Filter by
Global Citizenship Education Critical and International Perspectives
This open access book takes a critical and international perspective to the mainstreaming of the Global Citizenship Concept and analyses the key issues regarding global citizenship education across the world. In that respect, it addresses a pressing need to provide further conceptual input and to open global citizenship agendas to diversity and indigeneity. Social and political changes brought …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- -
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Indigenous Education: Language, Culture and Identity
Indigenous Education is a compilation of conceptual chapters and national case studies that includes empirical research based on a series of data collection methods. The book provides up-to-date scholarly research on global trends on three issues of paramount importance with indigenous education—language, culture, and identity. It also offers a strategic comparative and international educatio…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-94-017-9354-4
- Collation
- XXV, 467
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 370 IND
Adelaide : A Literary City
From the tentative beginnings of European settlement to today’s flourishing writing scene, Adelaide has always been a literary city. Novelists, poets and playwrights have lived here; readers have pored over books, sharing them and discussing them; literary celebrities have visited and sometimes stayed; writers have encouraged each other and fought with each other. Adelaide is literary, too, i…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781922064646
- Collation
- 280 halaman
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 800 ADE
Two Decades of Basic Education in Rural China Transitions and Challenges for…
This book examines how educational change has progressed in three contrasting areas spread across China since 1990, exploring key issues concerning rural education in poor, rich and minority areas. Of the three areas covered in this book, the first is a rich one near Beijing; the second is in the northwest in Shanxi on the Loess plateau; and the third is in Sichuan on the high plateau leading t…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-981-10-2120-6
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Maritime Safety in Europe : A Comparative Approach
The book is concerned with the harmonisation of maritime safety legal systems in Europe. It describes maritime safety legal systems in selected European countries as well as maritime safety issues from the perspective of the International Maritime Organisation, European Union, and European Free Trade Association. Distinguished scholars from Europe's leading maritime law academic centres present…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781000245882
- Collation
- 316 halaman
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 340 MAR
The Englishization of Higher Education in Europe
The introduction of English as a medium of instruction (EMI) has changed higher education enormously in many European countries. This development is increasingly encapsulated under the term Englishization, that is, the increasing dispersion of English as a means of communication in non-Anglophone contexts. Englishization is not undisputed: legal challenges have arisen in several countries. Nor …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789048553914
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 370 ENG
Coronavirus Politics
COVID-19 is the most significant global crisis of any of our lifetimes. The numbers have been stupefying, whether of infection and mortality, the scale of public health measures, or the economic consequences of shutdown. Coronavirus Politics identifies key threads in the global comparative discussion that continue to shed light on COVID-19 and shape debates about what it means for scholarship i…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780472902460
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
The Neo-Aramaic Oral Heritage of the Jews of Zakho
In 1951, the secluded Neo-Aramaic-speaking Jewish community of Zakho migrated collectively to Israel. It carried with it its unique language, culture and customs, many of which bore resemblance to those found in classical rabbinic literature. Like others in Kurdistan, for example, the Jews of Zakho retained a vibrant tradition of creating and performing songs based on embellishing biblical stor…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781800643048
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
New Social Mobility Second Generation Pioneers in Europe
This open access book comparatively analyses intergenerational social mobility in immigrant families in Europe. It is based on qualitative in-depth research into several hundred biographies and professional trajectories of young people with an immigrant working-class background, who made it into high-prestige professions. The biographies were collected and analysed by a consortium of researcher…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783031055669
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
The Globalisation of Intercultural Education
This book examines the intersection of globalisation and intercultural education by focusing on the trajectory of education policy: from development to adoption and implementation.The centrality of the nation-state has been constrained by a wide range of new socio-cultural, political and economic phenomena over the past decade such as globalisation, Europeanisation, modernisation, and global re…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-1-137-52299-3
- Collation
- XI, 253, 2 illustrations in colour
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography