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Author: Nicholas Shrady Publisher: Pocket Books ISBN: 9780743450690 Category : Leaning Tower (Pisa, Italy) Languages : en Pages : 161
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In this unconventional biography, the author recounts the tower's rich history, from its abortive beginnings in 1173 through to its ongoing stabilization today, and examines the various symbolisms that have projected on it throughout the ages.
Author: Nicholas Shrady Publisher: Pocket Books ISBN: 9780743450690 Category : Leaning Tower (Pisa, Italy) Languages : en Pages : 161
Book Description
In this unconventional biography, the author recounts the tower's rich history, from its abortive beginnings in 1173 through to its ongoing stabilization today, and examines the various symbolisms that have projected on it throughout the ages.
Author: Miguel A. Pereyra Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 9460917402 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 328
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From the 23rd to 26th of November 2009 in La Palma island, in the Canaries, the Comparative Education Society in Europe (CESE) organized an international symposium entitled PISA under Examination: Changing Knowledge, Changing Tests, and Changing Schools. During four days seventeen leading scholars of Europe and America presented their contributions to debate the different problematiques of the remarkable phenomenon represented by the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment or PISA. PISA is not merely an educational event. It is also a media circus which involves the public rehearsal for reasons for failure or success; and even, in some cases, public and political and academic explanations about why 'failure' was not really that, and why 'success' was not really that either. At the centre of all these indications, we find the growing influence of international agencies on education and schooling which is decisively contributing to a marketisation of the field of education, in the context of an increasingly multilevel and fragmented arena for educational governance based on the formulation, the regulation and the transnational coordination and convergence of policies, buttressed at the same time by the diffusion of persuasive discursive practice. Organized in four sections entitled The Comparative Challenges of the OCDE PISA Programme, PISA and School Knowledge, The Assessment of PISA, School Effectiveness and the Socio-cultural Dimension, PISA and the Immigrant Student Question, and Extreme Visions of PISA: Germany and Finland, the contributions of this book offers a comprehensive approach of all these challenging and significant issues written from different and distinct research and academic traditions.
Author: Diana Savastano Publisher: ISBN: 9781091450684 Category : Languages : en Pages : 100
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It's no surprise to Marcello Mousetti when he receives an urgent message from the Prime Minister of England to come to London-immediately. The Great Westminster Clock, known around the world as Big Ben, has mysteriously stopped ticking. Marcello and his friends, Tilly and Taylor, take up the challenge and whiz from Pisa to London through a cyberspace Mouse Operating System called Web-MOS. Upon arrival, they meet an oddly disguised detective investigating the theft of precious jewels from a local museum. But what do stolen jewels have to do with a silent clock? And who's secretly watching their every move? As the story unfolds, Marcello and his friends make a major discovery that takes them into a tangled web of mystery and danger.
Author: Kaye Stacey Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319101218 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 334
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This book describes the design, development, delivery and impact of the mathematics assessment for the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). First, the origins of PISA’s concept of mathematical literacy are discussed, highlighting the underlying themes of mathematics as preparation for life after school and mathematical modelling of the real world, and clarifying PISA’s position within this part of the mathematics education territory. The PISA mathematics framework is introduced as a significant milestone in the development and dissemination of these ideas. The underlying mathematical competencies on which mathematical literacy so strongly depends are described, along with a scheme to use them in item creation and analysis. The development and implementation of the PISA survey and the consequences for the outcomes are thoroughly discussed. Different kinds of items for both paper-based and computer-based PISA surveys are exemplified by many publicly released items along with details of scoring. The novel survey of the opportunity students have had to learn the mathematics promoted through PISA is explained. The book concludes by surveying international impact. It presents viewpoints of mathematics educators on how PISA and its constituent ideas and methods have influenced teaching and learning practices, curriculum arrangements, assessment practices, and the educational debate more generally in fourteen countries.
Author: António Teodoro Publisher: Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics ISBN: 9781032185811 Category : Education and globalization Languages : en Pages : 0
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This volume offers a critical examination of the Programme for International Students Assessment (PISA), focusing on its origins and implementation, relationship to other international large-scale assessments, and its impacts on educational policy and reform at national and cross-national levels. Using empirical data gathered from a research project carried out by the CeiED at Lusofona University, Lisbon, the text highlights connections between PISA and emergent issues including the international circulation of big science, expertise and policy, and identifies its conceptual and methodological limits as a global governance project. The volume ultimately provides a novel framework for understanding how OECD priorities are manifested through a regulatory instrument based on Human and Knowledge Capital Theory, and so makes a powerful case to search for new humanistic approaches. This text will benefit researchers, academics and educators with an interest in education policy and politics, international and comparative education, and the sociology of education more broadly. Those interested in the history of education will also benefit from this volume.
Author: Laurence Sigler Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 1461300797 Category : Mathematics Languages : en Pages : 736
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First published in 1202, Fibonacci’s Liber Abaci was one of the most important books on mathematics in the Middle Ages, introducing Arabic numerals and methods throughout Europe. This is the first translation into a modern European language, of interest not only to historians of science but also to all mathematicians and mathematics teachers interested in the origins of their methods.
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