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North-South Knowledge Networks : Towards Equitable Collaboration Between Acad…
Since the 1990s, internationalisation has become key for institutions wishing to secure funding for higher education and research. For the academic community, this strategic shift has had many consequences. Priorities have changed and been influenced by new ways of thinking about universities, and of measuring their impact in relation to each other and to their social goals. Debates are ongoing…
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- 9781928331308
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- 370 NOR
Great Divergence and Great Convergence A Global Perspective
This new monograph provides a stimulating new take on hotly contested topics in world modernization and the globalizing economy. It begins by situating what is called the Great Divergence--the social/technological revolution that led European nations to outpace the early dominance of Asia--in historical context over centuries. This is contrasted with an equally powerful Great Convergence, the r…
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- 978-3-319-17779-3
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- 330 GRI g
Innovation, PBL and Competences in Engineering Education : 7th International …
Today’s students will perform in a technology-based society and contribute to a global economy. Technologies, like automation, Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), come with promise of transforming deeply the work places and creating new business models. In addition, the sustainability crises is threatening the future of planet earth and human society. These trends posed ne…
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- 9788772100029
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- 370 INN
Law's Anthropology : From ethnography to expert testimony in native title
Anthropologists have been appearing as key expert witnesses in native title claims for over 20 years. Until now, however, there has been no theoretically-informed, detailed investigation of how the expert testimony of anthropologists is formed and how it is received by judges. This book examines the structure and habitus of both the field of anthropology and the juridical field and how they hav…
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- 9781921862434
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New Directions for Law in Australia : Essays in Contemporary Law Reform
For reasons of effectiveness, efficiency and equity, Australian law reform should be planned carefully. Academics can and should take the lead in this process. This book collects over 50 discrete law reform recommendations, encapsulated in short, digestible essays written by leading Australian scholars. It emerges from a major conference held at The Australian National University in 2016, which…
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- 9781760461416
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Manifesto for the Humanities : Transforming Doctoral Education in Good Enough…
After a remarkable career in higher education, Sidonie Smith offers Manifesto for the Humanities as a reflective contribution to the current academic conversation over the place of the Humanities in the 21st century. Her focus is on doctoral education and opportunities she sees for its reform. Grounding this manifesto in background factors contributing to current “crises” in the humanities,…
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- 9780472900060
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- 272 halaman
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- 370 SMI m
Measuring What Matters Most : Choice-Based Assessments for the Digital Age
An argument that choice-based, process-oriented educational assessments are more effective than static assessments of fact retrieval. If a fundamental goal of education is to prepare students to act independently in the world—in other words, to make good choices—an ideal educational assessment would measure how well we are preparing students to do so. Current assessments, however, focus alm…
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- 9780262518376
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- 192 halaman
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Media and Education in the Digital Age : Concepts, Assessments, Subversions
This book is an invitation to informed and critical participation in the current debate on the role of digital technology in education and a comprehensive introduction to the most relevant issues in this debate. After an early wave of enthusiasm about the emancipative opportunities of the digital «revolution» in education, recent contributions invite caution, if not scepticism. This colle…
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- 9783631651544
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- 366 halaman
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- 370 MED
Governance of Hospitals in Central and Eastern Europe
This book presents a novel view of healthcare system transition in post-communist countries. It is the first region-wide comparative study of hospital governance in Eastern Europe. Comprehensive new material shows the evolution and significance of governance, complementing recent publications on the topic from industrialised countries. Throughout the book, governance is described and substantia…
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- 978-981-287-765-9
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- Health Economics
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- 330 SOW g
Go Slow and Curvy Understanding the Philosophy of the Cittaslow slowcity Phe…
This book introduces readers to the concepts of sustainability and philosophy of slowness for the management of public entities such as cities or regions. While many urban communities face economic challenges that clearly show the limitations of growth and ever-increasing speed, this book explores an alternative, thought-provoking standpoint in five chapters. The first chapter explains the impo…
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- 978-3-319-14853-3
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