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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
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images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
This book provides a comprehensive introduction by an extraordinary
range of experts to the recent and rapidly developing field of
learning analytics. Some of the finest current thinkers about ways
to interpret and benefit from the increasing amount of evidence
from learners' experiences have taken time to explain their
methods, describe examples, and point out new underpinnings for the
field. Together, they show how this new field has the potential to
dramatically increase learner success through deeper understanding
of the academic, social-emotional, motivational, identity and
meta-cognitive context each learner uniquely brings. Learning
analytics is much more than "analyzing learning data"-it is about
deeply understanding what learning activities work well, for whom,
and when. Learning Analytics in Education provides an essential
framework, as well as guidance and examples, for a wide range of
professionals interested in the future of learning. If you are
already involved in learning analytics, or otherwise trying to use
an increasing density of evidence to understand learners' progress,
these leading thinkers in the field may give you new insights. If
you are engaged in teaching at any level, or training future
teachers/faculty for this new, increasingly technology-enhanced
learning world, and want some sense of the potential opportunities
(and pitfalls) of what technology can bring to your teaching and
students, these forward-thinking leaders can spark your
imagination. If you are involved in research around uses of
technology, improving learning measurements, better ways to use
evidence to improve learning, or in more deeply understanding human
learning itself, you will find additional ideas and insights from
some of the best thinkers in the field here. If you are involved in
making administrative or policy decisions about learning, you will
find new ideas (and dilemmas) coming your way from inevitable
changes in how we design and deliver instruction, how we measure
the outcomes, and how we provide feedback to students, teachers,
developers, administrators, and policy-makers. For all these
players, the trick will be to get the most out of all the new
developments to efficiently and effectively improve learning
performance, without getting distracted by "shiny" technologies
that are disconnected from how human learning and development
actually work.
This book features a collection of essays on China's modern
Catholic Church by a scholar of China-West intellectual and
religious exchange. The essays and reflections were mostly written
in China while the author was traveling by train, or staying in
villages or large cities near to Roman Catholic cathedrals or other
important historical sites during research trips to the country. It
is clear that Clark's understanding of Catholicism in China evolved
from the first entry to the final ones in 2019. The essays included
in this compendium were written in disparate contexts and in
response to different events. As such, there is no obvious theme or
order to the content. However, despite this, the book provides
valuable insights for readers wishing to gain a better
understanding of the complex topography of Catholic history in
China, the contours of which have undergone stark transformations
with each dynastic, political, and ecclesial transition. The
information presented serves to highlight and explain the lives of
Catholic people and the events that have punctuated one of the most
significant dimensions of China's long history of friendship,
conflict and exchange with the West.
In this first book-length critical study of Ban Gu and his works,
Anthony Clark provides both biographical and historical information
about Ban Gu and his political context, while also reflecting on
how that context formed his portrayal of history. Clark's book
argues that the precarious position court scholars and ministers
occupied motivated Ban Gu to restructure long-hallowed Confucian
political ideas into an entirely new notion of Heaven's Mandate
(tianming). Unlike the earlier model, which held that Heaven
assigned or removed its sanction based upon moral merits, Ban's new
Mandate model held that the ruling dynastic family's Mandate was
permanently bestowed, and thus irrevocable, regardless of the
ruler's good or bad behavior. This book offers new insight to
previous scholarly assumptions regarding the ancient Chinese idea
of Heaven's Mandate, while also providing historical information
about Ban Gu and his family during the Han dynasty. Ban Gu's
History of Early China is an important book for anyone interested
in the history, philosophy, and literature of early China.
This volume incorporates essays questioning the meta-analyses of
computer-based instruction research, Robert Kozma's counterpoint
theory of learning with media, science-based technology verus
experience-based craft and science-based authentic technologies.
Western missionaries in China were challenged by something they
could not have encountered in their native culture; most Westerners
were Christian, and competitions in their own countries were
principally denominational. Once they entered China they
unwittingly became spiritual merchants who marketed Christianity as
only one religion among the long-established purveyors of other
religions, such as the masters of Buddhist and Daoist rites. A
Voluntary Exile explores the convergence of cultures. This
collection of new and insightful research considers themes of
religious encounter and accommodation in China from 1552 to the
present, and confronts how both Western Europeans and indigenous
Chinese mitigated the cultural and religious antagonisms that
resulted from cultural misunderstanding. The studies in this work
identify areas where missionary accommodation in China has
succeeded and failed, and offers new insights into what contributed
to cultural conflict and confluence. Each essay responds in some
way to the "accommodationist" approach of Western missionaries and
Christianity, focusing on new areas of inquiry. For example,
Michael Maher, SJ, considers the educational and religious
formation of Matteo Ricci prior to his travels to China, and how
Ricci's intellectual approach was connected to his so-called
"accommodationist method" during the late Ming. Eric Cunningham
explores the hackneyed assertion that Francis Xavier's mission to
Asia was a "failure" due to his low conversion rates, suggesting
that Xavier's "failure" instigated the entire Chinese missionary
enterprise of the 16th and 17th centuries. And, Liu Anrong
confronts the hybridization of popular Chinese folk religion with
Catholicism in Shanxi province. The voices in this work derive from
divergent scholarly methodologies based on new research, and
provide the reader a unique encounter with a variety of
disciplinary views. This unique volume reaches across oceans,
cultures, political systems, and religious traditions to provide
important new research on the complexities of cultural encounters
between China and the West.
