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Off Book Devised Performance and Higher Education


Free Download Off Book: Devised Performance and Higher Education by Heather Fitzsimmons Frey, Nicola Hyland, James McKinnon
English | March 7, 2024 | ISBN: 1789384982 | 272 pages | PDF | 5.09 Mb
An edited collection of essays exploring ways that theatrical devising supports and defies higher education’s institutional goals.

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Measuring Inclusion Higher profits and happier people, without guesswork or backlash


Free Download Measuring Inclusion: Higher profits and happier people, without guesswork or backlash by Paolo Gaudiano
English | September 24, 2024 | ISBN: 178860606X | 200 pages | PDF | 9.36 Mb
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is under fire, but attracting and retaining talent is more important than ever. This book introduces an entirely new approach to DEI, showing how and why measuring inclusion is the key for organizations to enjoy higher performance and greater employee satisfaction, without causing any backlash.

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Higher Education in a Global Society


Free Download D. Bruce Johnstone, Madeleine B. d’Ambrosio, Paul J. Yakoboski, "Higher Education in a Global Society"
English | 2010 | pages: 245 | ISBN: 1848447523 | PDF | 1,6 mb
Higher education functions in a global environment of consumers, employees, competitors, and partners. It has been a force for globalization and a model for adaptation, but nonetheless faces challenges. This volume of essays examines emerging issues and opportunities for advancing education across borders.

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The Emergence of the Fourth Dimension Higher Spatial Thinking in the Fin de Siecle


Free Download Mark Blacklock, "The Emergence of the Fourth Dimension: Higher Spatial Thinking in the Fin de Siecle"
English | ISBN: 0198755481 | 2018 | 246 pages | EPUB | 679 KB
The Emergence of the Fourth Dimension describes the development and proliferation of the idea of higher dimensional space in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries. An idea from mathematics that was appropriated by occultist thought, it emerged in the fin de siecle as a staple of genre fiction and influenced a number of important Modernist writers and artists.

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Higher Education and Innovation


Free Download Vincenzo Sapienza, "Higher Education and Innovation"
English | ISBN: 3039437127 | 2021 | 270 pages | PDF | 149 MB
This book highlights the design of an educational module for an innovative intensive program. The theme is very relevant in the contemporary approach to teaching activities. In fact, thanks to the didactic design, it is possible to obtain a strong relationship between teachers and learners, as required by the Bologna Process. It also allows a stronger definition of learning outcomes.

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From Higher Aims to Hired Hands


Free Download Rakesh Khurana, "From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession"
English | 2007 | pages: 542 | ISBN: 069112020X | PDF | 2,1 mb
Is management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This major work of social and intellectual history reveals how such questions have driven business education and shaped American management and society for more than a century. The book is also a call for reform. Rakesh Khurana shows that university-based business schools were founded to train a professional class of managers in the mold of doctors and lawyers but have effectively retreated from that goal, leaving a gaping moral hole at the center of business education and perhaps in management itself.

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Conflict Management and Dialogue in Higher Education


Free Download Nance T Algert, Carla Liau-Hing Yep, Kenita S. Rogers, "Conflict Management and Dialogue in Higher Education"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1648023061, 164802307X | PDF | pages: 228 | 7.0 mb
Conflict management is an overlooked area in leadership development. Mediation as an intervention method to use in conflict management can be productive for building leadership capacity and organizational development in higher education. Adults average five conflicts per day and people in titled leadership spend over two-thirds of their time engaged in managing conflict. This book offers conflict management strategies, models, and processes to support college and university personnel in recognizing and managing conflicts and how to build skill sets that can enhance effective communication and address issues strategically.

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