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6 produkter
6 produkter
U.S. Development Policy in an Aging World
New Challenges and New Priorities for a New Demographic Era
E-bok
Engelska, 2013756 kr
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The demographic transformation sweeping the emerging world has profound implications for U.S. development policy. The challenge is no longer helping countries overcome the obstacles to development posed by high birthrates and rapid population growth, but leveraging the opportunities created by falling birthrates and slowing population growth. This report discusses how developing countries can best leverage their “demographic dividends” in order to boost income and wealth while they are still young and growing, as well as how they can prepare for the inevitable aging of their populations that looms just over the horizon. It also explores what the emerging new demographic realities imply for the optimal shape of U.S. development policy in decades to come.
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
840 kr
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The world stands on the threshold of a stunning demographic transformation. Over the next few decades, global aging will affect everything from the shape of the family to the shape of the geopolitical order. Perhaps most fatefully, it could throw into question the ability of societies to provide a decent standard of living for the old without imposing a crushing burden on the young. Which countries are most prepared to meet the challenge? And which countries are least prepared? CSIS’s Global Aging Preparedness Index, now available in a second thoroughly updated edition, provides the only comprehensive quantitative assessment of the progress that countries worldwide are making in preparing for global aging, and especially the old-age dependency dimension of the challenge.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
1 471 kr
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This book explores how universities as organizations influence and construct the production of academic elites and elitist institutions. It analyzes the role played by the reorganization of higher education (HE) institutions, stimulated by new performance-based narratives aimed at building attractiveness towards stakeholders such as governments, prospective employers, academics, and students. Based on American, European, and Asian case studies of HE systems and institutions considered at various scales, the volume analyzes the consequences of increasing competition between HE institutions which are facing challenges such as the internationalization of higher education supply, the shortage of public resources and the structural changes of labor market demands. It argues that policy discourses and tools, as well as assessment devices such as rankings and accreditation, incentivize HE institutions to develop positioning strategies that contribute to stratification and the production ofelites. It will be of great interest to students and researchers in the fields of higher education, sociology, and education policy.
E-bok
Engelska, 20171 377 kr
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This book explores how universities as organizations influence and construct the production of academic elites and elitist institutions. It analyzes the role played by the reorganization of higher education (HE) institutions, stimulated by new performance-based narratives aimed at building attractiveness towards stakeholders such as governments, prospective employers, academics, and students. Based on American, European, and Asian case studies of HE systems and institutions considered at various scales, the volume analyzes the consequences of increasing competition between HE institutions which are facing challenges such as the internationalization of higher education supply, the shortage of public resources and the structural changes of labor market demands. It argues that policy discourses and tools, as well as assessment devices such as rankings and accreditation, incentivize HE institutions to develop positioning strategies that contribute to stratification and the production ofelites. It will be of great interest to students and researchers in the fields of higher education, sociology, and education policy.
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
1 053 kr
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This book explores how universities as organizations influence and construct the production of academic elites and elitist institutions. It analyzes the role played by the reorganization of higher education (HE) institutions, stimulated by new performance-based narratives aimed at building attractiveness towards stakeholders such as governments, prospective employers, academics, and students. Based on American, European, and Asian case studies of HE systems and institutions considered at various scales, the volume analyzes the consequences of increasing competition between HE institutions which are facing challenges such as the internationalization of higher education supply, the shortage of public resources and the structural changes of labor market demands. It argues that policy discourses and tools, as well as assessment devices such as rankings and accreditation, incentivize HE institutions to develop positioning strategies that contribute to stratification and the production ofelites. It will be of great interest to students and researchers in the fields of higher education, sociology, and education policy.
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PDF, Tyska, 2020285 kr
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In akademischen Kontexten zirkulieren heute multiple Vorstellungen von geistiger Exzellenz und Begabtenförderungswürdigkeit, von Brillanz, Innovation und Herausragendem. Sie spiegeln sich in der omnipräsenten Rede von "Elite-, Prestige- und Exzellenzuniversitäten", von "Exzellenzinitiativen, -clustern und -strategien" sowie "Spitzen- und Höhenkammforschung" und vom "Zukunftskonzept" wider. Das Streben nach Exzellenz hat die Positionierung und Wahrnehmung der bundesrepublikanischen Universitäten in Bewegung gebracht.Es ist Zeit für eine selbstkritische Reflexion und Evaluation neuerer politischer Entwicklungen im deutschen Hochschulsystem. Denn was suggeriert das exzellenzorientierte Sprechen in Superlativen, das bereits eineinhalb Dekaden andauert? Und: Auf welchen wissenschafts- und kulturhistorischen Vorläufern fußen die Exzellenzierungsrhetoriken und der Hang zur Selbstidealisierung?Im Geniekult der europäischen Moderne, wie er sich fachübergreifend um 1900 zeigte, avancierte das "Genie" zu einer heftig umstrittenen Wissensfigur. Sie übernahm vielfältige symbolische, quasi-religiöse, epistemologische und wissenschaftspolitische Funktionen. Zum Beispiel sollten mit ihrer Hilfe das religiöse Vakuum gefüllt und antifeministische und antisemitische Ideen vermittelt werden.Die multidisziplinär analysierenden Beitragenden des Bandes diskutieren das seit der Antike debattierte ''Genieproblem'': zum einen entlang Fragen der Geniebiographik und "genialen Manie", der Geschichte von Begabtenpsychologie, Persönlichkeitsforschung und Züchtungsphantasien, der Forschungsuniversitäten im Verbund mit nationalökonomischen Interessen, der Geniereligiösität und Doppelgängergestalt sowie weiblicher Genialität. Erkundet wird zum anderen der diachrone Bezug zur zeitgenössischen Spannung zwischen herausragenden Einzelforscher*innen und Wissenschaftskollektiven im Rahmen von Exzellenzierungsbestrebungen.