'Behavioral Neuroscience of Learning and Memory' brings together
the opinions and expertise of some of the world's foremost
neuroscientists in the field of learning and memory research. The
volume provides a broad coverage of contemporary research and
thinking in this field, focusing both on well established topics
such as the medial temporal lobe memory system, as well as emerging
areas of research such as the role of memory in decision making and
the mechanisms of perceptual learning. Key intersecting themes
include the molecular and cellular mechanisms of memory formation,
the multiplicity of memory systems in the brain, and the way in
which technological innovation is driving discovery. Unusually for
a volume of this kind, this volume brings together research from
both humans and animals-often relatively separate areas of
discourse-to give a more comprehensive and integrated view of the
field. The book will be of interest to both established researchers
who wish to broaden their knowledge of topics outside of their
specific areas of expertise, and for students who need a resource
to help them make sense of the vast scientific literature on this
subject.
Surveying the later work of W.B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens, Edward
Clarke unfolds their very last poems and considers the two poets'
relations with western literature and tradition. This book shows
how these two latecomers transform the ways in which we read
earlier poets.
Preface - PART I: Nature's Constraints: 'What are the Limits to
Growth?' - The Future: A Search for Values - Energy and
Exponentials - The Economics of Spaceship Earth - Our Environmental
Charge Account Comes Due - PART II: The Human Animal: 'What is
Human Nature?' - The Emergence of Human Nature - The Cultural
Spectrum - Religion and Worldviews - On Acquiring a Worldview -
PART III: Possessive Individualism: 'Whence Comes This Western
Worldview?' - From God to Man: Origins of the Western Worldview -
The Cult of Efficiency - Alienation - The Loss of the Sacred - PART
IV: New Modes of Thinking: 'Where Do We Begin?' - Rethinking
Economics - Defusing the Global Powder Keg - Politics: Worldviews
in Action - Nuclear 'Defence' - or Conflict Resolution? - Humankind
at the Crossroads - Notes - Index
Pakistan, with the second largest Muslim population in the world,
is a crucial country in the international system. It is an ally of
the United States in the global 'war on terror' but is also
regarded as a major bastion of some of the most active jihadist
organisations. This book highlights and explores the paradoxes that
characterise contemporary Pakistan from the simultaneous
democratization and Islamization of civil society to the
schizophrenic US-Pakistan relationship. The central theme of the
book looks at Pakistan's stability paradox. Commentators and
analysts have over recent years often suggested that Pakistan was
on the verge of state 'failure' or collapse resulting from a myriad
of dilemmas. Yet, remarkably the Pakistani state has proven to be
more resilient. This book identifies not only the factors that are
contributing to Pakistan's perceived instability but also those
factors that have contributed to the state's resilience. Chapters
explore this central paradox through three core dimensions of
Pakistan's contemporary dilemmas - the domestic, regional and
international dimensions.
Reach Out Give Praise will inspire all readers and invite everyone
to reach out to help, to share and show love to each other The
poems in this book are meant to inspire all readers and invite
everyone to reach out to help, to share and show love to each
other. The poems in the book are to be a source of comfort, to feed
you spiritually and to win souls for the kingdom of God as the
readers get a hunger for a closer walk with God and exercise their
faith in him. For the lovers, these poems will surely help you to
express more intimacy and make you appreciate your partners more.
These poems are geared to improve lifestyles and assist persons in
enjoying the blessings of God on a higher level. The poems will
minister to the depressed, poor, hurting, thirsty, lonely, hungry,
oppressed and needy, with the hope that they will be nourished and
strengthened spiritually. If persons have been hurt or abused,
these poems will truly be a source blessing to them. They will be
inspired to seek help, come up higher, press on, come out of
depression and darkness and walk in the light.
This book discusses the personal and professional challenges of
conducting fieldwork in the difficult, sometimes threatening
contexts of the transforming societies of post-socialist Europe and
China. Field research is a distinctly human effort and the social
relationships between researchers, third parties and respondents
directly affect the quality of research findings. With unusual
frankness, the authors share their personal field experiences and
discuss both the imaginative strategies they have devised to cope
with problems and the methodological lessons they have
learned.
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