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  • Cloete: Knowledge Production and Contradictory F

    by Nico Cloete, Peter Maassen ...
    The dominant global discourse in higher education now focuses on ëworld-classí universities ñ inevitably located predominantly in North America, Europe and, increasingly, East Asia. The rest of the world, including Africa, is left to play ëcatch-upí. But that discourse should focus rather on the tensions, even contradictions, between ëexcellenceí and ëengagementí with which all universities must ... Read more

    $62.59 USD

  • Trusting in Higher Education

    A multifaceted discussion of trust in and for higher education in Norway and the United Kingdom

    Edited by Paul Gibbs, Peter Maassen ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This multidisciplinary book brings together scholars from Norway and the UK to discuss the notion of trust within the structures and forms of higher education located in two distinctive localities. The meaning of trust is multi-variant and nuanced, but is omnipresent in the literature on higher education ranging from student engagement to policy exhortations. A key feature of this book is the ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Quality Work in Higher Education

    Organisational and Pedagogical Dimensions

    Edited by Mari Elken, Peter Maassen, Monika Nerland, Tine S. Prøitz, Bjørn Stensaker, Agnete Vabø ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book focuses on quality work in higher education, and examines the relationship between the organizational and pedagogical dimensions of quality work in higher education. Bringing together different disciplinary traditions, including educational science, sociology, and organisational studies, it addresses the following principal research question: How is quality work carried out in higher ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Reconfiguring Knowledge in Higher Education

    Edited by Peter Maassen, Monika Nerland, Lyn Yates ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Knowledge is now central to national economic competitiveness and to socio-economic endeavours concerned with inequalities and social exclusion, and in this context higher education is recognized as a core sector of national policy and strategy. Yet the changing pressures, directions and practices in relation to knowledge pose many challenges for higher education itself. How can and how should ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • The Re-Institutionalization of Higher Education in the Western Balkans

    The Interplay between European Ideas, Domestic Policies, and Institutional Practices

    Edited by Jelena Branković, Maja Kovačević, Peter Maassen, Bjørn Stensaker, Martina Vukasović ...
    Series Book 5 - Higher Education Research and Policy
    Higher education in the Western Balkans is currently undergoing substantial changes as a result of European reform ideas, new domestic policy initiatives as well as universities and colleges in the region trying to adapt to new expectations and challenges. The book analyzes the changes in both policy and practices in various countries in this region predominantly through a comparative approach. ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • European Integration and the Governance of Higher Education and Research

    Edited by Alberto Amaral, Guy Neave, Christine Musselin, Peter Maassen ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    The high level Douro seminars are now a well-established tradition in the annual activities promoted by Hedda, a European consortium of nine centres and ins- tutes devoted to research on higher education, and CIPES, its Portuguese associated centre. At the seminars, each member of a small group of invited researchers presents and discusses an original research-based paper that is revised ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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    Trends of student mobility and impact on education governance

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    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Asian Education
    The rise in demand for higher education in the Asia-Pacific region is an undeniable reflection of the growing pace of globalization and the subsequent pressures imposed by it. Aspiring to become globally competitive and to position favourably in the global university league tables, governments in Asia have either engaged in a serious quest to become a regional education hub or they have ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • A New Synthesis of Public Administration

    Serving in the 21st Century

    by Jocelyne Bourgon ...
    Series Book 81 - Queen's Policy Studies Series
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  • The New Rich in China

    Future rulers, present lives

    Edited by David Goodman ...
    Three decades of reform since 1978 in the People’s Republic of China have resulted in the emergence of new social groups which have included new occupations and professions generated as the economy has opened up and developed and, most spectacularly given the legacy of state socialism, the identification of those who are regarded as wealthy. However, although China’s new rich are certainly a ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Local and Regional Development

    by Andy Pike ...
    Actors and institutions in localities and regions across the world are seeking prosperity and well-being amidst tumultuous and disruptive shifts and transitions generated by: an increasingly globalised, knowledge-intensive capitalism; global financial instability, volatility and crisis; concerns about economic, social and ecological sustainability, climate change and resource shortages; new multi ... Read more

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  • European Higher Education Area: The Impact of Past and Future Policies

    Edited by Adrian Curaj, Ligia Deca, Remus Pricopie ...
    This volume presents the major outcomes of the third edition of the Future of Higher Education – Bologna Process Researchers Conference (FOHE-BPRC 3) which was held on 27-29 November 2017. It acknowledges the importance of a continued dialogue between researchers and decision-makers and benefits from the experience already acquired, this way enabling the higher education community to bring its ... Read more

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  • Social Movements

    An Introduction

    by Donatella della Porta, Mario Diani ...
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