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  • Impacts of Study Abroad on Higher Education Development

    Examining the Experiences of Faculty at Leading Universities in Southeast Asia

    Edited by Nobuko Kayashima, Miki Sugimura, Kazuo Kuroda, Yuto Kitamura ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This open-access book is an exceptional contribution to the burgeoning fields of higher education development and higher education internationalization as it empirically examines the impact of the study abroad experiences of faculty members on individual and institutional development. The research and its outcomes presented here utilize results from a large-scale survey and interviews of faculty ... Read more

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  • Quality Education for All in Asia-Pacific Countries

    Research Insights, Reflections and Initiatives on SDG 4

    Edited by John Joseph Puthenkalam, Joseph Chacko Chennattuserry, G S Prakasha, Miki Sugimura ...
    Providing a comprehensive overview and analysis of the implementation status of Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG-4) in Asia-Pacific countries, Quality Education for All in Asia-Pacific Countries provides a timely update on steps taken to achieve the 2030 goal of inclusive and equitable quality education for all.The targeted regions for analysis include notable countries such as India, South ... Read more

    $90.19 USD

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    A Contemporary Analysis of Policies, Programs, and Practices

    by Katharine Kelly, Tullio Caputo ...
    Community is an elusive yet frequently invoked concept. Terms like community health, community living, community schools, community policing, community development, and community renewal have become part of the contemporary lexicon.What has led organizations, and particularly Western governments, to take such an interest in community, and why this interest now? What has caused the increasing ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Non-Governmental Organizations, Management and Development

    by David Lewis ...
    Non-Governmental Development Organizations have seen turbulent times over the decades; however, recent years have seen them grow to occupy high-profile positions in the fight against poverty. They are now seen as an important element of ‘civil society’, a concept that has been given increasing importance by global policy makers. This book has evolved during the course of that period to be a prime ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Global Development

    Edited by Kearrin Sims, Nicola Banks, Susan Engel, Paul Hodge, Jonathan Makuwira, Naohiro Nakamura, Jonathan Rigg, Albert Salamanca, Pichamon Yeophantong ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    This Handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of some of the world’s most pressing global development challenges – including how they may be better understood and addressed through innovative practices and approaches to learning and teaching.Featuring 61 contributions from leading and emerging academics and practitioners, this multidisciplinary volume is organized into five thematic parts ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Development Cooperation for Achieving the 2030 Agenda

    Contested Collaboration

    Edited by Sachin Chaturvedi, Heiner Janus, Stephan Klingebiel, Xiaoyun Li, André de Mello e Souza, Elizabeth Sidiropoulos, Dorothea Wehrmann ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access handbook analyses the role of development cooperation in achieving the 2030 Agenda in a global context of ‘contested cooperation’. Development actors, including governments providing aid or South-South Cooperation, developing countries, and non-governmental actors (civil society, philanthropy, and businesses) constantly challenge underlying narratives and norms of development. The ... Read more

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  • Comparative Governance

    Rediscovering the Functional Dimension of Governing

    by B. Guy Peters, Jon Pierre ...
    Decision-making is at the heart of governing and governance, and is a more challenging task compared to just a few decades ago as a result of increasing social complexity and globalization. In this book, B. Guy Peters and Jon Pierre propose a new framework for the comparative analysis of governance, arguing that government remains a central actor in governance. By articulating the functionalist ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Gender at Work

    Theory and Practice for 21st Century Organizations

    by Aruna Rao, Joanne Sandler, David Kelleher, Carol Miller ...
    At a time when some corporate women leaders are advocating for their aspiring sisters to ‘lean in’ for a bigger piece of the existing pie, this book puts the spotlight on the deep structures of organizational culture that hold gender inequality in place. Gender at Work: Theory and Practice for 21st Century Organizations makes a compelling case that transforming the unspoken, informal institutional ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Strategic Environmental Assessment

    Edited by Barry Sadler, Jiri Dusik, Thomas Fischer, Maria Partidario, Rob Verheem, Ralf Aschemann ...
    This authoritative handbook surveys the full breadth and depth of SEA, bringing together a range of international perspectives and insights on the theoretical, methodological and institutional dimensions and practical issues of the field. It then subjects this conventional wisdom to a critical reappraisal, looks at the vast lessons of experience and offers new ideas and interpretations as to where ... Read more

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  • Transnational Education

    Issues and Trends in Offshore Higher Education

    by Grant McBurnie, Christopher Ziguras ...
    While the international mobility of students is a well-established feature of higher education, the international mobility of institutions and courses on a large scale is a more novel phenomenon. Transnational education is at the leading-edge of the most fundamental changes taking place in higher education today.Topics discussed in this new volume include:the extent and form of offshore ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Convergence and Diversity in the Governance of Higher Education

    Comparative Perspectives

    Edited by Giliberto Capano, Darryl S. L. Jarvis ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Public Policy
    For several decades, higher education systems have undergone continuous waves of reform, driven by a combination of concerns about the changing labour needs of the economy, competition within the global-knowledge economy, and nationally competitive positioning strategies to enhance the performance of higher education systems. Yet, despite far-ranging international pressures, including the ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Revitalizing Collegiality

    Restoring Faculty Authority in Universities

    Edited by Kerstin Sahlin, Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist ...
    Series Book 87 - Research in the Sociology of Organizations
    The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online.The higher education and research system faces a constant dilemma. On the one hand, research and higher education are run by autonomous, interrelated academic communities, often described as collegial governance. On the other hand, they are an instrument for the fulfillment of goals that are often external to the ... Read more

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