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Lo que hoy entendemos por inteligencia artificial está asociado a la planificación, la comprensión del lenguaje, el reconocimiento de objetos y sonidos, la resolución de problemas. Se trata de nuevos algoritmos que conducirían al aprendizaje acumulativo, emulando de esta manera el aprendizaje a través de la experiencia. En la última década hemos sido testigos del rápido progreso de la inteligencia artificial en diversos campos determinantes...
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If science is neither cookery, nor angelic virtuosity, then what is it? Modern societies have tended to take science for granted as a way of knowing, ordering, and controlling the world, where everything was subject to science, but science itself has largely escaped scrutiny. In this fascinating collection of interviews, CBC Radio's Ideas producer David Cayley talks to some of the world's most provocative thinkers about how the ideas of science have...
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El libro versa sobre universidad, razón y verdad. Los textos estudiados difunden luz sobre estas materias: la propia experiencia de san Agustín, algunas claves de su metafísica, de su teoría del conocimiento y de su filosofía educativa.
Se organiza en tres capítulos: el primero recoge estudios sobre la tradición agustiniana -su concepto y nuestro trabajo-; el segundo, los comentarios de algunas obras de san Agustín -Las confesiones y los diálogos...
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"Ética y ciudadanía: los límites de la convivencia" surge de la experiencia de un grupo de profesores de distintas disciplinas, durante más de diez años de trabajo, en el campo de la ética y la ciudadanía. Así, el tratamiento de los temas está sustentado en el permanente quehacer pedagógico. Por ello, constituye una herramienta válida para otros profesores universitarios tanto en el Perú como en América Latina.
La obra presenta nueve...
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The Art of Living for A Technological Age sketches the crisis of our late modern age, where persons are enamored by the promises of progress and disciplined to form by the power of technology--the ontology of our age. Yet, it also offers a response, attending to those performative activities, educative and transformative social practices that might allow us to live humanly and bear witness to human being (becoming) for a technological age. As such,...
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Este volumen es fruto de un proyecto de investigación del grupo Sanhisoc, dedicado a analizar el papel de los organismos internacionales y las redes de expertos en la transferencia de conocimiento en salud pública en el contexto europeo. Un asunto relevante en el contexto histórico de aparición de la salud como asunto político con el consiguiente desarrollo de administraciones sanitarias nacionales y de un poderoso aparato industrial. El libro...
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C.S. Lewis once remarked, "Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more, clever devil." In most modern cultures, their education systems are often, portrayed by the media to be "failing" and in need of reform. In this unique collection of 19 essays, a diverse, collection of authors examine the traditional principles of education and how knowledge and values are, transmitted within traditional societies.
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Esta obra profundiza en el concepto de didáctica desde cuatro ejes, partiendo de la reflexión epistemológica: las tesis y desarrollos conceptuales de la didáctica; las prácticas de enseñanza, como foco de discusión de la didáctica; la investigación didáctica en la educación, y las nuevas perspectivas de la didáctica. El estudio de estos ejes es la apertura para el debate sobre las tendencias, los saberes, las prácticas y las investigaciones...
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Why teach music? Who deserves a music education? Can making and learning about music serve the common good? A collection of essays considers the answers.
In Humane Music Education for the Common Good, scholars and educators from around the world offer unique responses to the recent UNESCO report titled Rethinking Education: Toward the Common Good. This report suggests how, through purpose, policy, and pedagogy, education can and must respond to the...
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While much has been written about the impact of Darwin's theories on U.S. culture, and countless scholarly collections have been devoted to the science of evolution, few have addressed the specific details of Darwin's theories as a cultural force affecting U.S. writers. America's Darwin fills this gap and features a range of critical approaches that examine U.S. textual responses to Darwin's works.
The scholars in this collection represent a range...
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In this book, scholar-practitioners offer alternatives to the five-chapter thesis crafted in the tradition of science reports. As authors of meritiorious and award-winning dissertations, they provide insights into the challenging process of conceptualizing interpretive methods of inquiry including narrative, heuristic, social cartography, grounded theory, spritiual inquiry, reflective art-making; and essay writing. Each author explores the interconnections...
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La edición revela experiencias universitarias que analizan y proponen soluciones a problemas sociales mediante la acción colectiva. Muestra la fusión de saberes académicos, experiencias de diversos actores y esfuerzos de la sociedad que se entretejen para construir un mundo más justo y más humano.
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ReggaeStories provides a range of perspectives on the development of Jamaican popular music and culture, in particular reggae and dancehall, and opens the door to new debates on these music forms and their producers and creators. It moves through early musical debates and incendiary intellectual contributions in Jamaican reggae to trace Jamaican popular music in new geographical locales and then returns home to contemporary dancehall posturing. The...
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In this anthology, teachers and scholars examine the ways in which teaching is a performance that incorporates acts of impersonation.
Drawn from a conference on classroom dynamics, this anthology explores both the personal and performative aspects of teacher-student relationships. After David Crane's prefatory "postscript," George Otte recommends that students pretend, writing from various perspectives, Indira Karamcheti suggests putting on race...
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Youth, Education, and Marginality: Local and Global Expressions is a close examination of the lives of marginalized young people in schools. Essays by scholars and educators provide international insights grounded in educational and community practice and policy. They cover the range and intersections of marginalization: poverty, Aboriginal cultures, immigrants and newcomers, gay/lesbian youth, rural-urban divides, mental health, and so forth. Presenting...
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El hecho de que las universidades hayan modificado paulatinamente sus estructuras de gestión ha condicionado la creación de nuevas formas organizativas de gobierno universitario. En este libro, un grupo destacado de expertos y altos directivos de reconocidas universidades revisa las figuras actuales de gobierno a través de una mirada comparada y demuestra que, a pesar de las diferencias entre los claustros revisados, todas buscan conciliar autonomía...
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The Parent Track provides an in-depth understanding of parenting in academia, from diverse perspectives-gender, age, race/ethnicity, marital status, sexual orientation-and at different phases of a parent's academic career. This collection not only arrives at a comprehensive understanding of parenthood and academia; it reveals the shifting ideologies surrounding the challenges of negotiating work and family balance in this context. Earlier research...
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Reconceptualizes local, national, and transnational adult education practices in light of neoliberalism and globalization.
Honorable Mention, 2017 Phillip E. Frandson Award for Literature in the Field of Professional, Continuing, and/or Online Education presented by the University Professional and Continuing Education Association
This groundbreaking book critiques the boundaries of where adult education takes place through a candid examination of...
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Higher education has long been contested terrain. From student movements to staff unions, the fight for accessible, critical, and quality public education has turned university campuses globally into sites of struggle. Whether calling for the decommodification or the decolonization of education, many of these struggles have attempted to draw on (and, in turn, resonate with) longer histories of popular resistance, broader social movements, and radical...
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