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Self-directed learning : an imperative for education in a complex society
This book on self-directed learning (SDL) is devoted to original academic scholarship within the field of education, and is the 6th volume in the North-West University (NWU) SDL book series. In this book the authors explore how self-directed learning can be considered an imperative for education in a complex modern society. Although each chapter represents independent research in the field of s…
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- 9781776341603
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- xxxv, 312p.; ill.
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- 374 SEL s
Europe from below
In this book, Tuuli Lähdesmäki, Katja Mäkinen, Viktorija L. A. Čeginskas, and Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus scrutinize how people who participate in cultural initiatives funded and governed by the European Union understand the idea of Europe. The book focuses on three cultural initiatives: the European Capital of Culture, the European Heritage Label, and a European Citizen Campus project funded th…
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- 9789004449800
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- xvi; 235 pg; ill.
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- 306.094 EUR
Primary and secondary education during Covid-19 : disruptions to educational …
This open access edited volume is a comparative effort to discern the short-term educational impact of the covid-19 pandemic on students, teachers and systems in Brazil, Chile, Finland, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Spain, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States. One of the first academic comparative studies of the educational impact of the pandemic, the bo…
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- 9783030815004
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- vi, 475p. : ill.
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- 371.35 PRI p
2050 China : becoming a great modern socialist country
This book is arranged and developed around the theme of “2050 China,” it analyzes the factors and advantages of the Chinese road to socialist modernization, explores and summarizes the development goal and the basic logic of the socialist modernization of China, and further shows the general basis of the primary stage of socialism. According to the report delivered at the 19th Party Congres…
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- 9789811598333
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- vi, 105p. : ill.
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- 320.95 TWO t
Political science in motion
This book examines recent developments in political science research, by considering its new influences and its new challenges.
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- 9782800415987
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- 198 pages : illustrations, 24 cm.
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- Science politique
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- 320.072 COM p
Uma politics: an ethnography of democratization in West Sumba, Indonesia, 198…
Democracy cannot be implemented overnight. Democratization is an often unpredictable process. This book concentrates on that political transformation in one of Indonesia’s most ‘traditional’ islands, Sumba. Why does democratization create such great opportunities for local politicians with their private agenda’s? Why does regional autonomy, as part of the national democratization progra…
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- 9789067183246
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- xviii, 277 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
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- 320.95.986
Disability, literature, genre: representation and affect in contemporary fiction
Examining the intersection of disability and genre in popular works of horror, crime, science fiction, fantasy, and romance published since the late 1960s, Disability, Literature, Genre is a major contribution to both cultural disability studies and genre fiction studies. Drawing on recent work on affect and emotion, the book explores how disability makes us feel, and how those feelings shape i…
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- 9781789624892
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- x, 202p.: ; 24 cm.
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- Representations (Liverpool, England)
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- 809.9335610904 CHE d
Palestinian Chicago: identity in exile
"Chicago is home to one of the largest, most politically active Palestinian immigrant communities in the United States. For decades, secular nationalism held sway as the dominant political ideology, but since the 1990s its structures have weakened and Islamic institutions have gained strength. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and interview data, Palestinian Chicago charts the origins of these cha…
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- 9780520974401
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- xv, 265p.
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- 305.89274077311 LYB p
Orchestrating public opinion: how music persuades in television political ads…
Orchestrating Public Opinion for the first time examines in detail music's persuasive role in political ads for US presidential campaigns. Studies on political ads tend to consider music something of an afterthought, innocuous accompaniment for a narrator. In this book Christiansen takes an opposing view, arguing that music is crucial to an ad's construction. In some cases, it is even determina…
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- 9789048531677
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- 276p. : ills, music ; 25 cm
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- 306.484240973
Social democracy after the cold war
Despite the market triumphalism that greeted the end of the Cold War, the collapse of the Soviet empire seemed initially to herald new possibilities for social democracy. In the 1990s, with a new era of peace and economic prosperity apparently imminent, people discontented with the realities of global capitalism swept social democrats into power in many Western countries. The resurgence was, ho…
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- 9781926836881
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- 332 p. ; 23 cm.
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- 300 SCH s
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