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      This open access book provides an in-depth examination of Japan's policy responses to the economic challenges of the 1980s and '90s. While MITI's earlier role in promoting rapid growth has been addressed in other studies, ...
    • Ní Léime, Áine; Ogg, Jim; Rašticová, Martina; Street, Debra; Krekula, Clary; Bédiová, Monika; Madero-Cabib, Ignacio (2020)
      This open access book addresses the current debate on extended working life policy by considering the influence of gender and health on the experiences of older workers. Bringing together an international team of scholars, ...
    • Hosono, Akio; Page, John; Shimada, Go (2020)
      This open access book provides a glimpse into the Japanese management technique known as “Kaizen,” and the ways it has been disseminated around the developing world. The novelty of this book is three-fold: it provides a ...
    • Akram, Tanweer; Rashid, Salim (2020)
      This open access book seeks to foster a multidisciplinary understanding of the ties between faith, financial intermediation, and economic progress by drawing on research across economics, finance, history, philosophy, ...
    • Hafner, Manfred; Tagliapietra, Simone (2020)
      The world is currently undergoing an historic energy transition, driven by increasingly stringent decarbonisation policies and rapid advances in low-carbon technologies. The large-scale shift to low-carbon energy is ...
    • Burgos, Daniel (2020)
      This open access book presents how Open Science is a powerful tool to boost Higher Education. The book introduces the reader into Open Access, Open Technology, Open Data, Open Research results, Open Licensing, Open ...
    • Hadjichambis, Andreas Ch.; Reis, Pedro; Paraskeva-Hadjichambi, Demetra; Činčera, Jan; Boeve-de Pauw, Jelle; Gericke, Niklas; Knippels, Marie-Christine (2020)
      This Open Access book is about the development of a common understanding of environmental citizenship. It conceptualizes and frames environmental citizenship taking an educational perspective. Organized in four complementary ...
    • Orr, Dominic; Luebcke, Maren; Schmidt, J. Philipp; Ebner, Markus; Wannemacher, Klaus; Ebner, Martin; Dohmen, Dieter (2020)
      This open access Springer Brief provides a systematic analysis of current trends and requirements in the areas of knowledge and competence in the context of the project “(A) Higher Education Digital (AHEAD)—International ...
    • Frawley, Jack; Russell, Gabrielle; Sherwood, Juanita (2020)
      This open access book explores cultural competence in the higher education sector from multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary perspectives. It addresses cultural competence in terms of leadership and the role of the ...
    • Frawley, Jack; Nguyen, Tran; Sarian, Emma (2020)
      This open access book explores the transformative experiences of participants in the University of Sydney’s National Centre for Cultural Competence (NCCC) programs. The establishment of the NCCC was viewed as a critical ...
    • Hedegaard, Mariane; Eriksen Ødegaard, Elin (2020)
      This open access book examines the educational conditions that support cultures of exploration in kindergartens. It conceptualises cultures of exploration, whether those cultures are created through children’s own engagement ...
    • Fraillon, Julian; Ainley, John; Schulz, Wolfram; Friedman, Tim; Duckworth, Daniel (2020)
      This Open Access book summarizes the key findings from the second cycle of IEA’s International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS), conducted in 2018. ICILS seeks to establish how well schools around the globe ...
    • Fan, Guorui; Popkewitz, Thomas S. (2020)
      This open access handbook brings together the latest research from a wide range of internationally influential scholars to analyze educational policy research from international, historical and interdisciplinary perspectives. ...
    • Fan, Guorui; Popkewitz, Thomas S. (2020)
      This open access handbook brings together the latest research from a wide range of internationally influential scholars to analyze educational policy research from international, historical and interdisciplinary perspectives. ...
    • Grant, Thomas D.; Wischik, Damon J. (2020)
      This open access book explores machine learning and its impact on how we make sense of the world. It does so by bringing together two ‘revolutions’ in a surprising analogy: the revolution of machine learning, which has ...
    • Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Trappe, Heike (2020)
      This open access book assembles landmark studies on divorce and separation in European countries, and how this affects the life of parents and children. It focuses on four major areas of post-separation lives, namely (1) ...
    • Alford, William P.; Liao, Mei; Cui, Fengming (2020)
      This open access book is unique in presenting the first oral history of individuals with an intellectual disability and their families in China. In this summary volume and the two accompanying volumes that follow, individuals ...
    • Alford, William P.; Liao, Mei; Cui, Fengming (2020)
      This open access book contains the oral histories that were inspired by the work of the Special Olympics in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of its founding. The foreword and prefatory materials provide an overview ...
    • Alford, William P.; Liao, Mei; Cui, Fengming (2020)
      This open access book brings together oral histories that record the experiences of individuals with intellectual disabilities in Shanghai as they participate in their careers. Employees with intellectual disabilities ...