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Migration, Displacement, and Higher Education
This open access book is a nuanced introduction to Forced Migration Studies and a toolkit for faculty and undergraduate students, with a special emphasis on community-engaged learning. Experts from the social sciences, humanities, arts, and experimental sciences offer interdisciplinary perspectives to translate critical analysis into concrete action. The collection highlights activists, artists…
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- 9783031123504
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- XXVIII, 299 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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High-Quality Outdoor Learning
Whether you like Greta Thunberg or not, it is very difficult to argue with her analysis that we need immediate urgent action to stop, mitigate and adapt to climate change— that “empty words” are simply not enough (Thunberg, 2020). Why are we starting a volume on outdoor learning with this provocative statement? Is this going to be some missionary, ideologically driven, radical environ…
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- 9783031041082
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- IX, 386
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Handbook of Educational Reform Through Blended Learning
This open access book provides related theories, methods, strategies, and practical cases for implementing education reform through blended learning in curriculum, program, and institutions in the digital age. It sums up the research and practice achievements of blended learning from different research teams, involving more than 20 experts from educational technology, higher education, vocation…
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- 978-981-99-6269-3
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- XII, 418
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The Responsible University : Exploring the Nordic Context and Beyond
This book explores how the notion of the responsible university manifests itself at various levels within Nordic higher education. As the impetus of the knowledge society has catapulted the higher education sector to the forefront of policy agendas, universities and other types of higher education institutions face increasing scrutiny, assessment and accountability. This book examines this phen…
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- 9783030256463
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- XVII, 318 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Successful Global Collaborations in Higher Education Institutions
This open access book presents deep investigation to the manifold topics pertaining to global university collaboration. It outlines the strategies King Abdulaziz University has employed to rise in global rankings, and the reasons chosen to collaborate with other academic and research institutes. The environment in which universities currently exist is considered, and subsequently how an innovat…
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- 9783030255251
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- XVII, 93 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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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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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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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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