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  • Migration, Education and Employment

    Pathways to Successful Integration

    Edited by Marianne Teräs, Ali Osman, Eva Eliasson ...
    Series Book 10 - Education, Equity, Economy
    This is an open access book which focuses on different aspects of education, employment, and successful integration of migrants in three countries: Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland. The chapters in this book reflect on these issues from micro, meso and macro perspectives; some are based on interviews with migrants and people who work with them, others on documents and literature about migration. ... Read more

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  • Evidence and Expertise in Nordic Education Policy

    A Comparative Network Analysis

    Edited by Berit Karseth, Kirsten Sivesind, Gita Steiner-Khamsi ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This open access book explores how policy makers draw on national, regional and international expertise in issuing school reform within five Nordic countries. In an era of international comparison, policy makers are expected to review best practices, learn from experiences from elsewhere, and apply international standards propelled by international organizations. Do they do so? What counts, for ... Read more

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  • Reforms, Organizational Change and Performance in Higher Education

    A Comparative Account from the Nordic Countries

    Edited by Rómulo Pinheiro, Lars Geschwind, Hanne Foss Hansen, Kirsi Pulkkinen ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access book investigates the effects of changes in leadership and managerial structures of Nordic universities resulting from reforms in the last decade. It builds on a rich, comparative dataset across a multiplicity of system-wide (macro) and organisational (meso and micro) dimensions, namely: reform or policy initiatives; drivers, aims, instruments and actors; structural changes within ... Read more

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  • Policy Problems and Policy Design

    by B. Guy Peters ...
    Series series New Horizons in Public Policy series
    B. Guy Peters presents a critique of conventional policy design methods, placing emphasis on the need to formulate interconnecting designs for issues that cross multiple policy areas. He advocates the use of analytic categories for understanding problems rather than functional categories, such as defence and health, to change the perspective of problems and modernise policy design.Whereas previous ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Public Policy

    Edited by Eduardo Araral, Scott Fritzen, Michael Howlett, M. Ramesh, Xun Wu ...
    This Handbook provides a comprehensive global survey of the policy process. Written by an outstanding line up of distinguished scholars and practitioners, the Handbook covers all aspects of the policy process including:Theory – from rational choice to the new institutionalismFrameworks – network theory, advocacy coalition and development modelsKey stages in the process – Formulation, ... Read more

    $95.99 USD

  • European Social Policy and Social Work

    Citizenship-Based Social Work

    by Hans van Ewijk ...
    European Social Policy and Social Work explores shifts in international social policies and how they affect national trends and thus the context for social work practice.The book discusses international and national social work strategies and practice and investigates the responsibilities for social welfare held by the state, the market and civil society. Hans van Ewijk then elaborates a new ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Human Rights Education

    Theory, Research, Praxis

    by Nancy Flowers ...
    Series series Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
    Over the past seven decades, human rights education has blossomed into a global movement. A field of scholarship that utilizes teaching and learning processes, human rights education addresses basic rights and broadens the respect for the dignity and freedom of all peoples. Since the founding of the United Nations and the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, human rights ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Learning in the Global Era

    International Perspectives on Globalization and Education

    Edited by Marcelo Suarez-Orozco ...
    An international gathering of leading scholars, policymakers, and educators takes on some of the most difficult and controversial issues of our time in this groundbreaking exploration of how globalization is affecting education around the world. The contributors, drawing from innovative research in both the social sciences and the neurosciences, examine the challenges and opportunities now facing ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Political Journalism in Comparative Perspective

    by Erik Albæk, Arjen van Dalen, Nael Jebril, Claes H. de Vreese ...
    Series series Communication, Society and Politics
    Political journalism is often under fire. Conventional wisdom and much scholarly research suggest that journalists are cynics and political pundits. Political news is void of substance and overly focused on strategy and persons. Citizens do not learn from the news, are politically cynical, and are dissatisfied with the media. This book challenges these assumptions, which are often based on single ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Integrity of Governance

    What it is, What we Know, What is Done and Where to go

    by L. Huberts ...
    Series series Governance and Public Management
    In the first book of its kind, Leo Huberts provides a critical synthesis of cutting-edge research on public sector integrity exploring issues such as the definition and importance of public sector integrity, the various methodological approaches to the field as well as considering the causes of for the violation of values associated with integrity. ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Human Rights in Child Protection

    Implications for Professional Practice and Policy

    Edited by Asgeir Falch-Eriksen, Elisabeth Backe-Hansen ...
    This open access book critically explores what child protection policy and professional practice would mean if practice was grounded in human rights standards. This book inspires a new direction in child protection research – one that critically assesses child protection policy and professional practice with regard to human rights in general, and the rights of the child in particular. Each chapter ... Read more

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  • Closing the Gap for Immigrant Students

    Policies, Practice and Performance

    by Collective ...
    OECD has conducted policy reviews of migrant education in Austria, Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden and has examined the migrant education experience in many countries. This book offers comparative data on access, participation and performance of immigrant students and their native peers and identifies a set of policy options based on solid evidence of what works. ... Read more

    $16.99 USD