Emerald Group Publishing Limited imprint: 750 books

Biopolicy

The Life Sciences and Public Policy

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Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012

"Biology can inform public policy in a number of ways. This volume explores the linkage of the life sciences with policy (what the book refers to as biopolicy). It features two points of departure: the implications of the neurosciences for public policy; and the implications of evolutionary theory...

Investing in our Education

Leading, Learning, Researching and the Doctorate

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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014

This volume acknowledges the need for better understanding in leadership, management and administration of new knowledge which is crucial for effective leadership in a period of massive policy reform and deepening austerity in education. The doctorate is key to meeting this global challenge as it...

Can Tocqueville Karaoke?

Global Contrasts of Citizen Participation, the Arts and Development

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Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014

Are you sceptical about the importance of arts and culture, especially about their possible impact on politics and the economy? This volume outlines a new framework for analysis of democratic participation and economic growth and explores how these new patterns work around the world. The new framework...
by Ragnhild Sollund
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012

This volume of the Advances in Ecopolitics examines the impact of the recent global increase in migration from poor and conflict ridden states to more affluent peaceful regions of the world. Such migration is, in part, constituted by refugees and asylum seekers, while also constituted by labour migrants...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016

This being the 20th volume in the series of Advances in Early Education in Day Care, it encourages reflection on previous volumes. Family involvement has been an issue in early education going back to Pestalozzi almost two centuries ago. Although the issue has been discussed in many different ways...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013

This inaugural volume is a forum for stakeholders and scholars to examine current trends and identify future directions in comparative and international education, using several essays as a context for discussion and analysis. It provides an analytic overview of published work in the field, with discussions of education theory, policy and practice.
by Barbara Cozza, Patrick Blessinger
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015

This volume examines the diverse ways in which universities and colleges around the world are partnering and collaborating with other institutions to fulfil their missions and visions. University partnerships not only include collaborations between universities but also university-school (basic education)...

Sociology Looking at Disability

What Did we Know and When Did we Know it?

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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016

Current research in Sociology of Disability has a tendency to assume that very little written in this area until the last 20 years. However, this is not always the case. In part the lack of awareness of older writing occurs because of the ease of computerized searching for recent references or a sense...
by Saville Kushner
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012

A comprehensive and authoritative overview of issues relating to the evaluation of criminal justice/corrections 'interventions', this unique reference draws on a variety of theoretical, cultural and epistemological perspectives with authors from a range of disciplines and countries. It begins by looking...

Many Faces of Populism

Current Perspectives

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Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014

Populism comes in many guises. Both Berlusconi's personalization of politics and the Northern League's antiimmigrant regionalist movement are viewed as examples of the phenomenon of populism. A type of leftwing populism embodied by Hugo Chavez swept across Latin America. Insurgent and antisystem movements...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012

This book brings together a range of chapters about the trends in education and research in the field of library and information science (LIS) in the Asia-Oceania region of the world. Why a book about LIS in the Asia-Oceania region? One key reason for a book on the topic is the huge growth of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016

It is important that stakeholders are aware of practices supported as effective for students with learning and behavioral disabilities in order to provide instruction that results in improved learner outcomes. Perhaps equally important, stakeholders should also know which practices have been shown...

Narrative Inquirers in the Midst of Meaning-Making

Interpretive Acts of Teacher Educators

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Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012

"Narrative Inquirers in the Midst of Meaning-making: Interpretive Acts of Teacher Educators" illustrates interim narrative field texts of identity as "teacher educator stories" and demonstrates how researchers utilize common places of temporality, sociality, and place in analyzing...

Ecological Health

Society, Ecology and Health

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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013

Drawing on ecosystem thinking, complexity and postnormal science, Ecological Health offers a radical new way of thinking about the health issues of the 21st Century. This volume reflects on recent social scientific engagement with Ecosystem Health research and practice and sets out a vision for the...
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