Technical and Vocational Education and Training: An Investment-Based Approach
ISBN: 9780826434845 / Angielski / Twarda / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Vocational education is central to the plans of policy makers around the world; it underpins the development of the poorest economies, and the continued competitiveness of the richest. Technical and Vocational Education and Training debates the key issues: Vocational education is central to the plans of policy makers around the world; it underpins the development of the poorest economies, and the cont... |
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650,97 zł |
The State of Business Schools: Educational and Moral Imperatives for Market Leaders
ISBN: 9781936237005 / Angielski / Miękka / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In their book, The State of Business Schools: Educational and Moral Imperatives for Market Leaders, the authors, in a highly readable, engaging, succinct, yet substantive manner, examine the role of the business school in the 21st century. The authors analyze and discuss significant educational and moral imperatives that will enable a business school to be not only a market leader but also have ethical administrators. In particular, the authors treat the following critical aspects of the nature and function of business schools and business: Leadership in business schools and in business. ...
In their book, The State of Business Schools: Educational and Moral Imperatives for Market Leaders, the authors, in a highly readable, engaging, succi...
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93,50 zł |
Social Entrepreneurship in Education: Private Ventures for the Public Good
ISBN: 9781607093565 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The purpose of this book is to share with the reader a unique experience of a seasoned career entrepreneur with the commitment to improve education and benefited by working with three highly regarded business and education leaders as mentors set out to define and build an education industry.
The purpose of this book is to share with the reader a unique experience of a seasoned career entrepreneur with the commitment to improve education an...
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216,11 zł |
Indigenous Knowledge and Learning in Asia/Pacific and Africa: Perspectives on Development, Education, and Culture
ISBN: 9780230621015 / Angielski / Twarda / 275 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection makes a unique contribution towards the amplification of indigenous knowledge and learning by adopting an inter/trans-disciplinary approach to the subject that considers a variety of spaces of engagement around knowledge in Asia and Africa.
This collection makes a unique contribution towards the amplification of indigenous knowledge and learning by adopting an inter/trans-disciplinary app...
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191,40 zł |
Introduction to American Higher Education
ISBN: 9780415803267 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written primarily for students in higher education and student affairs graduate programs, Introduction to American Higher Education is a groundbreaking textbook that combines classic scholarship pertaining to colleges and universities with the most cutting-edge perspectives in the field. The book is divided into five sections and contains 25 essential readings on the following topics:
Written primarily for students in higher education and student affairs graduate programs, Introduction to American Higher Education is a g... |
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335,45 zł |
School Administrators and Technology: Meeting the Standards
ISBN: 9780761850724 / Angielski / Miękka / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book prepares prospective school administrators to embrace opportunities and face challenges of promoting forward-thinking technology use in the educational setting. Standards-based, meaningful activities are included, mirroring real-world practice, with scoring tools that clarify and reinforce the evaluation of those established standards.
This book prepares prospective school administrators to embrace opportunities and face challenges of promoting forward-thinking technology use in the ...
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215,27 zł |
When For-Profit Meets Nonprofit: Educating Through the Market
ISBN: 9780415882460 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study addresses the increasing tumult over the commercialization of higher education - a battle over profit and principle, money and mission. While many issues in higher education encompass the mission and values of the university, the operation of for-profit subsidiaries by nonprofit universities provides the potential for an especially contentious clash. Some faculty have been especially vocal in this debate, claiming that the culture of the academy is being irreparably altered as traditional values are being replaced by a corporate style of management, or by some hybrid. By...
This study addresses the increasing tumult over the commercialization of higher education - a battle over profit and principle, money and mission. Whi...
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65,05 zł |
The Mechanical Feature: 100 Years of Engineering at Mississippi State University
ISBN: 9781604735185 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College, now Mississippi State University, was founded in 1878, it was lacking what President Stephen D. Lee called the -mechanical feature.- Devoted entirely to offering coursework in general education and agriculture, the college was not able to provide students with courses in technical subjects until 1891, when the curriculum began to include courses in basic woodworking and metal machining. Electrical engineering was added in 1892, and in later years departments of civil, industrial, petroleum, biological, aerospace, and nuclear engineering... When Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College, now Mississippi State University, was founded in 1878, it was lacking what President Stephen ... |
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151,46 zł |
Leadership for World-Class Universities: Challenges for Developing Countries
ISBN: 9780415800280 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reveals how 'world-class' thinking and policy can help university leaders employ modern solutions to the challenges facing higher education today. This book focuses especially on developing and middle-income countries, which face special problems where higher education is expanding most rapidly.
Reveals how 'world-class' thinking and policy can help university leaders employ modern solutions to the challenges facing higher education today. Thi...
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851,27 zł |
Leadership for World-Class Universities: Challenges for Developing Countries
ISBN: 9780415800297 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Leadership for World-Class Universities reveals how "world-class" thinking and policy can help university leaders employ modern solutions to the challenges facing higher education today. Readers will benefit from best practice advice offered by distinguished international contributors who have excelled by thinking globally without losing sight of their respective national and local environments. Their essays are grounded in empirical research and written to engage the reader, stimulate reflection and enhance performance. This book focuses especially on developing and middle-income... Leadership for World-Class Universities reveals how "world-class" thinking and policy can help university leaders employ modern solutions ... |
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225,29 zł |
Democratizing Higher Education Policy: Constraints of Reform in Post-Apartheid South Africa
ISBN: 9780415884068 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The challenge facing South Africa's post-apartheid government was nowhere more important than in the field of higher education. This text investigates the specific problems & how they have been approached in the years since the end of the apartheid system.
