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Integrating Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
Issues, Reflections, and Ways Forward
Series: Teaching and Learning in Science Series
How can curriculum integration of school science with the related disciplines of technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) enhance students’ skills and their ability to link what they learn in school with the world outside the classroom? Featuring actual case studies of teachers’ attempts to...
Published May 10th 2012 by Routledge
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Knowledge that Counts in a Global Community
Exploring the Contribution of Integrated Curriculum
As the third millennium progresses, we are faced with increasing pressures relating to climate change and the sustainability of life on Earth. Concerned citizens are realizing that the responsibility to respond is both local and global. There is an increasing sense of urgency about the need to...
Published October 27th 2011 by Routledge
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Safety Management
A Qualitative Systems Approach
Professionals striving for accident reduction must deal with systems in which both technical and human elements play equal and complementary roles. However, many of the existing techniques in ergonomics and risk management concentrate on plant and technical issues and downplay human factors and "...
Published May 14th 2003 by CRC Press
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Leadership and Professional Development in Science Education
New Possibilities for Enhancing Teacher Learning
Leadership and Professional Development in Science Education provides invaluable insight into the role of science teachers as learners and thinkers of change processes. The fourteen chapters, by an eminent international team of science educators, explain and explore the relationship between...
Published April 23rd 2003 by Routledge
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Dilemmas of Science Teaching
Perspectives on Problems of Practice
This book explores sixteen contemporary issues in science education by examining the practical dilemmas these issues provoke for teachers. It is a unique book which presents student-teachers with personal and professional insights into a whole range of science topics including the...
Published November 14th 2001 by Routledge
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City and Country in the Ancient World
Series: Leicester-Nottingham Studies in Ancient Society
The ancient Greco-Roman world was a world of citie, in a distinctive sense of communities in which countryside was dominated by urban centre.This volume of papers written by influential archaeologists and historians seeks to bring together the two disciplines in exploring the city-country...
Published September 2nd 1992 by Routledge
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Endogenous Mediators of Gastrointestinal Damage
This text helps the reader determine whether or not the gastrointestinal mucosa ulcerates can be viewed as a balance between aggressive factors present in the lumen and the mucosal defence system. Several of these aggressive factors, such as acid, bile and pepsin, are endogenous substances....
Published September 29th 1989 by CRC Press