Filter by
University of the World A Case for a World University System
In this book, Dieter Lenzen analyzes the world's three major educational systems: the Continental-European, the Atlantic (Anglo-American) and the East Asian. Distancing himself from the current trend towards the economically driven Anglo-American system of education, the author proposes an alternative model, "a university of the world". Contents: · Three concepts of the universit…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-13455-0
- Collation
- V, 52
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Universities, Rankings and the Dynamics of Global Higher Education Perspecti…
Global university rankings are now more than a decade old and this book uses the data they have produced to examine how the international landscape of universities has changed over the years. It offers new insights into the power and limits of league tables, a key element of globalized higher education that can be deplored but hardly ignored. Case studies from Asia, Europe and North America are…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-1-137-46999-1
- Collation
- 3 b/w illustrations
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
The Euro
This book takes a close look at macroeconomic imbalances within the Eurozone and explores the profound consequences the introduction of the European Monetary Union (EMU) has had on Euro area countries. Particular attention is given to balance of payments deficits and surpluses, and the profound difficulties of rebalancing the Euro area. Throughout the chapters, the author argues that the EMU ha…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-46388-9
- Collation
- XIII, 133
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
US Public Schools and the Politics of Queer Erasure
This book presents a history of queer erasure in the US public school system, from the 1920s up until today. By focusing on specific events as well as the context in which they occurred, Lugg presents a way forward in improving school policies for both queer youth and queer adults.
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-1-137-53526-9
- Collation
- XI, 117
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
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
- 38 b/w illustrations
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
The Education Systems of Europe
This updated second edition presents an analytical description of the education systems of all European countries, following common guidelines. These conceptual guidelines consider various criteria concerning presumptions as to the quality of a good education system. One of the book central aims is to explore the paradoxical character of education, i.e. the relationship between universal values…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-07472-6
- Collation
- XX, 908
- Series Title
- Global Education Systems
- Call Number
- -
Facing Trajectories from School to Work Towards a Capability-Friendly Youth …
This book promotes a radical alternative impact on youth policy in Europe to overcome the situation of vulnerability and discrimination of a growing number of youngsters in their transition from school to work. It follows a Human Development perspective in using the Capability Approach (CA) as analytical and methodological guiding tool to improve the social conditions of the most socially vulne…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-11436-1
- Collation
- 15 b/w illustrations
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Local Drivers for Improvement Capacity: Six Types of School Organisations
This book presents systematically six types of schools, with different improvement capacities. Different schools have different capacities for school improvement, depending on the school infrastructure, norms and routines for the improvement process, improvement roles, and improvement history. The organisation of the improvement capacity is understood on the basis of sensemaking processes among…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-12724-8
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Lifelong Learning Participation in a Changing Policy Context: An Interdiscipl…
Drawing on the role of individuals, education and training providers and countries' social policy actions, and borrowing insights from psychology, sociology and economics, this book works towards an interdisciplinary theory of adult lifelong learning participation. It explores the fragmented evidence of why adults do or do not participate in adult lifelong learning activities and focuses on the…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-1-137-44183-6
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Experiencing Long-Term Unemployment in Europe
This book examines the everyday-life patterns of young adults under circumstances of vulnerability and precariousness. Its main focus is on the web of social relations that structure the everyday life of young people, for instance by providing resources and tools of solving problems, exerting pressures and voicing expectations, and shaping the person’s self-conception, identity, and well-bein…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-1-137-50487-6
- Collation
- XVI, 233
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography