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Este volumen reúne 23 ensayos (uno introductorio general y 22 temáticos) escritos por 30 autores que abordan desde distintas perspectivas y en diversos registros textuales (desde el ensayo libre hasta un formato próximo al artículo académico) problemas centrales de la educación peruana contemporánea con un propósito común: sugerir vías para introducir modificaciones sustantivas que permitan, por un lado, sostener las mejoras observadas en...
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Este libro es el resultado de un trabajo mancomunado de reflexiones e investigaciones entre docentes expertos nacionales e internacionales y tesistas que se plantean resultados de las innovaciones educativas, en el contexto de nuevas miradas y experiencias que permean la pedagogía en los albores del siglo XXI, y son el resultado de un continuo proceso reflexivo centrado en la pedagogía que tematiza la educación y que a su vez acopia multiplicidad...
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This book is aimed at engineering academics worldwide, who are attempting to bring social justice into their work and practice, or who would like to but don't know where to start. This is the first book dedicated specifically to University professionals on Engineering and Social Justice, an emerging and exciting area of research and practice. An international team of multidisciplinary authors share their insights and invite and inspire us to reformulate...
4) Media, Religion, History, Culture: Selected Essays from the 4th Elon University Media and Religio
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This volume contains papers presented at the fourth Elon University Media and Religion Conference held at Elon University, April 13, 2013
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This book aims to enhance the General Knowledge of all its readers, particularly the student fraternity and is an honest effort towards covering all genres of general awareness that may come handy for candidates of various competitive examinations. Topics Covered: Physical and World Geography, Geography of India, World History, History of India, Indian Polity and Governance, Indian Economy, International Organizations, National Insignia and Symbols,...
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Universities are increasingly taking an active role as research collaborators with citizens, public bodies, and community organizations but they, their funders and institutions struggle to articulate the value of this work. This book addresses the key challenges in collaborative research in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
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Edited by Shawn Cole, Iqbal Dhaliwal, Anja Sautmann, and Lars Vilhuber. The Handbook on Using Administrative Data for Research and Evidence-based Policy offers guidance for researchers, data providers, and decision-makers using administrative data to evaluate programs and inform policy. Administrative data has become more and more prevalent, and when combined with experiments, has the potential to change the future of research. This Handbook offers...
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Reading Across the Disciplines offers a collection of twelve essays detailing a range of approaches to dealing with students' reading needs at the college level. Transforming reading in higher education requires more than individual faculty members working on SoTL projects in their particular fields. Teachers need to consider reading across the disciplines.
In this collection, authors from Australia and North America, teaching in a variety of disciplines,...
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This international, edited collection brings together personal accounts from researchers working in and on conflict and explores the roles of emotion, violence, uncertainty, identity and positionality within the process of doing research, as well as the complexity of methodological choices. It highlights the researchers' own subjectivity and presents a nuanced view of conflict research that goes beyond the 'messiness' inherent in the process of research...
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Comparing Ethnographies presents cross-national comparisons that give researchers and students a fresh look at familiar concepts. How does it matter, for example, to think in terms of "majorities" rather than "minorities, "migrants" rather than "immigrants, or "intercultural education" rather than "multicultural education"? How does indigenous education or the work of teachers look different to ethnographers from different countries of the Americas?...
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Gobierno y dirección universitaria en Colombia es un libro resultado de un proceso de investigación, y se compone de cinco (5) capítulos. En los primeros tres (3) se presentan los resultados de las etapas de la investigación relacionadas con el análisis de literatura y la construcción de distintos estados del arte, mientras que en los dos (2) últimos capítulos, basados en métodos cualitativos, se presentan los resultados de las indagaciones...
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This text, first published in 2006, presents the most important and influential social psychological theories and research programs in contemporary sociology. Original chapters by the scholars who initiated and developed these theoretical perspectives provide full descriptions of each theory and its background, development, and future. This second edition has been revised and updated to reflect developments within each theory, and in the field of...
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Many people who enjoy animals, or are interested in animals, are naturally drawn to the veterinary arts. Many of these people do not want to go through the full schooling to become a veterinarian; however, they may never know that the veterinary assistant position is even an option. A pamphlet explaining the position of a veterinary assistant which lists in detail what a veterinary assistant responsibilities were, would open up many people's eyes...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica is a well-known general encyclopedia that has been published since the 18th century. There were 15 print editions; the current edition is electronic.
Encyclopaedia Britannica was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication.
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En mayo del 2019 se llevó a cabo el Congreso Internacional de Derecho Corporativo organizado por la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Lima, evento que contó con la presencia de destacados ponentes nacionales e internacionales, con amplia experiencia y trayectoria, que expusieron los últimos avances en materia de las distintas áreas transversales al derecho corporativo.
Hoy, la Universidad de Lima se complace en presentar la compilación...
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La investigación en Ciencias Sociales: estrategias de investigación presenta de forma comprensiva las aproximaciones metodológicas más comunes de las que se valen los investigadores de las ciencias sociales para aproximarse a sus preguntas de investigación y desarrollar sus proyectos. Además de presentar las principales técnicas de muestreo para los diferentes tipos de estudio, las estrategias se presentan como modelos a seguir al integrar...
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Touch may well be one of the least understood or talked about subjects in the helping professions. A discussion on the importance and ethics of positive, caring, and appropriate touch in professions such as teaching, nursing and counselling is long overdue. Touch in the Helping Professions delivers just that, weaving together scholarly evidence, research and clinical practice from a wide range of perspectives encompassing philosophy, theology, psychology,...
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Summary of Invisible Influence by Jonah Berger | Includes Analysis Preview: Invisible Influence by Jonah Berger is a close examination of the psychology behind behavioral decisions related to identity and branding. Many decisions that the average person makes every day are deeply impacted by factors of which they are seldom aware. A person is likely to understand that others are influenced by suggestion but unlikely to recognize when the same factors...
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A survey of exemplary SoTL research projects and the use of their results on a broader scale.
When the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) emerged, it often concentrated on individual faculty practice in one classroom, it is now, however, increasingly common to find work in SoTL focused more broadly. SoTL studies may engage with a cluster of courses, a program, a particular population of students, a pedagogical approach, or a field-all of...
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