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Academic Freedom in the European Context: Legal, Philosophical and Institutional Perspectives
ISBN: 9783030869335 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the concept of academic freedom from a European vantage point. Drawing on both philosophical and legal perspectives, the editors and contributors analyse the concept of academic freedom within the present institutional setting. Academic freedom has long been considered a natural part of higher education, but as the world enters the digital age, a renewed understanding of its role and the threats it must face is required. The authors question the purpose of science without freedom, and subsequently the purpose of political communities without free science. Although the book...
This book explores the concept of academic freedom from a European vantage point. Drawing on both philosophical and legal perspectives, the editors an...
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Childhood, Learning & Everyday Life in Three Asia-Pacific Cities: Experiences from Melbourne, Hong Kong and Singapore
ISBN: 9789819904853 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book introduces findings from an international, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary study of children’s everyday experiences of growing up and going to school in the context of the three global cities of Hong Kong, Singapore and Melbourne. It takes the premise that children’s learning and orientations to educational success are shaped by everyday cultural practices at home and at school, by policy contexts that both produce and respond to educational and cultural norms, and by individual and familial desires and aspirations. Drawing on research conducted with primary school-aged...
This book introduces findings from an international, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary study of children’s everyday experiences of growing up ...
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A is for Arson: A History of Vandalism in American Education
ISBN: 9781501770722 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In A Is for Arson, Campbell F. Scribner sifts through two centuries of debris to uncover the conditions that have prompted school vandalism and to explain why attempts at prevention have inevitably failed. Vandalism costs taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars every year, as students, parents, and even teachers wreak havoc on school buildings. Why do they do it? Can anything stop them? Who should pay for the damage? Underlying these questions are long-standing tensions between freedom and authority, and between wantonness and reason. Property destruction is not simply a moral failing,...
In A Is for Arson, Campbell F. Scribner sifts through two centuries of debris to uncover the conditions that have prompted school vandalism and to exp...
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150,91 |
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Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: Policy Discourses and the Illusion of Best Practice
ISBN: 9783031280375 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the discourses in learning and teaching policy in UK higher education, traces how these ideas are recontextualised at institutional level and reveals the differences between policy discourses and lecturers’ and students’ experiences. The author argues that policy ideas around learning and teaching are not simply value-free ‘best practice’ but reflect the socio-political context of higher education. The study uses an innovative conceptual framework of critical discourse studies (CDS) and Bernstein’s sociology of pedagogy to provide critical lenses to uncover the...
This book explores the discourses in learning and teaching policy in UK higher education, traces how these ideas are recontextualised at institutional...
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483,04 |
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Decolonizing Education for Sustainable Futures
ISBN: 9781529226089 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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438,10 |
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Children’s Lifeworlds in a Global City: Melbourne
ISBN: 9789819905720 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the connections between policy, school experiences, and everyday activities of children growing up in the global city of Melbourne, Australia. It provides an in-depth consideration of Melbourne primary school children’s lifeworlds, exploring everyday stories and practices inside and outside of school. This includes consideration of the diverse ways that educational “success” may be understood in the context of Melbourne, productively moving beyond a narrow focus only on academic achievement. Situated alongside policy and curriculum analysis, the book draws on research...
This book examines the connections between policy, school experiences, and everyday activities of children growing up in the global city of Melbourne,...
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Indigenous Identity Formation in Chilean Education: New Racism and Schooling Experiences of Mapuche Youth
ISBN: 9780367548155 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers rich sociological analysis of the ways in which educational institutions influence indigenous identity formation in Chile. In doing so, Webb explores the mechanisms of new racism in schooling, and demonstrates how continued forms of exclusion impact minority groups.
This book offers rich sociological analysis of the ways in which educational institutions influence indigenous identity formation in Chile. In doing s...
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194,66 |
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Decolonisation of Higher Education in Africa: Perspectives from Hybrid Knowledge Production
ISBN: 9780367688325 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book discusses the status and importance of decolonisation and indigenous knowledge in academic research, teaching, and learning programmes and beyond.
Taking practical lessons from a range of institutions in Africa, the book argues that that local and global sciences are culturally equal and capable of synergistic complementarity and then integrates the concept of hybrid science into discourses on decolonisation. The chapters argue for a cross-cultural dialogue between different epistemic traditions and the accommodation 'Indigenous' knowledge systems in higher education. Bringing... This book discusses the status and importance of decolonisation and indigenous knowledge in academic research, teaching, and learning programmes and b...
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China Urban and Rural Public Education Service Equalization: Development and Application of Performance Measurement
ISBN: 9781032112558 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Centering on issues of disparity and equality in basic public education services in China, this book proposes a performance measurement system that assesses and guides equality of basic public education in urban and rural areas.
Centering on issues of disparity and equality in basic public education services in China, this book proposes a performance measurement system that as...
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Chinese Teacher Compensation System of Compulsory Education: Attraction, Retention, and Motivation
ISBN: 9781032140056 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the compensation system for teachers in compulsory education in China and how it can be brought to bear in attracting, retaining and motivating teachers while improving the quality of basic education.
This book examines the compensation system for teachers in compulsory education in China and how it can be brought to bear in attracting, retaining an...
