Download or read book Cities of Tomorrow written by Peter Hall and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1997-02-18 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities of Tomorrow is a critical history of planning in theory and practice in the twentieth century, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it. Trenchant, perceptive, global in coverage, this book is an unrivalled account of its crucial subject. The third edition of Cities of Tomorrow is comprehensively revised to take account of abundant new literature published since its original appearance, and to view the 1990s in historical perspective. This is the definitive edition, reviewing the development of the modern planning movement over the entire span of the twentieth century.

Download or read book The School in Question written by Torsten Husén and published by Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Geoscience Education written by Clara Vasconcelos and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-14 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents research in Geoscience Education focusing on indoor and outdoor environments in which teaching geoscience gains particular relevance, significance and contextualization. The research areas that are presented throughout the thirteen chapters cover a wide variety of subjects ranging from educational resources and fieldwork to science models. Chapters discuss specific geoscience topics such as earthquakes, rocks, fossils and minerals. Other chapters present a more interdisciplinary approach addressing topics that aren’t usually examined, such as geomedicine and geoethics, with a specific focus on sustainable development and their alignment with the school curricula. Throughout the book readers can find research-based arguments illustrated with practical examples, which will help them to innovate in their curriculum development area, classroom practices and pre and in-service teachers’ education. The book challenges readers to improve Geoscience Education by changing the ways of teaching, by enabling students to exploit their natural curiosity, and by spurring a learning process that should not be confined to the classroom but rather maintained throughout life.

Download or read book Hosts and Guests Revisited written by Valene L. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Subjectivity written by João Guilherme Biehl and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-04-11 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talks about the ways personal lives are being undone and remade today. This book examines the ethnography of the modern subject, probes the continuity and diversity of modes of personhood across a range of Western and non-Western societies. It considers what happens to individual subjectivity when environments such as communities are transformed.

Download or read book Political Theory Today written by David Held and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the proper subject matter of political theory? What kind of a theory is political theory? Uncertainty about the most appropriate way of answering these questions provides the key rationales for this volume: to provide a comprehensive overview of the central questions and debates in contemporary political thought and to offer guidelines for the reformation of political theory made necessary by the philosophical and substantive problems it faces today. The twelve essays in this book examine some of the classic traditional questions of political theory: the nature of obligation, equality, liberty, the public, the private, democracy, and justice. They also examine questions that relate these notions to a broader framework encompassing the many recent changes in the nation-state, forms of sovereignty, domestic and international law, violence and warfare, and domestic and international political economy. The contributors are leading scholars in political theory from the United States, Europe, and Africa: Samara Amin, Charles Beitz, Antonio Cassese, John Dunn, Jon Elster, David Held, Agnes Heller, Steven Lukes, Iain McLean, Claus Offe, Susan Moller Okin, Onora O'Neill and Ulrich K

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Download or read book A Guide to Supervising Non native English Writers of Theses and Dissertations written by John Bitchener and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focused on the writing process, A Guide to Supervising Non-native English Writers of Theses and Dissertations presents approaches that can be employed by supervisors to help address the writing issues or difficulties that may emerge during the provisional and confirmation phases of the thesis/dissertation journey. Pre-writing advice and post-writing feedback that can be given to students are explained and illustrated. A growing number of students who are non-native speakers of English are enrolled in Masters and PhD programmes at universities across the world where English is the language of communication. These students often encounter difficulties when writing a thesis or dissertation in English – primarily, understanding the requirements and expectations of the new academic context and the conventions of academic writing. Designed for easy use by supervisors, this concise guide focuses specifically on the relationship between reading for and preparing to write the various part-genres or chapters; the creation of argument; making and evaluating claims, judgements and conclusions; writing coherent and cohesive text; meeting the generic and discipline-specific writing conventions; designing conference abstracts and PowerPoint presentations; and writing journal articles.

Download or read book Understanding Computers and Cognition written by Terry Winograd and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 1987 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Computers and Cognition presents an important and controversial new approach to understanding what computers do and how their functioning is related to human language, thought, and action. While it is a book about computers, Understanding Computers and Cognition goes beyond the specific issues of what computers can or can't do. It is a broad-ranging discussion exploring the background of understanding in which the discourse about computers and technology takes place. Understanding Computers and Cognition is written for a wide audience, not just those professionals involved in computer design or artificial intelligence. It represents an important contribution to the ongoing discussion about what it means to be a machine, and what it means to be human. Book jacket.

