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Nordic Management-Labour Relations and Internationalization
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Pedagogies for Teaching First-Generation College Students and the Dynamics of Globalized Classrooms
This book examines how higher education institutions positively enhance the learning experiences of first-generation college students. What systems in our communities and world are intentionally or unintentionally producing the realities of first-generation identities, and how can these be upended through a deliberate pedagogical turn? With these questions in mind, this book aims to highlight the relevant and dynamic pedagogical skills and tools that institutions can employ to address the demands of globality and difference in the classroom. Challenging traditional deficit-focused perspectives used to discuss first-generation students, the book highlights alternative strengths-based support methods to improve the experiences and outcomes of first-generation college students. This book will appeal to scholars, researchers, and upper-level students with interests in higher education, cultural studies, philosophy of education, and decolonial studies.
A History of African Higher Education from Antiquity to the Present
This book surveys the history of higher education—principally universities—in Africa. Its geographical coverage encompasses the entire continent, from Afro-Arab Islamic Africa in the north to the former apartheid South Africa in the south, and the historical time span ranges from the Egyptian civilization to the present. Since little has been written on this topic, particularly its historical component, the work fills an important gap in the literature. The book delineates the broad contours of the history of higher education in Africa in exceptional historical breadth, voluminously documenting its subject in the text, detailed footnotes, and lengthy appendices. Its methodological approa...
The Intellectual Appropriation of Technology
This book examines the broad range of social and intellectualresponses to technology in the first four decades of this century, andsuggests that these responses set the terms that continue to governcontemporary debates. Starting around 1900, technology became a lively subject for debate among intellectuals, writers, and other opinion leaders. The expansion of the machine into ever more areas of social and economic life had led to a need to interpret its meanings in a more comprehensive way than in the past. World War I and its aftermath shifted the terms of this ongoing debate by underlining both the potential dangers of technology and its centrality to modern life. This book examines the br...
The Magical Properties of Workshop Learning
Pedagogical theory arising from general education has long dominated discourse in both research and policy-making in education: this is also evident in vocational studies. Today, both locally and internationally, the complex processes of vocational pedagogy play a central role in the discussions. Work-based learning, the master-apprenticeship learning tradition, and the pedagogy of vocations and professions are all important concepts in on-going education policy debates. Contradictions between different learning traditions are clearly evident in vocational pedagogy: learning according to the workshop traditions or learning in the classroom, vocational theory and general theory, learning at school and learning in a work situation. This book is based on research in Norway and examines problems of teaching and learning in relation to vocational curricula of upper secondary schooling, apprentices' experiences and masters thesis-writing in the field of vocational pedagogy. The book also explores the question of vocational education and gender, today and in the past.
Learning from and Teaching Africans
This book brings together stories from the author’s exciting life as a professor, consultant and researcher, mostly in Africa, but also in Japan, New Zealand, Norway and the US. The book is aimed at college students in cross-cultural communication and international education and with a special interest in African countries, their languages, their way of looking at life. It dismantles the myth of the thousands of African languages, and shows that many of them have millions of speakers and all of them are cross-border languages. Africans are not “anglophone”, “francophone” or “lusophone”; they are afrophone. The book also discusses projects that aim at cooperation between universities in the North and the South. Why did two of the projects the author has been involved in succeed so well and a third one fail?
The Ancestors and Descendants of Trond Nilsen and Maren Jonsdatter, who Came from Bamble to Manitowoc
Trond Nilsen, son of Nils Trondsen and Stine Andrea Torsdatter, was born 13 May 1812. He married Maren Jonsdatter (1809-1892), daughter of Jon Andersen and Kristine Isaksdatter 21 December 1838. They had eight children. They emigrated from Bamble, Telemark, Norway to Manitowoc, Wisconsin.
Professionalism and Good Governance in Africa
"This book is about the process of professionalization and the practice of professionalism in African public administration. It approaches the subject matter from theoretical and empirical vintage points, the latter drawing on evidence from West and Southern Africa. "
