Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“barbara piotrowska”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “barbara piotrowska”
Skip side bar filters

  • Street-Level Bureaucracy in Weak State Institutions

    by Abdul-Rahim Mohammed, Barbara Piotrowska, Izabela Szkurlat, Magdalena Szydłowska, Roberto Rocha Coelho Pires, Maria Paula Gomes dos Santos, Beatriz Brandão, Luiza Gomes Luz Rosa, Sergio A. Campos, Taly Reininger, Gianinna Muñoz-Arce, Cristóbal Villalobos, Mitzi Duboy Luengo, Elizabeth Pérez Chiqués, Oliver Meza, Anat Gofen, Elise Massicard, Subodh Wagle, Sneha Swami, Paulina Yunuén Guzmán Linares, Ayesha Masood, Ronan Jacquin ...
    In this book, street-level bureaucracy scholars from South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America analyse the conditions that shape frontline work and citizens´ everyday experience of the state.Institutional factors such as political clientelism, resource scarcity, social inequality, job insecurity, and systemic corruption affect the way street-level bureaucrats enforce rules ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

People who read this also enjoyed

  • Education Policies in the 21st Century

    Comparative Perspectives

    Edited by Birol Akgün, Yusuf Alpaydın ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book explores the agenda of education policies in the 21st century. In the first part of the book, education is handled from a historical and political framework, and the effects of the change of states and policies on education are examined. In the second part, the effects of changes in the economy on education policies and economies’ demands from educational institutions are ... Read more

    Free

  • Implementing Deeper Learning and 21st Century Education Reforms

    Building an Education Renaissance After a Global Pandemic

    Edited by Fernando M. Reimers ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This open access book is a comparative analysis of recent large scale education reforms that broadened curriculum goals to better prepare students for the 21st century. The book examines what governments actually do when they broaden curriculum goals, with attention to the details of implementation. To this end, the book examines system level reforms in six countries at various levels of ... Read more

    Free

  • Impact of Information Society Research in the Global South

    Edited by Arul Chib, Julian May, Roxana Barrantes ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The second volume in the SIRCA book series investigates the impact of information society initiatives by extending the boundaries of academic research into the realm of practice. Global in scope, it includes contributions and research projects from Asia, Africa and Latin America. The international scholarly community has taken a variety of approaches to question the impact of information society ... Read more

    Free

  • Knowledge, Policy and Power in International Development

    A Practical Guide

    by Harry Jones, Nicola A. Jones, Louise Shaxson, David Walker ...
    This book presents an academically rigorous yet practical guide to efforts to understand how knowledge, policy and power interact to promote or prevent change.It offers a power analysis perspective on the knowledge-policy process, illustrated with rich empirical examples from the field of international development, combined with practical guidance on the implications of such an approach. It ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Wiley International Handbook of Educational Leadership

    Edited by Duncan Waite, Ira Bogotch ...
    Series series Wiley Handbooks in Education
    A provocative and authoritative compendium of writings on leadership in education from distinguished scholar-educators worldwide.What is educational leadership? What are some of the trends, questions, and social forces most relevant to the current state of education? What are the possible futures of education, and what can educational leadership contribute to these futures? To address these ... Read more

    $181.00 USD

  • A Handbook of Children and Young People’s Participation

    Conversations for Transformational Change

    Edited by Barry Percy-Smith, Nigel Patrick Thomas, Claire O'Kane, Afua Twum-Danso Imoh ...
    This new edition of A Handbook of Children and Young People’s Participation brings together work from research and practice to reflect on some of the key developments in the field since the first edition published in 2010.Subtitled ‘Conversations for Transformational Change’, the collection focuses on both ongoing and new discourses that enable us to advance thinking and practice to better ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • International Perspectives on Higher Education Admission Policy

    A Reader

    Edited by Virginia Stead ...
    Series Book 1 - Equity in Higher Education Theory, Policy, and Praxis
    The promise of this admission policy reader arises from the embodiment of research from 58 authors, six continents, 20 time zones, 20+ first languages, and a broad array of research methodologies. Four sections aggregate key themes within the text:(1) National Perspectives on Higher Education Admission Policy;(2) Theoretical Approaches to Higher Education Admission Policy;(3) Applicant Recruitment ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Decentralizing Health Services

    A Global Perspective

    Edited by Krishna Regmi ...
    Decentralizing Health ServicesA Global PerspectiveKrishna Regmi, editorCurrent economic, demographic, and environmental shifts are presenting major challenges to health care systems around the world. In response, decentralization--the transfer of control from central to local authorities--is emerging as a successful means of meeting these challenges and reducing inequities of care. But as with ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • The Impact of Covid-19 on the Institutional Fabric of Higher Education

    Old Patterns, New Dynamics, and Changing Rules?

    Edited by Rómulo Pinheiro, Elizabeth Balbachevsky, Pundy Pillay, Akiyoshi Yonezawa ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access book assesses how the Covid-19 pandemic caught higher education systems throughout the world by surprise. It maps out the responses of higher education institutions to the challenges and strategic opportunities brought about by the pandemic, and examines the effects such responses may have. Bringing together scholars and case studies from Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, the ... Read more

    Free

  • The Handbook of International Higher Education

    Edited by Darla K. Deardorff, Hans de Wit, Betty Leask, Harvey Charles ...
    Co-published with AIEAInternational higher education has evolved, in some respects dramatically, in the decade since publication of the first edition of this handbook. The new issues, trends, practices and priorities of research that evolved over this time have in some instances been transformed by one of the most dynamic and tumultuous periods in the history of international higher education, ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Healthy Cities

    The Theory, Policy, and Practice of Value-Based Urban Planning

    Edited by Evelyne de Leeuw, Jean Simos ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This forward-looking resource recasts the concept of healthy cities as not only a safe, pleasant, and green built environment, but also one that creates and sustains health by addressing social, economic, and political conditions. It describes collaborations between city planning and public health creating a contemporary concept of urban governance—a democratically-informed process that embraces ... Read more

    $170.99 USD