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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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- 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
- Series Title
- Palgrave Critical University Studies
- Call Number
- 378 OSU a
Academic Autoethnographies: Inside Teaching in Higher Education
Academic Autoethnographies: Inside Teaching in Higher Education invites readers to experience autoethnography as a challenging, complex, and creative research methodology that can produce personally, professionally, and socially useful understandings of teaching and researching in higher education. The peer-reviewed chapters offer innovative and perspicacious explorations of interrelationships …
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-94-6300-399-5
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- XII, 200
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- -
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- 370 ACA 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
Supporting Learning Across Working Life
This volume considers, rethinks and reorganizes how support for learning across working life can be best conceptualized, organized and enacted. It considers educational and learning support processes that include approaches that fit well within working lives and workplaces, and support work and learning as a co-occurrence. These are the key focuses for individual and collective contributions to…
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- 978-3-319-29019-5
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- XXIX, 319
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- Professional and Practice-based Learning
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Super Dimensions in Globalisation and Education
This volume is the first major production of the globalisation research strand of the Centre for Educational Research at Western Sydney University. This book makes a significant contribution to the theory of and research in globalisation and education, and tackles the topics of superdiversity and supercomplexity. The book’s thesis is that the effects of globalisation on education can only be …
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- 978-981-10-0312-7
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- XIV, 256
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- Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education
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A Year in the Life of a Third Space Urban Teacher Residency: Using Inquiry to…
This book weaves together voices of faculty, residents, mentors, administrators, community organizers, and students who have lived together in a third space urban teacher residency program in Newark as they reinvent math and science teaching and teacher education through the lens of inquiry. Each chapter includes narratives from multiple perspectives as well as tools we have used within the pro…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-94-6300-253-0
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- X, 304
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- 370 TAY y
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
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Education
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Studying Science Teacher Identity
The overarching goal of this book volume is to illuminate how research on science teacher identity has deepened and complicated our understanding of the role of identity in examining teacher learning and development. The collective chapters, both theoretical and empirical, present an array of conceptual underpinnings that have been used to frame science teacher identity, document the various me…
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- 978-94-6300-528-9
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