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Models of Secondary Education and Social Inequality
Edited by Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Sandra Buchholz, Jan Skopek, Moris Triventi
From an international comparative perspective, this third book in the prestigious eduLIFE Lifelong Learning series provides a thorough investigation into how social inequalities arise during individuals’ secondary schooling careers. Payi...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Civic University
Edited by John Goddard, Ellen Hazelkorn, Louise Kempton, Paul Vallance
This innovative book addresses the leadership and management challenges of maximising the contribution of universities to civil society both locally and globally. It does this by developing a model of the civic university as an academic ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Education, Occupation and Social Origin
Edited by Fabrizio Bernardi, Gabrielle Ballarino
This innovative book takes a comparative approach to the social origin–education–destination triangle (OED), looking at the intergenerational transmission of advantage in 14 countries. The intention is to debate the claim that education ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Gender, Education and Employment
Edited by Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Jan Skopek, Moris Triventi, Sandra Buchholz
For much of the twentieth century, women lagged considerably behind men in their educational attainment. However, in recent decades, young women have become an important source of human capital for labor markets in modern societies, as w...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Handbook of International Development and Education
Edited by Pauline Dixon, Steve Humble, Chris Counihan
This Handbook considers the myths and untruths that currently exist in international development and education. Using historic and contemporary evidence, this compendium redefines the international development narrative through a new und...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Adult Learning in Modern Societies
Edited by Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Elina Kilpi-Jakonen, Daniela Vono de Vilhena, Sandra Buchholz
As industrial societies increasingly evolve into knowledge-based economies, the importance of education as a lifelong process is greater than ever. This comprehensive book provides a state-of-the-art analysis of adult learning across the...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Building the Knowledge Economy in Europe
Edited by Meng-Hsuan Chou, Åse Gornitzka
Building the Knowledge Economy in Europe investigates the integration of emerging knowledge policy domains on the European political agenda, and the dynamics of this in relation to knowledge policies. Professors Meng-Hsuan Chou and åse G...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Public Private Partnerships in Education
Edited by Susan L. Robertson, Karen Mundy, Antoni Verger, Francine Menashy
This insightful book brings together both academics and researchers from a variety of international organizations and aid agencies to explore the complexities of public private partnerships as a resurgent, hybrid mode of educational gov...eBook:Find out more$43.96
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Regenerative Sustainable Development of Universities and Cities
Edited by Ariane König
Now that the Earth has reached the limits of its biophysical carrying capacity, we have to change technologies, social practices and social norms relating to material production and consumption to ensure that we do not further jeopardize...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Handbook of Qualitative Research in Education
Edited by Sara Delamont
The Handbook of Qualitative Research in Education offers both basic and advanced discussions of data collection, analysis and representation of all the best qualitative methods used in educational research.eBook:Find out more$68.76
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Lifelong Learning in Europe
Edited by Ellu Saar, Odd Bjørn Ure, John Holford
Combining qualitative and quantitative methods in a wide-ranging international comparative study, the book explores how far the EUs lifelong learning agenda has been successful and what factors have limited its ability to reshape nationa...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Globalization of Higher Education
Edited by Roger King, Simon Marginson, Rajani Naidoo
This comprehensive book provides a collection of the critical papers that have been published in the fast-growing field of the globalization of higher education. They include work by a variety of noted scholars, such as Altbach, Clark an...
