Seeking authenticity in place, culture, and the self: The Great urban escape
- Authors: Osbaldiston, Nicholas
- Date: 2012
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Children, Place and Sustainability
- Authors: Somerville, Margaret , Green, Monica
- Date: 2015
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- Description: This book sets out to give close and careful attention to the intimate and often surprising nature of children's sustainability learning in the context of their local places. The authors draw on new materialist and posthuman theory to consider the challenges posed to conventional environmental education by the advent of the new geological era of the Anthropocene and global climate change. Individual chapters explore the role of place and the material world in the development of literacy and language, the contribution of student-led design, arts-based approaches and indigenous knowledges as well as scientific pedagogies to provide unique insights into how children learn in their everyday places. The book is distinctive in its grounding in a range of empirical research studies with children and their teachers about their sustainability learning in a number of different locations in Australia. (From back cover).
Gender, power and management: A cross-cultural analysis of higher education
- Authors: Bagilhole, Barbara , White, Kate
- Date: 2011
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- Relation: Gender, Power and Management: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Higher Education
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- Description: Women are now part of senior management in higher education (HE) to varying degrees in most countries and actively contribute to the vision and strategic direction of universities. This book attempts to analyse their impact and potential impact on both organisational growth and culture. © Barbara Bagilhole and Kate White 2011. Individual chapters, the contributors 2011. All rights reserved.
Public sector organizations and cultural change
- Authors: Bilney, Chris , Pillay, Soma
- Date: 2015
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- Description: Public sector oganizations and cultural change uses a long-term perspective on privatization to explore trends in culture change within the public sector.
The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Thinking in Higher Education
- Authors: Davies, Martin , Barnett, Ronald
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Book
- Relation: The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Thinking in Higher Education
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- Description: The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Thinking in Higher Education provides a single compendium on the nature, function, and applications of critical thinking. This book brings together the work of top researchers on critical thinking worldwide, covering questions of definition, pedagogy, curriculum, assessment, research, policy, and application. © Martin Davies and Ronald Barnett, 2015. All rights reserved.
Generation and gender in academia
- Authors: Bagilhole, Barbara , White, Kate
- Date: 2013
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- Description: The first cross-cultural analysis of the differences in career trajectories and experiences between a senior group of women academics and a younger group who are at early and mid-career stages. Major themes in the autobiographical stories of these women were national context; organisational context; family, class and location; and agency. © Barbara Bagilhole and Kate White 2013. Individual chapters, Respective authors 2013. All rights reserved.
Remittance income and social resilience among migrant households in Rural Bangladesh
- Authors: Sikder, Mohammad , Higgins, Vaughan , Ballis, Harry
- Date: 2017
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- Description: This book examines how migrant remittances contribute to household social resilience in rural Bangladesh. Using a mixed methods approach, the authors show that remittances play a crucial role in enhancing the life chances and economic livelihoods of rural households, and that remittance income enables households to overcome immediate pressures, adapt to economic and environmental change, build economic and cultural capital, and provide greater certainty in planning for the future. However, the book also reveals that the social and economic benefits of remittances are not experienced equally by all households. Rural village households endure a precarious existence and the potentially positive outcomes of remittances can easily be undermined by a range of external and household-specific factors leading to few, if any, benefits in terms of household social resilience. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017. All Rights Reserved.
Development Corruption in South Africa : Governance Matters
- Authors: Pillay, Soma
- Date: 2014
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- Description: Instances of corruption in South Africa are reported on an almost daily basis—there is no scarcity of scandals that illustrate the depth and pervasiveness of this corruption. In the wake of these scandals, awareness has grown about the economic, social, and political costs of corruption, which South Africa cannot afford. With increasing intolerance of these devastating effects, pressure from citizens and financial markets prove the need for a review of good governance matters. Development Corruption in South Africa examines governance matters with a focus on corruption. This rich empirical body on governance variables and governance performance is a welcome addition to South African government literature. Pillay's approach is unique as it improves the gathering, analysing, and disseminating of new data, which is valuable to various stakeholders. This volume analyses governance from a broad analytical framework and includes an analysis of current problems as well as future problems and their causes. Soma Pillay is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Management at Federation University Australia. She teaches across undergraduate and postgraduate programs in the subject areas of organizational behavior, human resource management, organizational management, and international management. Prior to joining academia, Pillay spent many years in the Public Service.
Feminist institutionalism and gendered bureaucracies : forestry governance in Nepal
- Authors: Wagle, Radha , Pillay, Soma , Wright, Wendy
- Date: 2020
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- Relation: Feminist Institutionalism and Gendered Bureaucracies: Forestry Governance in Nepal
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- Description: This book examines the processes for the inclusion of women, and the role of women employees in Nepal’s forestry bureaucracy. The book adopts a “gender lens” drawn from feminist institutionalism and is framed around the following four objectives: evaluating the effectiveness of current legislative and policy frameworks for the inclusion of women in the Nepalese forest bureaucracy; examining the dynamics of organizational culture, formal and informal institutions, and structure and agency in and around forest bureaucracy in Nepal; assessing power relations in forestry institutions focusing on influential participation of women forestry professionals in the bureaucratic structure; and gaining insights about the alternative space of feminist institutionalism in connection with women inclusive forest bureaucracy. Findings in the book inform and extend feminist institutionalism perspectives by applying it to a context which remains under explored, providing insights on the efficacy of public sector cultural change, especially as it relates to those areas within bureaucracies less in a position to adopt the changes mandated by society and principles of good governance. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020.
Deconstructing Youth: Youth discourses at the limits of sense
- Authors: Gabriel, Fleur
- Date: 2013
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- Description: Young people are regularly posited as a threat to social order and Deconstructing Youth explores why. Applying Derridean deconstruction to case studies on youth sexuality, violence and developmental neuroscience, Gabriel offers a fresh perspective on how we might attend to 'youth problems' by recasting the foundations of the concept of 'youth'.
Australian war graves workers and World War One; Devoted labour for the lost the unknown but not forgotten dead
- Authors: Cahir, David (Fred) , Weuffen, Sara , Smith, Matt , Bakker, Peter , Caminiti, Jo
- Date: 2019
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- Description: This book relays the largely untold story of the approximately 1,100 Australian war graves workers whose job it was to locate, identify exhume and rebury the thousands of Australian soldiers who died in Europe during the First World War. It tells the story of the men of the Australian Graves Detachment and the Australian Graves Service who worked in the period 1919 to 1922 to ensure that grieving families in Australia had a physical grave which they could mourn the loss of their loved ones. By presenting biographical vignettes of eight men who undertook this work, the book examines the mechanics of the commemoration of the Great War and extends our understanding of the individual toll this onerous task took on the workers themselves.
Critical perspectives on technology and education
- Authors: Bulfin, Scott , Johnson, Nicola , Bigum, Chris
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Book
- Relation: Digital Education and Learning
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- Description: Critical perspectives on technology and education