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Indigenous Knowledges and the Sustainable Development Agenda
This book discusses the vital importance of including indigenous knowledges in the sustainable development agenda. In the wake of colonialism and imperialism, dialogue between indigenous knowledges and Western epistemology has broken down time and again. However, in recent decades the broader indigenous struggle for rights and recognition has led to a better understanding of indigenous knowledg…
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- 9780367425968, 9780367853785
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- 362.398 IND i
PBL across the disciplines : Research into best practice
Problem Based and Project Based Learning (PBL) has come a long way. Following the success of PBL curricula in McMaster, Canada, Maastricht, the Netherlands and Roskilde and Aalborg University, Denmark, a great many institutes in higher education have introduced some form of PBL. The resulting diversity of PBL varieties provides ample opportunities for research focussing on practice.
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- 9788771120257
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- 370 PRO
Active Ageing and Healthy Living : A Human Centered Approach in Research and …
Increased life expectancy and the ageing of the population have been the subject of attention in Western countries, and particularly in Europe, for some years now. The challenge of 'squaring the circle' between ends and means – as well as between personal aspirations and systemic constraints – in health and social care continues to be a major concern for policymakers and all those involved …
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- 9781614994244
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- 220 halaman
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- Studies in Health Technology and Informatics vol 230
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- 362 ACT
Antisemitism and the left: On the return of the Jewish question
"Universalism has always shown two faces to the world: one emancipatory and inclusionary, the other repressive and exclusionary. Jewish experience of universalism has been correspondingly equivocal. Antisemitism and the left provides an original and stimulating study of modern antisemitism, tracing the intellectual and political struggles between these two opposed perspectives. At times, univer…
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- 9781526104960
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- 144
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- 301 SPE a
The Law of Global Digitality
The Internet is not an unchartered territory. On the Internet, norms matter. They interact, regulate, are contested and legitimated by multiple actors. But are they diverse and unstructured, or are they part of a recognizable order? And if the latter, what does this order look like? This collected volume explores these key questions while providing new perspectives on the role of law in times o…
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- 9781000603767
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- 345
Whatever Happened to Frank and Fearless?: The impact of new public management…
In this evidence-based and closely argued work, Kathy MacDermott plots the changes in the culture of the Australian Public Service that have led many contemporary commentators to lament the purported loss of traditional public service values of impartiality, intellectual rigour and — most importantly — the willingness of public servants at all levels to offer frank and fearless advice to th…
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- 351 MAC w
Mapping Good Work: The Quality of Working Life Across the Occupational Structure
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. In this illuminating study of working life, leading experts in the sociology of work draw on decades of large-scale survey data to consider various notions of the quality of work in the Britain. Exploring data on hundreds of occupations, it charts why some occupations feel more rewarding than others and sets out fresh policies that might generate…
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- 9781529208290, 9781529208320
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- 162
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- 302.35068 WIL m
Morphosyntactic Variation in Medieval Celtic Languages: Corpus-Based Approaches
This book showcases the state of the art in corpus-based linguistic analysis of Celtic languages (specifically, Old/Middle Irish, Middle Welsh, and Cornish). It explores corpus approaches to morphosyntactic variation in the medieval Celtic languages and, for the first time, situates them in the broader field of computational and corpus linguistics by providing descriptions of tools for processi…
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- -
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- 378
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- Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM], 346
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- 306.44 MOR m
Anchored in Place: Rethinking the University and Development in South Africa
"Tensions in South African universities have traditionally centred around equity (particularly access and affordability), historical legacies (such as apartheid and colonialism), and the shape and structure of the higher education system. What has not received sufficient attention, is the contribution of the university to place-based development. This volume is the first in South Africa to enga…
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- 9781928331766; 9781928331773
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- 242
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- 338.9 ANC a
Complexity, Security and Civil Society in East Asia: Foreign Policies and the…
Complexity, Security and Civil Society in East Asia offers the latest understanding of complex global problems including nuclear weapons, urban insecurity, energy, and climate change in the region. Detailed case studies in China, North and South Korea, and Japan demonstrate the importance of civil society and 'civic diplomacy' in reaching shared solutions to these problems in East Asia and beyo…
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- 9781783741120
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- 470
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- 320 COM c
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