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“Attending lectures in your pyjamas”: student agency in constrained circumstances
COVID-19 forced the digitalisation of teaching and learning in a response often described as emergency remote teaching (ERT). This rapid response...
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“Faced with Given Circumstances”: A Localized Context of Use Approach
The following chapter presents a case study from a graduate-level course in non-instructional interventions where students were challenged to address...
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Local community development and higher education institutions: Moving from the triple helix to the quadruple helix model
This article examines issues of local community development in Rwanda, building on the triple helix model proposed by Henry Etzkowitz and Loet...
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The Association Between Adverse Socio-economic Circumstances and Cognitive Development Within an International Context
This chapter discusses evidence from the iPIPS and PIPS projects that highlight the detrimental impact of factors associated with low socio-economic...
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Governance reform of local university under the “Double World-Class” policy: are there unintended but not unanticipated consequences?
Adoption of the “Double World-Class” policy in China has led to substantial changes in the country’s higher education governance system. Thus, to...
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The German Context: School Turnaround in Ten Schools in Difficult Circumstances: The Need for Adaptive and Contextualized Approaches to Development and Change
In this chapter, we report on the research findings from a school development project which took place in a large city in Germany over a period of...
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COVID-19 and Well-Being of Non-local Students: Implications for International Higher Education Governance
Non-local students have been one of the worst affected groups during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of them live in foreign countries/regions with...
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Health-Related Well-Being of Non-local/International Students During and Beyond COVID-19
This chapter extends the literature on the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic had on the international higher education sector by examining some...
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Early childhood education in Africa: Between overambitious global objectives, the need to reflect local interests, and educational choices
The African continent represents the part of the world where early childhood care and education (ECCE) preceding primary schooling is the least...
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Corroborating a sorting task measure of individual and of local collective knowledge structure
This experimental investigation seeks to corroborate a knowledge structure sorting task approach as a measure to more fully account for prior...
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New Pathways of Rural Education in China Dynamic Changes of Small Schools
This book summarizes and explores the development model and path of rural education in China, while also describing how small-scale schools can...
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Forest Fires, Animal Sacrifices, and School Garden: Local Contexts at the Intersection of Sustainability and Implemented Science Curriculum in Indonesia
The aim of this chapter is to introduce literature review and case studies about how a local context is at the intersection between sustainability...
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Local English Teacher Identities in a Globalized Economy
In many countries where English is the first foreign language in state educational systems, teachers of English are on the front line as governments...
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Emergency Financial Management: Purposes and Effects of State Takeovers of Local School Districts in Michigan, 2009–2018
Equitable education policy must be directed toward improving the quality of education for all children. Efforts to establish equity often meet with...
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On the Cultural Connotation Construction of the Transformation and Development of Local Undergraduate Universities
University culture is the foundation and soul for the survival and development of universities. The current transformation of universities is...
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Representations of student performance data in local education policy
The use of data for governance purposes has been widely recognised as a way for national authorities to coordinate their activities across...
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Exploring Teacher Professional Identity and Agency in Local, National and Global Policy Contexts
TeachersTeacher’ professional lives are situated at the intersection of local, national and global educational policyPolicy contexts. What they...
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100 years of Volkshochschule in Germany – 50 years of DVV International: Signposts for local and global comparative perspectives on adult learning and education
In 2019, German folk high schools – Volkshochschulen (vhs) – celebrated the centenary of their inclusion in the Constitution of the Weimar Republic...
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Understanding postgraduate students’ perceptions of plagiarism: a case study of Vietnamese and local students in New Zealand
Despite increasing scholarly interest in tertiary student perceptions of plagiarism, very little is known about those held by postgraduate (PG)...
