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Research, Development, and Innovation in Asia Pacific Higher Education
ISBN: 9781349498574 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Research, Development, and Innovation in Asia Pacific Higher Education critically examines recent policies and practices adopted by governments and universities in Asia Pacific in promoting research and development, innovation, and entrepreneurial activities between the universities, industry and business. Critical reflections upon the changing relationship among these stakeholders are offered, with comparative perspectives and international insights into how universities in Asia Pacific have handled the growing pressure for top university rankings and keen competition in the knowledge-based...
Research, Development, and Innovation in Asia Pacific Higher Education critically examines recent policies and practices adopted by governments and un...
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201,24 |
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Digital Online Culture, Identity, and Schooling in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9781349495160 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Digital Online Culture, Identity and Schooling in the Twenty-First Century provides a cultural, ideological critique of identity construction in the context of virtualization. Kimberly Rosenfeld explores the growing number of people who no longer reside in one physical reality but live, work, and play in multiple realities. Rosenfeld's critique of neo-liberal practices in the digital environment brings to light the on-going hegemonic and counter-hegemonic battles over control of education in the digital age. Rosenfeld draws conclusions for empowering the population through schooling, and how...
Digital Online Culture, Identity and Schooling in the Twenty-First Century provides a cultural, ideological critique of identity construction in the c...
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201,24 |
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The Humanities Crisis and the Future of Literary Studies
ISBN: 9781349486960 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Demonstrating that the supposed drawbacks of the humanities are in fact their source of practical value, Jay explores current debates about the role of the humanities in higher education, puts them in historical context, and offers humanists and their supporters concrete ways to explain the practical value of a contemporary humanities education.
Demonstrating that the supposed drawbacks of the humanities are in fact their source of practical value, Jay explores current debates about the role o...
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201,24 |
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Deepening Community Engagement in Higher Education: Forging New Pathways
ISBN: 9781349457533 / Angielski / Miękka / 309 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume argues for reexamination of the field of community engagement, suggests that the most effective way forward requires rethinking the structures of traditional higher education, and points to the growing emergence of evidence-based best practices that can catalyze a renaissance in community engagement and in higher education.
This volume argues for reexamination of the field of community engagement, suggests that the most effective way forward requires rethinking the struct...
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362,27 |
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American Higher Education, Leadership, and Policy: Critical Issues and the Public Good
ISBN: 9781349378753 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this critical look at contemporary higher education, Pasque argues that if a more thorough understanding of leaders' perspectives is not offered, then the dominant perspectives within academic discourse will continue to perpetuate the current ideas of higher education's relationship with society.
In this critical look at contemporary higher education, Pasque argues that if a more thorough understanding of leaders' perspectives is not offered, t...
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226,79 |
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Anthropological Perspectives on Student Futures: Youth and the Politics of Possibility
ISBN: 9781137547859 / Angielski / Twarda / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines diverse ways in which young people from around the world envision and prepare for their future education, careers, and families. The book features cutting-edge anthropological essays including ethnographic accounts of schooling in India, South Africa, the US, Bhutan, Tanzania, and Nigeria. Each chapter focuses on today s generation of students and on students' use of education to create new possibilities for themselves. This volume will be of particular interest to practicing teachers and anthropologists and to readers who seek an ethnographic understanding of the world... This book examines diverse ways in which young people from around the world envision and prepare for their future education, careers, and families.... |
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Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research: Volume 29
ISBN: 9789402402995 / Angielski / Miękka / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Published annually since 1985, the Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities.
Published annually since 1985, the Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics o...
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927,94 |
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The Transformation of Women's Collegiate Education: The Legacy of Virginia Gildersleeve
ISBN: 9783319468600 / Angielski / Twarda / 133 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the life of Virginia Gildersleeve, the dean of Barnard College from 1911 to 1947, who dedicated her life to expanding women s collegiate opportunities to match those of men, and to allow women entry into professional and graduate programs. Gildersleeve was the first academic to use the media to define for the American public what higher education--and particularly what higher education for women--meant. The only woman to sign the United Nations charter, she made waves by implementing the first program to allow women into the Navy. This book explores how Gildersleeve s life...
This book examines the life of Virginia Gildersleeve, the dean of Barnard College from 1911 to 1947, who dedicated her life to expanding women s colle...
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221,37 |
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Women's Rights, Racial Integration, and Education from 1850-1920: The Case of Sarah Raymond, the First Female Superintendent
ISBN: 9781349377749 / Angielski / Miękka / 189 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This historical biography examines Sarah Raymond Fitzwilliam's abolitionist roots growing up on a stop of the Underground Railroad, her training at a 'normal school, ' her tenure as a teacher, principal and the nation's first city school superintendent (Bloomington, Illinois 1874-1892)
This historical biography examines Sarah Raymond Fitzwilliam's abolitionist roots growing up on a stop of the Underground Railroad, her training at a ...
