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Improving Schools Productive Tensions Between the Local, the Systemic and th…
This unique book explores school improvement policy – from its translation into national contexts and school networks to its implementation in leader and teacher practices in individual schools and classrooms within this network of schools and its impact on students’ learning. It draws on multiple conceptual and theoretical resources to explore the complexities attached to a school improvem…
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- 978-981-287-929-5
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- XXII, 135
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- 371 RAW i
Towards an International Code of Conduct for Private Security Providers: A Vi…
The use of private security companies (PSCs) to perform services that are traditionally associated with the state presents a challenge to regulatory and oversight frameworks. Analyzing developments leading to the International Code of Conduct for Security Providers (ICOC) and the ICOC Association, this paper argues that a multistakeholder approach to develop standards adapted for the private se…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781911529392
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- 61
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- SSR Papers, 12
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- 320 BUZ t
Music and Democracy Participatory Approaches
Music and Democracy explores music as a resource for societal transformation processes. This book provides recent insights into how individuals and groups used and still use music to achieve social, cultural, and political participation and bring about social change. The contributors present outstanding perspectives on the topic: From the promise and myth of democratization through music techno…
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- 9783839456576
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First Nationalism Then Identity: On Bosnian Muslims and Their Bosniak Identity
First Nationalism Then Identity focuses on the case of Bosnian Muslims, a rare historic instance of a new nation emerging. Although for Bosnian Muslims the process of national emergence and the assertion of a new salient identity have been going on for over two decades, Mirsad Kriještorac is the first to explain the significance of the whole process and how the adoption of their new Bosniak id…
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- 9780472075508
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Youth-Led Social Movements and Peacebuilding in Africa
This book critically examines and analyses the active role played by youth-led social movements in pushing for change and promoting peacebuilding in Africa, and their long-term impacts on society. Africa’s history is characterised by youth movements. The continent’s youth populations played pivotal roles in the campaign against colonialism and, ever since independence, Africa’s youth have…
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- 9781000614053
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Comparative Policy Agendas Theory, Tools, Data
The Comparative Agendas Project (CAP) brings together data on government activities in over twenty countries, and provides a consistent categorizing system to understand when a given institution of government in a particular country took action on any issue of public policy. All topics are covered, comprehensively, over several decades, in some countries going back to World War II. Because of t…
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- 9780198835332
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The European Higher Education Area: Between Critical Reflections and Future P…
Higher Education; Educational Policy and Politics; International and Comparative Education
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- 9783319208770
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Assessing Contexts of Learning: An International Perspective
This volume brings together educational effectiveness research and international large-scale assessments, demonstrating how the two fields can be applied to inspire and improve each other, and providing readers direct links to instruments that cover a broad range of topics and have been shown to work in more than 70 countries. The book’s initial chapters introduce and summarize recent discuss…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-45357-6
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- XII, 490
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- Methodology of Educational Measurement and Assessment
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- 370 ASS a
Asia Pacific Graduate Education: Comparative Policies and Regional Developments
This volume examines the changes taking place within graduate education in the Asia Pacific Region. A collection of essays by distinguished scholars from eight Asia Pacific nations links profound changes occurring in the economies and societies of the region to the many changes taking place within higher education. Focusing on how the dynamics of a changing global economy are affecting the ways…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-1-137-54783-5
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- XVIII, 231
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- International and Development Education
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- 370 ASI a
As the Witnesses Fall Silent: 21st Century Holocaust Education in Curriculum,…
This volume represents the most comprehensive collection ever produced of empirical research on Holocaust education around the world. It comes at a critical time, as the world observes the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. We are now at a turning point, as the generations that witnessed and survived the Shoah are slowly passing on. Governments are charged with ensuring that th…
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- 978-3-319-15419-0
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- XV, 512
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- 370.19 WIT w
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