1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451453603321

Autore

Savin-Baden Maggi <1960->

Titolo

Learning spaces [[electronic resource] ] : creating opportunities for knowledge creation in academic life / / Maggi Savin-Baden

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Maidenhead, : Open University Press, 2008

ISBN

9786611331252

1-281-33125-2

0-335-23525-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p.)

Disciplina

378

Soggetti

Education, Higher - Philosophy

Education, Higher - Aims and objectives

Universities and colleges - Faculty

College teachers - Workload

Personal space

College buildings

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front cover; Half title; Imprint page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part 1: Re-viewing the Landscape; Chapter 1 Forms of Learning Spaces; Chapter 2 Creating Learning Spaces; Part 2: Engaging Possibilities; Chapter 3 Writing Spaces; Chapter 4 Dialogic Spaces; Chapter 5 Reflective Spaces; Chapter 6 Digital Spaces; Chapter 7 Troublesome Spaces; Part 3 : Transforming Locations; Chapter 8 Boundary Spaces; Chapter 9 Spatial Identities; Chapter 10 Re-positioning Learning Spaces; Glossary; References; Index; Back cover

Sommario/riassunto

Introduces readers to forms of learning spaces that need to be (re) captured in a academic life. This book suggests that the ability to have or to find space in academic life seems to be increasingly difficult since we seem to be consumed by teaching and bidding, overwhelmed by emails and underwhelmed by long arduous meetings.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910815464003321

Titolo

The Cambridge handbook of intelligence / / edited by Robert J. Sternberg, Scott Barry Kaufman [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011

ISBN

1-139-08859-9

1-107-21602-8

1-283-19328-0

9786613193285

1-139-09233-2

0-511-97724-7

1-139-09284-7

1-139-09182-4

1-139-09092-5

1-139-09002-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xix, 984 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge handbooks in psychology

Classificazione

PSY023000

Disciplina

153.9

Soggetti

Intellect

Human information processing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Intelligence and its measurement -- pt. 2. Development of intelligence -- pt. 3. Intelligence and group differences -- pt. 4. Biology of intelligence -- pt. 5. Intelligence and information processing -- pt. 6. Kinds of intelligence -- pt. 7. Intelligence and society -- pt. 8. Intelligence in relation to allied constructs -- pt. 9. Moving forward.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date compendium of theory and research in the field of human intelligence. Each of the 42 chapters is written by world-renowned experts in their respective fields, and collectively, they cover the full range of topics of contemporary interest in the study of intelligence. The handbook is divided into nine parts: Part I covers intelligence and its measurement; Part II deals with the development of intelligence; Part III discusses



intelligence and group differences; Part IV concerns the biology of intelligence; Part V is about intelligence and information processing; Part VI discusses different kinds of intelligence; Part VII covers intelligence and society; Part VIII concerns intelligence in relation to allied constructs; and Part IX is the concluding chapter, which reflects on where the field is currently and where it still needs to go.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910960151903321

Titolo

Experiences of freedom in postcolonial literatures and cultures / / edited by Annalisa Oboe and Shaul Bassi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-81172-9

1-283-10397-4

9786613103970

1-136-81173-7

0-203-82892-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (385 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BassiShaul

OboeAnnalisa

Disciplina

809/.933581

Soggetti

Liberty in literature

Postcolonialism in literature

Postcolonialism and the arts

Human rights and globalization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Resisting history and colonialism -- pt. 2. The right to move and to belong -- pt. 3. The right to (believe in) free futures -- pt. 4. Imaginative freedom and critical engagement.

Sommario/riassunto

Modern ideas of freedom and human rights have been repeatedly contested and are hotly debated at the beginning of the third millennium in response to new theories, needs, and challenges in contemporary life.This volume offers culturally diverse contributions to



the debate on freedom from the literatures and arts of the postcolonial world, exploring experiences that evoke, desire, imagine, and perform freedom across five continents and two centuries of history.Experiences of Freedom opens with an introductory philosophical essay by Achille Mbembe and is d