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Educating "good" citizens in a globalising world for the twenty-first century
What is needed to be a "good" citizen for the twenty-first century? And how can schools and curricula address this question? This book addresses these questions and what it means to be a "good citizen" in the twenty-first century by exploring this concept in two different, but linked, countries. China is a major international power whose citizens are in the midst of a major social and economic …
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- 9789463003469
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- ix, 196 pages
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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 : illustrations
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Expansive Learning in Professional Contexts A Materialist Perspective
This book discusses approaches to organizational learning from a materialist point of view. Inspired by research into Police Firearms training, features of expansive learning inform the development of perspectives on training which challenge traditional modes of research and delivery. The book critically reviews a range of approaches to expansive learning and organizational research, establishi…
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- 978-1-137-57436-7
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- XI, 119
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Leadership and Organizational Outcomes: Meta-Analysis of Empirical Studies
This book focuses on the effect of leadership on organizational outcomes and summarizes the current research findings in the field. It addresses the need for inclusive and interpretive studies in the field in order to interpret leadership literature and suggest new pathways for further studies. Appropriately, a meta-analysis approach is used by the contributors to show the big picture to the re…
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- 978-3-319-14908-0
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Advanced Business Analytics
The book describes advanced business analytics and shows how to apply them to many different professional areas of engineering and management. Each chapter of the book is contributed by a different author and covers a different area of business analytics. The book connects the analytic principles with business practice and provides an interface between the main disciplines of engineering/techno…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-11415-6
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- XII, 243
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- 005.74 ADV a
Innovative Accreditation Standards in Education and Training
​The aim of this book is to examine how technical and institutional factors affect the responsiveness of public and private organisations to a change in accreditation standards, with specific reference to the vocational educational and training (VET) sector and ethical standards. In particular, the authors analyse the Italian experience regarding a new accreditation standard recently adopted …
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- 978-3-319-16915-6
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- XIV, 122
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- 658.1 PRE i
Evolution of the Exchange Industry From Dealers’ Clubs to Multinational Co…
This book describes the dramatic changes that have occurred in the exchange industry during the past two decades. The strategies adopted by major world exchanges during this period are explained and the roles of multilateral trading systems and over-the-counter (OTC) players are clearly described, highlighting their economics and their interconnections with traditional exchanges. Up-to-date, co…
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- 978-3-319-21027-8
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- 3 b/w illustrations, 40 illustrations in colour
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Multi-Project Management with a Multi-Skilled Workforce
This book covers three fundamental problems at the interface of multi-project management and human resource management: the selection of projects, the composition of small project teams, and workload leveling. Matthias Walter proposes optimization models and solution methods for these problems, assuming multi-skilled workers with heterogeneous skill levels. For the first time, the author presen…
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- 978-3-658-08035-8
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- XXIII, 301
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- Produktion und Logistik
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Multi-Level Governance in Universities
Governing universities is a multi-level as well as a highly paradoxical endeavor. The featured studies in this book examine critically the multifaceted repercussions of changing governance logics and show how contradictory demands for scholarly peer control, market responsiveness, public policy control, and democratization create governance paradoxes. While a large body of academic literature h…
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- 978-3-319-32676-4
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- XI, 256
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- Higher Education Dynamics
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Labor Unions, Management Innovation and Organizational Change in Police Depar…
This Brief examines the role of Police Unions in law enforcement policy development. It provides an overview of the historical and political background of police labor unions, and takes a critical look at the shifting perception of labor unions from generally positive to somewhat negative, to compare this perception with their real impact. It examines the perceived role that unions play, whethe…
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- 978-3-319-21584-6
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