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201,24 |
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Globalizing the Community College: Strategies for Change in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9781349386796 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Long regarded as a local institution, the community college has become a globalized institution. It has been affected by global forces, and by the interpretations of organizational members to both global forces and to the responses of intermediaries. Globalization as a process finds an outlet within the community college where economic, cultural, and technological behaviors are advanced along lines consistent with and supportive of globalization. Furthermore, government actions have directed community colleges to respond and adapt to a global economy. In this book, seven community colleges...
Long regarded as a local institution, the community college has become a globalized institution. It has been affected by global forces, and by the int...
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201,24 |
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Language Attitudes and Identities in Multilingual China: A Linguistic Ethnography
ISBN: 9783319379029 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These in-depth case studies provide novel insights in to the fast-changing language situation in multilingual China, and how it changes the meanings of language identity and language learning.
These in-depth case studies provide novel insights in to the fast-changing language situation in multilingual China, and how it changes the meanings o...
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201,24 |
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Challenges and Options: The Academic Profession in Europe
ISBN: 9783319458434 / Angielski / Twarda / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume explores the various issues that have an impact on the academic career of professionals in European higher education. Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are currently subject to profound uncertainties and are more challenged than ever on quality issues, both with regard to their conceptual nature and in the extension and amendment of their mission. Divided into three parts, the first part of the book deals with the challenges and issues in higher education academic careers. It addresses such topics as the influence of European policies and changes, the cultural differences in...
This volume explores the various issues that have an impact on the academic career of professionals in European higher education. Higher Education Ins...
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402,53 |
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International Handbook of Early Childhood Education
ISBN: 9789402409253 / Angielski / Twarda / 1620 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This international handbook gives a comprehensive overview of findings from longstanding and contemporary research, theory, and practices in early childhood education in the Northern and Southern hemispheres. The first volume of the handbook addresses theory, methodology, and the research activities and research needs of particular regions. The second volume examines in detail innovations and longstanding programs, curriculum and assessment, and conceptions and research into child, family and communities.
The two volumes of this handbook address the current theory, methodologies and... This international handbook gives a comprehensive overview of findings from longstanding and contemporary research, theory, and practices in early chi...
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3019,23 |
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Education Policy Analysis: Liberal Studies and National Education in Hong Kong
ISBN: 9789811026089 / Angielski / Miękka / 95 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book reports on a five-year longitudinal study of the policy relating to the introduction of Liberal Studies, which was developed as an interdisciplinary curriculum in the New Senior Secondary (NSS) academic structure in post-colonial Hong Kong. It also examines the implementation of Moral and National Education, which has become one of the most recent controversial issues in Hong Kong s education policy. Adopting a cross-subject perspective, it concludes by illustrating the roles of Liberal Studies and Moral and National Education in strengthening multi-disciplinary learning and...
This book reports on a five-year longitudinal study of the policy relating to the introduction of Liberal Studies, which was developed as an interdisc...
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201,24 |
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The Forefront of International Higher Education: A Festschrift in Honor of Philip G. Altbach
ISBN: 9789401779821 / Angielski / Miękka / 329 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This bookhonors the academic trajectory and global impact of Philip G. Altbach, one of the most important education comparativists worldwidefor over forty years. From his early writings on India and student activism to his recent work on research universities, Altbach has served as a key developer of the expansion of the field to include comparative higher education. His capacity to find, support, and gather the best minds around the world, to organize research teams in order to explore the most relevant issues on comparative higher education has earned him international recognition. His... This bookhonors the academic trajectory and global impact of Philip G. Altbach, one of the most important education comparativists worldwidefor ove... |
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Globalisation and National Identity in History Textbooks: The Russian Federation
ISBN: 9789402409710 / Angielski / Twarda / 139 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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342,14 |
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Globalisation and Historiography of National Leaders: Symbolic Representations in School Textbooks
ISBN: 9789402409741 / Angielski / Twarda / 283 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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523,30 |
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Incentives and Performance: Governance of Research Organizations
ISBN: 9783319382579 / Angielski / Miękka / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book contributes to the current discussion in society, politics and higher education on innovation capacity and the financial and non-financial incentives for researchers. The expert contributions in the book deal with implementation of incentive systems at higher education institutions in order to foster innovation. On the other hand, the book also discusses the extent to which governance structures from economy can be transferred to universities and how scientific performance can be measured and evaluated. This book is essential for decision-makers in knowledge-intensive...
This book contributes to the current discussion in society, politics and higher education on innovation capacity and the financial and non-fina...
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509,20 |
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Global Innovation of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Transgressing Boundaries
ISBN: 9783319382340 / Angielski / Miękka / 369 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines current trends in higher education and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.
This book examines current trends in higher education and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.
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201,24 |
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Assessing Mathematical Literacy: The Pisa Experience
ISBN: 9783319346069 / Angielski / Miękka / 321 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book describes the design, development, delivery and impact of the mathematics assessment for the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). First, the origins of PISA's concept of mathematical literacy are discussed, highlighting the underlying themes of mathematics as preparation for life after school and mathematical modelling of the real world, and clarifying PISA's position within this part of the mathematics education territory. The PISA mathematics framework is introduced as a significant milestone in the development and dissemination of these ideas. The... This book describes the design, development, delivery and impact of the mathematics assessment for the OECD Programme for International Student Ass... |
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