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  • Enciclopédia Brasileira de Educação Superior – EBES (Volume 1)

    Series Book 10 - Ries/Pronex
    A Ebes não é mais uma coletânea de diferentes textos, e sim um legado de diversos professores/pesquisadores, que dedicaram toda ou boa parte de sua vida profissional à Educação, especialmente à Educação Superior, em diferentes tipos de Instituições de Ensino Superior (IES) e situações de desempenho, bem como vivenciaram diferentes posições de inserção (docência, investigação, extensão, gestão) nos ... Read more

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  • Acción Evangelizadora Marista en la Educación Superior

    La celebración de los 200 años de la fundación de nuestro Instituto es una ocasión excepcional para sacar a la luz este documento sobre la Acción Evangelizadora Marista en la Educación Superior. Así como hace dos siglos, Marcelino Champagnat y sus primeros hermanos escucharon y atendieron los gritos de la juventud necesitada de la Francia posrevolucionaria del siglo XVIII, también las actuales ... Read more

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  • Universidade e sociedade

    projetos de extensão da FCLAr-Unesp e suas ações transformadoras

    O objetivo fundamental deste livro é apresentar algumas ações extensionistas que têm sido realizadas pelos docentes em conjunto com graduandos e pós-graduandos da Faculdade de Ciências e Letras, câmpus de Araraquara. Os projetos apresentados neste livro realçam explicitamente a importância da extensão universitária como elo responsável pela ligação da pesquisa científica de qualidade e inovadora, ... Read more

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  • Managing the Digital University

    Paradigms, Leadership, and Organization

    Series series Routledge Open Business and Economics
    The reflection on university management is based on the question about the shape of universities of the future. Civic, responsible, sustainable, virtual, digital, and many other universities can be mentioned among the concepts present in the literature. All these names describe an important distinctive feature of a university, which will gain more and more importance in the future. However, given ... Read more

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  • The Emerald Handbook of Research Management and Administration Around the World

    The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online.Over past decades, scholars and practitioners around the world observed an emergence of professionals, research managers and administrators (RMAs) who play an essential role in the advancement of academic research. RMAs have extensive knowledge of the research ecosystem, including funding opportunities, proposals, ... Read more

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  • Singularidades da formação e do desenvolvimento profissional docente: contextos emergentes na educação

    Series Book 9 - Ries/Pronex
    Esta obra problematiza os contextos emergentes, a singularidade das docências e do desenvolvimento profissional com base em seus diversos cenários. A docência possui muitas interfaces, o que exige ações reflexivas e transformadoras sobre as práticas educativas perante os novos cenários, que emergem como desafios e enfrentamentos à Educação do século XXI. Almejamos produzir um espaço de reflexão e ... Read more

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  • Avaliação educacional

    desatando e reatando nós

    A avaliação do contexto da instituição educacional pode ser vista de vários ângulos, desde o ponto de vista estritamente didático e das estratégias de avaliação da aprendizagem escolar até questões epistemológicas, sociais e políticas que estão implicadas na instituição educacional e em outras instituições que envolvem relações de saber-poder. Esse livro expressa um explícito compromisso com a ... Read more

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  • Transforming Lives and Systems

    Cultural Competence and the Higher Education Interface

    Series series SpringerBriefs in Education
    This open access book explores the transformative experiences of participants in the University of Sydney’s National Centre for Cultural Competence (NCCC) programs. The establishment of the NCCC was viewed as a critical point of departure for developing an institution-wide agenda of cultural competence. The NCCC’s work since its inception reflects efforts to lay important foundations for cultural ... Read more

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  • Rethinking Graduate Employability in Context

    Discourse, Policy and Practice

    This open access book offers critical, multidisciplinary analyses on graduate employability. The book examines employability at the macro, meso and micro levels: higher education policy, the labour market, higher education institutions, organisations, individuals and social groups, in European, North American and Australian contexts. The contributors provide social and contextual analysis of ... Read more

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  • Research on Teaching and Learning Mathematics at the Tertiary Level

    State-of-the-art and Looking Ahead

    Series series ICME-13 Topical Surveys
    This topical survey focuses on research in tertiary mathematics education, a field that has experienced considerable growth over the last 10 years. Drawing on the most recent journal publications as well as the latest advances from recent high-quality conference proceedings, our review culls out the following five emergent areas of interest: mathematics teaching at the tertiary level; the role of ... Read more

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  • Marist Evangelizing Action in Higher Education

    The celebration of the 200th anniversary of the founding of our Institute is an exceptional occasion to bring to light this document The Marist Evangelizing Action in Higher Education. Just as two centuries ago, Marcellin Champagnat and his early brothers contemplated and responded to the clamors of the youth in need of post-revolutionary France of the XVIII century, the present Marist generations ... Read more

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  • World Class Universities

    A Contested Concept

    Series series Evaluating Education: Normative Systems and Institutional Practices
    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 use ... Read more

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  • Enhancing Future Skills and Entrepreneurship

