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Applied Pedagogies for Higher Education : Real World Learning and Innovation …
This open access book critiques real world learning across both the curriculum and extracurricular activities. Drawing on disciplines as diverse as business, health, fashion, sociology and geography, the editors and authors employ a cross-disciplinary approach to examine how this concept is being applied in higher education. Divided into three parts, the authors and contributors analyse broader…
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- XXIII, 415 halaman
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- 378 APP a
Accelerating Academia: The Changing Structure of Academic Time
Filip Vostal examines the changing nature of academic time, and analyzes the 'will to accelerate' that has emerged as a significant cultural and structural force in knowledge production.
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-1-137-47360-8
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- XI, 242
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- 372.8 VOS a
Academic Work and Careers in Europe: Trends, Challenges, Perspectives
This book explores the perceptions of academic staff and representatives of institutional leadership about the changes in academic careers and academic work experienced in recent years. It emphasizes standardisation and differentiation of academic career paths, impacts of new forms of quality management on academic work, changes in recruitment, employment and working conditions, and academicsâ€â€¦
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-10720-2
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- VI, 214
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- The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective
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- 378 ACA a
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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- Ed. 1
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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
Academic Freedom in an Age of Conformity: Confronting the Fear of Knowledge
Academic freedom is increasingly being threatened by a stifling culture of conformity in higher education that is restricting individual academics, the freedom of academic thought and the progress of knowledge – the very foundations upon which academia and universities are built. Once, scholars demanded academic freedom to critique existing knowledge and to pursue new truths. Today, while …
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-1-137-51479-0
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- VI, 217
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- Palgrave Critical University Studies
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- 378 WIL a
Academic Barbarism, Universities and Inequality
The image of the university is tarnished: this book examines how recent philosophies of education, new readings of its economics, new technologies affecting research and access, and contemporary novelists' representations of university life all describe a global university that has given up on its promise of greater educational equality.
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-1-137-54761-3
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- X, 175
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- Palgrave Critical University Studies
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- 378 OSU a
Genre Pedagogy in Higher Education
Based on a large action research project, this book elaborates on how genre-based pedagogy can be extended to engage non-English speaking background students in tertiary educational institutions to develop their academic literacy practice, using online resources.
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- 978-1-349-56171-1
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- XV, 298
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- 378 DRE g
A Discipline-Based Teaching and Learning Center: A Model for Professional Dev…
This book describes the design and implementation of a discipline-specific model of professional development: the disciplinary Teaching and Learning Center (TLC). TLC was born from a strong commitment to improving undergraduate science education through supporting the front-line educators who play an essential role in this mission. The TLC’s comprehensive approach encompasses consultation, se…
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- 978-3-319-01652-8
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- 507 MAR d
English for Academic Purposes in Neoliberal Universities: A Critical Grounded…
The critical grounded theory presented in this book offers valuable insights on the social processes and strategies used by Blended English for Academic Purposes Professionals (BLEAPs) at higher education institutions, as they struggle to negotiate the challenges arising from a new focus on recruiting international students and hunting for other resources for their universities. Drawing from in…
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- 978-3-319-10449-2
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- 10 b/w illustrations
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(Re)Discovering University Autonomy: The Global Market Paradox of Stakeholder…
(Re)Discovering University Autonomy has far reaching implications for leaders and managers, researchers, educators, practitioners, and policy makers by addressing modern challenges to university autonomy in Europe and beyond in a new and innovative way.
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- 9781137388728
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- 378 DIS d
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