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Chapter 1 Introduction to Transforming K-12 Education with Artificial Intelligence
No full textThomas Chiu’s book is one of the first to look at the impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) on K-12 education in two areas: AI education, and AI in education. AI education refers to teaching AI, and AI in education refers to using AI to support learning and teaching. Chiu examines the opportunities and challenges of these impacts for teachers and students, proposes a framework and a set of principles for the two areas with examples, and suggests learning outcomes. AI in K-12 education is one of the most important global strategic initiatives since it has made and continues to make impacts on education and the job market. Including AI technology and topics in K-12 education not only helps children understand what AI technologies are and how they work, but also inspires future workplace readiness and potential AI researchers, ethical designers, and software developers. However, educators and AI experts in general realize that planning AI-related education is very challenging. It involves integrating the topics or technologies into the curriculum, necessitating teacher development to address the gaps in knowledge, addressing educational inequity, and securing equipment and resources. Understanding student and teacher opportunities and challenges is crucial. This book is an essential and thought-provoking read for researchers, teacher educators, and school teachers and leaders who wish to embrace AI to prepare K-12 students for their future education and the workforce
De nouvelles élites ? Une nouvelle société ? L’apport de la Résistance
No full textLes Résistants, quelles que soient leurs sensibilités initiales, estiment que les élites françaises d’avant 1939, ont failli. Faillite personnelle comme celle de Pétain qui signe l’armistice avec l’Allemagne nazie et se soumets au déshonneur. Faillite collective également qui concerne ceux que l’on appelle les « catégories dirigeantes ». La nécessité s’impose donc de renouveler en profondeur ces anciennes élites défaillantes pour libérer et reconstruire la France. Très vite s’impose un objectif : le renouvellement des élites, qui passe par la promotion nécessaire et légitime des Résistants, implique une véritable révolution susceptible de prolonger et de compléter celle de 1789. À cet effet, le programme du Conseil national de la Résistance annonce de profondes réformes pour reconstruire le pays et pour en assurer la renaissance. Les interventions produites à l’occasion de la XIe journée d’études évaluent l’ampleur du projet résistant et les effets de son ambition
Convergence of Science and Engineering
No full textThis reprint, titled "Convergence of Science and Engineering: A Promising Window toward Improving Public Health," explores the transformative potential of interdisciplinary research in addressing modern health challenges. This reprint highlights cutting-edge studies and reviews, showcasing how the integration of bioengineering, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, and related fields is driving innovations in disease prevention, diagnostics, and treatment. As a must-read for scientists, engineers, and healthcare professionals, this work bridges diverse disciplines to inspire groundbreaking solutions and enhance public health worldwide
Prevalence and Risk Factors of Obesity and Hypertension
No full textThis Special Issue focuses on the prevalence of obesity and hypertension, shedding light on several critical aspects of these conditions. It underscores the profound effects of obesity and sedentary lifestyles on metabolic and cardiovascular health, highlighting the alarming disparities in obesity rates among adolescents. Furthermore, it examines the cardiovascular risk factors that have emerged in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, emphasizing the need for a comprehensive approach to public health strategies
A ficção como história
No full textA Ficção como história é uma análise interdisciplinar de mais de vinte romances angolanos escritos, entre as décadas de 1960 e 2010, por alguns dos mais célebres escritores do país – Pepetela, Manuel dos Santos Lima, Manuel Pacavira, Manuel Rui, Boaventura Cardoso, José Eduardo Agualusa, Sousa Jamba e Ondjaki. Dorothée Boulanger analisa a forma como a ficção desempenhou um papel fundamental na formação da identidade angolana e na denúncia da propaganda colonial portuguesa. Num país onde muitos autores foram membros do MPLA (o Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola) e ocuparam cargos oficiais de relevo após a independência, este livro também revela a interação entre resistência literária e cumplicidades, assim como o peso do posicionamento político e da identidade de género dos próprios escritores angolanos. Rejeitando as separações académicas ocidentais entre literatura e história, poder e poética, este estudo centra-se nos modos africanos de pensar e contar História(s), concentrando-se na própria narrativa dos escritores angolanos sobre o passado, distante e mais recente, do seu país, desde o comércio atlântico de escravos e a criação da elite crioula até à luta armada anticolonial e à tentativa falhada de golpe de Estado do 27 de maio de 1977
Environmental Humanities in India
No full textThis open access book offers an introduction to the field of the environmental humanities in India. The environmental humanities, often referred to as ‘EH’, are a multifaceted, relatively new, and swiftly evolving field of scholarship that integrates the theories and approaches of various disciplines - from anthropology, art, communications, cultural studies, philosophy and ecology to history, literature, media, music, performance, politics, sociology, theology and theater. Practitioners of this considerably integrative and widely ranging field aim to address and, in certain cases, confront today's urgent ecological and cultural challenges, namely climate change, urban sustainability, biodiversity conservation, species decline, energy policy, the exigencies of the Anthropocene, environmental activism, and Indigenous peoples' justice. Although the environmental humanities have been relatively slow to gain traction in South Asia, an increasing momentum towards