Computation, modeling, and simulation practices are commonplace in the STEM workplace, yet formal training embedded in disciplinary practices is not as standard in the undergraduate classroom. Teaching and Learning in STEM With Computation, Modeling, and Simulation Practices: A Guide for Practitioners and Researchers gives instructors a handbook to ensure their curriculum bridges the gap betwee…
How to Augment Language Skills outlines ways in which translators and language providers can expand their skillset and how translation technologies can be integrated into language learning and translator training. This book explains the basics of generative AI, machine translation, and translation memory suites, placing them in a historical context and assessing their fundamental impacts on lan…
This Open Access volume brings together contributions to the research on coherence in teacher education from a transnational perspective. Using theoretical-conceptional, empirical as well as instructional approaches, the contributions explore structural, curricular, conceptual and personnel dimensions of coherence. Within the EU Erasmus +-funded project ConnEcTEd (Coherence in European Teacher …
Although many music education policies outline an explicit agenda for diversity,little attention has been paid to the complex situations that arise when negotiatingdiversity in practice.The Politics of Diversity in Music Educationaims to remedythis knowledge gap by critically attending to the ways in which difference ispromoted, represented, negotiated, navigated, contained, or challenged in va…
This highly original and sophisticated look at architecture helps us to understand the cultural significance of the buildings that surround us. It avoids the traditional style-spotting approach and instead gives us an idea of what it is about buildings that moves us, and what it is that makes them important artistically and culturally. The book begins by looking at how architecture acquires mea…
This edited collection arrives at a crucial moment in the evolution of Writing Studies research. It brings together well-known and emerging scholars in the field of Writing Studies, broadly defined, to explore the range of research methods and methodologies, the types of research questions asked, and the types of data in play in research about higher education writing in the 21st century. Its c…
n a 2011 article, D.W. Fenza, Executive Director of AWP, tells one defining narrative. He recounts the history of democratization in creative writing and construes the success of its institutions as “a modest emulation of Promethean gift- giving.”1 Consistent with the Promethean story, the powerful protagonist (creative writing as institution in this case) becomes rendered as victim. Fenza …
This edited volume explores how indigenous knowledges and practices can be instrumental in improving literacy outcomes and teacher development practices in Ethiopia, aiding children’s long-term reading, and learning outcomes. The chapters present research from a collaborative project between Ethiopia and Norway and demonstrate how students can be supported to think pragmatically, learn critic…
elonging is that sense of being somewhere you can be confident that you will fit in, a feeling of being safe in your identity and at home in a place. The ‘place’ at the heart of this book is school: one of the few shared social institutions that can create a sense of safety and belonging for young people or a sense of exclusion. Yet across many count…
Over the past few decades, Computational Thinking (CT) has gained widespreadattention and been regarded as one of the essential skills required by those growingup in the digital era. To nurture the next generation to become creativeproblem-solvers, there is a growing need to implement CT education into the schoolcurriculum. This book is an edited volume with a specific focus on CT education.The…