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  • Global Initiatives and Higher Education in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

    by Erna Oliver ...
    The Fourth industrial Revolution (4IR) is forcing higher education (HE) into a new era where it must either actively and positively contribute to innovation, sustainability, and development or become obsolete and redundant. HE must leave its ivory tower and forge links and partnerships with society, industry, and governing bodies by delivering graduates that are holistically educated and trained ... Read more

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    Changing Education from the Ground Up

    Edited by Jelmer Evers, René Kneyber ...
    Education is threatened on a global scale by forces of neoliberalism, through high stakes accountability, privatization and a destructive language of learning. In all respects, a GERM (Global Education Reform Movement) has erupted from international benchmark rankings such as PISA, TIMMS and PIRL, causing inequity, narrowing of the curriculum and teacher deprofessionalization on a truly global ... Read more

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  • Urban and Regional Technology Planning

    Planning Practice in the Global Knowledge Economy

    by Kenneth E. Corey, Mark Wilson ...
    Series series Networked Cities Series
    Part of the popular Networked Cities series, Urban and Regional Technology Planning focuses on the practice of relational planning and the stimulation of local city-regional scale development planning in the context of the global knowledge economy and network society.Designed to offer scholars, practitioners, and decision makers studies on the ways of cities, technologies, and multiple forms of ... Read more

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  • Thrive

    The Purpose of Schools in a Changing World

    by Valerie Hannon, Amelia Peterson ...
    Every generation faces challenges, but never before have young people been so aware of theirs. Whether due to school strikes for climate change, civil war, or pandemic lockdowns, almost every child in the world has experienced the interruption of their schooling by outside forces. When the world we have taken for granted proves so unstable, it gives rise to the question: what is schooling for? ... Read more

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  • Ethical Evidence and Policymaking

    Interdisciplinary and International Research

    Edited by Ron Iphofen, Dónal O’Mathúna ...
    EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.This important book offers practical advice for using evidence and research in policymaking. The book has two aims. First, it builds a case for ethics and global values in research and knowledge exchange, and second, it examines specific policy areas and how evidence can guide practice.The book covers important policy areas including ... Read more

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  • Making Public Organizations Work

    by Bert George ...
    Public organizations matter, now more than ever. Be it hospitals providing us healthcare, schools offering us education, police officers keeping our streets safe, museums safeguarding our cultural heritage, one can provide multiple examples of how public organizations impact our daily lives. But running public organizations is complex and expectations towards these organizations have never been ... Read more

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  • International Growth of Small and Medium Enterprises

    Edited by Niina Nummela ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy
    The majority of SMEs are operating in a networked business environment, and these networks extend beyond national and cultural boundaries. Within these networks, growth takes various routes and forms. Instead of linear, positive growth, international growth is often more cyclical, including periods of stagnation and withdrawal, even exits. International Growth of Small and Medium Enterprises ... Read more

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  • Advancing Crisis Communication Effectiveness

    Integrating Public Relations Scholarship with Practice

    Edited by Yan Jin, Bryan H. Reber, Glen J. Nowak ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Public Relations
    Advancing Crisis Communication Effectiveness shows how crisis communication plans and efforts for complex and challenging issues benefit when academic perspectives are connected with practitioner experiences. This book brings crisis and public relations scholars together with practicing professionals to integrate academic theories and research with the knowledge and lessons learned on the ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Evidence and Results in International Development eBook

    Playing the game to change the rules?

    Edited by Rosalind Eyben, Irene Guijt, Chris Roche, Cathy Shutt ...
    Understanding and demonstrating the effectiveness of efforts to improve the lives of those living in poverty is an essential part of international development practice. But who decides what counts as good or credible evidence? Can the drive to measure results do justice to and promote transformational change – change that challenges the power relations that produce and reproduce inequality, ... Read more

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  • Higher Education in the Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

    Edited by Nancy W. Gleason ...
    This open access collection examines how higher education responds to the demands of the automation economy and the fourth industrial revolution. Considering significant trends in how people are learning, coupled with the ways in which different higher education institutions and education stakeholders are implementing adaptations, it looks at new programs and technological advances that are ... Read more

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  • Solving Public Problems

    A Practical Guide to Fix Our Government and Change Our World

    by Beth Simone Noveck ...
    How to take advantage of technology, data, and the collective wisdom in our communities to design powerful solutions to contemporary problemsThe challenges societies face today, from inequality to climate change to systemic racism, cannot be solved with yesterday’s toolkit. Solving Public Problems shows how readers can take advantage of digital technology, data, and the collective wisdom of our ... Read more

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  • Development As Leadership-Led Change: A Report For The Global Leadership Initiative

    by Andrews Matthews; McConnell Jesse; Wescott Alison ...
    Development involves change, but many development initiatives produce unimpressive results. The authors ask why and consider how to close the gap between the intended change and what we actually see in the evidence.This paper presents the findings of a study, initiated by the multi-donor Global Leadership Initiative and led by the World Bank Institute (WBI), to examine leadership in the change ... Read more

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