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The ethics of entrepreneurship education
Entrepreneurship is now everywhere on college campuses: from classes and contests to accelerators and incubators spread across diverse departments and programs. These activities cultivate tomorrow's Facebooks and Googles but can also put profit in conflict with pedagogy. Should faculty keep information about student start-ups confidential? Should universities, or educators personally, invest in…
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- 9780262380478
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- xi, 209 p. : ill.
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- 174.4 JEN t
The workshop for morality : the islamic creativity of Pesantren Daarut Tauhid…
This volume is a remarkable study of a most unusual pesantren. Officially known as Pesantren Daarut Tauhid, this pesantren was located in Bandung and flourished at the beginning of a period of Islamic resurgence in Indonesia. More commonly referred to as the Bengkel Akhlaq, this ‘Workshop for Morality’ exerted a special appeal to groups of young urban Muslims, particularly students. Its fou…
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- 9781921313684
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- xvi, 120 pages; illustration
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- 297.7 SOL t
Civil War settlers: Scandinavians, citizenship, and American empire, 1848-1870
Civil War Settlers is the first comprehensive analysis of Scandinavian Americans and their participation in the US Civil War. Based on thousands of sources in multiple languages, that have to date been inaccessible to most US historians, Anders Bo Rasmussen brings the untold story of Scandinavian American immigrants to life by focusing on their lived community experience and positioning it with…
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- 9781108980135
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- 376 p
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- 973.7083 RAS c
Politics, policy, and public options
A public option is a government-provided social good that exists alongside a similar privately provided good. While the public option is typically identified with health care policy, public options have been a longstanding feature of American life in a variety of sectors, ranging from libraries to swimming pools. Public schools, for example, coexist alongside private schools. However, there is …
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- 9781108487641
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- ix, 153 p ; 24 cm
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- 344.7303 SIT p
Education for social justice: the meaning of justice and current research
Education for Social Justice is a statement of the role of education in promoting social justice. Drawing on research, this book explains what social justice is, presents the argument that democracy requires a commitment to social justice, and shows what action steps need to be taken to ensure social justice is achieved within education and society more broadly. The text presents research an…
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- 9781032420301
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- xviii, 195 pages; illustration
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- 370.117 MIC e
Community development and schools: conflict, power and promise
"This book lays out the promise and potential of schools as community building institutions. It explores the challenges faced in incorporating schools into broader community development policy. It recognizes the changing demographics of schools and the need to integrate schools with economic development policy in order to promote broader community development. The book includes chapters on tax …
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- 9781003463412
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- xvi, 160 pages : illustrations
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- Community development research and practice
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- 307.1 WAR c
Power, alliances, and redistribution : the politics of social protection for …
Latin America is considered the most unequal continent in the world. Paradoxically, the development of resource-intensive social systems has done little to change the social imbalance. The author traces this paradox using Argentina as an example, uncovering the underlying conflicts of power and interests, and identifying successful strategies for implementing inclusive policies. As the first st…
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- 9783966650281
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- 373p
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- 306.0982 BOS
Internet Governance at the Point of No Return
The book begins with an analysis of the technological infrastructure environment and of the manifold regulatory theories developed in the Internet Governance context. Based on this foundation the transnational normative ecosystem is outlined, followed by a detailed discussion of the substantive Internet Governance principles (such as legitimacy, participation, transparency, accountability). The…
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- 9783038053606
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- 302.5 ROF i
Hanging out, messing around, and geeking out : kids living and learning with …
An examination of young people's everyday new media practices—including video-game playing, text-messaging, digital media production, and social media use.Conventional wisdom about young people's use of digital technology often equates generational identity with technology identity: today's teens seem constantly plugged in to video games, social networking sites, and text messaging. Yet there…
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- 9780262518543
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- 440 hlm
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- 302.23108350973
The Electoral Consequences of Third Way Welfare State Reforms : Social Democr…
In all advanced Western nations, policy-makers have implemented encompassing welfare state reforms in recent decades breaking with past welfare arrangements. In particular, social democracy engaged in significant policy change under the Third Way paradigm and broke with its traditional reputation on welfare that had built the ties with the core constituency in the 20th century. The Electoral Co…
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- 9789089644503
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- 280p
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- Changing Welfare States
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- 306.09409051 ARN
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