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Becoming a world-class university : the case of King Abdulaziz University
This book written by international experts in the field of educational innovation is a guide for universities to become world-class universities. It contributes to the current international intellectual debate on the future of higher education. It also tells the story of King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) and its effort to become a world-class university. The book discusses exce…
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- 9783319263809
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- xvii, 190p. : ill.
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- 378 BEC b
Humboldt and the modern German university : an intellectual history
This book is about the idea of the university in modern Germany. Its primary focus is how the transformation of the Humboldtian tradition gave direction to debates around higher education. By combining approaches from intellectual history, conceptual history and the history of knowledge, the study investigates the ways in which Humboldt’s ideas have been appropriated for various purposes in d…
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- 9789198376814
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- XVI, 292 p.
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- 378.43 OST h
World class universities : a contested concept
This open access book focuses on the dimensions of the discourse of 'The World Class University', its alleged characteristics, and its policy expressions. It offers a broad overview of the historical background and current trajectory of the world-class-university construct. It also deepens the theoretical discussion, and points a way forward out of present impasses resulting from the pervasive …
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- 9789811575983
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- x, 289p. : ill.
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- 378 WOR w
Towards a multiversity? : universities between global trends and national tra…
All over the world new ideas and models emerge on how to organize the higher education sector and its institutions. The contributions in this volume identify the most influential transnational models and investigate their origins and mechanisms of dissemination as well as the resulting consequences for national systems. Will global trends in higher education lead to homogeneity or will they res…
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- 9783839404683
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- 264 p.
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- Science Studies
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- 378.101 TOW t
Academia in crisis : the rise and risk of neoliberal education in Europe
Academia is standing at a junction in time. Behind lies the community of the curious, ahead the mass and the market. This book joins in a growing stream of works that explore the vicissitudes of present-day European universities in what Bauman coined as liquid times. Here, a number of concerned (engaged) European scholars attempt to defend and brush up academic core values and practices, starti…
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- 9789004402034
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- ix, 201p. : ill.
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- 378.4 ACA a
Elicitive curricular development: a manual for scholar-practitioners developm…
The Elicitive Curricular Development Manual (ECDM) is a systematic collection of experiences and lessons identified in academic contexts around the world in Austria, Cambodia, Colombia, Brazil, Ethiopia and Iraq. The ECDM reflects core elicitive principles such as the importance of a focus on relationships, looking beyond the episode of conflict, collaboration, communication and local knowledge…
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- 9783903187795
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- 60p.: ill.
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- 378 ALV e
The dream is over : the crisis of Clark Kerr's California idea of higher educ…
The Dream Is Over tells the extraordinary story of the 1960 Master Plan for Higher Education in California, created by visionary University of California President Clark Kerr and his contemporaries. The Master Plan’s equality of opportunity policy brought college within reach of millions of American families for the first time and fashioned the world’s leading system of public research univ…
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- 9780520966208
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- XIV, 243 p.
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- 378.794 MAR d
Geographies of the university
This open access volume raises awareness of the histories, geographies, and practices of universities and analyzes their role as key actors in today’s global knowledge economy. Universities are centers of research, teaching, and expertise with significant economic, social, and cultural impacts at different geographical scales. Scholars from a variety of disciplines and countries offer origina…
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- 9783319755939
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- xiv, 676p. : ill.
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- 378.009 GEO g
Higher education pathways: south african undergraduate education and the publ…
The concept of transformation in South African higher education has evolved as a powerful motif with historical roots in the struggle against apartheid projecting into different phases of the post-apartheid era. Transformation in higher education has been framed by wider aspirations for transformation linked to the public good role of higher education. We conceptualise the contribution …
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- 9781928331902
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- 309p.: ill.
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- 378.68 ASH h
Manifesto for the humanities : transforming doctoral education in good enough…
After a remarkable career in higher education, Sidonie Smith offers Manifesto for the Humanities as a reflective contribution to the current academic conversation over the place of the Humanities in the 21st century. Her focus is on doctoral education and opportunities she sees for its reform. Grounding this manifesto in background factors contributing to current “crises” in the humanitie…
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- 9780472073047
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- xi, 225p. : ill.
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- 378.2 SMI m
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