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25 Years of Transformations of Higher Education Systems in Post-Soviet Countries : Reform and Continuity
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ISBN: 3319529803 331952979X Year: 2018 Publisher: Cham : Springer Open,

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This open access book is a result of the first ever study of the transformations of the higher education institutional landscape in fifteen former USSR countries after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It explores how the single Soviet model that developed across the vast and diverse territory of the Soviet Union over several decades has evolved into fifteen unique national systems, systems that have responded to national and global developments while still bearing some traces of the past. The book is distinctive as it presents a comprehensive analysis of the reforms and transformations in the region in the last 25 years; and it focuses on institutional landscape through the evolution of the institutional types established and developed in Pre-Soviet, Soviet and Post-Soviet time. It also embraces all fifteen countries of the former USSR, and provides a comparative analysis of transformations of institutional landscape across Post-Soviet systems. It will be highly relevant for students and researchers in the fields of higher education and and sociology, particularly those with an interest in historical and comparative studies.


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Mélanges de l'Université Saint-Joseph.
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ISSN: 26628295 Year: 1906 Publisher: Beyrouth, Syrie : Universite St. Joseph. Faculte Orientale,


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Higher teaching and learning for alternative futures : a renewed focus on critical praxis
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ISBN: 3030754294 3030754286 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Springer,


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Making the sustainable university : trials and tribulations
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ISBN: 9813344776 9813344768 Year: 2021 Publisher: Singapore : Springer,

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This book documents strategies for universities engaging sustainability challenges through the education of global citizens on topics such as climate change, habitat alteration, species loss, resource depletion and contamination, food access and sovereignty, economic equity, and energy use. Different disciplines and operational units often have disparate ideas in mind when they work toward advancing sustainability. For example, some disciplines focus on environmental challenges (identifying impacts to ecosystems, mitigation and remediation strategies), some on greening of industrial and commercial practices while others address social equity—often there is little effort to connect these pieces especially while considering economic impacts. This book examines how Florida Gulf Coast University has attempted to infuse sustainability across curricula and operations as an integrated concept and our successes and shortcomings are instructional for sustainability practitioners on college campuses and other industries in a wide audience.


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The university becoming : perspectives from philosophy and social theory
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ISBN: 3030696286 3030696278 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Springer,


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Empowerment for Teaching Excellence Through Virtuous Agency
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ISBN: 3030825116 3030825108 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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This books offers new ways to think about teaching excellence in higher education and presents a definition of the concept of teaching excellence. It offers a fresh interpretation of Boyer’s famous account of scholarship as the foundation of university teaching. To fully understand the nature of teaching excellence in higher education, the book gives an account of the various dimensions of the domain of university teaching and the core drivers required to bring those domains to life. The idea of empowerment underlies the journey to excellence in teaching. The book argues that university lecturers aspiring to become excellent should be active agents, strongly pursuing the development of their perfectible abilities required for high quality teaching. The work draws on recent developments in virtue theory to set out the qualities of character requisite for guiding and driving university lecturers to grow and develop into excellent teachers.

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