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Book Synopsis1 Globalisation, human rights and education.- 2 Building HRE into the world as it could be in higher and secondary education.- 3 Human Rights Education NOW! Podcast Case Study: Illuminating HRE through the Lived Experience of Scholar Practitioners.- 4 The attack of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) as an attack on human rights education.- 5 Human rights and sport participation in the swimming programs in New York City.- 6 The right to education in South Africa: A critical decolonial reading in place-space-time.- 7 Education for Development and Human Rights: The contribution of educational projects in Portuguese schools.- 8 Human rights education and popular democracy: Making the challenge.- 9 Beyond Borders: Navigating Social Integration and Community Support for Refugees in Australia and Italy.- 10 The protection of economic, social and cultural rights in armed conflicts: The right to education between myths and realities.- 11 Research trends in globalisation, human rights and education.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1. Environmental Education Centres: Place and Purpose.- Chapter 2. Western Awakening: A Journey to Environmental Awareness.- Chapter 3. Environmental Education Centres: A Philosophical Perspective.- Chapter 4. Silhouette and Source of Colonialisation: Australia's Struggles.- Chapter 5. Seeding Change: Genesis of New South Wales Department of Education Environmental Education Centres.- Chapter 6. The Spectrum of Support: Personal to Global Structures.- Chapter 7. From Vision to Reality: Establishing EECs in New South Wales.- Chapter 8. Growth Amid Change: Institutionalisation and Rationalisation.- Chapter 9. Navigating Adversity: Thriving Through Highs and Lows.- Chapter 10. Global Flourishing: Examples of EECs Manifestation.- Chapter 11. Global Echoes, NSW Reflections: A Study of EECs with NSW Insights.- Chapter 12. Challenging Times: Changing tidesMeeting Critical Juncture.

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Book Synopsis1: Introduction.- 2: Examining STEM Violence Against Students of Color: Leveraging Science as a Mechanism for Greater Inclusion.- 3: The Mortality of Hope in Healthcare and STEM Careers.- 4: Examining Covid-19's Impact on the Reading Levels of America's Black and Brown Children Through a Critical Race Structuralism Lens.- 5: Unbleaching Education: CRS and English Language Learners.- 6: Lifting As We Climb: African American Educators' Experience with Service-Learning in US Schools.- 7: Critical Perspectives from an African American School Leader.- 8: Many Rivers to Cross: Perceptions of Honors Through the Lens of Critical Race Structuralism.- 9: Sonia Sanchez: Poet and Master Teacher.- 10: The Looking Glass: An Examination of the Literature and Framework of bell hooks' Engaged Pedagogy and Its Intersectional Impact on Education and Black Girlhood.

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Book Synopsis1 Human Rights Education.- 2 Inclusive Human Rights Education.- 3 Reconceptualising Democracy and Human Rights as a Purpose of Education in the Icelandic Formal School System.- 4 The Symbolic Importance of Athlete Attire: What it states about gender equality and justice.- 5 Fostering Identity and Civic Engagement among Muslim Youths.- 6 Body of Courage.- 7 Vulnerabilities of Education for Children's Quality Access.- 8 Globalization, Education and Policy Research in Australia, Indonesia, Italy, Lebanon and Turkey: Refugee education, employment and inclusive oppportunities.- 9 Current Research Trends in Human Rights Education Globally.

