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Understanding and Investigating Response Processes in Validation Research
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 374

Understanding and Investigating Response Processes in Validation Research

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-05-23
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  • Publisher: Springer

This volume addresses an urgent need across multiple disciplines to broaden our understanding and use of response processes evidence of test validity. It builds on the themes and findings of the volume Validity and Validation in Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences (Zumbo & Chan, 2014), with a focus on measurement validity evidence based on response processes. Approximately 1000 studies are published each year examining the validity of inferences made from tests and measures in the social, behavioural, and health sciences. The widely accepted Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing (1999, 2014) present five sources of evidence for validity: content-related, response processes,...

Literacy and Development
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 244

Literacy and Development

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002-11-01
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Literacy and Development is a collection of case studies of literacy projects around the world. The contributors present their in-depth studies of everyday uses and meanings of literacy and of the literacy programmes that have been developed to enhance them. Arguing that ethnographic research can and should inform literacy policy in developing countries, the book extends current theory and itself contributes to policy making and programme building. A large cross-section of society is covered, with chapters on Women's literacy in Pakistan, Ghana, and Rural Mali, literacy in village Iran, and an 'Older Peoples' Literacy Project. This international collection includes case studies from: Peru, Pakistan, India, South Africa, Bangladesh, Mali, Nepal, Iran, Eritrea, Ghana.

Sustaining literacy in Africa: developing a literate environment
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 294

Sustaining literacy in Africa: developing a literate environment

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-06-23
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  • Publisher: UNESCO

This publication contributes, in the critical context of Africa, to the conceptual development of the notion of the literate environment--an essential element for the promotion of literacy. It brings knowledge and insights about literate environments, highlighting inter-related issues such as its definitions, previous undertakings, methods of assessment as well as interactions between the supply and demand sides of environments.--

Perjury and Pardon, Volume I
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 355

Perjury and Pardon, Volume I

An inquiry into the problematic of perjury, or lying, and forgiveness from one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. “One only ever asks forgiveness for what is unforgivable.” From this contradiction begins Perjury and Pardon, a two-year series of seminars given by Jacques Derrida at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris in the late 1990s. In these sessions, Derrida focuses on the philosophical, ethical, juridical, and political stakes of the concept of responsibility. His primary goal is to develop what he calls a “problematic of lying” by studying diverse forms of betrayal: infidelity, denial, false testimony, perjury, unkept promises,...

Going Black Home
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 334

Going Black Home

This is a story of Michael Featherstone, a south-east Londoner, who has the idea to start a petition to make a social-revolutionary change: requesting ALL black people in the Western world go back to Africa. Michael wants to make Africa a leading cultural powerhouse, and wants to be free of all the associations of being black in the Western world. Working in media and PR, Michael finds the uneasy road of trying to develop such a petition. How can he build a journey to self-discovery, whilst convincing others to join him on a path to an unknown future?

Understanding Ethnic Conflict
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 337

Understanding Ethnic Conflict

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-08-07
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Understanding Ethnic Conflict provides all the key concepts needed to understand conflict among ethnic groups. Including approaches from both comparative politics and international relations, this text offers a model of ethnic conflict's internationalization by showing how domestic and international actors influence a country's ethnic and sectarian divisions. Illustrating this model in five original case studies, the unique combination of theory and application in Understanding Ethnic Conflict facilitates more critical analysis of contemporary ethnic conflicts and the world's response to them.

Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1482

Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals

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  • Published: 1970-07
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Epistemology of Violence
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 276

The Epistemology of Violence

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-03-18
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book provides an in-depth, multidisciplinary framework and case-study analysis for understanding the root causes of violence in schooling. Drawing on critical theory, psychology, neuroscience and learning theory, the author provides a holistic analysis of how ‘violent epistemology’ and the ‘non-conducive circumstances’ that it produces can be seen to be at the roots of violence in societies and social institutions such as schools. Chapter 1 outlines how current and historical theories of violence, and interventions based on them, have failed due to their inability to properly conceptualise the root causes of violence. Chapters 2 addresses this by providing a new epistemic and me...

Migration, Education and Socio-Economic Mobility
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 158

Migration, Education and Socio-Economic Mobility

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-06-11
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The primacy of education in development agendas is unquestioned. With the gradual acknowledgement of the potential benefits that migration can hold for development, the relationship between migration and education is a growing area of research. Migration, Education and Socio-Economic Mobility explores how the decisions people make in terms of both their migration choices and educational investments, mediated as they are by gender, class, caste and nationality, can potentially contribute to earning incomes, building social and symbolic capital, or reshaping gender relations, all elements contributing to the process of economic and social mobility. Much of the existing literature examining the...

Revisiting Actor-Network Theory in Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 347

Revisiting Actor-Network Theory in Education

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-05-17
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Actor-network theory (ANT) is enjoying a notable surge of interest in educational research. New directions and questions are emerging along with new empirical approaches, as educators bring unique sensibilities and commitments to the ongoing debates and reconfigurations that characterise ANT-inspired research. Ethics and politics are now figuring more prominently in ANT-related educational publications, as are educational policy and the critical studies of assessment practices. Research on digital technology in education has also attracted critical exploration with ANT approaches. This book gathers together articles that address important educational issues while showing creative theoretical and methodological possibilities for ANT studies in education. This book aims to locate these contributions within broader trajectories of inquiry in education and sociomaterial approaches considered worthy of attention, given the challenges facing educators today. It also raises critical questions about what appear to be certain oversights or less helpful ideas in what is emerging in the field.