transdisciplinary approaches to ecology and sustainability is palpable in India. Comprising fourteen chapters, this contributed volume is the first major publication to call attention to current work in the environmental humanities in India. The volume foregrounds particular ecohumanist theories and methodologies evolving from Indian biocultural contexts. Towards this aim, the book consists of four thematic sections: Indigenous Perspectives: Conservation, Spirituality, and Language; Theoretical Grounding: Education, Law, and Ethics; Literary Formulations: Memoir, Parable, and Storyworlds; and Popular Narratives: Myth, Travel, and Music. The volume is of interest to undergraduates, postgraduates, early career scholars, and more established researchers in the environmental humanities and the allied fields of ecopoetics, ecocriticism, ecomusicology, environmental art, cultural ecology, postcolonial studies, and South Asian studies. This is an open access book
Putting Plastic Surgery on Paper
No full textAn interdisciplinary approach to medical history that shows the key role that drawings and photographs had in shaping the material, professional, emotional and aesthetic parameters of plastic surgery. Plastic surgery in twentieth-century Britain was a medical discipline with deep ties to art, artists and art history. It was also a field still in the process of creating its reputation and its archives. Putting Plastic Surgery on Paper examines these archives, focusing in particular on the works on paper held within these collections by two artists: Diana "Dickie" Orpen and Percy Hennell. Plastic surgeons depended upon the drawings and photographs made by these and other medical illustrators to craft certain narratives about their field and their surgical practice. In addition to telling an art history of plastic surgery during this period, Putting Plastic Surgery on Paper engages with the affective parameters of archival objects, and with what working as a historian involves when done within potentially traumatic spaces. Paying particular attention to the emotional dimensions and effects of this visual culture and the ways in which it is archived and framed by the discipline of plastic surgery - then and now - Putting Plastic Surgery on Paper explores not only what it meant to make art in a surgical space but also what it means to study these affecting paper objects in the archive today. This book is available as Open Access under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND
Sex and Gender
No full textThis open access book provides an interdisciplinary perspective on the study of sex and gender and suggests directions for future research in multiple fields. Sex and gender are understood, measured, and applied in different ways across society and science. To foster interdisciplinary dialogue and to promote informed applications in research, policy, medicine, and public health, the Ernst Strüngmann Forum convened scholars from diverse fields to examine a widely held assumption that sex and gender are conceptually separate. Synthesizing the interdisciplinary perspectives that emerged from this discourse, this volume explores the entanglement of sex and gender, suggesting that they are co-constituted in ways that have not been fully understood. This entanglement is examined from multiple perspectives, research challenges are explored, and ways to move forward are proposed to advance basic and developmental systems biology, human biomedical and clinical research as well as policy and practice. The book should be of interest to policymakers as well as researchers working in anthropology, behavioral neuroendocrinology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, clinical psychology, epidemiology, and feminist, gender, and transgender studies
universitat davant del genocidi, La
No full textAquest llibre recull els continguts de la jornada «La universitat davant del genocidi», organitzada per la Xarxa Universitària per Palestina, que es va celebrar a la Universitat de Barcelona el 10 d’abril de 2024. Francesca Albanese, Relatora Especial de les Nacions Unides, hi va presentar l’informe Anatomia d’un genocidi sobre la situació dels drets humans en el territori palestí ocupat des de 1967, en què es descriu la política d’extermini que està duent a terme l’Estat d’Israel sobre el poble palestí. El volum inclou també les qüestions plantejades a la taula rodona que va tenir lloc a la Facultat de Geografia i Història, en la qual es va debatre des de diferents disciplines sobre el genocidi i el paper de la universitat. Aquestes pàgines volen obrir un espai de reflexió crítica i de diàleg basat en els drets humans i el dret internacional, per tal que el poble palestí assoleixi una pau justa i duradora
Chapter 8 Enemy images, group experiences, and propaganda in the Finnish Civil War, 1918
No full textThis volume offers a broad overview of the conditions, motives, and practices of violence during the most prominent intra‑state conflicts in Europe during the first half of the 20th century. This book seeks to move beyond accounts of civil war violence that focus on microlevel motives or grand cleavages, arguing instead that violence is best examined as a multidimensional phenomenon involving a range of structural, personal, and conjectural factors operating at various levels of societal interaction. Making a case for methodological pluralism, the volume brings together an interdisciplinary team of historians and social scientists to address the aspects of civil war violence from a broad range of empirical and methodological perspectives. The book consists of three thematic sections. The first section covers contextual issues related to civil war violence, including the role of ideology and social dynamics. The second and third sections comprise empirical case studies that examine the dimensions of violence in six prominent European civil wars. The volume focuses on these particular conflicts because they are almost universally recognized as instances of civil war, and this enables the volume to maintain its analytical focus on the dynamics of violence. This book will be of much interest to students of European history, civil wars, political violence, and International Relations in general. Chapter 8 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license