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  • Challenging Approaches to Academic Career-Making

    Series series Bloomsbury Higher Education Research
    Against a background of changing patterns of academic labour in the UK and other English speaking countries, this book draws on empirical research which identifies a shift towards more open-ended approaches to roles and careers in higher education. This has resulted in what the authors describe as 'concertina-like' careers, in which individuals stretch the spaces and timescales available to them. ... Leer más

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    The Rise of Corporate Universities and the Fall of Liberal Education

    What happens to the liberal arts and science education when universities attempt to sell it as a form of job training? In Lowering Higher Education, a follow-up to their provocative 2007 book Ivory Tower Blues, James E. Côté and Anton L. Allahar explore the subverted 'idea of the university' and the forces that have set adrift the mission of these institutions. Côté and Allahar connect the ... Leer más

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  • Wicked Problems in Public Policy

    Understanding and Responding to Complex Challenges

    de Brian W. Head ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This is an open access book.This book offers the first overview of the ‘wicked problems’ literature, often seen as complex, open-ended, and intractable, with both the nature of the ‘problem’ and the preferred ‘solution’ being strongly contested. It contextualises the debate using a wide range of relevant policy examples, explaining why these issues attract so much attention.There is an increasing ... Leer más

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  • Ethical Evidence and Policymaking

    Interdisciplinary and International Research

    Edición de Ron Iphofen, Dónal O’Mathúna ...
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  • Achieving Student Success

    Effective Student Services in Canadian Higher Education

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  • Co-Production and Co-Creation

    Engaging Citizens in Public Services

    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management
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  • The Politics of Evidence and Results in International Development eBook

    Playing the game to change the rules?

    Understanding and demonstrating the effectiveness of efforts to improve the lives of those living in poverty is an essential part of international development practice. But who decides what counts as good or credible evidence? Can the drive to measure results do justice to and promote transformational change – change that challenges the power relations that produce and reproduce inequality, ... Leer más

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  • The Flexibility Paradox

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    de Heejung Chung ...
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  • The New Lawyer, Second Edition

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  • Academic and Professional Identities in Higher Education

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