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Education reform in the Obama Era : the second term and the 2016 election
This title offers a sophisticated overview of President Obama's education agenda, exploring how and why education policy became national and ultimately presidential over the past seven decades
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- 9781137582126
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- xi, 117 pages
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- 371
Education skills for 21st century teachers : voices from a global online educ…
This monograph presents the current views, challenges and future needs of educators from a global online exchange where educators and researchers discuss the 21st century skills needed by students and teachers. The three editors, who participated in the global online research discussion group, also assumed the role of authors to summarise, analyse and celebrate the myriad of ideas generated in …
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- 9783319226088
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- xvii, 114 pages
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- 378
Education Technology Policies in the Middle East : Globalisation, Neoliberali…
This book explores the potential educational technologies have for transforming education in the Middle East. Although technology has increasingly become a part of classrooms around the globe over recent decades, its application in classrooms in the MENA region remains underused and this book draws on a case study from the Arabian Gulf to examine the beneficial impact technologies have on teach…
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- 9783319332666
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- xix, 191 pages 4 illustrations
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- 370
Integrated Occupational Safety and Health Management
Maximizing reader insights into a new movement toward leadership approaches that are collaborated and shared, and which views Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) and performance excellence within the wider examination of leadership relationships and practices, this book argues that these relationships and processes are so central to the establishment of OSH functioning that studying them warr…
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- 978-3-319-13179-5
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- XI, 306
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- 338.7 INT
Integrated Reporting
This book is a timely addition to the fast-growing international debate on Integrated Reporting, which offers a holistic view of the evolution and practice of Integrated Reporting. The book covers the determinants and consequences of Integrated Reporting, as well as examining some of the most relevant issues (particularly in the context of the United States) in the debate about Integrated Repor…
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- 978-1-137-55148-1
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- XXVIII, 312
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- 330 INT
Integrated Spatial and Transport Infrastructure Development
The challenge of growth in transport, especially in freight transport, and scarce resources in money, landscape and local opposition against new infrastructure investment require new solutions from transport policy. This book deals with these issues taking as an example the transport corridor Rotterdam-Genoa, one of the most heavily used in Europe. In 2010 the INTERREG project Code24 with partn…
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- 978-3-319-15707-8
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- XIII, 330
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- 330 INT
Global Drinking Water Management and Conservation
This book discusses different drinking water treatment technologies and what contaminants each treatment method can remove, and at what costs. The production of drinking water requires adequate management. This book attempts to fill the existing knowlegde gap about (a) water treatment technologies and their costs, (b) risk assessment methods, (c) adverse health effects of chemical contaminants,…
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- 978-3-319-11031-8
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- 333.7 MOH g
Global Co-Mentoring Networks in Higher Education
This book offers faculty and leaders of academic institutions insights on issues surrounding faculty mentoring and how national and international co-mentoring networks can contribute to the success of their members. These networks help female faculty and faculty from traditionally marginalized groups to engage positively with their careers, to create supportive systems that help them navigate t…
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- 978-3-319-27506-2
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- XI, 227
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- 370 GLO
Global Challenges, National Initiatives, and Institutional Responses
In this book we aim to discuss and reflect on how HEIs are coping with the demands placed on them and how the various dimensions of change are intertwined. In particular, we aim to discuss the following questions: How do governance regimes steer higher education institutions? This part of the book focuses its attention on how higher education and research institutions operate under differen…
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- 978-94-6300-675-0
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- VIII, 272
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- 370 GLO
Global Challenges and the Emerging World Order
This book offers a fascinating overview of the challenges posed by the world’s new geostrategic order and likely future directions. It opens with an unconventional view of the Arab Spring, identifying its origins in the relative US withdrawal from the Middle East caused by both the need for military disengagement for economic reasons and the discovery of shale gas and tight oil in the heart o…
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- 978-3-319-15623-1
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- IX, 79
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- 330 SAP g
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