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Audacious education purposes : how governments transform the goals of educati…
This open access book offers a comparative study of eight ambitious national reforms that sought to create opportunities for students to gain the necessary breath of skills to thrive in a rapidly changing world. It examines how national governments transform education systems to provide students opportunities to develop such skills. It analyses comprehensive education reforms in Brazil, Finland…
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- 9783030418823
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- x, 250p. : ill.
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- 379 AUD a
Manifesto for the humanities : transforming doctoral education in good enough…
After a remarkable career in higher education, Sidonie Smith offers Manifesto for the Humanities as a reflective contribution to the current academic conversation over the place of the Humanities in the 21st century. Her focus is on doctoral education and opportunities she sees for its reform. Grounding this manifesto in background factors contributing to current “crises” in the humanitie…
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- 9780472073047
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- xi, 225p. : ill.
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- 378.2 SMI m
Innovative school principals and restructuring : life history portraits of su…
Restructuring is an international phenomenon, and great stress is placed on the role of the innovative principal in the process. This book offers insights into the ways in which six principals go about leading the change process in their schools, and looks for ways of understanding why and how principals behave and think in the way they do. Its edited topical life history approach identifies ke…
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- 9780203985946
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- vi, 182p. : ill.
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- 371.200994 DIM i
Change in classroom practice
Over the last ten years deliberate and determined efforts have been made to improve schooling. This book charts recent and current developments in the practical business of changing classroom practice to make schools more effective. It is devoted to detecting the effects on classroom practice of the efforts made to improve schools and classrooms, and to understanding how classroom practice chan…
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- 9781135721251
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- vi, 158p. : ill.
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- 371.10240941 CHA c
25 years of transformations of higher education systems in post-Soviet countr…
This open access book is a result of the first ever study of the transformations of the higher education institutional landscape in fifteen former USSR countries after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It explores how the single Soviet model that developed across the vast and diverse territory of the Soviet Union over several decades has evolved into fifteen unique national systems, …
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- 9783319529806
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- xxviii, 482p. : ill.
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- 378 TWE t
Garden learning : a study on European botanic gardens' collaborative learning…
"From 2007-2013 the European 7th Framework Program Science in Society (FP7) funded a multitude of formal and informal educational institutions to join forces and engage in alternative ways to teach science—inside and outside the classroom—all over Europe. This book reports on one of these projects named INQUIRE which was developed and implemented to support 14 Botanic Gardens and Natural Hi…
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- 9781909188662
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- vi, 185p. : ill.
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- 370 KAP g
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