Filter by
Promoting Social Dialogue in European Organizations: Human Resources Manageme…
This volume focuses on describing the social dialogue system in organizations from an Human Resources Management perspective. Based on the NEIRE model for industrial relations, key factors are determined contributing to creative social dialogue in European organizations. Actual data from surveys and interviews from more than 700 CEO and HR managers in eleven European countries give insights in …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783319086057
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 358.30094 EUW p
Education and ethics in the life sciences: strengthening the prohibition of b…
At the start of the twenty-first century, warnings have been raised in some quarters about how – by intent or by mishap – advances in biotechnology and related fields could aid the spread of disease. Science academics, medical organisations, governments, security analysts, and others are among those that have sought to raise concern. Education and Ethics in the Life Sciences examines a vari…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781921666391
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 327.1745 Edu e
Semantic Systems. in the era of knowledge graphs : 16th International Confere…
This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Semantic Systems, SEMANTiCS 2020, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in September 2020. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030598334
- Collation
- xii, 126p. : ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 025.04 SEM s
Educational mobility of Second-Generation Turks : Cross-national perspectives
This definitive study investigates the variations in educational mobility of Turkish second-generation immigrants in France, Austria and Sweden. The findings show that differences are most pronounced in the Austrian education system, can be seen clearly in France and are least pronounced in Sweden. Schnell underscores the importance of both individual characteristics and institutional ones, but…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789089646514
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 379.26 SCH e
Issues around aligning theory, research and practice in social work education
Issues Around Aligning Theory, Research and Practice in Social Work Education provides a reflection on social work education with a slant towards an Afrocentric approach, aiming to facilitate strong reflective thinking and to address local realities about social work education on the African continent as well as in broader global contexts. This volume focuses on issues around aligning theory, r…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781928396604
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 330.12 SHO
Social inclusion and higher education
This book is about the experiences of students in institutions of higher education from 'non-traditional' backgrounds with contributions from the UK, the USA and Australia which reveal that the issues surrounding the inclusion of 'non-traditional' students are broadly similar in different countries.
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781447354734
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 378.1982 SOC s
Handwritten newspapers
"This book is the first edited volume focusing on handwritten newspapers as an alternative medium from a wide interdisciplinary and international perspective. Our primary focus is on handwritten newspapers as a social practice. The case studies contextualize the source materials in relation to political, cultural, literary, and economic history. The analysis reveals both continuity and change a…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789518581591
- Collation
- 229p.: ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 070.9 HAN h
Indigenous knowledge and education in Africa
This open access book presents a strong philosophical, theoretical and practical argument for the mainstreaming of indigenous knowledge in curricula development, and in teaching and learning across the African continent. Since the dawn of political independence in Africa, there has been an ongoing search for the kind of education that will create a class of principled and innovative citizens wh…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789811366352
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 370.96 EZE i
Preparing for life in a digital world IEA : international computer and inform…
This Open Access book summarizes the key findings from the second cycle of IEA’s International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS), conducted in 2018. ICILS seeks to establish how well schools around the globe are responding to the need to provide young people with the necessary digital participatory competencies. Effective use of information and communication technologies (ICT) i…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030387815
- Collation
- XXII, 297 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 302.209 PRE p
Biological invasions in South Africa
This open access volume presents a comprehensive account of all aspects of biological invasions in South Africa, where research has been conducted over more than three decades, and where bold initiatives have been implemented in attempts to control invasions and to reduce their ecological, economic and social effects. It covers a broad range of themes, including history, policy development and …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030323943
- Collation
- xxiv, 975p. : ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 577.18 BIO b
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography