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Higher Education, Stratification, and Workforce Development Competitive Adva…
This work analyses how political economic shifts contribute to competition within higher education systems in the US, EU, and Canada. The authors highlight competition for prestige and public and private subsidies, exploring the consequences of these processes through theoretical and empirical analyses. Accordingly, the work highlights topics that will be of interest to a wide range of audience…
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- 978-3-319-21511-2
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- VI, 360
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- 370 HIG
Children, Literacy and Ethnicity : Reading Identities in the Primary School
This book explores children's meaning making of the books they learn to read with, especially relating to the intersections of race, gender and class. Based on research using a participative, innovative design with young children, issues of identity, belonging and classroom hierarchies are explored in complex and poignant ways by the children.
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- 978-1-137-53737-9
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- 301
Becoming a World-Class University: The case of King Abdulaziz University
Higher Education; Administration, Organization and Leadership; Educational Policy and Politics; International and Comparative Education; Knowledge - Discourse; Universities; Research; Community
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- 9783319263809
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Children from the Other America : A Crisis of Possibility
Necessity is the mother of invention and this all began with a plea on a listserv: “We have a sixteen year old Mayan Quiche young man who won’t stop crying in our school”. How desperate must a parent be to say goodbye to their child/children to perhaps never see them again because of wars in Syria or gang violence in Central America making citizens so desperate? Will the children make it …
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- 978-94-6300-447-3
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Wandering the Wards : An Ethnography of Hospital Care and its Consequences fo…
Wandering the Wards provides a detailed and unflinching ethnographic examination of life within the contemporary hospital. It reveals the institutional and ward cultures that inform the organisation and delivery of everyday care for one of the largest populations within them: people living with dementia who require urgent unscheduled hospital care. Drawing on five years of research embedded in …
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Steal This Classroom : Teaching and Learning Unbound
Jody Cohen and Anne Dalke construe “classrooms” as testing grounds, paradoxically boxed-in spaces that cannot keep their promise to enclose, categorize, or name. Exploring what is usually left out can create conditions ripe for breaking through, where real and abstract reverse and melt, the distinction between them disappearing. These are ecotones, transitional spaces that are testing groun…
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- 9781950192380
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Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering : 24th International Conferenc…
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, FASE 2021, which took place during March 27–April 1, 2021, and was held as part of the Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2021. The conference was planned to take place in Luxembourg but changed to an online format due to the COVID-…
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- 9783030715007
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Normalization in World Politics
The imposition of normalcy on fragile states and crises and its implications for world politics.
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- 9780472132898
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Confessions of the pricing man : how price affects everything
The worldℓ́ℓs foremost expert on pricing strategy shows how this mysterious process works and how to maximize value through pricing to company and customer. ℗ℓ In this engaging and practical narrative, Hermann Simon leaves nothing out of the pricing cocktail, explaining each ingredient through dozens of stories collected over four decades in the trenches and behind the scenes. A world-…
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- 9783319204000
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- 338.544
Configuration Spaces Geometry, Topology and Representation Theory
This book collects the scientific contributions of a group of leading experts who took part in the INdAM Meeting held in Cortona in September 2014. With combinatorial techniques as the central theme, it focuses on recent developments in configuration spaces from various perspectives. It also discusses their applications in areas ranging from representation theory, toric geometry and geometric g…
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