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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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- 323.2
Transformative Perspectives and Processes in Higher Education
This book aims to provide insight into the complexities confronting higher education today and to highlight tangible opportunities that exist to address such issues. We are in a constant state of flux and higher education needs to respond in more proactive, intentional and innovative ways to remain a relevant cornerstone to society and culture. The editors begin by asking how our collective rea…
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- 978-3-319-09246-1
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- XII, 253
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- Advances in Business Education and Training
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Integrated Business Model
The St. Gallen Management Concept could be termed the DNA of the Integrated Business Model that is developed and detailed by Oliver D. Doleski. The practical St. Gallen Management Concept offers a good conceptual framework for the development of change, and increasingly dynamic change, which is now more than ever the key factor shaping business actions. The complexity arising from this very dyn…
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- 978-3-658-09697-7
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- XI, 44
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- 658.1 DOL g
Japanese Management in Change: The Impact of Globalization and Market Principles
Following the burst of the “economic bubble” in the 1990s, many Japanese companies were required to reform their management systems. Changes in corporate governance were widely discussed during that decade in studies on “Japanese management.” These discussions have resulted in little progress, however, since Americanization became the dominant discourse concerning governance and the man…
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- 978-4-431-55096-9
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Educational leadership relationally : a theory and methodology for educationa…
Educational leadership, management and administration has a rich history of epistemological and ontological dialogue and debate. However in recent times, at least since the publication of Colin Evers and Gabriele Lakomski's trilogy -- knowing, exploring and doing educational administration -- there has been a distinct dearth. Educational Leadership Relationally explicitly returns matters of epi…
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- 9789462099104
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- xiii, 151 pages ; 24 cm
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- 371.2
Ethnotheatre and Creative Methods for Teacher Leadership
This book addresses the lived challenges to teacher leadership. It illustrates an arts-based research approach that effectively highlights the broader context of relational dynamics between adults at school, using one-act plays to open up difficult conversations on complex issues. School leadership has, ostensibly, a performative dimension. Teacher leaders enact leadership from a more vulnerabl…
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- 978-3-319-39844-0
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- XIX, 149
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Gestión de la Cooperación en la Práctica
La Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH cuenta con más de 30 años de experiencia en el diseño de cooperaciones en todo el mundo, y ha condensado su extensa gama de conocimientos en esta obra. El modelo de gestión Capacity WORKS se dirige a todas aquellas personas involucradas en contextos de cooperación: personal directivo, responsables o asesores del sector …
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- 978-3-658-07888-1
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- Number of Pages IX, 283
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- 330 GES
Ethical Dilemmas in Public Policy The Dynamics of Social Values in the East-…
This book employs a unique interdisciplinary approach to analyze different ethical dilemmas in public policy, applying values and concepts to examine substantive policy and public issues that are grounded in practical realities (by integrating philosophy, political science, law, policy studies etc.), thereby bringing fresh insights to governance. Building on the nascent scholarly literature on …
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- 978-981-10-0437-7
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- VIII, 212
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Tourism and Leisure
The Festschrift in honor of Prof. Dr. Peter Keller, president of the International Association of Scientific Experts in Tourism (AIEST) since 1994, represents a wide range of tourism research as well as the current state of the ongoing debates in tourism as a scientific research field. The aim is to cover multiple topics and trends in travelling and to discuss future development possibilities i…
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- 978-3-658-06659-8
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- IX, 389
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Achieving Competitive Advantage through Quality Management
This book examines the ways in which quality management methods, tools, and practices help improve an organization’s performance and achieve sustainable competitive advantages. This volume includes quality techniques and tools such as the EFQM Model, SERVPERF model, E-S-Qual scale and the ISO 9001 certification and provide a wide variety of empirical studies in different economic sectors. …
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- 978-3-319-17251-4
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- XI, 312
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- 658.43 ACH a
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