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Universities, innovation and the economy
Universities are increasingly expected to be at the heart of networked structures contributing to society in meaningful and measurable ways through research, the teaching and development of experts, and knowledge innovation. While there is nothing new in universities’ links with industry, what is recent is their role as territorial actors. It is government policy in many countries that univer…
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- 9781134344185
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- xii, 265p. : ill.
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- 338.476200094 SMI u
Universities in transition : foregrounding social contexts of knowledge in th…
Universities are social universes in their own right. They are the site of multiple, complex and diverse social relations, identities, communities, knowledges and practices. At the heart of this book are people enrolling at university for the first time and entering into the broad variety of social relations and contexts entailed in their ‘coming to know’ at, of and through university. By r…
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- 9781922064837
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- xi, 244p. : ill.
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- 378.1980994 UNI u
Making publics, making places
This book focuses on the surprising generative possibilities which digital and smart technologies offer media consumers, citizens, institutions and governments in making publics and places, across topics as diverse as Twitter audiences, rural news, the elasticity of the public sphere, Weibo, cultural heritage and responsive spaces in smart cities. Multidisciplinary perspectives engage with crit…
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- 9781925261431
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- xviii, 216p. : ill.
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- 307.76 MAK m
Early start : preschool politics in the United States
In the United States, preschool education is characterized by the dominance of a variegated private sector and patchy, uncoordinated oversight of the public sector. Tracing the history of the American debate over preschool education, Andrew Karch argues that the current state of decentralization and fragmentation is the consequence of a chain of reactions and counterreactions to policy decision…
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- 9780472118724
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- x, 274p. : ill.
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- 372.210973 KAR e
Thinking literature across continents
'Thinking Literature across Continents' finds Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller—two thinkers from different continents, cultures, training, and critical perspectives—debating and reflecting upon what literature is and why it matters. Ghosh and Miller do not attempt to formulate a joint theory of literature; rather, they allow their different backgrounds and lively disagreements to stimulate…
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- 9780822373698
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- xiii, 316p. : ill.
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- 809 GHO t
Open data structures : an introduction
Offered as an introduction to the field of data structures and algorithms, Open Data Structures covers the implementation and analysis of data structures for sequences (lists), queues, priority queues, unordered dictionaries, ordered dictionaries, and graphs. Focusing on a mathematically rigorous approach that is fast, practical, and efficient, Morin clearly and briskly presents instruction alo…
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- 9781927356395
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- xiv, 322p. : ill.
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- 005.73 MOR o
Bridging transcultural divides : Asian languages and cultures in global hight…
This volume presents the diverse approaches and achievements of scholars of Asian cultures and languages in today’s global academy. Recent vast increases in student numbers and ethnic diversity have created pressing challenges for a higher education which engages with contemporary concerns for Asian societies as well as for Asian students involved in Western education. This collection of scho…
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- 9781922064318
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- xvi, 286p. : ill.
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- 495 BRI b
Digital sound studies
The digital turn has created new opportunities for scholars across disciplines to use sound in their scholarship. This volume’s contributors provide a blueprint for making sound central to research, teaching, and dissemination. They show how digital sound studies has the potential to transform silent, text-centric cultures of communication in the humanities into rich, multisensory experiences…
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- 9780822371991
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- xii, 298p. : ill.
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- 001.30285 DIG d
Values and valuing in mathematics education : scanning and scoping the territory
This engaging open access book discusses how a values and valuing perspective can facilitate a more effective mathematics pedagogical experience, and allows readers to explore multiple applications of the values perspective across different education systems. It also clearly shows that teaching mathematics involves not only reasoning and feelings, but also students’ interactions with their cu…
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- 9783030168926
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- x, 222p. : ill.
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- 510.71 VAL v
Environmental leadership capacity building in higher education : experience a…
The Graduate Program in Sustainability Science under the Department of Urban Engineering of The University of Tokyo has been running an environmental leadership education program at the graduate student level since 2007 called the Asian Program for Incubation of Environmental Leaders (APIEL). This book describes the University’s experiences in establishing and organizing that program and prov…
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- 9784431543404
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- xi, 140p. : ill.
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- 333.7072 ENV e
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