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Discourses of Globalisation, Ideology, and Human Rights
ISBN: 9783030905927 / Angielski / Miękka / 221 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines dominant discourses in human rights education globally. Using diverse paradigms, ranging from critical theory to discourse analysis, the book examines major human rights education reforms and policy issues in a global culture, with a focus on the ambivalent and problematic relationship between human rights education discourses, ideology and the state. The book discusses democracy, ideology and human rights, which are among the most critical and significant factors defining and contextualising the processes surrounding human rights education globally. The book critiques...
This book examines dominant discourses in human rights education globally. Using diverse paradigms, ranging from critical theory to discourse analysis...
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563,56 |
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Reimagining Mobility in Higher Education: For The Future Generations of International Students
ISBN: 9783030938673 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores emerging populations of mobile international students in order to consider innovative and inclusive approaches for a more equitable and socially just higher education for new generations of international students. It offers critical reflections on the intersections of race, place, and space at universities hosting international students across multiple geographic and cultural contexts. The volume is designed to catalyze debate on how international student learning and exchange needs to be reimagined for new generations of students in a world of increasing complexity and...
This book explores emerging populations of mobile international students in order to consider innovative and inclusive approaches for a more equitable...
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Mental Health and Higher Education in Australia
ISBN: 9789811680427 / Angielski / Miękka / 355 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book addresses a broad range of issues related to mental health in higher education in Australia, with specific reference to student and staff well-being. It examines the challenges of creating and sustaining more resilient cultures within higher education and the community. Showcasing some of Australia's unique experiences, the authors present a multidisciplinary perspective of mental health supports and services relevant to the higher education landscape. This book examines the different ways Australian higher education institutions responded/are responding to the COVID-19...
This book addresses a broad range of issues related to mental health in higher education in Australia, with specific reference to student and staff we...
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Reducing Hate Through Multicultural Education and Transformation
ISBN: 9798887301648 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reducing Hate through Multicultural Education and Transformation is a book that reminds us that we live in a complex world; and at micro and macro levels, the demography is changing and people are worried about the current state of affairs, their future, and the future of their children. At local, national, and global levels, there appears to be unsteadiness, crises, and struggles in our economies, politics, and societies. Disruptions, disasters, and deaths are visible at all spectra of our lives; and our leaders seem unready, unwilling, underprepared, and unprepared to bring us together to...
Reducing Hate through Multicultural Education and Transformation is a book that reminds us that we live in a complex world; and at micro and macro lev...
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333,06 |
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The Enduring Classroom: Teaching Then and Now
ISBN: 9780226828831 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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102,48 |
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Great on Their Behalf: Why School Boards Fail, How Yours Can Become Effective
ISBN: 9781544537597 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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72,18 |
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Discourses of Globalisation, Ideology, Education and Policy Reforms
ISBN: 9783030715854 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents a global overview of discourses of globalization, current research in education and education policy reforms. It first examines globalisation, education and policy research and reforms in education, including coverage of main trends in education and policy reforms globally, as well as specific policy issues such as equity, inclusive schooling and quality education for all. Next, it offers a comparative perspective in evaluating the ambivalent and problematic relationship between globalisation, ideology, the state and education reforms globally. One significant impact of...
This book presents a global overview of discourses of globalization, current research in education and education policy reforms. It first examines glo...
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The Standing of Vocational Education and the Occupations It Serves: Current Concerns and Strategies For Enhancing That Standing
ISBN: 9783030962395 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book addresses what is, perhaps, the single most important issue for vocational education; its relatively low standing in an era of high aspiration. The work explores the nature, extent and consequences for an educational sector that whilst having an increasingly important role in contemporary societies is seen to be of low standing across both countries with developed and developing economies.Some of the standing is associated with the occupation it serves and this is highlighted in an era of high aspiration by young people and their parents. The consequences are far-reaching. This...
This book addresses what is, perhaps, the single most important issue for vocational education; its relatively low standing in an era of high aspirati...
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Ethics and Inclusive Education: Disability, Schooling and Justice
ISBN: 9783030974374 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book reveals the entanglement of ethics, rights and justice in education. It aims to develop everyday philosophy to guide choices as we continue to attempt to make schools places for all comers. The authors offer education as a social good, a building block for inclusive communities. This assumes an ethical predisposition. Ethics and inclusive education takes the reader on a journey through the conceptual foundations of ethics, rights and justice to assist us to build a formulation of the fair or just society and the way ethical approaches to schooling may support or unravel that.
This book reveals the entanglement of ethics, rights and justice in education. It aims to develop everyday philosophy to guide choices as we continue ...
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Access and Widening Participation in Arts Higher Education: Practice and Research
ISBN: 9783030974527 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume brings together a range of practitioners, managers, and researchers who work within the field of arts higher education to reflect on strategies to increase access and widening participation (WP). The issues presented in this book are situated within a wider global context where countries are seeking greater harmonisation of higher education as students and workers become more mobile, crossing international borders. The chapter authors address various issues within higher education institutions from a WP context, including areas such as creative writing, music, art and design. In...
This volume brings together a range of practitioners, managers, and researchers who work within the field of arts higher education to reflect on strat...
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603,81 |