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Indigenous Culture, Education and Globalization: Critical Perspectives from Asia
The book explores the growing tension between indigenous education, the teaching and learning of native knowledge, cultural heritage and traditions and the dynamics of globalization from the Asian perspective. It brings together a distinguished and multidisciplinary group of Asian scholars and practitioners from Nepal, Korea, India, Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Taiwan…
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- 1
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- 978-3-662-48158-5
- Collation
- XV, 285
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- -
- Call Number
- 370 IND
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…
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- 1
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- 978-94-017-9354-4
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- XXV, 467
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- -
- Call Number
- 370 IND
Indigenous Innovation: Universalities and Peculiarities
Rooted in diverse cultures and in distinct regions of the world, Indigenous people have for generations created, maintained, and negotiated clear and explicit relationships with their environments. Despite numerous historical disruptions and steady iterations of imperialism that continue through today, Indigenous communities embody communities of struggle/resistance and intense vitality/creativ…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-94-6300-226-4
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- VIII, 214
- Series Title
- Advances in Innovation Education
- Call Number
- 370 IND
Leadership and Management : Case Studies in Training in Higher Education in A…
There has been a resurgence of interest in training programmes for higher education leaders and management (HELM) at African universities in recent times. Although there have been a few cases of evaluation studies of such programmes in Africa, a more systematic review of the lessons learnt through these programmes has not been done. This book aims to document and reflect on the learnings from i…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781920677909
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- 144 halaman
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- -
- Call Number
- 370 LEA
Leadership in Early Education in Times of Change : Research from five Continents
The collection brings together the latest work of researchers from Australia, Africa, Asia, and Europe focusing on early childhood leadership matters. It covers different aspects of leadership in early education: professional education and development, identity and leadership strategies as well as governance and leadership under different frame conditions.
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- -
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- 9783847412243
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- -
- Series Title
- International Leadership Research Forum Early Education
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- 370 STR l
Learning and Teaching in Adult Education : Contemporary Theories
‘Nothing is as practical as a good theory.’ The great theorist of psychology, Kurt Lewin, is said to have coined this statement, although it was probably made earlier. A sweeping proposition like this one certainly eases the work of the scholarly writer tremendously, since no justification or excuse has to be provided for filling shelf after shelf with sophisticated theoretical treatises, w…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783866496354
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- -
- Series Title
- Study Guides in Adult Education
- Call Number
- 370 PAT l
Learning, Innovation and Inclusive Development
In August 2011 the Globelics Secretariat was formed at Aalborg University with the support of the Swedish Development Agency (SIDA). BengtÅke Lundvall serves as the General Secretary while Björn Johnson, Birgitte Gregersen, Rasmus Lema and Allan Dahl Andersen are part-time employed in the Secretariat. The administrative coordination is taken care of by Dorte Baymler and Gro Stengaard Villumse…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9788771120585
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- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 370 LEA
Chinese Rhetoric and Writing : An Introduction for Language Teachers
The authors of Chinese Rhetoric and Writing offer a response to the argument that Chinese students' academic writing in English is influenced by "culturally nuanced rhetorical baggage that is uniquely Chinese and hard to eradicate." Noting that this argument draws from "an essentially monolingual and Anglo-centric view of writing," they point out that the rapid growth in the use of English worl…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781602353022
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- -
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- -
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- 800 KIR c
Cultivating Knowledge Promoting Research to Enrich Everyday Practice
Over the last decade or two, there has been increasing consensus that academic research, if used judiciously to guide practice, improves both educational policy and pedagogy ultimately leading to better outcomes for students. Yet, despite this potential, there remains a deep ravine between the body of knowledge built through research especially at the intersection between specific interventions…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789463006033
- Collation
- XII, 456
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 370
Economic Growth, Biodiversity Conservation, and the Formation of Human Capita…
Can education play a role in fostering economic growth and simultaneously decrease pressure on forests? The aim of this study is to show that it can. Human capital formation is a key element in a development strategy that includes natural resource conservation within the framework of sustained economic growth and poverty alleviation. Consequently, it is not by chance that Guatemala is experienc…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783631526071
- Collation
- 266 halaman
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- -
- Call Number
- 330 LON e
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