Emerald Publishing Limited: 1159 books
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Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2018
This year’s Annual Review of Comparative and International Education surveys the field from several globally representative perspectives. Contributors include scholars, policymakers and development consultants and cover comparative and international education trends and issues unique to Africa,...
Fundamental British Values in Education
Radicalisation, National Identity and Britishness
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
The notion of Britishness and national identity have rarely been examined with such intensity in education and society as they are today. Although the requirement to promote a sense of nationhood in schools is not a new one, the politicised nature of the values associated with Britishness and the...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
Present day knowledge about public sector reforms in Asia is quite scattered and seldom focuses on the challenges of leadership. This edited collection seeks to address this issue by presenting country cases that reflect the great diversity of the region.
Home to roughly one-third of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2017
Stakeholder theory is used for many purposes in a wide array of disciplines. It was intended to serve as a strategic management tool for business and society relationships in a capitalist system. While it has broad scholarly appeal, it is still somewhat controversial and is considered to be empirically...
SDG4 - Quality Education
Inclusivity, Equity and Lifelong Learning For All
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Sustainable Development Goal 4 seeks to 'Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education for all and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.' It acknowledges that quality education is a foundational necessity for sustainable development and an enhanced quality of life.
SDG4 - Quality...
Culturally Sustaining and Revitalizing Pedagogies
Language, Culture, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Today’s schools compartmentalize children and curriculum. Standardization dictates curricular content and assessment, narrowing the focus of classrooms and schools that serve diverse populations from varied geographical backgrounds. Against the backdrop of the western-derived, institutional framework...
From Humility to Hubris among Scholars and Politicians
Exploring Expressions of Self-Esteem and Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
A main theme running through this book is that we cannot understand the virtues of humility and modesty without an equally good understanding of the vices of hubris and conceit. All four attitudes express self-esteem, which flourishes in the soil of achievement. Achievement is valued in any challenging...
by Robert A. Stebbins
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Scholars in leisure studies have amassed an impressive record of knowledge bearing on the social worlds of diverse serious pursuits, yet this sphere of modern life still needs a coherent statement about what social worlds consist of, what they do, and where they fit in social theory. The core activities...
Organisational Control in University Management
A Multiparadigm Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Organisational Control in University Management: A Multiparadigm Approach focuses on significant reform and change in large organisations. The book takes as its primary focus the example of management reform at the University of Tartu, Estonia, foregrounding the complexity of change and reform of...
Spatial Justice and Informal Settlements
Integral Urban Projects in the Comunas of Medellín
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Spatial Justice and Informal Settlements: Integral Urban Projects in the Comunas of Medellín links the discourses of informal urbanism and spatial justice in the context of public space-based governmental programmes to upgrade informal settlements in Latin America.
It argues for the importance...
Megaproject Risk Analysis and Simulation
A Dynamic Systems Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Providing new knowledge on risk analysis and simulation for megaprojects, this book is essential reading for both academics and practitioners. Its focus is on technical descriptions of a newly developed dynamic systems approach to megaproject risk analysis and simulation. This is backed up by a discussion...
The AGM in Europe
Theory and Practice of Shareholder Behaviour
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Business, Economics and Legal scholars have all argued about the theoretical importance of annual general meetings in assessing business shareholder relations and wider issues of corporate governance, but often without knowing how the AGM functions in practice. Anne Lafarre combines wide ranging empirical...
Sharing in the Company
Determinants, Processes and Outcomes of Employee Participation
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
This volume gathers recent insights into the determinants, developments and outcomes of employee share ownership. It focuses on a number of new emerging themes in the literature and tests some of the relationships using several, notable European datasets. The authors discuss employee share ownership...
Sustainability Accounting
Education, Regulation, Reporting and Stakeholders
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
Advances in Environmental Accounting & Management aims to advance knowledge of the governance and management of corporate environmental impacts and the accounting for these, including issues related to measurement, valuation, and disclosure. It also aims to increase the awareness of management,...