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This book offers a collection of original, peer-reviewed studies by
scholars working to develop a knowledge base of teaching and
facilitating self-study research methodology. Further, it details
and interconnects perspectives and experiences of new self-study
researchers and their facilitators, in self-study communities in
different countries and across different continents. Offering a
broad range of perspectives and contexts, it opens up possibilities
for encouraging the collaborative and continuous growth of teaching
and facilitating self-study research within and beyond the field of
teacher education. The breadth of the scholarship presented expands
scholarly discussions concerning designing, representing, and
theorising self-study research in response to pressing educational
and social questions. By documenting and understanding what
teaching and learning self-study looks like in different contexts
and what factors might influence its enactment, the book
contributes to building a kaleidoscopic knowledge base of
self-study research. Overall, this book demonstrates the impact on
participants' professional learning and validates the authenticity
and generative professional applications of self-study methodology
for and beyond teacher education, providing implications and
recommendations for practitioners on a global level.
This book offers a collection of original, peer-reviewed studies by
scholars working to develop a knowledge base of teaching and
facilitating self-study research methodology. Further, it details
and interconnects perspectives and experiences of new self-study
researchers and their facilitators, in self-study communities in
different countries and across different continents. Offering a
broad range of perspectives and contexts, it opens up possibilities
for encouraging the collaborative and continuous growth of teaching
and facilitating self-study research within and beyond the field of
teacher education. The breadth of the scholarship presented expands
scholarly discussions concerning designing, representing, and
theorising self-study research in response to pressing educational
and social questions. By documenting and understanding what
teaching and learning self-study looks like in different contexts
and what factors might influence its enactment, the book
contributes to building a kaleidoscopic knowledge base of
self-study research. Overall, this book demonstrates the impact on
participants' professional learning and validates the authenticity
and generative professional applications of self-study methodology
for and beyond teacher education, providing implications and
recommendations for practitioners on a global level.
Since the 1960s, in comparison to other ethnic and gender groups, a
higher rate of depression and suicide ideationhas been documented
for Latina girls. This Brief offers a concise summary of
contemporary research on this critical topic. Among the
considerations are the influence of bullying, families,
immigration, and culture on Latina adolescent mental health.
Presenting cutting-edge multiracial feminist frameworks for new and
existing empirical findings, this book serves to guide the future
research agenda on this topic. Clinical recommendations are also
included. "
The variable metric algorithm is widely recognised as one of the
most efficient ways of solving the following problem:- Locate x* a
local minimum point n ( 1) of f(x) x E R Considerable attention has
been given to the study of the convergence prop- ties of this
algorithm especially for the case where analytic expressions are
avai- ble for the derivatives g. = af/ax. i 1 *** n * (2) ~ ~ In
particular we shall mention the results of Wolfe (1969) and Powell
(1972), (1975). Wolfe established general conditions under which a
descent algorithm will converge to a stationary point and Powell
showed that two particular very efficient algorithms that cannot be
shown to satisfy \,olfe's conditions do in fact converge to the
minimum of convex functions under certain conditions. These results
will be st- ed more completely in Section 2. In most practical
problems analytic expressions for the gradient vector g (Equ. 2)
are not available and numerical derivatives are subject to
truncation error. In Section 3 we shall consider the effects of
these errors on Wolfe's convergent prop- ties and will discuss
possible modifications of the algorithms to make them reliable in
these circumstances. The effects of rounding error are considered
in Section 4, whilst in Section 5 these thoughts are extended to
include the case of on-line fu- tion minimisation where each
function evaluation is subject to random noise.
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