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  • Educação superior e conhecimento no centenário da reforma de Córdoba

    Series Book 7 - Ries/Pronex
    A Rede Sulbrasileira de Investigadores da Educação Superior, Núcleo de Excelência em Ciência Tecnologia & Inovação pelo CNPq/Fapergs, objetiva mapear e consolidar a Educação Superior e suas interfaces. Em 2007 foi certificada pela Capes/ Inep como Observatório de Educação através do projeto Indicadores de Qualidade para a Educação Superior Brasileira. A Ries congrega professores-investigadores, ... Read more

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  • Navigating Diversity and Inclusion in Veterinary Medicine

    This book addresses the continued lack of the diversity in veterinary medicine, the least inclusive of all medical professions. Effective navigation of the complexity of diversity and inclusion in veterinary medicine requires clear enumeration, recognition, and understanding of key issues, challenges, and opportunities. In a nation with rapidly changing demographics, public needs and expectations ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Open, Distance and Digital Education

    This open access handbook offers a one-stop-shop for both new and established researchers, educators, policy makers and administrators in the field of open, distance and digital education (ODDE) to gain a comprehensive overview of the history, theory and practice at all levels of ODDE, and at the same time stimulates in-depth discussions on various themes and issues of ODDE for today and future. ... Read more

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  • Pedagogia do êxito

    Neste livro, a autora defende os projetos de resultado na formação universitária como modo de garantir o êxito na formação de cidadãos plenos. Os projetos de resultado são atividades conjuntas, em que se aliam ações de ensino, pesquisa e de extensão, garantindo ao estudante não apenas a vivência da pesquisa, como também o diálogo com a comunidade de que faz parte, detectando e solucionando (ou ... Read more

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  • Higher Education in Romania: Overcoming Challenges and Embracing Opportunities

    This open access book includes a series of relevant policy research articles, elaborared in the framework of the “Quality in higher education: internationalisation and databases to enhance the Romanian education system” project, implemented by the Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI), together with the Ministry of Education. The project ... Read more

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  • Crisis Response in Higher Education

    How the Pandemic Challenged University Operations and Organisation

    This open access book explores the impact of Covid-19 on universities, and how students, staff, faculty and academic leaders have adapted to and dealt with the impact of the pandemic. Drawing on experiences from Britain, Australia and Sweden, it showcases how Covid has challenged routines and procedures in universities, and thrown them into a disarray of ever-changing events and short-term ... Read more

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  • Hochschulreformen, Leistungsbewertungen und berufliche Identität von Professor*innen

    Eine fächervergleichende qualitative Studie

    Series series Organization & Public Management
    In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird ein differenziertes Bild der Folgen von „Bologna“, „Exzellenzinitiative“, Drittmittelwettbewerb und „New Public Management“ für die berufliche Identität von Professor*innen gezeichnet. Eine qualitative empirische Studie zeigt, dass die mit diesen Reformen verbundenen Leistungsbewertungen nicht nur Identitätsbedrohungen mit sich bringen müssen, sondern auch neue ... Read more

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  • Education Policies in the 21st Century

    Comparative Perspectives

    Edited by Birol Akgün, Yusuf Alpaydın ...
    Series series Maarif Global Education Series
    This open access book explores the agenda of education policies in the 21st century. In the first part of the book, education is handled from a historical and political framework, and the effects of the change of states and policies on education are examined. In the second part, the effects of changes in the economy on education policies and economies’ demands from educational institutions are ... Read more

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  • Value and the Humanities

    The Neoliberal University and Our Victorian Inheritance

    Series series Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics
    Tracing the shift from liberal to neoliberal education from the nineteenth century to the present day, this open access book provides a rich and previously underdeveloped narrative of value in higher education in England. Value and the Humanities draws upon historical, financial, and critical debates concerning educational and cultural policy. Rather than writing a singular defence of the ... Read more

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  • Black Women Navigating the Doctoral Journey

    Student Peer Support, Mentorship, and Success in the Academy

    With the increasing focus on the critical importance of mentoring in advancing Black women students from graduation to careers in academia, this book identifies and considers the peer mentoring contexts and conditions that support Black women student success in higher education. This edited collection focuses on Black women students primarily at the doctoral level and how they have retained each ... Read more

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  • The Internationalization of the Academic Library

    Series series Routledge Studies in Library and Information Science
    The Internationalization of the Academic Library presents a theoretically informed, empirically grounded analysis of the process of academic library internationalization.Drawing on interviews with library personnel from around the world, Lombard analyzes internationalization at the departmental level of an academic library. Demonstrating that college and library personnel have positive intentions ... Read more

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  • Rethinking EMI

    Multidisciplinary Perspectives from Chinese-Speaking Regions

    Series series Routledge Studies in English-Medium Instruction
    Due to the competitive edge it confers on students, educational institutions, and non-English speaking nations in a globalized economy, English as a medium of instruction (EMI) has been gaining popularity in tertiary education in non-native English-speaking (NNES) countries. Institute-wide EMI implementation has often been imposed by top-down decisions, in combination with the optimistic view that ... Read more

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  • Guia para a Internacionalização Universitária

