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Industrially important fungi for sustainable development.
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ISBN: 3030856038 303085602X Year: 2022 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Springer,


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Institutions and organizations as learning environments for participation and democracy : opportunities, challenges, obstacles
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ISBN: 3031179498 303117948X Year: 2023 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Springer,

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This book discusses opportunities and limitations to democratic participation in institutions and organizations across the life course. It demonstrates that democratic participation is not something that is learned once and for all and applied in formal political settings, but something that is lived every day throughout life in various contexts. Institutions and organizations frame human lives and strongly determine the ability to participate and co-determine their communities. They are places for learning, deliberation and the development of the common good. The book conceptually and empirically analyses the potential of democratic participation within various institutions. The contributions range from early childhood institutions, schools, youth programs, workplaces, and vocational education to cultural organizations and nursing homes for the elderly. The book thereby provides a cross-sectional and interdisciplinary knowledge base to inspire future research and practical efforts to promote democratic participation within and across institutions around the world.


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Community-based Research with Vulnerable Populations : Ethical, Inclusive and Sustainable Frameworks for Knowledge Generation
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ISBN: 9783030864026 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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This book advocates for community-based research with vulnerable populations within the field of higher education. The chapters outline how research can democratize knowledge generation to make it more accessible and socially relevant, and emphasizes the value of the lived and experiential knowledge of vulnerable and marginalized populations. Rooted in a critique of the current practices of higher education that fail to support participatory and transformative research, the research is structured at micro, macro and meso levels to ultimately emancipate colonized thinking of stakeholders about power, privilege and participation. Focusing primarily on various contexts within the Global South, the contributors argue that the time is ripe for community-based research which combines the theoretical knowledge of the academy with the local, experiential knowledge of those experiencing the consequences of social inequality to co-construct knowledge for change. Lesley Wood is Director of Community-Based Educational Research at North-West University, South Africa. A National Research Foundation rated researcher, she has published over 100 articles, books and chapters in the field of action research for lifelong learning and development.


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Equity in STEM Education Research : Advocating for Equitable Attention
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ISBN: 9783031081507 3031081501 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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This book focuses on the creative and transformative work of scholars who are advancing social justice through science/STEM education with limited resources. It draws attention to the significant body of work being conducted in various contexts so that readers could reflect and appreciate how much broader and transformative our impact could be if funding agencies, policy makers, and other researchers would widen their perspective and seek to promote social justice-driven scholarship. Public funding for STEM research on K-12 and teacher education that targets special populations is often limited and tends to favor mainstream research. This book contains case studies on innovative and promising STEM research with a focus on equity, diversity and social justice that are funded with limited or no public funding. It also presents anecdotes from authors in relation to their struggles in either securing funding for their reported study or seeking to publish its findings. This provides more context to the challenges of conducting non-mainstream research in science/STEM education. Most of the contributors are scholars of color and/or women conducting research with traditionally marginalized populations in science/STEM. Thus, this book offers an additional venue to share the voices of marginalized scholars and allies seeking to broaden our understanding of the challenges and successes of promoting equity, diversity, and social justice in various educational contexts.

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