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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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- 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
Asian Megatrends
Asian Megatrends assesses the key drivers impacting Asia over the next two decades. The rise of China is transforming the Asia-Pacific, as China’s economic and military might increasingly reverberates throughout the region. India and Indonesia are also rising Asian powers that are changing the shape of the Asian economic landscape. The rapid growth of emerging Asian consumer markets is becomi…
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- 978-1-137-44189-8
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- XI, 245
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- 337 BIS 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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- 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
Hartmut Elsenhans and a Critique of Capitalism Conversations on Theory and P…
This book presents a series of interviews with Hartmut Elsenhans on his wide-ranging theories and their policy implications. Serving as a compilation of his distilled thoughts, we discuss with him his unique world economic theory, his theorisation of social movements, his work on overcoming underdevelopment, and much more.
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- 978-1-349-56243-5
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- XII, 184
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- 330 WIL h
Research on Compulsory Education Financing in China
This book covers research on the financing of compulsory education in rural China and provides a highly informative read for readers who are interested in the issue of financing compulsory education in poor areas. Basing on data collected from field studies in 12 counties in 4 provinces around China, this book presents the current status of a new mechanism launched by the Chinese government in …
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- 978-3-662-47830-1
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Report on Development of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei Province (2013)
This book mainly focuses on the status, trends and countermeasures of carrying capacity in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei metropolitan region. It presents the results a comprehensive survey and systematic research on the carrying capacity of this region and its mega-cities, conducted in the hope of providing decision-making support for the governments of this region. The primary goals are to be able…
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- 978-3-662-46205-8
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Religious Resistance to Neoliberalism
Religious Resistance to Neoliberalism offers compelling and intersectional religious critiques of neoliberalism. Neoliberalism is the normative rationality of contemporary global capitalism that orders people to live by the generalized principle of competition in all social spheres of life. Keri Day asserts that neoliberalism and its moral orientations consequently breed radical distrust, lovel…
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Arbitration and Dispute Resolution in the Resources Sector: An Australian Per…
This book provides a comprehensive Australian perspective on the resolution of resources disputes. In particular, it focuses on the use of arbitration, mediation and adjudication in the resources sector. It concentrates on arbitration as the preferred method of dispute resolution, including international commercial and investor-state arbitration. The book offers fascinating insights into the us…
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- 978-3-319-17452-5
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- XVI, 259
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- Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice
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- 346.07 ARB a
Regulatory Pathways For Smart Grid Development in China
The study’s recommendations describe institutional elements in the context of electric power sector regulation and has the objective to increase the understanding of the interdependencies of the institutional elements. In future work, the study results might be employed for designing very specific regulatory policies. The recommendations developed in this study focus primarily on the regulato…
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