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  • Lifelong Learning Policies for Young Adults in Europe

    Navigating between Knowledge and Economy

    by Sebastiano Benasso, Mauro Palumbo, Vlatka Domovic, Anna Cossetta, Natalia Alves, Tiago Neves, Ruggero Cefalo, Kristinn Hermannsson, Rosario Scandurra, Anna Siri, Sonia Startari, Judith Jacovkis, Ana Bela Ribeiro, Valentina Milenkova, Thomas Verlage, Jenni Tikkanen, Tero Järvinen, Heikki Silvennoinen, Risto Rinne, Oscar Valiente, Queralt Capsada-Munsech, Borislava Petkova, Dejana Bouillet, Mirjam Pot, Yuri Kazepov, Nikolas Schöneck, Valeria Pandolfini, Kevin Lowden ...
    Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This comprehensive collection discusses topical issues essential to both scholarship and policy making in the realm of lifelong learning (LLL) policies and how far they succeed in supporting young people across their life courses, rather than one-sidedly fostering human capital for the economy.Examining specific yet diverse regional and local contexts ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Governance of Educational Trajectories in Europe

    Pathways, Policy and Practice

    Edited by Andreas Walther, Marcelo Parreira do Amaral, Morena Cuconato, Roger Dale ...
    Drawing on findings from a large EU-funded research project that took place over three years, this book analyses educational trajectories of young people in eight European countries: Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia and the United Kingdom.Contributors explore interactions between structural and institutional contexts of educational trajectories, the individual ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Researching the Global Education Industry

    Commodification, the Market and Business Involvement

    Edited by Marcelo Parreira do Amaral, Gita Steiner-Khamsi, Christiane Thompson ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book examines how the Global Education Industry (GEI) has brokered, funded, and implemented new conceptualizations of ‘good’ education. With a focus on new private providers and policy actors in education, the authors of the book analyze the impact of the GEI on educational research, policy and practice. How did philanthropies and foundations manage to make their voices heard in school reform ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Geopolitical Transformations in Higher Education

    Imagining, Fabricating and Contesting Innovation

    Edited by Marcelo Parreira do Amaral, Christiane Thompson ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book discusses the central role education and research play in generating both value and comparative advantages in the (imageries of) global competition, competitiveness and transnational value chains. They are seen as assets placed at the forefront of developments that are arguably reshaping individuals, society and economy. This edited volume explores these developments in terms of changing ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • On Graph Approaches to Contextuality and their Role in Quantum Theory

    by Barbara Amaral, Marcelo Terra Cunha ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book explores two of the most striking features of quantum theory – contextuality and nonlocality – using a formulation based on graph theory. Quantum theory provides a set of rules to predict probabilities of different outcomes in different experimental settings, and both contextuality and nonlocality play a fundamental role in interpreting the outcomes. In this work, the authors highlight ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • The Global Business of Education

    Approaches, Issues and Critical Directions

    Edited by Marcelo Parreira do Amaral, Sieglinde Jornitz, S. Karin  Amos ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This open access book addresses issues related to viewing education as a business endeavor. It introduces the readers to central conceptual issues and relates them to the pedagogical, educational and social issues at various levels and sectors of education. The book offers paradigmatic approaches and theories used to model and examine education as a business endeavor. Business of Education is a ... Read more

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  • Landscapes of Lifelong Learning Policies across Europe

    Comparative Case Studies

    Edited by Sebastiano Benasso, Dejana Bouillet, Tiago Neves, Marcelo Parreira do Amaral ...
    Series series Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning
    This open access book explores different landscapes of Lifelong Learning policies (LLP), producing case-based examinations of their institutional, discursive, and relational dimensions. Across Europe, young people develop their life courses amidst diverse living conditions and are confronted with a variety of institutional and structural arrangements that impact on their opportunities in education ... Read more

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  • The Relational Economy

    Geographies of Knowing and Learning

    by Harald Bathelt, Johannes Glückler ...
    How are firms, networks of firms, and production systems organized and how does this organization vary from place to place? What are the new geographies emerging from the need to create, access, and share knowledge, and sustain competitiveness? In what ways are local clusters and global exchange relations intertwined and co-constituted? What are the impacts of global changes in technology, demand, ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance

    Edited by Stephen Boucher, Carina Antonia Hallin, Lex Paulson ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance explores the concepts, methodologies, and implications of collective intelligence for democratic governance, in the first comprehensive survey of this field.Illustrated by a collection of inspiring case studies and edited by three pioneers in collective intelligence, this handbook serves as a unique primer on the science ... Read more

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  • A Companion to Organizational Anthropology

    Edited by D. Douglas Caulkins, Ann T. Jordan ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
    The first comprehensive guide to anthropological studies of complex organizationsOffers the first comprehensive reference to the anthropological study of complex organizationsDetails how organizational theory and research in business has adopted anthropology’s key concept of culture, inspiring new insights into organizational dynamics and developmentHighlights pioneering theoretical perspectives ... Read more

    $191.00 USD

  • Knowledge and Institutions

    Edited by Johannes Glückler, Roy Suddaby, Regina Lenz ...
    Series Book 13 - Knowledge and Space
    This open access book bridges the disciplinary boundaries within the social sciences to explore the role of social institutions in shaping geographical contexts, and in creating new knowledge. It includes theorizations as well as original empirical case studies on the emergence, maintenance and change of institutions as well as on their constraining and enabling effects on innovation, ... Read more

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  • Culture and Public Relations

    Edited by Krishnamurthy Sriramesh, Dejan Vercic ...
    Series series Routledge Communication Series
    Culture and Public Relations explores the impact of culture – societal and organizational – through the global lens of public relations. Structuring the volume around three themes -- culture as an environment for public relations; the culture of PR globally; and the impact of PR on culture -- the editors bring together compelling discussions on such questions as how spirituality, religion, and ... Read more

    $79.99 USD