Transforming teacher education through innovation / Ida K. Riksaasen Hatlevik, Rachel Jakhelln, and Doris Jorde -- Quality in teacher education programs / Ida K. Riksaasen Hatlevik -- Five-year integrated research-based teacher education for primary and secondary school / Ida K. Riksaasen Hatlevik, Rachel Jakhelln, and Doris Jorde -- Coherence in teacher education : a case of research-based ref…
Theoretical perspectives -- Introductory reflections on new educational theory through ethnography / Jürgen Budde -- Educational ethnography in an age of technoculture: Exploring noise and glitch instead of fetishizing the new / Felicitas Macilchrist -- Using netnography for educational research in an age of technoculture: Rich, intimate and immersive / Rosetta Gambetti, Rob Kozinets -- Old a…
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
BSTRACT Challenges and Solutions in Ethnographic Research: Ethnography with a Twist seeks to rethink ethnography ‘outside the box’ of its previous tradition and to develop ethnographic methods by critically discussing the process, ethics, impact and knowledge production in ethnographic research. This interdisciplinary edited volume argues for a ‘twist’ that supports openness, courag…
This open access book offers a comprehensive view of the phenomenon of volunteer work: it examines motivational factors and questions of corporate organization and the social environment. In particular, this is the first book to present volunteer work in detail as a psychosocial resource and a source of well-being that should not be overused or abused. The book is based on the authors' 15 years…
This open access book provides an essential guide to value sets for anyone working with EQ-5D-5L data. The EQ-5D-5L is one of the most widely used health related quality of life questionnaires around the world, with applications in clinical trials, population health surveys and routine outcomes measurement. In addition to providing a concise, generic way of describing health, the EQ-5D-5L f…
This open access book illustrates how interdisciplinary research develops over the lifetime of a scholar: not in a single project, but as an attitude that trickles down, or spirals up, into research. This book presents how interdisciplinary work has inspired shifts in how the contributors read, value concepts, critically combine methods, cope with knowledge hierarchies, write in style, and coll…
There are several unique features of this book on the spiritual well-being of Chinese older adults. First, based on qualitative methodology, a conceptual model of spiritual well-being was proposed. Besides, through a Delphi study, different dimensions of spiritual well-being were identified. Conceptually, such effort is important because there is a general lack of well-articulated models of spi…
This open access book presents the findings of the author’s 3 decades of studying China’s evolving anti-poverty strategies. It argues that much of the billions that nations spend yearly on economic aid is used inefficiently or to treat the symptoms but not the root causes of poverty. China, however, has evolved an effective sustainable alternative by providing the means for self-reliance to…
This open access book demonstrates all the steps required to design heuristic algorithms for difficult optimization. The classic problem of the travelling salesman is used as a common thread to illustrate all the techniques discussed. This problem is ideal for introducing readers to the subject because it is very intuitive and its solutions can be graphically represented. The book features a we…