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Book SynopsisIntroduction: Technology as a Driver of the Evolution of International Large-Scale Assessments: Chapter 1: Introduction: Technology as a Driver of the Evolution of International Large-Scale Assessments: Constructs, Frameworks and the Psychometric Qualities of Test Results.- Advances in Test Development, Design and Data Collection: Chapter 2: Innovations in Item Development for Computer-Based International Assessments.- Chapter 3: Innovative Digital Reading Assessment for Fourth Grade Students: IEA’s PIRLS 2021.- Chapter 4: New Constructs and Item Types in Large-Scale Assessments.- Chapter 5: Improved Test Designs and Multistage Adaptive Testing in Large-Scale Assessments.- Chapter 6: Controlling for Item Position Effects when Adaptive Testing is Used in Large-Scale Assessments.- Chapter 7: The Digital Testing Platform for PIAAC and PISA.- Innovations in Translation, Data Processing, and Scoring: Chapter 8: Translation in Computer-Based International Large-Scale Assessments: Not a Stand-Alone Component.- Chapter 9: Psychometric Forensics to Maintain and Improve Data Quality in Large-Scale Assessments.- Chapter 10: Tools and Platforms for the Improvement of Coder Reliability – OERS and OECS.- Chapter 11: Automated Coding of Open-Ended Response Items – Possibilities and Challenges.- Chapter 12: Automatic Scoring of Constructed Responses in PISA using the Machine-Supported Coding System.- Chapter 13: Automatically Coding PISA Text Responses.- New and Advanced Methodologies for Analyzing Response and Process Data from Digital-Based Large-Scale Assessments: Chapter 14: Linking International Large-Scale Assessments over Time and Administration Modes – Scaling Linking, and Mode Effects in PISA 2015.- Chapter 15: Effects of Mode Transition on Instruments and Subpopulation Performance in NAEP.- Chapter 16: Approximate Standard Errors for NAEP Results That Incorporate Linking Error Under the Random Group Design.- Chapter 17: Scoring and Scaling Items from Innovative Domains.- Chapter 18: Preparing and Analyzing Log and Process Data in Large-Scale Assessments.- Chapter 19: Using Response Times for Improving the Understanding and Handling of Missing Responses in Low-Stakes Assessments.- Chapter 20: Incorporating Timing Data into PISA Population Modeling.- Chapter 21: Modeling Item Responses with Response Times as Collateral Information in Large-Scale Educational Assessments.- Chapter 22: Extreme Response Style and Rapid Responding: Two Sides of the Same Medallion? A Joint Modeling Approach using IRTree and Mixture IRT Models.- Chapter 23: Analyzing Test-Taking Behaviors Through Process Data Using the IRT Explanatory Model for Guessing.- Software Tools for Analyzing Large-Scale Assessment Data: Chapter 24: The IEA’s IDB Analyzer.- Chapter 25: The Data Explorer.- Chapter 26: Statistical Tools for Analyzing Data from Large-Scale Assessments in Education.- Chapter 27: Software-Tools for Analyzing Log Data.- Chapter 28: Analyzing Large-Scale Assessment Data in R: EdSurvey.- The Future of International Large-Scale Assessments: Chapter 29: What Role is there or International Large-Scale Assessments in an Age of Rapid Technological Change?.- Chapter 30: Looking at International Large-Scale Assessments from an IEA Perspective: Understanding their History and Some Predictions for the Next Twenty Years.

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Book SynopsisPathways to Academic Integrity in Higher Education: A Community of Practice Approach.- Faculty's perspectives on academic dishonesty: Evolving beliefs and opportunities for learning.- Leveraging positive peer influence to foster a culture of academic integrity.- The Benefits of Academic Integrity Networks Exploring the London and South East Academic Integrity Network.- Including everyone in academic integrity: policies and teaching practice to engage all students and staff.- Enhancing academic practice in Higher Education what's the right way to do it? .- Establishing the link between contract cheating and admissions fraud: A case study.- Role of unambiguous assessment briefs in minimising misconduct: Avoiding past mistakes through learned wisdom.- Countering Education Fraud through Legal Measures.- Consultation on student use of AI tools at a university in the United Kingdom.- Plagiarism and Writing in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.- Developing resources for supporting ethical publishing and dissemination activities.- Presenting Student Academic Integrity Champion Model: a proactive step towards campus-wide efforts in building a culture of integrity.- Face of Fake Science: four episodes for reflection.- General Processes and Specific Challenges to build a multi-institutional Research Integrity Office in India.- Plagiarism without plagiarists Romanian case study.

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Book SynopsisIntroduction Claim Less, Change More.- 1. The Communication Ecosystem.- 2. The Toxic Communication Ecosystem.-3. The Healthy Communication Ecosystem.-4. What do we Think about when we Talk about Media Literacy?.-5. A Theory of Change for Media Literacy.-6. Pilot Reviews.-7. What Difference does Media Literacy make to Access?.-8. What difference does Media Literacy make to Awareness?.-9. The Uses of Media Literacy: Capability.-10. So What Difference Does it Make? The Consequences of Media Literacy.

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