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Decolonizing the English literary curriculum
An international team of leading scholars illustrate the necessity and advantages of reforming the English Literary Curriculum from specific decolonial perspectives in this book, using evidence-based arguments from classroom contexts, as well as establishing new critical agendas
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- 9781009299985
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- x, 522 pages; illustration
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- 820.71 MUK d
Managing the digital university: paradigms, leadership, and organization
The reflection on university management is based on the question about the shape of universities of the future. Civic, responsible, sustainable, virtual, digital, and many other universities can be mentioned among the concepts present in the literature. All these names describe an important distinctive feature of a university, which will gain more and more importance in the future. However, giv…
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- 9781003366409
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- x, 286 pages ; 24 cm.
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- Routledge studies in organizational change & development
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- 378.1 SUL m
Evidence and Expertise in Nordic Education Policy : a comparative network ana…
This open access book explores how policy makers draw on national, regional and international expertise in issuing school reform within five Nordic countries. In an era of international comparison, policy makers are expected to review best practices, learn from experiences from elsewhere, and apply international standards propelled by international organizations. Do they do so? What counts, fo…
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- 9783030919597
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- xxiv, 249p. : ill.
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- 379.48 EVI e
Education, Equity and Inclusion : teaching and learning for a sustainable north
This open access book provides a current view on education, equity and inclusion within the lens of education for a sustainable North. The first book published by the University of the Arctic Thematic Network for Teacher Education for Social Justice and Diversity (Including the North: A comparative study of the policies on inclusion and equity in the circumpolar North, 2019) highlighted policie…
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- 1
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- 9783030974602
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- viii, 260p. : ill.
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- 371.207 EDU e
Dumbing Down : The Crisis of Quality and Equity in a Once-Great School System…
This open access book examines the challenges and issues caused by a move to a marketized education system in Sweden. Observing the introduction of the school voucher system and a postmodern social constructivist view of knowledge, the move away from objective knowledge is identified as the core reason for Sweden’s current education crisis. The impact of declining education standards on the l…
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- 9783030934293
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- XVIII, 212 p ; ill
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- 338.4737 DUM
The future of learning institutions in a digital age
This John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Report is a redaction of the argument in our book-in-progress, currently titled The Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age. That book, to be published in 2010, is merely the concrete (paper and online) manifestation and culmination of a long, complex process that brought together dozens of collaborators, face to face and vir…
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- 9780262513593
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- xi, 67 p.; ill
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- 371.3344678 THE t
Concept and design developments in school improvement research : longitudinal…
This open access book discusses challenges in school improvement research and different methodological approaches that have the potential to foster school improvement research. Research on school improvement and accountability analysis places high demands on a study’s design and method. The potential of combining the depth of case studies with the breath of quantitative measures and analyses …
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- 9783030693459
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- viii, 312p. : ill.
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- 371.2 CON c
The university revolution : outline of a processual theory of modern higher e…
Few institutions in modern society are as significant as universities, yet our historical and sociological understanding of the role of higher education has not been substantially updated for decades. By revisiting the emergence and transformation of higher education since 1800 using a novel processual approach, this book recognizes these developments as having been as central to constituting t…
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- 9781351017558
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- X, 203 p.
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- Classical and Contemporary Social Theory,
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- 378 LYB u
Implementing deeper learning and 21st education reforms : building an educati…
This open access book is a comparative analysis of recent large scale education reforms that broadened curriculum goals to better prepare students for the 21st century. The book examines what governments actually do when they broaden curriculum goals, with attention to the details of implementation. To this end, the book examines system level reforms in six countries at various levels of develo…
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- 9783030570392
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- viii, 198p. : ill.
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- 370.1523 IMP i
The civilising offensive : social and educational reform in 19th-century Belgium
"This volume offers a multifaceted selection of studies on 19th-century Belgian reformers and initiatives they instigated to solve the ‘social question’ by ‘civilising’ and moralising the lower classes. Around 1850 Belgium was continental Europe’s most heavily industrialised state. From the mid-century until the Belle Époque many international social reform associations were based in…
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- 9783110581546
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- VI, 238 p.
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- New Perspectives on the History of Liberalism and Freethought, 1
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- 306.09493 CIV c
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