A common story of teachers from the Global South portrays them as deficient, unreliable and unprofessional. However, this book uses an innovative Capability Approach/Critical Realist lens to reveal the causal links between teachers' constrained capabilities and their 'criticised' behaviours. Transforming Teacher Quality in the Global South first applies this analytical lens to a Tanzanian case …
Chapter 1. Introduction: A Political History of Belgian Education during the Second World War -- Chapter 2. Between Pacification and Conflict: The History of Belgian Education and the Challenge of National Socialism -- Chapter 3. Towards a Gleichschaltung of Belgian Education: The German Education Policy and the Contacts between the Military Administration and the Belgian Roman Catholic Church …
Muslim Institutions of Higher Education in Postcolonial Africa examines the colonial discriminatory practices against Muslim education through control and dismissal and discusses the education reform movement of the post-colonial experience.
Introduction -- On the Path towards the Science of Creative Thinking -- Theoretical Aspects of Creativity -- The Defragmentation of Creativity: Future Directions with an Emphasis on Educational Applications -- A Review of Integrated Approaches to the Study of Creativity: A proposal for a Systems Framework for Creativity -- Creative processes: Art, Design and Science -- Distributing creativity: …
Management Summary -- At a Glance — Competing through Knowledge Networks -- About this Handbook -- Building Blocks -- Storyboard — Setting Up Knowledge Networks -- Summary and Action Plan.The concepts and theories of knowledge management and networks are meanwhile well documented. Yet there are few, if any, guidelines on how to implement knowledge management within an organization, especial…
Text versus Talk -- Changing Cultures of Written Communication: Letter — E-mail — SMS -- Language in SMS — a socio-linguistic view -- Please reply! The replying norm in adolescent SMS communication -- Nascent Communication Genres within SMS and MMS -- Inside Text: an introduction -- Texting and the Moral Order of Place -- From Voice to Text: continuity and change in the use of mobile phon…
Contribution of Socionics to the Scalability of Complex Social Systems: Introduction -- Contribution of Socionics to the Scalability of Complex Social Systems: Introduction -- I Multi-layer Modelling -- From “Clean” Mechanisms to “Dirty” Models: Methodological Perspectives of an Up-Scaling of Actor Constellations -- Sociological Foundation of the Holonic Approach Using Habitus-Field-The…
and Overview -- Probabilistic Voting in the Spatial Model of Elections: The Theory of Office-motivated Candidates -- Local Political Equilibria -- Electoral Competition Between Two Candidates of Different Quality: The Effects of Candidate Ideology and Private Information -- Party Objectives in the “Divide a Dollar” Electoral Competition -- Generalized Bandit Problems -- The Banks Set and th…
The French and the German education systems -- Educational attainment in France and Germany -- Education and unemployment in France and Germany -- Education and earnings in France and Germany -- Conclusion.This book offers a comprehensive empirical analysis of educational inequalities and their consequences on individual labour market outcomes for men and women in France and Germany, two countr…
This book examines Latin America's history of engagement with cosmopolitanisms as a manner of asserting a genealogy that links cultural critique in Latin America and the United States. Cosmopolitanism is crucial to any discussion of Latin America, and Latin Americanism as a discipline. Reinaldo Arenas and Diamela Eltit become nodal points to discuss a wide range of issues that include the pedag…