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  • Arts Graduates, Their Skills and Their Employment

    Perspectives for Change

    Edited by Heather Eggins ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1992, this book was the first to gather together the view of industrialists, teachers and researchers. It focusses on the skills dimension of arts graduates which carry significant implication for all undergraduate programmes. It examines how the humanities and the world of work interact and how the relationship might be shaped in the future as the United Kingdom moved ... Read more

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  • The Changing Role of Women in Higher Education

    Academic and Leadership Issues

    Edited by Heather Eggins ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book sets out to examine the changing role of women in higher education with an emphasis on academic and leadership issues. The scope of the book is international, with a wide range of contributors, whose expertise spans sociology, social science, economics, politics, public policy and linguistic studies, all of whom have a major interest in global education. The volume examines the ways in ... Read more

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    Redefining Rural Life in the Age of Globalization

    Series series Critical Perspectives Series: A Book Series Dedicated to Paulo Freire
    Prairie Town: Redefining Rural Life in the Age of Globalization describes the contemporary rural condition and efforts to sustain rural life in one small Minnesota community at the turn of the 21st century. Like many other agricultural based towns, Prairie Town struggled for survival within the context of the on-going farm crisis, NAFTA, neoliberal agricultural policies, and growing agribusiness ... Read more

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  • Teaching Harry Potter

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  • Teachers' Identities and Life Choices

    Issues of Globalisation and Localisation

    Series series Education (R0)
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  • Developments in Buddhist Thought

    Canadian Contributions to Buddhist Studies

    Edited by Roy C. Amore ...
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    Nine Canadian scholars of Buddhism consider philosophical and cultural issues in Buddhist thought. Part I, “On Being,” discusses the philosophical problem of Being in the school of the Middle Way, Mādhyamika Buddhism, and in the Tantric School of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Part II, “On the Indian Milieu,” surveys Hindu views of Buddhism and explores Buddhism’s relationship with other Indian religious and ... Read more

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  • Measuring Quality of Undergraduate Education in Japan

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  • Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Education

    Cross-Cultural Understandings

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  • Advancing Race and Ethnicity in Education

    Edited by Richard Race, Vini Lander ...
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