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What ideas do children hold about the natural world? How do these ideas affect their learning of science? Young learners bring to the classroom knowledge and ideas about many aspects of the natural world constructed from their experiences of education and from outside school. These ideas contribute to subsequent learning, and research has shown that teaching of science is unlikely to be effective unless it takes learners' perspectives into account. Making Sense of Secondary Science provides a concise, accessible summary of international research into learners' ideas about science, presenting...

As globalization progresses, exchange rates have become increasingly wedded to internal and external economic policies. This edited collection tackles four key questions in this important and growing area: How much emphasis should be placed on the exchange rate when setting policy? *What is the success or otherwise, of different approaches to modeling exchange rates? *What determines capital flows and their impact? *What should policy makers do about monetary policy and capital flows? It is well understood that within open economies the choice of exchange rate, capital mobility and monetary...

Seventeen papers of which fifteen are devoted to topics in southern Africa, one comparing evidence from the American south west, and one on Egypt.