    O mundo global, em constante transformação decorrente dos impactos provocados pela mídia, tecnologia e interatividade, tem desafiado Instituições de Educação Superior a repensar práticas e processos. Nesse contexto, a internacionalização torna-se não somente uma ferramenta, mas uma realidade possível. Este guia revela-se uma obra significativa, uma vez que atende às demandas atuais, propondo ... Read more

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  • Extensão universitária na UFFS

    trajetórias, alcances e desafios

    A discussão acerca da importância formativa da extensão universitária intensificou-se, nos últimos dez anos, na academia e no Conselho Nacional de Educação (CNE), culminando com a Resolução Nº 7, de 18/12/ 2018/CNE, que estabeleceu as Diretrizes para a Extensão na Educação Superior Brasileira e a curricularização da extensão. Impulsionado por essa movimentação, com o objetivo de produzir reflexões ... Read more

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  • Faith and Secularisation in Religious Colleges and Universities

    by James Arthur ...
    This book is a detailed study of higher education institutions affiliated to particular religions. It considers the debates surrounding academic freedom, institutional governance, educational policy, mission and identity together with institutions’ relations with the state and their wider communities.A wide range of institutions are examined, including: Christian, Islamic and Jewish universities ... Read more

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  • Desafíos educativos contemporáneos

    educación salesiana para la innovación y participación en contextos de crisis

    Este libro es el producto y la propuesta del quehacer intelectual, de la discusión y la investigación académica, de la preocupación pastoral y educativa de quienes conforman la red académica IUS Education Group de las Instituciones Universitarias Salesianas (IUS EG). Recoge las memorias del VI Seminario del IUS EG, que se llevó a cabo en la Universidad Politécnica Salesiana, sede Quito, del 26 al ... Read more

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  • Gender Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Academia

    A Conceptual Framework for Sustainable Transformation

    Institutional focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion affects all parts of higher education management*. Gender Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Academia: A Conceptual Framework for Sustainable Transformation* scrutinises the conceptual framework for diversity, equity, and inclusion actions in academia to facilitate research-based and critically reflected decisions in higher education ... Read more

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  • Transferwissenschaften: Mode oder Mehrwert?

    Unter Mitarbeit von Koray Parlar und Anna Malena Pichler

    Series Book 16 - Transferwissenschaften
    Wissenstransfer und kooperative Forschung an den Schnittstellen von Universität, Wirtschaft, Politik, Zivilgesellschaft und Kultur gewinnen für alle an Wissensproduktion und Innovationsprozessen beteiligten Akteure und Institutionen zunehmend an Relevanz. Schlüsselwörter wie Transferwissenschaften, Transdisziplinarität und transformative Wissenschaft bestimmen inzwischen die wissenschaftstheoretische ... Read more

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  • Compliance and Resistance Within Neoliberal Academia

    Biographical Stories, Collective Voices

    This open access book reflects on academic life under a neoliberal regime. Through collaborative autoethnographies, the authors share stories about the everyday experiences, dilemmas and conflicts of three academics: the struggle for promotion, teaching’s challenges, the race to publish, confronting bureaucracy and institutional politics, as well as the resulting emotional stress. These stories ... Read more

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  • Future Trends in Education Post COVID-19

    Teaching, Learning and Skills Driven Curriculum

    This open access book presents the proceedings of the first post COVID-19 conference on Education at the University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, on March 14-16, 2022. The book offers state-of-the-art approaches and methodologies in education post-COVID-19. It showcases emerging technology utilization in improving the quality of education, teaching and learning. It discusses the transformation ... Read more

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  • First-in-Family Students, University Experience and Family Life

    Motivations, Transitions and Participation

    This open access book, now in its second edition, offers a comprehensive overview of the experiences of First in Family (FiF) or first-generation students in higher education. It draws upon narratives of students and their family members and spans the entire university student life cycle (pre-entry, commencement, progression and graduation) with a focus on specific cohorts including mature-aged ... Read more

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  • Professoren mit Migrationshintergrund

    Benachteiligte Minderheit oder Protagonisten internationaler Exzellenz

    by Ole Engel ...
    Ole Engel untersucht in diesem Open-Access-Buch erstmalig auf der Grundlage einer großen Studie die Bildungs-/Berufsverläufe, die Arbeitssituation, internationale Aktivitäten sowie die gesellschaftliche Teilhabe von Professoren mit Migrationshintergrund. Die empirische Grundlage bildet die MOBIL-Studie der HU Berlin, an der über 200 Professoren mit Migrationshintergrund teilgenommen haben. Die ... Read more

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  • Leading Change in Gender and Diversity in Higher Education from Margins to Mainstream

    This edited book provides international insights and recommendations around topics of gender and diversity in higher education linking to larger societal goals of improving equality.Within each of the four sections – Student recruitment and retention, Student experience, Faculty and staff experiences and culture, and Higher education cultures of teaching and research – topics unpack and speak to ... Read more

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  • Education for Sustainable Development in Foreign Language Learning

    Content-Based Instruction in College-Level Curricula

    Edited by María J. de la Fuente ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Language Education
    This unique volume utilizes the UNESCO Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) framework to illustrate successful integration of sustainability education in post-secondary foreign language (FL) learning.Showcasing a variety of approaches to using content-based instruction (CBI) in college-level courses, this text valuably demonstrates how topics relating to environmental, social, and cultural ... Read more

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