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Reframing Blackness and Black Solidarities through Anti-colonial and Decoloni…
This book grounds particular struggles at the curious interface of skin, body, psyche, hegemonies and politics. Specifically, it adds to current [re]theorizations of Blackness, anti-Blackness and Black solidarities, through anti-colonial and decolonial prisms. The discussion challenges the reductionism of contemporary polity of Blackness in regards to capitalism/globalization, particularly wh…
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- 9783319530796
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- xvi, 223p.
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- 305.8001 DEI r
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
Uprooting Bias in the Academy : Lessons from the Field
This open access book analyzes barriers to inclusion in academia and details ways to create a more diverse, inclusive environment. It first describes what the barriers to inclusion are and how they function within the broader society, focusing on concept of implicit bias: what it is, how it develops, and the importance of training organizational members to recognize and challenge it. It then di…
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- 9783030856687
- Collation
- 255 p ; ill
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- 379.26 UPR L
Open education : international perspectives in higher education
This insightful collection of essays explores the ways in which open education can democratise access to education for all. It is a rich resource that offers both research and case studies to relate the application of open technologies and approaches in education settings around the world. Global in perspective, this book argues strongly for the value of open education in both the developed …
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- 9781783742806
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- xxi, 382 p ; ill
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- 379.26 OPE
Learning, Marginalization, and Improving the Quality of Education in Low-inco…
Improving learning evidence and outcomes for those most in need in developing countries is at the heart of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal on Education (SDG4). This timely volume brings together contributions on current empirical research and analysis of emerging trends that focus on improving the quality of education through better policy and practice, particularly for those…
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- 9781800642027
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- xxi, 490 p;
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- -
- Call Number
- 379.26 LEA D
Educational theory in the 21st century : science, technology, society and edu…
This open access book reviews the effects of the twenty-first century scientific-technological and social developments on the educational theory. The first part handles the subject, focusing on technology and educational philosophy. In the second part, the implications of new human and social conceptions towards the education paradigms are examined. In the chapters of the last part of the book,…
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- 9789811696404
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- xiv, 267p. : ill.
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- 370.1 EDU e
Dinaric perspectives on TIMSS 2019 : teaching and learning mathematics and sc…
This open access book brings together national experts from across the Dinaric region to rigorously review IEA’s Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2019 grade four data to develop a multidimensional and culturally sensitive perspective on their TIMSS 2019 primary-level results. The Dinaric region, named after the Dinaric Alps, is located in South-eastern Europe, and…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030858025
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- x, 244p. : ill.
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- 510.71 DIN d
Questing excellence in academia : a tale of two universities
Unlike almost most other studies of neoliberal universities and academic capitalism this book ethnographically explores and interprets those transformations and their contradictions empirically in the everyday practices of students, faculty members, and administrators at two public universities: NTNU in Norway and UCLA in California. Differently situated in global political economies, both are …
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- 9780429290633
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- vii, 236 p.
- Series Title
- Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society, 1
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- 378.481 SøR q
Compliance and resistance within neoliberal academia : biographical stories, …
This open access book reflects on academic life under a neoliberal regime. Through collaborative autoethnographies, the authors share stories about the everyday experiences, dilemmas and conflicts of three academics: the struggle for promotion, teaching’s challenges, the race to publish, confronting bureaucracy and institutional politics, as well as the resulting emotional stress. These stori…
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- 8
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- 9783030663186
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- 134 p.
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- Call Number
- 306.43 GAI c
Social and economic vulnerability of Roma people : key factors for the succes…
This open access volume provides an understanding of the different aspects of success, school continuity and social mobility among European Roma, including the motives justifying the high rates of school dropout and failure among this group. It offers a critical and reflexive perspective about social reality from a multidisciplinary and transversal point of view, sharing knowledge and practices…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030525880
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- xxi, 253p. : ill.
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- 371.82991497 SOC s
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