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  • Peer review in an Era of Evaluation

    Understanding the Practice of Gatekeeping in Academia

    Edited by Eva Forsberg, Lars Geschwind, Sara Levander, Wieland Wermke ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This open access volume explores peer review in the scientific community and academia. While peer review is as old as modern science itself, recent changes in the evaluation culture of higher education systems have increased the use of peer review, and its purposes, forms and functions have become more diversified. This book put together a comprehensive set of conceptual and empirical ... 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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  • Public Management and Performance

    Research Directions

    Edited by Richard M. Walker, George A. Boyne, Gene A. Brewer ...
    Public services touch the majority of people in advanced and developing economies on a daily basis: children require schooling, the elderly need personal care and assistance, rubbish needs collecting, water must be safe to drink and the streets need policing. In short, there is practically no area of our lives that isn't touched in some way by public services. As such, knowledge about strategies ... Read more

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  • E-learning Theory and Practice

    by Caroline Haythornthwaite, Richard N. L. Andrews ...
    "This is a must-read for every student, lecturer and professor. It establishes Internet Studies as essential to an understanding of how learners and educators can capture the value of our networked world."Professor William H. Dutton, Director of the Oxford Internet Institute, University of OxfordIn E-learning Theory and Practice the authors set out different perspectives on e-learning. The book ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Activity Theory in Practice

    Promoting Learning Across Boundaries and Agencies

    Edited by Harry Daniels, Anne Edwards, Yrjo Engeström, Tony Gallagher, Sten R. Ludvigsen ...
    This ground-breaking book brings together cutting-edge researchers who study the transformation of practice through the enhancement and transformation of expertise. This is an important moment for such a contribution because expertise is in transition - moving toward collaboration in inter-organizational fields and continuous shaping of transformations. To understand and master this transition, ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • The Evaluation Society

    by Peter Dahler-Larsen ...
    Evaluation—whether called by this name, quality assurance, audit, accreditation, or others—is an important social activity. Any organization that "lives in public" must now evaluate its activities, be evaluated by others, or evaluate others. What are the origins of this wave of evaluation? And, what worthwhile results emerge from it?The Evaluation Society argues that if we want to understand many ... Read more

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  • Public Relations and Communication Management

    Current Trends and Emerging Topics

    Edited by Krishnamurthy Sriramesh, Ansgar Zerfass, Jeong-Nam Kim ...
    Public Relations and Communication Management serves as a festschrift honoring the work of public relations scholars James E. Gruning and Larissa A. Grunig. Between them, the Grunigs have published 12 books and more than 330 articles, book chapters, and various academic and professional publications, and have supervised 34 doctoral dissertations and 105 master’s theses. This volume recognizes the ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Understanding Street-Level Bureaucracy

    Edited by Peter Hupe, Michael Hill, Aurélien Buffat ...
    This wide-ranging edited volume provides a state of the art account of theory and research on modern street-level bureaucracy, gathering internationally acclaimed scholars to address the varying roles of public officials who fulfill their tasks while interacting with the public. These roles include the delivery of benefits and services, the regulation of social and economic behavior, and the ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Evidence-Based Policy Making in the Social Sciences

    Methods That Matter

    Edited by Gerry Stoker, Mark Evans ...
    Drawing on the insights of some of the world’s leading authorities in public policy analysis, this important book offers a distinct and critical showcase of emerging forms of discovery for policy-making. Chapter by chapter this expert group of social scientists showcase their chosen method or approach, showing the context, the method’s key features and how it can be applied in practice, including ... Read more

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  • Computer Mediated Communication

    by Crispin Thurlow, Lara Lengel, Alice Tomic ...
    This book offers students a task-based introduction to Computer-Mediated Communication and the impact of the internet on social interaction. Divided into four parts which require students to learn, (theory), critique, (current issues), explore, (methods), and reflect, (practice), the book aims to:Provide a foundation to the social and communicative nature of information and communication ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Management Accounting Research in Practice

    Lessons Learned from an Interventionist Approach

    by Petri Suomala, Jouni Lyly-Yrjänäinen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Accounting
    Many scholars have claimed that management accounting research has lost its pragmatic relevancy and interventionist research has been proposed as one way to produce theories with increased practical implications. In interventionist research, active participation in the field is regarded as an asset rather than a liability. Despite the methodological debate on interventionist research, there is ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Public Relations Metrics

    Research and Evaluation

    Edited by Betteke van Ruler, Ana Tkalac Vercic, Dejan Vercic ...
    Series series Routledge Communication Series
    Responding to the increasing need in academia and the public relations profession, this volume presents the current state of knowledge in public relations measurement and evaluation. The book brings together ideas and methods that can be used throughout the world, and scholars and practitioners from the United States, Europe, Asia, and Africa are represented. ... Read more

    $72.99 USD