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China’s Education, Curriculum Knowledge and Cultural Inscriptions: Dancing with The Wind (Routledge Cultural Studies in Knowledge, Curriculum, and Education)
by Weili ZhaoWith a focus on the role of discourse and language in education, this book examines China’s educational reform from an original perspective that avoids mapping on Westernized educational sensibilities to a Chinese environment. Zhao untangles the tradition-modernity division expressed in China’s educ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Epistemic Colonialism and the Transfer of Curriculum Knowledge across Borders: Applying a Historical Lens to Contest Unilateral Logics (Studies in Curriculum Theory Series)
by Weili ZhaoThis volume uncovers the colonial epistemologies that have long dominated the transfer of curriculum knowledge within and across nation-states and demonstrates how a historical approach to uncovering epistemological colonialism can inform an alternative, relational mode of knowledge transfer and neg... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Euro-Asian Encounters on 21st-Century Competency-Based Curriculum Reforms: Cultural Views on Globalization and Localization
by Daniel Tröhler • Weili ZhaoThis book offers a geographically unique cultural comparative lens to examine the issue of transnational curriculum knowledge (re)production. Prompted by the ongoing competency-based curriculum reforms on a global scale, this book examines where global frameworks like the OECD’s core competency defi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Optimal Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks (Springer Optimization and Its Applications #162)
This book will serve as a reference, presenting state-of-the-art research on theoretical aspects of optimal sensor coverage problems. Readers will find it a useful tool for furthering developments on theory and applications of optimal coverage; much of the content can serve as material for advanced ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Advances in Visual Computing: 11th International Symposium, ISVC 2015, Las Vegas, NV, USA, December 14-16, 2015, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #9475)
by Tim Mcgraw • George Bebis • Richard Boyle • Bahram Parvin • Darko Koracin • Ioannis Pavlidis • Rogerio Feris • Mark Elendt • Regis Kopper • Eric Ragan • Zhao Ye • Gunther WeberThe two volume set LNCS 9474 and LNCS 9475 constitutesthe refereed proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on VisualComputing, ISVC 2015, held in Las Vegas, NV, USA in December 2015. The 115 revised full papers and 35 poster paperspresented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015