1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450575003321

Autore

Buell John

Titolo

Closing The Book On Homework [[electronic resource] ] : Enhancing Public Education

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2008

ISBN

1-281-09363-7

9786611093631

1-59213-768-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (173 p.)

Collana

Teaching/Learning Social Justi

Disciplina

371.3/028/1

371.30281

Soggetti

Education - Parent participation - United States

Educational change - United States

Home and school - United States

Home and school

Homework - Social aspects - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Homework as an Issue in American Politics; 1 Revisiting the Evidence; 2 A History Lesson about Work and Homework; 3 Educating Global Citizens or Global Workers?; 4 Education at the Epicenter; Conclusion: On Character and Public Education in Democratic Society; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this, the sequel to his critically acclaimed and controversial The End of Homework, John Buell extends his case against homework. Arguing that homework robs children-and parents-of unstructured time for play and intellectual and emotional development, Closing the Book on Homework offers a convincing case for why homework is an outgrowth of broader cultural anxieties about the sanctity of work itself. After the publication of Buell's previous book, many professional educators portrayed reducing homework as a dangerous idea, while at the same time parents and teachers incre



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910725049803321

Autore

Casper-Hehne Hiltraud

Titolo

Kommunikation über Grenzen : Aktuelle Ansätze zur interkulturellen Verständigung / / Hiltraud Casper-Hehne, Niteen Gupte

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Göttingen : , : Universitätsverlag Göttingen, , [2010]

©2010

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 pages)

Disciplina

303.482

Soggetti

Acculturation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This volumes deals with the question of communication over boundaries especially when it comes to German-Indian relationships in academic, economic and cultural contexts.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910300123303321

Autore

Collet Jean-François

Titolo

Discrete Stochastic Processes and Applications / / by Jean-François Collet

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-74018-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVII, 220 p. 3 illus.)

Collana

Universitext, , 0172-5939

Disciplina

519.2

Soggetti

Probabilities

Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- I. Markov processes -- 1. Discrete time, countable space -- 2. Linear algebra and search engines -- 3. The Poisson process -- 4. Continuous time, discrete space -- 5. Examples -- II. Entropy and applications -- 6. Prelude: a user's guide to convexity -- 7. The basic quantities of information theory -- 8. An example of application: binary coding -- A. Some useful facts from calculus -- B. Some useful facts from probability -- C. Some useful facts from linear algebra -- D. An arithmetical lemma -- E. Table of exponential families -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This unique text for beginning graduate students gives a self-contained introduction to the mathematical properties of stochastics and presents their applications to Markov processes, coding theory, population dynamics, and search engine design. The book is ideal for a newly designed course in an introduction to probability and information theory. Prerequisites include working knowledge of linear algebra, calculus, and probability theory. The first part of the text focuses on the rigorous theory of Markov processes on countable spaces (Markov chains) and provides the basis to developing solid probabilistic intuition without the need for a course in measure theory. The approach taken is gradual beginning with the case of discrete time and moving on to that of continuous time. The second part of this text is more applied; its core introduces various uses of convexity in



probability and presents a nice treatment of entropy.

4.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00124893

Titolo

Worterbuch der griechischen Papyrusurkunden : mit einschluss der griechischen Inschriften, Aufschriften, Ostraka, Mumienschilder usw. Aus Agypten / hrsg. von Emil Kiessling.- Amsterdam : Hakkert, 1969

Pubbl/distr/stampa

v. ; 30 cm Poss. : Supplement 1 ( (1940-1966), : 1. Lieferung  A-K

Disciplina

480.03

Soggetti

Lingua greca - Dizionari

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia