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Remembering Wim Cohen.

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Cohen, J.W. (1998)

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Development of educational services in small towns of the Małopolskie and Podkarpackie voivodeships

Mariola Tracz (2015)

Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis Studia Geographica

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The aim of this study was to present the variety of educational services in small towns of Małopolskie and Podkarpackie voivodeships. Performance of educational services is determined by numerous factors, of which the key ones are: economic and social policy, rules governing the funding of education and demographic processes. Education is a public service aimed at particular citizen groups (children, youth, adults) or at the society itself. The maim methods used in study was analysis...

Mathematics and Morality on the Cusp of Modernity

Peter Dear (2001)

Revue d'histoire des mathématiques

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This note suggests that a fruitful way of investigating the history of mathematics lies in consideration of its pedagogical purposes. As a general illustration of the directions that such an approach might take, the paper discusses early-modern arguments for the practical utility of mathematics and its capacity to inculcate good habits of thought, as well as the appearance of new uses for mathematical training in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that served the purpose...

Professor Edward A. Friedman in a Nutshell

Editors (2015)

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Edward A. Friedman is Professor Emeritus of Technology Management at Stevens Institute of Technology. His undergraduate and doctoral degrees in Physics are from MIT (1957) and Columbia University (1963), respectively. As Dean of Stevens Institute of Technology (1973–1983) he led innovations on applications of computer and networking technologies in undergraduate education, which were studied and emulated by universities worldwide. Dr. Friedman was responsible for the pioneering requirement...