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Community development and schools: conflict, power and promise
Community development and schools : interrelationships, conflict and power / Mildred E. Warner, Jason Reece, Xue Zhang -- Youth demographic trends and equity considerations / Jason Reece -- The cost of tax incentives to public schools / Christine Wen, Greg LeRoy -- Urban schools and the growth machine / Jason Reece and Victoria Abou-Ghalioum -- School-centered community development : lessons fr…
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Brokering in education research-practice partnerships: a guide for education …
What is brokering and why does it matter in education research-practice partnerships? -- The practice and research behind the RPP brokers framework -- A framework: what do brokers do? -- RPP brokers across contexts -- Cases describing brokering to strengthen
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Transforming Institutions : Undergraduate STEM Education for the 21st Century
"Higher education is coming under increasing scrutiny, both publically and within academia, with respect to its ability to appropriately prepare students for the careers that will make them competitive in the 21st-century workplace. At the same time, there is a growing awareness that many global issues will require creative and critical thinking deeply rooted in the technical STEM (science, tec…
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A Task for Sisyphus : Why Europe’s Roma Policies Fail
Despite the increasing number of policy measures and initiatives targeting the Roma in Europe, their position has continued to worsen, which requires answers from policymakers, activists and academics. The author sums up why Roma policies fail on European and national levels as follows: failure to define the target group; to provide good information and data; to establish a mechanism for effect…
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- 9789633863190
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- 380 halaman
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The State, Business and Education : Public-Private Partnerships Revisited
The State, Business and Education contributes to the ongoing debates surrounding the effects of public funding of private entities by examining the ways in which they affect the quality and equity of those services, and the realization of human rights. Using case studies from both the developing and developed world this book illustrates the variety of ways in which private actors have expanded …
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- 9781788970334
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- 208 halaman
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- NORRAG Series on International Education and Development
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Systemic School Improvement Interventions in South Africa : Some Practical Le…
Looking at two smaller-scale systemic school improvement projects implemented in selected district circuits in the North West and Eastern Cape by partnerships between government, JET Education Services, and private sector organisations, this book captures and reflects on the experiences of the practitioners involved. The Systemic School Improvement Model developed by JET to address an identifie…
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Media and Education in the Digital Age : Concepts, Assessments, Subversions
This book is an invitation to informed and critical participation in the current debate on the role of digital technology in education and a comprehensive introduction to the most relevant issues in this debate. After an early wave of enthusiasm about the emancipative opportunities of the digital «revolution» in education, recent contributions invite caution, if not scepticism. This colle…
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- 366 halaman
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Knowledge, democracy and action : Community–university research partnership…
Knowledge, democracy and action is based on a three-year international comparative study undertaken by the Global Alliance on Community Based Research and supported by the UNESCO Chair in Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education. It provides evidence from twenty case studies around the world on the power and potential of community and higher education based scholar…
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Early Start : Preschool Politics in the United States
In the United States, preschool education is characterized by the dominance of a variegated private sector and patchy, uncoordinated oversight of the public sector. Tracing the history of the American debate over preschool education, Andrew Karch argues that the current state of decentralization and fragmentation is the consequence of a chain of reactions and counterreactions to policy decision…
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Epistemic Freedom in Africa : Deprovincialization and Decolonization
Epistemic Freedom in Africa is about the struggle for African people to think, theorize, interpret the world and write from where they are located, unencumbered by Eurocentrism. The imperial denial of common humanity to some human beings meant that in turn their knowledges and experiences lost their value, their epistemic virtue. Now, in the twenty-first century, descendants of enslaved, displa…
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