The challenge facing South Africa's post-apartheid government was nowhere more important than in the field of higher education. This text investigates...
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225,29 zł |
The Wounds that Heal: Heroism and Human Development
ISBN: 9780761851790 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines developmental theory in light of heroic narrative and argues that such theory should be adjusted to accommodate the experience of those who are, in many ways, our principal role models, examining figures such as Jane Austen, T. E. Lawrence, Winston Churchill and George S. Patton, Jr.
This book examines developmental theory in light of heroic narrative and argues that such theory should be adjusted to accommodate the experience of t...
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284,95 zł |
Managing Your Future: An Educational Guide
ISBN: 9781936237036 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kaifi analyzes the educational system of the 21st century and offers practical advice for each step of the way. More specifically, he prepares a student for high school, an undergraduate program, a graduate program, a post-graduate program, and much more.
Kaifi analyzes the educational system of the 21st century and offers practical advice for each step of the way. More specifically, he prepares a stude...
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209,23 zł |
Educating the Whole Child for the Whole World: The Ross School Model and Education for the Global Era
ISBN: 9780814741405 / Angielski / Twarda / 221 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, we are living in a global era, yet schooling systems remain generally reactive and slow to adapt to shifting economic, technological, demographic, and cultural terrains. There is a growing urgency to create, evaluate, and expand new models of education that are better synchronized with the realities of today's globally linked economies and societies. Educating the Whole Child for the Whole World examines one such model: the ethos and practices of the Ross Schools and their incubation, promotion, and launching of new ideas and practices into... At the dawn of the twenty-first century, we are living in a global era, yet schooling systems remain generally reactive and slow to adapt to shifti... |
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400,60 zł |
The Textbook as Discourse: Sociocultural Dimensions of American Schoolbooks
ISBN: 9780415886475 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text is about the social, political and cultural content of elementary and secondary textbooks in American education. It focuses on the nature of the discourses - the content and context - that represent what is included in textbooks.
This text is about the social, political and cultural content of elementary and secondary textbooks in American education. It focuses on the nature of...
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265,35 zł |
Pedagogy, Oppression and Transformation in a 'Post-Critical' Climate: The Return of Freirean Thinking
ISBN: 9781441142344 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pedagogy, Oppression and Transformation in a 'Post-Critical' Climate provides an urgent reflection on Freire's work, in particular his central principles of pedagogy and praxis, offering a variety of critical responses from philosophical, sociological and egalitarian perspectives. The editors explore whether Freire's revolutionary work has stood the test of time and its relevance to educational discourses today - discourses that frequently contest the ontological and historical aspects of human development While Freire's work emerged as a response to the problem of providing a... Pedagogy, Oppression and Transformation in a 'Post-Critical' Climate provides an urgent reflection on Freire's work, in particular his centr... |
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901,34 zł |
Leadership in Post-Compulsory Education
ISBN: 9781441156990 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The issue of 'leadership', the need for good, insightful and decisive leaders is a prominent theme in Education. Yet few can define exactly what leadership is. This book examines the phenomenon of leadership in post-compulsory education through the careful description and analysis of a long-term observational study of college principals at work. In contrast to other, more theoretical, attempts to understand leadership, this book develops an understanding of leadership by pointing to specific examples of what leaders actually do as they go about their everyday work of resolving organisational...
The issue of 'leadership', the need for good, insightful and decisive leaders is a prominent theme in Education. Yet few can define exactly what leade...
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901,34 zł |
Quest to Learn : Developing the School for Digital Kids
ISBN: 9780262515658 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Quest to Learn, an innovative school for grades 6 to 12 in New York City, grew out of the idea that gaming and game design offer a promising new paradigm for curriculum and learning. The designers of Quest to Learn developed an approach to learning that draws from what games do best: drop kids into inquiry-based, complex problem spaces that are built to help players understand how they are doing, what they need to work on, and where to go next. Content is not treated as dry information but as a living resource; students are encouraged to interact with the larger world in ways that feel... Quest to Learn, an innovative school for grades 6 to 12 in New York City, grew out of the idea that gaming and game design offer a promising new pa... |
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122,43 zł |
Under New Management: Universities, Administrative Labor, and the Professional Turn
ISBN: 9781439906958 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Faculty members who care about the institutions of higher education where they work are often at odds with university management. In his forceful book, "Under New Management," Randy Martin takes a novel, evenhanded approach to this gulf between professors, who feel a loss of autonomy, and administrators. Martin imagines a political future for academic labor based on a critical understanding of the administrative work that faculty already undertake. He considers the differences between self-rule and specialized expertise and provides a case study of a New York City public school to show... Faculty members who care about the institutions of higher education where they work are often at odds with university management. In his forceful b... |
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363,70 zł |
Wisdom's Workshop: The Rise of the Modern University
ISBN: 9780691149592 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When universities began in the Middle Ages, Pope Gregory IX described them as "wisdom's special workshop." He could not have foreseen how far these institutions would travel and develop. Tracing the eight-hundred-year evolution of the elite research university from its roots in medieval Europe to its remarkable incarnation today, Wisdom's Workshop places this durable institution in sweeping historical perspective. In particular, James Axtell focuses on the ways that the best American universities took on Continental influences, developing into the finest expressions of the modern... When universities began in the Middle Ages, Pope Gregory IX described them as "wisdom's special workshop." He could not have foreseen how far these... |
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158,13 zł |