Philanthropy and Education: Strategies for Impact
ISBN: 9781349459674 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Philanthropic foundations play an increasingly important role in attempts to enhance the performance of school systems. Based on case studies from Germany, Switzerland and the US, this book develops an innovative model of effective education philanthropy for successfully tackling problems in the complex field of education.
Philanthropic foundations play an increasingly important role in attempts to enhance the performance of school systems. Based on case studies from Ger...
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The Palgrave Handbook of Race and Ethnic Inequalities in Education
ISBN: 9781349338498 / Angielski / Miękka / 648 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This comprehensive, state-of-the-art reference work provides the first systematic review to date of how sociologists have studied the relationship between race/ethnicity and educational inequality over the last thirty years in eighteen different national contexts.
This comprehensive, state-of-the-art reference work provides the first systematic review to date of how sociologists have studied the relationship bet...
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Higher Education in Ireland: Practices, Policies and Possibilities
ISBN: 9781349450336 / Angielski / Miękka / 271 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection provides the first in-depth, interdisciplinary and over-arching review of higher education in Ireland, situating higher education within the socio-cultural, political and historical context of the country over the past 40 years and the development of European and national policies.
This collection provides the first in-depth, interdisciplinary and over-arching review of higher education in Ireland, situating higher education with...
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The Politics of Financing Education in China
ISBN: 9781349435975 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tingjin Lin explores the conflict between self-interest and the provision of equality of opportunity facing educators in China. Provincial leaders prove reluctant to equalize education when doing so means sacrificing their future promotion.
Tingjin Lin explores the conflict between self-interest and the provision of equality of opportunity facing educators in China. Provincial leaders pro...
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Knowledge and the Future of the Curriculum: International Studies in Social Realism
ISBN: 9781349491797 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection explores why powerful knowledge matters for social justice and discusses its implications for curriculum and pedagogy. The contributors argue that the purpose of education is to provide all students with access to powerful knowledge so that they acquire the means to move beyond their experiences and enhance their lives.
This collection explores why powerful knowledge matters for social justice and discusses its implications for curriculum and pedagogy. The contributor...
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388,20 zł |
Higher Education Policies in Central and Eastern Europe: Convergence Towards a Common Model?
ISBN: 9781349331994 / Angielski / Miękka / 233 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A political science perspective on higher education reform in Central and Eastern Europe. Examines the impact of historical institutions and transnational networking on institutions of higher education and assesses whether Poland, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria and Romania are converging towards a common model of market-based governance.
A political science perspective on higher education reform in Central and Eastern Europe. Examines the impact of historical institutions and transnati...
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Sustainable Development and Quality Assurance in Higher Education: Transformation of Learning and Society
ISBN: 9781349498734 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To help address the challenges of sustainable development, higher education institutions must transform themselves, bringing together best practice in quality management for tertiary education with best practice in education for sustainable development. This book provides tested strategies and pathways for undertaking this successfully.
To help address the challenges of sustainable development, higher education institutions must transform themselves, bringing together best practice in...
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Social Justice and the University: Globalization, Human Rights and the Future of Democracy
ISBN: 9781349450138 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Can universities continue to play a major role in advancing social justice today? This volume illuminates key aspects of social justice as a theoretical project and as a set of practical challenges. Authors address related issues from the perspectives of active practitioners in the context of or from close proximity to universities.
Can universities continue to play a major role in advancing social justice today? This volume illuminates key aspects of social justice as a theoretic...
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Understanding Sex and Relationship Education, Youth and Class: A Youth Work-Led Approach
ISBN: 9781349326600 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book sets out an original Youth Work-based SRE programme and explores how a range of socioeconomic, cultural and sexual norms, values and attitudes differently shape decision-making on sex, intimacy and future plans across different contexts.
This book sets out an original Youth Work-based SRE programme and explores how a range of socioeconomic, cultural and sexual norms, values and attitud...
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The Dynamics and Social Outcomes of Education Systems
ISBN: 9781349439027 / Angielski / Miękka / 335 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Some scholars argue that education systems across the western world are becoming increasingly similar due to the influence of transnational discourses and organizations. Others believe that education is the panacea for all problems of social cohesion. After all, aren't the well-educated usually more tolerant, civically engaged and trusting than the poorly educated? This book critically examines both claims. It finds that western countries still differ markedly on key aspects of their education systems and that these differences reflect distinct political traditions and different responses to...
