Author: International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher: IDRC
ISBN: 0889368937
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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In communications, health care, and economics, events, discoveries, and decisions that originate beyond national borders today routinely influence national policies and practices. But how are our system of education, and particularly our universities, affected by globalization? A New World of Knowledge examines how globalization has obliged universities in Canada to reassess and rethink the international dimension of their mission and practice. All now include an international dimension in their mission statement. Is this a true statement of educational principles? Or is it simply a marketing message intended to position the university to cope with budget reductions through the sale of educational services? A New World of Knowledge looks at the important role that Canadian universities have played in shaping Canada's response to the problems of international development. It provides the historical backdrop and level of analysis needed to properly inform choices for the future of higher education in Canada and abroad. The book will interest teachers and administrators in institutions of higher education, especially in international affairs and educational studies; practitioners in organizations that depend on university linkages (such as in NGOs and research-granting organizations); government officials in the education sector; and students looking for an international education.
Author: B. J. Sokol
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838639252
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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This study of an extraordinary work of dramatic literature also addresses questions of the nature and dissemination of the scientific revolution. These facets are locked together: although the book does not deny that 'The Tempest' had deep roots in classical literature and elsewhere, it maintains that the play's remarkable dramaturgy and symbolism reflect subtle matters uniquely pertinet to its own fascinating time. A 'Brave New World of Knowledge' uncovers a number of previously little-appreciated connections of 'The Tempest' with specific problems or advances of knowledge, thus showing that the play reflected innovative proto-scientific modes of confronting the physical, biological, and human realms. It also argues that Shakespeare's play mirrored a new tendency to repudiate earlier Renaissance dreams of achieving omniscience and omnipotence. The play reflected a newer hope for knowledge based on speculative boldness linked with close observation, rational and sober precision, and a radical capacity to accept limitation and not-knowing.
Author: Joyce Appleby
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393239519
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Recounts the triumphs and mishaps of Columbus and other explorers, following the naturalists--both famous and obscure--whose investigations of the world's fauna and flora fueled the rise of science and technology that propelled Western Europe towards modernity.
Author: Eugene Clute
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Category : Architectural drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Vol. 1-7, 9-10 include Proceedings of the High School Principals Conference, 1923-1929; v. 1-7, 9-18 include Proceedings of the Conference on Educational Measurements 1924-1930, 1932-1942.
Author: James Harvey Robinson
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Category : Learning and scholarship
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Author: George Edward Woodberry
Publisher: Books for Libraries
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Author: Theodore Compton
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Languages : en
Pages : 246
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Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 732
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