Collates and generates theory.This edited volume discusses the resilience of public-private partnerships (PPPs) in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a comparative lens, the book assesses the degree to which global PPP infrastructure projects have been affected by the pandemic and details short term and long-term measures undertaken by governments and private parties to mitigate disruption to infrastructure delivery. Secondly, it focuses on imp

Overview: Should we rethink growth? Is the abundance of the western world still ethical? Growth, social responsibility and sustainable development are indeed deeply entangled. This book aims to provide the reader with a transversal, holistic view on these issues, and a real understanding of corporate growth, along with its possible alternatives.978-1-349-29952-2978-0-230-23579-3Series ISSN 2947-4744 Series E-ISSN 2947-4752

Overview: Illustrates the range of immersive experiences available to teachers, and critically examines the aims and outcomes of such programmes.Explores how culturally and linguistically responsive pedagogies .This edited book examines how teacher education utilises international immersion and field teaching (or service-learning) experience to develop teachers’ global, multilingual and intercultural competencies, in preparation for entering today’s culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms. Through a series of theory-based case studies, the authors demonstrate how teachers’ awareness o

Overview: Proposes how to research rivalry in and outside of sport settings.Contributes to the sport consumer behavior literature through examining how to promote rivalry to increase fan engagement while reduci.This book focuses on how rivalry influences fan perceptions and behaviors, the role of organizations to responsibly promote rivalries, and discusses how to decrease negative and group-member deviance surrounding sport rivalry. Rivalry is a phenomenon that helps organizations and participants increase their output while also engaging fans. The author argues that the goal of rivalry shoul

Overview: Do high rates of economic growth create conditions favourable to their own maintenance? Or can a period of high growth ‘sow the seeds of its own destruction‘? This book addresses these questions by conceiving growth and structural change as path dependent processes. Methodological, theoretical and empirical insights are combined in an extended model of cumulative causation, which shows how endogenously induced technological and institutional changes may cause the dynamics of a period of high growth to break down. This casts new light on the debate over Britain‘s economic decline.978-

Overview: This book investigates how women‘s power and caste cleavages often continue to transcend and crosscut the boundaries of caste/tribe, gender, age, class and religion in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh It examines the gendered divisions of labor in rural communities and how countervailing forces have restricted women‘s status and roles in South Asia.978-1-349-45784-7978-1-137-32076-6Series ISSN 2730-7328 Series E-ISSN 2730-7336

Overview: The clinical specialty of adult nephrology has enjoyed spectacular growth during the past three decades. Such a statement is no less true for pediatric nephrology. This book stands in quiet testimony to that fact. Practitioners of pediatric nephrology are now concerned with the diagnosis and treat­ ment of young patients with a widened spectrum of primary and sec­ ondary diseases of the kidneys and urinary tract, hypertension and disorders of water, electrolyte and acid-base metabolism. Their science, deriving from an exciting blend of physiology, morphology, pathology, immunology, b

Overview: Discusses the role of micronutrients on brain health and function.Examines nutrition-epigenetic interaction in neurodegenerative disorders.Presents nutrition-epigenetic interaction in neurodegenerativ.This book comprehensively reviews the relationship between micronutrients and brain in health and diseases. It explains the relationship between micronutrients and brain functions, neurogenesis, and cognitive functions. The book also explores the relationship between micronutrients and brain disorders including depression, epilepsy, PD, and Autism. It further explores the recent advance

Overview: Approaching the writings of Mary Wroth through a fresh 21st-century lens, this volume accounts for and re-invents the literary scholarship of one of the first "canonized" women writers of the English Renaissance. Essays present different practices that emerge around "reading" Wroth, including editing, curating, and digital reproduction.978-1-349-50247-9978-1-137-47334-9

Overview: Introduces a theoretical basis for the governance of relational transactions.Presents a research agenda of relational economics.Studies the network, stakeholder and leadership mechanisms of global val.This book introduces the research agenda of relational economics as a political economy for the governance of local and global economic transactions in modern societies. It analyses the mechanisms of global value creation and production networks by studying cooperation in intra- and inter-firm networks, intersectoral stakeholder management, and transcultural leadership. .The author deve

Overview: Provides a new sight to robust design and assessment of product and production from viewpoint of system theory.Presents discretization treatment in the evaluation by means of good lattice point and un.This book develops robust design and assessment of product and production from viewpoint of system theory, which is quantized with the introduction of brand new concept of preferable probability and its assessment. It aims to provide a new idea and novel way to robust design and assessment of product and production and relevant problems...Robust design and assessment of product and prod

Overview: Presents cutting edge and rigorously developed papers on data science and business analytics.Covers descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics.Editors and Keynote Speakers are among the most .This edited volume is brought out from the contributions of the research papers presented in the International Conference on Data Science and Business Analytics (ICDSBA- 2017), which was held during September 23-25 2017 in ChangSha, China. As we all know, the field of data science and business analytics is emerging at the intersection of the fields of mathematics, statistics, operations

Overview: Discusses the production and circulation of animal narratives in colonial India in order to investigate the constructs of animals played into a variety of forms of othering that took place in England during its imperial venture.978-1-349-29595-1978-1-137-01107-7

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Overview: Covers sustainability in the textiles and clothing sector.Highlights the areas pertaining to the regulatory aspects and sustainability standards applicable to textiles and clothing supply chain.WritteThis book covers the elements involved in achieving sustainability in textiles and clothing sector. The chapters covered in three volumes of this series title cover all the distinctive areas earmarked for achieving sustainable development in textiles and clothing industry. This third volume highlights the areas pertaining to the regulatory aspects and sustainability standards applicable

Overview: Advances the understanding of challenges in Human Resources in the small firm context.Pushes forward new research agendas and approaches to accommodating HRM in SMEs.Moves beyond traditional debates a.SMEs face unique challenges directly stemming from their size, which create..pressures, tensions and dilemmas with regard to people management. These..include the liabilities of smallness and newness, as well as resource challenges..pertaining to the attraction, development and retention of the workforce. In turn,..these challenges can give rise to unique HR dynamics in the SME setting.

Overview: Presents a comprehensive collection of the latest information on the reproductive biology of plants.Explores complex intricacies in the reproductive pathways and reveals the ecological bottlenecks in Sexual reproduction is the predominant mode of perpetuation for flowering plant species. Investigating the reproductive strategies of plants has grown to become a vast area of research and, in crop plants, covers events from flowering to fruit and seed development; in wild species, it extends up to seed dispersal and seedling recruitment. Thus, reproduction determines the extent of yield