Some scholars argue that education systems across the western world are becoming increasingly similar due to the influence of transnational discourses...
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388,20 zł |
Student Teachers in School Practice: An Analysis of Learning Opportunities
ISBN: 9781349443550 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book discusses changes to student teacher education globally and in the UK, exploring how student teachers learn through school teaching practices and ideas for developing and maximizing learning opportunities in school-based student teacher education.
This book discusses changes to student teacher education globally and in the UK, exploring how student teachers learn through school teaching practice...
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132,77 zł |
European Higher Education Policy and the Social Dimension: A Comparative Study of the Bologna Process
ISBN: 9781349501373 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Bologna Process has significantly shaped recent higher education policies across Europe but the impact of the social dimension has been neglected. This book provides an overview of the major Bologna reforms and through a cross-country comparative study discusses whether this social aspect can ever successfully be incorporated into policy.
The Bologna Process has significantly shaped recent higher education policies across Europe but the impact of the social dimension has been neglected....
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Academic Inbreeding and Mobility in Higher Education: Global Perspectives
ISBN: 9781349498871 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Academic inbreeding - appointing one's own graduates for academic positions - is a controversial but surprisingly common practice internationally. This book is the first comparative analysis of the phenomenon - the causes, implications, and future of inbreeding.
Academic inbreeding - appointing one's own graduates for academic positions - is a controversial but surprisingly common practice internationally. Thi...
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Multidisciplinary Research on Teaching and Learning
ISBN: 9781349500079 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection indicates how research on teaching and learning from multiple scientific disciplines such as educational science and psychology can be successfully pursued by a co-operation between researchers and school teachers. The contributors adopt different methodological approaches, ranging from field research to laboratory experiments.
This collection indicates how research on teaching and learning from multiple scientific disciplines such as educational science and psychology can be...
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Remaking the American College Campus: Essays
ISBN: 9781476663333 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The built and landscaped spaces of colleges and universities radiate and absorb the values of the cultures in which they were created. As economic and political forces exert pressure on administrators and as our understanding of higher education shifts, these spaces can transform dramatically.
Focusing on the utopian visions and the dystopian realities of American campus life, this collection of new essays examines campus spaces from the perspective of those who live and work there. Topics include disability, sustainability, first-year writing, underrepresented groups on campus, online...
The built and landscaped spaces of colleges and universities radiate and absorb the values of the cultures in which they were created. As economic and...
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245,32 zł |
History of Bilingual Education in the Northern Territory: People, Programs and Policies
ISBN: 9789811020766 / Angielski / Twarda / 375 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides the first detailed history of the Bilingual Education Program in the Northern Territory of Australia. The book offers valuable insights as it examines in detail the policy settings that helped and hindered bilingual education in the context of minority language rights in Australia and elsewhere.
This book provides the first detailed history of the Bilingual Education Program in the Northern Territory of Australia. The book offers valuable insi...
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Lost Classroom, Lost Community: Catholic Schools' Importance in Urban America
ISBN: 9780226418438 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the past two decades in the United States, more than 1,600 Catholic elementary and secondary schools have closed, and more than 4,500 charter schools--public schools that are often privately operated and freed from certain regulations--have opened, many in urban areas. With a particular emphasis on Catholic school closures, Lost Classroom, Lost Community examines the implications of these dramatic shifts in the urban educational landscape. More than just educational institutions, Catholic schools promote the development of social capital--the social networks and mutual trust...
In the past two decades in the United States, more than 1,600 Catholic elementary and secondary schools have closed, and more than 4,500 charter schoo...
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127,51 zł |
Technology and the Disruption of Higher Education
ISBN: 9789813144309 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Technology and the Disruption of Higher Education
ISBN: 9789813144293 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Pedagogies of Educational Transitions: European and Antipodean Research
ISBN: 9783319431161 / Angielski / Twarda / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents the latest research on educational transitions from a variety of research traditions and practical contexts set in Australia, New Zealand, and several European countries. It examines, critically questions, and reshapes ideas and notions about children s transitions to school. The book is divided into five parts, the first two of which emphasise diversity and inclusion, with Part II focusing solely on the transition to school for children from Indigenous cultures. Part III explores the notion of continuity, which has been widely debated in terms of its role in the... This book presents the latest research on educational transitions from a variety of research traditions and practical contexts set in Australia, Ne... |
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388,20 zł |