    3rd Indo-German Conference on Sustainability in Engineering

    Series series Sustainable Production, Life Cycle Engineering and Management
    This open access book presents the proceedings of the 3rd Indo-German Conference on Sustainability in Engineering held at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India, on September 16–17, 2019. Intended to foster the synergies between research and education, the conference is one of the joint activities of the BITS Pilani and TU Braunschweig conducted under the auspices of Indo-German ... Read more

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  • Open and Distance Education in Asia, Africa and the Middle East

    National Perspectives in a Digital Age

    Series series SpringerBriefs in Education
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book describes the history, structure and institutions of open and distance education in six countries: China, India, Russia, Turkey, South Africa and South Korea. It describes how open and distance education is evolving in a digital age to reflect the needs and circumstances of the national higher education systems in these countries. It ... Read more

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  • Happiness, Well-being and Sustainability

    A Course in Systems Change

    Happiness, Well-being and Sustainability: A Course in Systems Change is the first textbook bridging the gap between personal happiness and sustainable social change. The book provides a guide for students to increase their skills, literacy and knowledge about connections between a sense of well-being and systems change. Further, it can help students live a life that brings them happiness and ... Read more

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  • Innopolis University - From Zero to Hero

    Ten Years of Challenges and Victories

    This open access book describes the development of Innopolis, a young Russian university established in 2012 to focus on teaching excellence in computer science, engineering, and robotics. It reports on the problems that were faced in the first decade of its development, and the adopted solutions. It shows how the key aspects for the development of the faculty, the curricula, the university ... Read more

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  • Overcoming the Challenge of Structural Change in Research Organisations

    A Reflexive Approach to Gender Equality

    The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online.The under-representation of women in research and innovation has been documented as a global phenomenon and is particularly heightened on decision-making boards and in leadership positions. Presenting a reflexive approach to gender equality for research organisations developed within the TARGET project, funded by ... Read more

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  • Percepciones sobre responsabilidad social universitaria en programas de contaduría

    Series series Resultado de investigación
    La responsabilidad social (RS) tiene sus orígenes en el contexto empresarial, apareciendo por primera vez en 1953, cuando Howard R. Bowen (1953) la definió como un comportamiento ético de la empresa ante la sociedad y las partes interesadas y, reconoció el espíritu del entorno legal y normativo en el ámbito empresarial. Desde el ámbito educativo, este concepto encuentra su referente en el ... Read more

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  • Internacionalização da educação superior e a construção da cidadania global: existem conexões possíveis?

    Series Book 12 - Ries/Pronex
    Esta obra analisa as conexões possíveis entre a internacionalização da educação superior, mais especificamente a internacionalização do currículo (IoC) e a educação para a cidadania global (ECG). a IoC tem a incumbência de proporcionar o desenvolvimento de cidadãos conscientes, emancipados e com habilidades interculturais, e a ECG preconiza a formação de cidadãos com atributos para respeitar a ... Read more

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  • Ensino superior e desenvolvimento regional

    reconfigurando as relações entre as cidades e o campo

    Os artigos aqui reunidos possibilitam o acesso aos resultados da pesquisa realizada sobre o ensino superior e o desenvolvimento regional: reconfigurando as relações entre as cidades e o campo. Dentre esses destaca-se a importância das políticas governamentais que promoveram a ampliação do ensino superior tanto através da criação de instituições de ensino superior federais, como de ensino técnico ... Read more

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  • Conhecimento em rede

    desenvolvimento, cooperação e integração regional em território de fronteira – Rede CIDIR

    A obra reúne 33 textos, organizados em sete capítulos: I- Comércio internacional e relações de fronteira; II- Integração regional; III- Desenvolvimento regional; IV- Desenvolvimento e meio ambiente; V- Desenvolvimento e novas tecnologias produtivas e sociais; VI- Desenvolvimento e participação social; VII- Desenvolvimento e políticas públicas. A obra resulta de seleção dos trabalhos melhor ... Read more

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  • Inquiry-Based Learning - Undergraduate Research

    The German Multidisciplinary Experience

    Edited by Harald A. Mieg ...
    This open access book provides a systematic overview of experiences with Inquiry-Based Learning (IBL) and undergraduate research (UR) in German universities, covering both research universities (Universitäten) and universities of applied sciences (Fachhochschulen). Divided into three parts, the book starts with the principles and common practices of IBL/UR at all universities. Part Two discusses ... Read more

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  • Black Women Navigating the Doctoral Journey

    Student Peer Support, Mentorship, and Success in the Academy

    With the increasing focus on the critical importance of mentoring in advancing Black women students from graduation to careers in academia, this book identifies and considers the peer mentoring contexts and conditions that support Black women student success in higher education. This edited collection focuses on Black women students primarily at the doctoral level and how they have retained each ... Read more

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  • The Internationalization of the Academic Library

    Series series Routledge Studies in Library and Information Science
    The Internationalization of the Academic Library presents a theoretically informed, empirically grounded analysis of the process of academic library internationalization.Drawing on interviews with library personnel from around the world, Lombard analyzes internationalization at the departmental level of an academic library. Demonstrating that college and library personnel have positive intentions ... Read more

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