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Everyday Knowledge, Education and Sustainable Futures Transdisciplinary Appr…
Everyday knowledge offers opportunities for better understanding of significant issues of our times. Reflecting these themes this book places emphasis on community wisdom. The underpinning argument is that our instinctive urge for survival may not be enough if we do not share our collective knowledge and learn more about the everyday habits, beliefs and actions of communities spread across the …
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- 978-981-10-0216-8
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- 4 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
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Mergers in Higher Education:The Experience from Northern Europe
This book addresses the critical knowledge gaps of mergers involving higher education institutions. It is based on a comparative research project (spring 2013-spring 2015) investigating the phenomena of mergers involving higher education institutions across the Nordic countries – Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark. The study involved close to 30 scholars from the region, and aimed at sheddin…
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- 978-3-319-21917-2
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- XII, 236
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- Higher Education Dynamics
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Mergers and Alliances in Higher Education:International Practice and Emerging…
This volume casts light on mergers and alliances in higher education by examining developments of this type in different countries. It combines the direct experiences of those at the heart of such transformations, university leaders and senior officials responsible for higher education policy, with expert analysts of the systems concerned. Higher education in Europe faces a series of major c…
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- 978-3-319-13134-4
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- XXI, 307
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Transforming Teacher Quality in the Global South
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.
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- 978-1-137-49544-0
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- X, 233
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Ethics and Diversity in Business Management Education A Sociological Study w…
This book examines business education from the perspective of the social sciences and humanities, specifically sociology and ethics. In particular, it offers the rare combination of liberal arts and business management education which is used to investigate how aspects of business education might be responsible for and connected to the distribution of wealth that currently dominates the global …
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- 978-3-662-46654-4
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- X, 94
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Ethical Dilemmas in Public Policy The Dynamics of Social Values in the East-…
This book employs a unique interdisciplinary approach to analyze different ethical dilemmas in public policy, applying values and concepts to examine substantive policy and public issues that are grounded in practical realities (by integrating philosophy, political science, law, policy studies etc.), thereby bringing fresh insights to governance. Building on the nascent scholarly literature on …
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- 978-981-10-0437-7
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- VIII, 212
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Training for Model Citizenship
This book explores the state in post-genocide Rwanda through an ethnography of a state-run civic education program and everyday forms of government. In 2007, the Rwandan government introduced a nationwide civic education program, called Itorero, to teach all inhabitants about its vision of the model Rwandan citizen. Since then, this ideal has been pursued through remote training camps, villag…
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- 978-1-137-58421-2
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- X, 276
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Academic Labour, Unemployment and Global Higher Education: Neoliberal Policie…
This book explores how the kinds of world-wide restructurings of higher education and research work that are underway today have not only increased employment insecurity in academia but may actually be producing unemployment both for those within academia and for graduate job-seekers in other sectors. Recent and current re-organisations of higher education and research work, and re-orientations…
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- 978-1-137-49324-8
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- XVI, 252
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- Palgrave Critical University Studies
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- 378 ACA a
Successful Educational Actions for Inclusion and Social Cohesion in Europe
This monograph analyses and describes successful educational actions with a specific focus on vulnerable groups (i.e. youth, migrants, cultural groups e.g. Roma, women, and people with disabilities). Concrete data that shows success in school performance in subject matters such as math or language will be provided, as well as children, teachers and families accounts of the impact of this succes…
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- 978-3-319-11176-6
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- XI, 108
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- SpringerBriefs in Education
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A Decade of Research on School Principals: Cases from 24 Countries
This book provides a unique map of the focus and directions of contemporary research on school leadership since 2000 in 24 countries. Each of these directions has its own particular cultural, educational and policy history. Taken together, the various chapters in the volume provide a rich and varied mosaic of what is currently known and what is yet to be discovered about the roles and practices…
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- 978-3-319-23027-6
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- Studies in Educational Leadership
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- 320 DEC d
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