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The article is a review of the book "PRIMED Model for Character Education: Six Essential Principles for School Improvement." The author highlights the importance of self-awareness in the training of future teachers and how this relates to current societal dilemmas, such as artificial intelligence. The book proposes six principles for improving schools, including building relationships, intrinsic motivation, modeling kindness, and empowering students. It also addresses lesson planning and assessment as key elements in education. Its reading is recommended for both inexperienced teachers and those with more expertise. [Extracted from the article]

The book "Motivation and emotion in learning and teaching across educational contexts" edited by Hagenauer, Lazarides, and Järvenoja offers a comprehensive view of motivation and emotion in learning, emphasizing the need for context-specific theories. The volume provides evidence-based practices for diverse educational environments, bridging research with real-world application. While the book focuses on Western empirical research, it calls for future studies to adopt a more cross-cultural approach to enhance the global applicability of theories and cater to diverse cultural educational needs. [Extracted from the article]

The reinforcement learning (RL) research area is very active, with an important number of new contributions, especially considering the emergent field of deep RL (DRL). However, a number of scientific and technical challenges still need to be resolved, among which we acknowledge the ability to abstract actions or the difficulty to explore the environment in sparse-reward settings which can be addressed by intrinsic motivation (IM). We propose to survey these research works through a new taxonomy based on information theory: we computationally revisit the notions of surprise, novelty, and skill-learning. This allows us to identify advantages and disadvantages of methods and exhibit current outlooks of research. Our analysis suggests that novelty and surprise can assist the building of a hierarchy of transferable skills which abstracts dynamics and makes the exploration process more robust. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article is a review of a book titled "Learning Scenarios: Dialogues between Architecture, Design, and Education". The book proposes a model called PRIMED for character education, based on six essential principles: priority, building relationships, intrinsic motivation, modeling kindness, empowering students, and developmental pedagogy. The author emphasizes the importance of starting by transforming the personal being of teachers in order to achieve effective character education. The book also highlights the need to effectively integrate character education with the curriculum. It offers a theoretical-practical approach to addressing educational challenges in a non-mechanical way and is based on a set of profound philosophical concepts. [Extracted from the article]

Hofman also discusses sodomy cases in a way that contributes to our understandings of nature. His source base derives from present-day Belgium, which may seem to be over-specialised, but Hofman convincingly argues that this evidence is relevant to continental Europe because during the eighteenth century these were Dutch, French, and Austrian territories; he is also conversant with the English historiography and legal system. In conclusion, Hofman makes a convincing case that the increasing focus on the inner self and its motivations was not just the property of the cultured upper classes, but also permeated the courts and common people. [Extracted from the article]

All in all, I believe that this book is an appealing read for teachers, students, teacher educators, and policymakers in EFL contexts. The closing chapter summarizes the sociopolitical, context-specific experiences of these EFL teachers from seven countries, argues that context is not a monolithic phenomenon, and elucidates how the construction of interpersonal relationships cannot be segregated from contexts. This EFL teacher cogitates that "a person's education is often judged by their English level and that English is necessary in the globalized world" and "people do not "learn" a language but "live" a language" (p. 65). [Extracted from the article]

Reviews the book "Handbook of Self-Determination Research," edited by Edward L. Deci and Richard M. Ryan.

The article reviews the book "Intrinsic Motivation and Self-Determination in Exercise and Sport" edited by Martin S. Hagger and Nikos L. D. Chatzisarantis.

Reviews the book "Intrinsic Motivation at Work: Building Energy and Commitment," by Kenneth W. Thomas.

Reviews the book "Intrinsic Motivation," by Edward L. Deci.

The article reviews the book "A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future," by Daniel H. Pink.

This article reviews the book "Intrinsic Motivation," by Edward L. Deci.

The article reviews the book "The Best Damn Management Book Ever: 9 Keys to Creating Self-Motivated High Achievers," by Warren Greshes.

The article reviews the book "Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Motivation," by Steven Levenkron.

The article reviews the book "As a Man Thinketh," by James Allen.