Penemuan kausal bertujuan untuk menemukan hubungan sebab-akibat antar variabel. Hubungan tersebut memberikan penjelasan tentang bagaimana peristiwa telah terjadi dan prediksi peristiwa mana yang akan terjadi di masa depan. Kausalitas telah dipelajari dan digunakan di hampir semua disiplin ilmu, misalnya kedokteran, epidemiologi, biologi, ekonomi, fisika, ilmu sosial, sebagai dasar penjelasan, p…
Judul "Kekuasaan, Ras, dan Pendidikan Tinggi: Narasi Paralel Lintas Budaya" menunjukkan bahwa karya tersebut mengeksplorasi tema-tema dinamika kekuasaan, ras, dan pendidikan tinggi yang saling berhubungan melalui lensa naratif komparatif atau paralel. Mari kita uraikan apa arti judul ini: (1). Kekuasaan: Komponen judul ini menunjukkan bahwa karya tersebut mengkaji dinamika kekuasaan dalam konte…
Despite their apparent separation, law and literature have been closely linked fields throughout history. Linguistic creativity is central to the law, with literary modes such as narrative and metaphor infiltrating legal texts. Equally, legal norms of good and bad conduct, of identity and human responsibility, are reflected or subverted in literature's engagement with questions of law and justi…
A common story of teachers from the Global South portrays them as deficient, unreliable and unprofessional. However, this book uses an innovative Capability Approach/Critical Realist lens to reveal the causal links between teachers' constrained capabilities and their 'criticised' behaviours and offer nuanced, creative strategies for improvements.
This book represents one of the first attempts by a multidisciplinary research team, encompassing the social sciences, business, architecture and planning, engineering, and finance and economics, to help rural communities discover sustainable and self-reliant paths to development and transformation. The opening chapter outlines the background of the research, its importance in the context of…
There has been much attention paid to the idea of Smart Cities as researchers have sought to define and characterize the main aspects of the concept, including the role of creative industries in urban growth, the importance of social capital in urban development, and the role of urban sustainability. This book develops a critical view of the Smart City concept, the incentives and role of govern…
The purpose and impact of the professional doctorate – or EdD (Doctor of Education) – has long been debated. What should it be? Who should do it? Why is it worth doing? How should it be taught? What makes the EdD distinctive, unique and worthwhile? Internationally, at the level of program development and provision, universities are increasing the range of transformative professional d…
This book documents and disseminates experiences from a wide range of universities, across the five continents, which showcase how the principles of sustainable development may be incorporated as part of university programmes, and present transformatory projects and programmes, showing how sustainability can be implemented across disciplines. Sustainability in a higher education context is a fa…
The field of colorectal surgery has undergone tremendous developments in recent decades. Surgery has become less invasive, new perspectives and insights have improved perioperative management and novel outcome measures have been defined. At the same time, the limits of surgical technique and perioperative care are being challenged by more complex patients. In order to realize the immense potent…
In line with the British Psychological Society's recent recommendations for teaching the history of psychology, this comprehensive undergraduate textbook emphasizes the philosophical, cultural and social elements that influenced psychology's development. The authors demonstrate that psychology is both a human (i.e. psychoanalytic or phenomenological) and natural (i.e. cognitive) science, explor…