The New Flagship University is an expansive vision for leading national universities and an alternative narrative to global rankings and World Class Universities. The Flagship model explores pathways for universities to re-shape their missions and operational features to expand their relevancy in the societies that gave them life and purpose.
SECTION ONE : EXPLORING THE FIELD -- Chapter 1 Global is Not the Opposite of Local: Advocacy For Community College International Education Rosalind Latiner Raby and Edward J. Valeau -- Chapter 2 Faculty International Experience and Internationalization Efforts at Community Colleges in the United States Krishna Bista -- Chapter 3 Mentoring in an International Professional Development Program Tod…
Main Topics You Can Find in this “ICME-13 Topical Survey” -- Introduction -- Survey on the State-of-the-art -- Summary and Looking Ahead.Open AccessIt argues that the main purpose of educational research is to improve student learning, and that international comparative studies are no exception.
Chapter 1. History and Future of National College Entrance Exam (NCEE) in China -- Chapter 2. Data collection and methodology -- Chapter 3. School effects on student NCEE achievement -- Chapter 4. Household inputs and Education equity -- Chapter 5. Summary and Policy Suggestions.This book focuses on the National College Entrance Exam (NCEE), an important measurement of education quality in Chin…
Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Learning Your Place -- Chapter One: Education and Ideology in Cuba -- Chapter Two: ‘Tomorrow’s Heroes’ -- Chapter Three: The Emergente Generation -- Chapter Four: The Lost Generation? -- Conclusion: Cuban Citizenship Education in Context -- Bibliography -- Appendix A: Record of Interviews Conducted (Youth) -- Appendix B: Record of Interviews Conducted (Ex…
Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Mixed methods -- 3. The literature review.-4a. Results of thematics analysis -- 4b. Comparative analysis findings -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Glossary -- Appendix: the posters. .This monograph presents the current views, challenges and future needs of educators from a global online exchange where educators and researchers discuss the 21s…
1 Introduction: Education in Bhutan -- Part I Historical Perspectives -- 2 Overview and 'Heart Essence' of the Bhutanese Education System -- 3 The History and Development of Monastic Education in Bhutan -- 4 History and Transitions of Secular Education in Bhutan from the 20th into the 21st Century -- 5 Higher Education in Bhutan: Progress and Challenges -- 6 Bhutanese Traditional Medical Educat…
1. Friedrich Ratzel and Geopolitics -- 2. F. Ratzel’s State as a “social organism” -- 3. Living space (Lebensraum): Bio-geographical signifier with political-geographical signified? -- 4. Social / cultural aspects as factors of power contibutors in Ratzel’s state analysis and the issue of racism -- 5. Ratzel’s worldview (Weltanschauung) and the “Positivist Circle of Leipzig”. The …
This book offers insights into the nation-state and education relationship by problematizing and analyzing the assumed straightforwardness of the role of education and schooling by placing the issue in very contemporary contested nation-state structures like Scotland, Catalonia, Ukraine and Belgium. These conflict situations and contested power relations are in a way some of Europe’s internal…
1. Failures and Achievements of the Past -- 2. Which Revolution? -- 3. Peaceful Transition -- 4. Globalization and Socialism in One Country -- 5. Which Socialism? -- 6. Social Classes -- 7. Practical Steps.Through a series of conversations with prominent theorists and leading political activists in different parts of the world, this book explores the causes of the setbacks of both the reformist…