Institutions and learned societies: general

A sweeping account of Southern political economy in the New Deal era.

Contested Spaces, Counter-narratives, and Culture from Below in Canada and Quebec explores strategies for reading space and conflict in Canadian and Quebecois literature and cultural performances, positing questions such as: how do these texts and performances produce and contest spatial practices?

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From pressure to "e;teach to the test"e; and the use of quantitative metrics to define education "e;quality,"e; to the rise of "e;school choice"e; and the shift of principals from colleagues to managers, teachers in New York, Mexico City, and Toronto have experienced strikingly similar challenges to their professional autonomy.

Die vorliegende Publikation ist ein Leitfaden für die Umsetzung von mehr Chancengleichheit für Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund.

Le débat autour du mythe en tant que concept opposé à la pensée scientifique actuelle est au cœur de ce livre.

Educational institutions, and in particular educational leaders, play critical roles in identifying and rectifying the many inequities that oppress, marginalize, and exclude individual students, educational actors, and some minoritized groups in Canadian education.

A valuable interdisciplinary resource examining the concept and effectiveness of CSR as a tool for sustainable development in emerging markets.

This book argues that regional organizations can be a potent force for instilling and protecting democracy throughout the world.

What is the relationship between philosophy and organization theory (OT)?

In Incorporating Texts into Institutional Ethnographies, Dorothy E.

The essays in Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy make visible the submerged stories of Black life in academia.

On March 11, 2004, Islamist terrorists carried out a massive bombing on Madrid's largely working-class commuter trains, leaving 191 people dead and more than 1,500 others wounded.

Der zunehmende Drittmittelwettbewerb, der Einzug von New Public Management und akademischem Kapitalismus und nicht zuletzt die Exzellenzinitiative haben die universitäre Landschaft in Deutschland erheblich umgestaltet und damit auch der wissenschaftlichen Praxis einen neuen Rahmen gesteckt.

In this third edition of Capitalism and Classical Social Theory, John Bratton and David Denham build on the classical triumvirate-Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, and Max Weber-by extending the conversation to include early female theorists such as Mary Wollstonecraft and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, as well as the writings of W.

In seinem Testament bestimmte Alfred Nobel, dass der Friedenspreis an jene Personen gehen sollte, die "die meiste oder beste Arbeit für die Verbrüderung von Nationen, für die Abschaffung oder Reduzierung stehender Armeen und für das Durchführen und Fördern von Friedenskongressen geleistet hat".

Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, with contributions from Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood, Richard Holmes, Martin Rees, Richard Fortey, Steve Jones, James Gleick and Neal Stephenson amongst others, this beautiful, lavishly illustrated book tells the story of science and the Royal Society, from 1660 to the present.

Being Poland offers a unique analysis of the cultural developments that took place in Poland after World War One, a period marked by Poland's return to independence.

Is the performance of western democracies in decline?

The book demonstrates how formal institutional rules determine the kinds of social cleavages that matter in politics.

Singapur, Hongkong und Taiwan belegen in Bildungsstudien Spitzenplätze.

Where do Canadian content requirements come from?

In divided societies, representation in the police that empowers previously-marginalized groups reduces crime, builds trust, and improves citizen-state relations.

This book explores the interdependencies between technologies and institutions in network infrastructures.

Recurrent clamours by students and academics for universities in Africa and elsewhere, to imbibe and exude a spirit of inclusion are a continual reminder that universities can and need to be much more convivial.

Post-baccalaureate education continues to expand at an accelerated rate as new degree programs are developed, enrollments rise, online instruction matures, and the number of institutions offering advanced degrees increases.

In Newspaper City, Phillip Gordon Mackintosh scrutinizes the reluctance of early Torontonians to pave their streets.

Die Bologna-Reform verändert die deutschen Hochschulen nachhaltig.

Prozesse der Entwicklung sowie Etablierung von neuen Steuerungsstrukturen und -instrumenten im Bereich Bildung haben sich enorm verstärkt.

Raimund Fastenbauer präsentiert in zwei Teilen nicht nur die internen Entwicklungen der jüdischen Gemeinde Wien und der IKG als ihrer Vertretungsbehörde, sondern auch ihre Beziehungen und Konflikte zur politischen Umwelt.

From pressure to "e;teach to the test"e; and the use of quantitative metrics to define education "e;quality,"e; to the rise of "e;school choice"e; and the shift of principals from colleagues to managers, teachers in New York, Mexico City, and Toronto have experienced strikingly similar challenges to their professional autonomy.

Innovation is central to the dynamics and success of organizations and society in the modern world, the process famously referred to by Schumpeter as 'gales of creative destruction'.

The Banff–Bow Valley in western Alberta is the heart of spiritual and economic life for the Nakoda peoples.

No One Was Turned Away is a book about the importance of public hospitals to New York City.

Bisher hat noch keine Schweizer Universität ihre Geschichte in der Zwischenkriegszeit aufgearbeitet.