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Multiculturalism and conflict reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific : migration,…
This book is open access under a CC BY license. This edited collection focuses on theories, language and migration in relation to multiculturalism in Japan and the Asia-Pacific. Each chapter aims to provide alternative understandings to current conflicts that have arisen due to immigration and policies related to education, politics, language, work, citizenship and identity.
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- 9781137403605
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- xiv, 237p. : ill.
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- 305.80095 MUL m
Explorations in early Southeast Asian history : the origins of Southeast Asia…
While following the probes of foreign individuals into various obscure parts of Southeast Asia over the centuries is a diverting and entertaining pastime, the purpose of this volume is to investigate this past with the mind, to question and postulate upon the historical patterns that have developed from earlier study of the area, and to bring concepts from other areas and disciplines to bear on…
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- 9780472901951
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- XIV, 538 p.
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- Michigan Papers On South And Southeast Asia, 11
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- 959 EXP e
The dynamics of opportunity in America : evidence and perspectives
Across the country, our children are beginning life from very different starting points. Some have aspirations and believe they can be achieved. For too many others, aspirations are tempered, if not dashed, by the sobering realities of everyday life. These different starting points place children on distinctly different trajectories of growth and development, ultimately leading to vastly differ…
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- 9783319259918
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- 379 DYN d
How nations learn: technological learning, industrial policy, and catch-up
Authored by eminent scholars, the volume aims to generate interest and debate among policymakers, practitioners, and researchers on the complexity of learning and catch-up, particularly for twenty-first century late-late developers. The volume explores technological learning at the firm level, policy learning by the state, and the cumulative and multifaceted nature of the learning process, whic…
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- First edition.
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- 9780198841760
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- xxiv, 343p. : ill. ; 24 cm
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- 338.927 HOW h
Policy-oriented technology assessment across Europe : expanding capacities
Policy-making to address grand challenges faces greater complexity than any previous project of modernization. Future scenarios are haunted by uncertainty and there is real ambivalence as to the values that policy should strive for. In this situation decision-makers look to research and innovation to provide answers and solutions. But neither can the great transitions ahead be planned by scienc…
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- 9781137561725
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- xvi, 171p. : ill.
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- 338.9406 POL p
Non-equilibrium social science and policy : introduction and essays on new an…
The overall aim of this book, an outcome of the European FP7 FET Open NESS project, is to contribute to the ongoing effort to put the quantitative social sciences on a proper footing for the 21st century. A key focus is economics, and its implications on policy making, where the still dominant traditional approach increasingly struggles to capture the economic realities we observe in the world …
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- 9783319424248
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- viii. 232p. : ill.
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- 330.01 NON n
Grading goal four : tensions, threats, and opportunities in the sustainable d…
For the third time in three decades world leaders reaffirmed their promise of "Education For All" when adopting Sustainable Development Goal 4 in 2015. It is the most far-reaching commitment to quality and equity in education so far, yet, there is no consensus on what the agenda means in practice. With a decade left until the 2030 deadline, Grading Goal Four calls upon the education communi…
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- 9789004430365
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- xxviii, 469 p. : ill.
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- 379 GRA g
Dutch National Research Agenda in perspective: a reflection on research and s…
edited by Beatrice de Graaf, Alexander Rinnooy Kan and Henk Molenaar.
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- 9789048532827
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- 240p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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- 507.20492 DUT d
Interdisciplinary mathematics education: the state of the art and beyond
This open access book is the first major publication on the topic of “Interdisciplinary Mathematics Education” and arose from the work of the first International Topic Study Group of the same name at the ICME-13 conference in Hamburg in 2016. It offers extensive theoretical insights, empirical research, and practitioner accounts of interdisciplinary mathematics work in STEM and beyond (e.g.…
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- 1st ed. 2019.
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- 9783030110666
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- 1 online resource (VII, 302 pages 56 illustrations, 41 illustrations in color.)
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- 510.71 BOR i
Going public : what writing programs learn from engagement
An important new resource for WPA preparation courses. In Going Public, Rose and Weiser moderate a discussion of the role of the writing program vis-a-vis the engagement movement, the service learning movement, and the current interest in public discourse/civic rhetoric among scholars of rhetoric and composition. While there have been a number of publications describing service-learning and com…
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- 9780874217698
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- II, 259 p.
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- 428.00712 ROS g
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