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Education and climate change : the role of universities
This open access volume draws on a multidimensional model of educational change, the book reviews the field of climate change education and identifies some of the areas in which past efforts have fallen short in supporting effective pedagogical change at scale. It then formulates an approach to engage university students and faculty in partnering with schools and adult education institutions an…
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- 9783030579272
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- xiii, 201p. : ill
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- 370.115 EDU e
Social determinants of health in non-communicable diseases : case studies fro…
This open access book is the first compilation that reviews a wide range of social determinants of health (SDHs) for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and healthy ageing in Japan. With the highest life expectancy and the largest elderly population in the world, Japan has witnessed health inequality by region and social class becoming more prevalent since the 2000s. The first half of this volume …
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- 9789811518317
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- xi, 328p. : ill.
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- 362.1 SOC s
The narrative subject : storytelling in the age of the internet
This open access book considers the stories of adolescents and young adults from different regions of the world who use digital media as instruments and stages for storytelling, or who make themselves the subject of storytelling. These narratives discuss interconnectedness, self-staging, and managing boundaries. From the perspective of media and cultural research, they can be read as responses …
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- 9783030511890
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- xv, 269p. : ill.
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- 302.231 SCH n
On the path to AI : law's prophecies and the conceptual foundations of the ma…
This open access book explores machine learning and its impact on how we make sense of the world. It does so by bringing together two ‘revolutions’ in a surprising analogy: the revolution of machine learning, which has placed computing on the path to artificial intelligence, and the revolution in thinking about the law that was spurred by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr in the last two decades of …
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- 9783030435820
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- xxii, 147p. : ill.
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- 006.3 GRA o
New frontiers in social innovation research
This book is open access under a CC BY license. Interest in social innovation continues to rise, from governments setting up social innovation 'labs' to large corporations developing social innovation strategies. Yet theory lags behind practice, and this hampers our ability to understand social innovation and make the most of its potential. This collection brings together work by leading social…
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- 9781137506801
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- xxix, 267p. : ill.
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- 338.064 NEW n
Digital passages: migrant youth 2.0. Diaspora, gender and youth cultural inte…
Increasingly, young people live online, with the vast majority of their social and cultural interactions conducted through means other than face-to-face conversation. How does this transition impact the ways in which young migrants understand, negotiate, and perform identity? That's the question taken up by Digital Passages: Migrant Youth 2.0, a ground-breaking analysis of the ways that youth c…
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- 9789048523047
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- 324 p.; 22 cm.
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- MediaMatters,
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- 305.8 LEU d
Implementing responsible research and innovation : organisational and nationa…
The book is an analysis of data collected in the RRI-Practice study. It comprises an organizational analysis and an analysis of national discourses, thus analysing conditions for the uptake of RRI in research funding and research performing organisations in the science system.
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- 9783030578503
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- xix, 120p. : ill.
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- 174.95 IMP i
Disability and poverty : a global challenge
This book is about being disabled and being poor and the social, cultural and political processes that link these two aspects of living in what has been characterised as a “vicious circle” (Yeo & Moore 2003). It is also about the strengths that people show when living with disability and being poor. How they try to overcome their problems and making the best out of what little they have. Th…
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- 9781847428851
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- 362.4 DIS d
Kerangka literasi digital Indonesia
Secara umum yang dimaksud dengan literasi digital adalah kemampuan menggunakan teknologi informasi dan komunikasi (TIK), untuk menemukan, mengevaluasi, memanfaatkan, membuat dan mengkomunikasikan konten/informasi, dengan kecakpan kognitif maupun teknikal. Ada banyak model kerangka (framework) untuk literasi digital yang dapat ditemukan di Internet, dengan ragam nama dan bentuk. Setiap model mem…
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- 9786025132421
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- 46p. : ill.
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- 303.4833 KER k
Inter-group relations and migrant integration in European cities : changing n…
This open access book presents a comparative analysis of intergroup relations and migrant integration at the neighbourhood level in Europe. Featuring a unique collection of portraits of urban relations between the majority population and immigrant minorities, it examines how relations are structured and evolve in different and increasingly diverse local societies. Inside, readers will find a co…
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- 9783319230962
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- vi, 216p. : ill.
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- 304.8 INT i
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