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Creating the University of the Future : A Global View on Future Skills and Fu…
This open access publication presents a global panorama of institutional strategies, academic programs, scholarly insights as well as teaching and learning practices taking stock of the Future Skills Turn taking place in higher education. Future Skills have evolved to be one of the most important priorities for the development of higher education institutions globally. Students and graduates le…
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- 9783658429485
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- XXXVIII, 611 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Learning Diversity
This Open-Access-book explores diversity in its ambivalence. On the one side, we love to describe diversity as a resource for personal, social, economic, and cultural growth. On the other side, categories of differences often lead to discrimination or serve as justifications for privileges. They can cause exclusion and, conversely, promote the self-constitution of discriminated subjects and gro…
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- 978-3-658-40548-9
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- VII, 219
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Crisis Response in Higher Education
The idea for this book began to take shape in June 2019, under the working title ‘The new public university: local missions and global goals’. As with many plans at the time, the ability to dedicate time to write the book and indeed the actual substance of the book were overtaken by events. The emergence of COVID at the end of 2019, and its global spread in the first half of 2020, …
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- 9783030978372
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- XI, 183
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The Fate of Political Scientists in Europe
This open access book offers a systematic survey of the attitudes and values of European political scientists. It builds a structural interpretation based on empirical data, as well as offering reflections on the future structure of the discipline. In the middle of a delicate phase of changes marked by the effects of pandemic and the war in Ukraine, we need to pay attention to the factors that …
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- 978-3-031-24643-2
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- XXI, 178
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Higher Education in Romania: Overcoming Challenges and Embracing Opportunities
Romanian education policy was notoriously plagued by instability and a tendency to escape the normal policymaking cycle via top-down highly politicised reforms. After almost three decades, a new initiative by the President of Romania attempts to promote a more inclusive style of policymaking that would ensure wider societal support to upcoming educational reforms. The purpose of this articl…
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- 9783030944964
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- VIII, 274
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Education to Build Back Better
This chapter examines the Multi-Skill Foundation Course (MSFC), a vocational course conceived by grassroots NGO Vigyan Ashram, and further developed, replicated, and scaled up by Lend-A-Hand India (LAHI) since 2005. In collaboration with the State Government of Maharashtra, the course has been recognized under the National Skills Qualification Framework (NSQF)) and adopted by more than 600…
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- 9783030939519
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- VI, 204
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Sozioanalyse in der pädagogischen Arbeit : Ansätze und Möglichkeiten zur B…
Sabrina Rutter zeigt in dieser Open-Access-Publikation auf, inwiefern handlungsleitende Orientierungen von Lehrkräften in der Schule ungleichheitsrelevant werden und mit habitus- und milieuspezifischen Logiken zusammenhängen. Ansätze und Möglichkeiten der Ungleichheitsreduzierung werden auf Grundlage des Sozioanalysekonzeptes von Pierre Bourdieu diskutiert. Die Autorin liefert wichtige Hinw…
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- 978-3-658-32065-2
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- XXI, 235
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- Bildung und Gesellschaft (BILDUNGUG)
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Media-Related Out-of-School Contact with English in Germany and Switzerland: …
This open access book aimes to close a critical research gap in understanding how frequently German-speaking adolescents come into contact with the English language through various media channels, such as television, books, or the internet, and how this contact influences learners’ English competences. In addition, this research project explores the effect of family background and gender on…
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- 9783658424084
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- XIV, 214
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Using Social Theory in Higher Education
This open access book offers a unique and refreshing view on working with social theory in higher education. Using engaging first-person accounts coupled with critical intellectual analysis, the authors demonstrate how theory is grappled with as part of an ongoing practice rather than a momentary disembodied encounter. In a structure that creates a space for relational dialogue, each chapter is…
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- 9783031398179
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- XIV, 284
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Evidence and Expertise in Nordic Education Policy
Te idea of applying comparative methods of inquiry to understand reforms that travel, which is presented in this volume, was conceived in 2017 within the context of the Policy Transfer Project (POLTRANS). In this project Gita Steiner-Khamsi, Teachers College (TC), Columbia University, was appointed as a part-time adjunct visiting professor at the Department of Education, University of…
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- 9783030919597
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- XXIV, 429
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