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Rethinking EMI: multidisciplinary perspectives from Chinese-speaking regions
ABSTRACT Due to the competitive edge it confers on students, educational institutions, and non-English speaking nations in a globalized economy, English as a medium of instruction (EMI) has been gaining popularity in tertiary education in non-native English-speaking (NNES) countries. Institute-wide EMI implementation has often been imposed by top-down decisions, in combination with the optimis…
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Sexualpolitical: Freud with Marx, Fanon, Foucault
The Sexual/Political engages with contemporary political issues in sexuality through a survey of modern philosophy, psychoanalytic thought, 20th-century political theory, and more recent queer philosophies. The book investigates how the sexual has perturbed philosophical, political, and psychoanalytic thought and how this has fed into discrimination against the LGBTQI community. It analyses …
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- 9781003384076
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Social enterprise in Central and Eastern Europe: theory, models and practice
ABSTRACT In the last two decades, the quest for a widely accepted definition of social enterprise has been a central issue in a great number of publications. The main objective of the ICSEM Project (on which this book is based) was to show that the social enterprise field would benefit much more from linking conceptualisation efforts to the huge diversity of social enterprises than from an …
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- 9780429324529
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- 326 p
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Comparative renewables policy : political, organizational and European fields
Challenging one-eyed technology-focused accounts of renewables policy, this book provides a ground-breaking, deep-diving and genre-crossing longitudinal study of policy development. The book develops a multi-field explanatory approach, capturing inter-relationships between actors often analyzed in isolation. It provides empirically rich and systematically conducted comparative case studies o…
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- 9780429198144
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Business school internationalisation in a changing world
This is the Open Access edition of Global Focus from the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD). Global Focus has become one of the most authoritative resources for in-depth analysis and updates on international management development. With features, topical reports, thought leadership and insight from leading experts from academia, business schools, companies and consultancies, …
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Socio-Technical Innovation Bundles for Agri-Food Systems Transformation
This open access book is the result of an expert panel convened by the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and Nature Sustainability. The panel tackled the seventeen UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030 head-on, with respect to the global systems that produce and distribute food. The panel’s rigorous synthesis and analysis of existing research leads compellingly to multiple…
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- Sustainable Development Goals Series
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- XXXIX, 195
Motivationale Aspekte mathematischer Lernprozesse
In diesem Open-Access-Buch werden professionelle Kompetenzen von angehenden Mathematiklehrkräften untersucht, die sie zur Förderung des Mathematiklernens und zur Motivationsförderung von Schüler*innen mit Lernschwierigkeiten benötigen. Dazu werden zunächst Grundsätze der Förderung dieser Schüler*innengruppe formuliert und, unter Berücksichtigung der Forschung zu professionellen Kompet…
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- Bielefelder Schriften zur Didaktik der Mathematik
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- XXIV, 253
Ibsen and degeneration: familial decay and the fall of civilization
Henrik Ibsen’s plays were written at a critical juncture in late-19th-century European culture. Appearing at a time when notions of evolution and heredity were commonplace themes in literature and the arts, Ibsenian drama highlights the creative potential offered by contemporary evolutionary thought. In his plays, Ibsen explores variations on the theme of degeneration, imagining how families …
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Youth in Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Sociological Perspective
This book investigates the life experiences of youth in South Africa, considering whether contemporary youth have benefitted from the socioeconomic reconstruction of post-apartheid society. Student protests against apartheid drove transformative change in South Africa, and the subsequent new constitution promised positive change for the nation’s youth across a range of sectors. Adopting a …
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Bullying im Klassenverband – doch nicht nur in der Schule
Das vorliegende Open-Access-Buch befasst sich mit den Fragen, welche Rollen Klassenmitglieder bei Bullying einnehmen und durch welche sozial-kognitiven und affektiven Reaktionen sie sich auszeichnen. Bei Bullying handelt es sich um aggressives Verhalten, das sich über einen längeren Zeitraum hinweg systematisch gegen schwächere Mitglieder einer Gruppe richtet. Bullying ist dementsprechend al…
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