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Download or read book The Corrosion of Character The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism written by Richard Sennett and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-02-07 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Business Week Best Book of the Year.... "A devastating and wholly necessary book."—Studs Terkel, author of Working In The Corrosion of Character, Richard Sennett, "among the country's most distinguished thinkers . . . has concentrated into 176 pages a profoundly affecting argument" (Business Week) that draws on interviews with dismissed IBM executives, bakers, a bartender turned advertising executive, and many others to call into question the terms of our new economy. In his 1972 classic, The Hidden Injuries of Class (written with Jonathan Cobb), Sennett interviewed a man he called Enrico, a hardworking janitor whose life was structured by a union pay schedule and given meaning by his sacrifices for the future. In this new book-a #1 bestseller in Germany-Sennett explores the contemporary scene characterized by Enrico's son, Rico, whose life is more materially successful, yet whose work lacks long-term commitments or loyalties. Distinguished by Sennett's "combination of broad historical and literary learning and a reporter's willingness to walk into a store or factory [and] strike up a conversation" (New York Times Book Review), this book "challenges the reader to decide whether the flexibility of modern capitalism . . . is merely a fresh form of oppression" (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Praise for The Corrosion of Character: "A benchmark for our time."—Daniel Bell "[A]n incredibly insightful book."—William Julius Wilson "[A] remarkable synthesis of acute empirical observation and serious moral reflection."—Richard Rorty "[Sennett] offers abundant fresh insights . . . illuminated by his concern with people's struggle to give meaning to their lives."—[Memphis] Commercial Appeal

Download or read book No Limits to Learning written by J. W. Botkin and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-05-19 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reconsiders global problems such as energy and the arms race, as well as more recent issues like cultural identity, communications and information. Attention is primarily focused on human problems and potential, rather than on material constraints to growth. The analysis places particular importance on new forms of learning and education, for individuals and especially for society, as indispensable for laying the groundwork to deal with global issues, and for bridging the gap between the complexity and risks of current global issues and our presently inadequately developed capacity to face up to them. This is the first Club of Rome report to authors from socialist and Third World countries as well as from the West

Download or read book La formaci n de educadoras y educadores ambientales written by Miguel Ángel Arias Ortega and published by Editorial Newton Edición y Tecnología Educativa. This book was released on 2019 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La formación de educadoras y educadores ambientales en la Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México (UACM), ha sido uno de los objetivos primordiales a los que se ha orientado esta institución desde los primeros momentos de su creación. En su seno, oferta el programa académico de la maestría en Educación Ambiental, el cual busca concretar nuevas respuestas educativas a los problemas ambientales que se viven en los diferentes puntos del país, y de manera particular, en la Ciudad de México, a fin de revelar otros futuros posibles para todos, donde el respeto por la condición humana y la protección del medio ambiente sean dos aspectos inseparables. En este marco, el programa de la maestría en Educación Ambiental hace un alto en el camino para tratar de averiguar cuáles han sido algunos de los senderos que ha transitado en su objetivo ineludible de formar educadores ambientales; indaga sobre los conocimientos, habilidades y destrezas adquiridas por los estudiantes y busca comprender cómo se han materializado en prácticas pedagógicas concretas, al tiempo que pretende reflexionar sobre la forma en que sus egresados se asumen como educadores ambientales y muestra algunas las perspectivas de futuro que le otorgan a la educación ambiental en los años por venir. Así, los escritos que integran este volumen muestran distintas miradas al trabajo profesional de los egresados, donde se sitúan algunos análisis y reflexiones en torno a los hallazgos y propuestas, producto de la visión particular de cada uno de sus autores, esto con la intención de compartir un primer acercamiento al campo de la educación ambiental, y de manera concreta, una perspectiva de análisis sobre el quehacer educativo-ambiental de los egresados de este programa académico.

Download or read book Nutrition and Immunology written by Ranjit Kumar Chandra and published by Alan R. Liss. This book was released on 1988 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: This book presents the current views of some of the leading investigators in the field of nutrition and immunology. Recent work has unravelled the molecular and cellular basis of impaired immunocompetence in nutritional deficiencies. These discoveries have led to several practical applications. This volume is intended for those working in this area of science.

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Download or read book Sistema ambiental universitario written by Román Nuñez, Yenny Constanza and published by Universidad Piloto de Colombia. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este libro es resultado de la investigación titulada Sistema Ambiental Universitario (2012-2013), que deriva, en parte de los productos generados del convenio interadministrativo firmado entre la Secretaría Distrital de Ambiente y la Universidad Piloto de Colombia (2007-2008),con el objeto de construir los lineamientos básicos para la inclusión de la dimensión ambiental en la Educación Superior, a partir del diagnóstico y análisis participativo de las experiencias de siete universidades de Bogotá, articulando las tres funciones sustantivas de la Universidad: la Academia, la Investigación y la Proyección Social. En el año 2009, se retomaron los resultados obtenidos en la investigación descrita con la propuesta de un Sistema Ambiental Universitario: Modelo de Organización y Sistematización para la Inclusión de la Dimensión Ambiental en la Educación Superior, presentada por la Universidad Piloto de Colombia, en el VI Congreso Iberoamericano de Educación Ambiental en San Clemente de Tuyú (Argentina). En 2011, la investigación mereció el Premio Andrés Bello, a la mejor investigación sobre Educación Superior en América Latina y el Caribe otorgado por la Unión de Universidades de América Latina y el Caribe-UDUAL. Ante la necesidad de profundizar en la función operativa de tipo administrativo identificada en las universidades como ordenamiento físico o infraestructura, el modelo es enriquecido con los resultados de una segunda etapa o proceso investigativo llevado a cabo durante los años 2010 – 2013, denominado Universidad y Ciudad: Ordenamiento Ecourbanístico de Equipamientos Universitarios en Bogotá.

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