"Actors and institutions in localities and regions across the world are seeking prosperity and wellbeing amidst tumultuous and disruptive shifts and transitions: an increasingly globalised, knowledge-intensive capitalism; global financial instability, volatility and crisis; conc…
"Growing international trade has helped lift living standards around the world, and yet free trade is always under attack. Critics complain that trade forces painful economic adjustments, such as plant closings and layoffs of workers, and charge that the World Trade Organization…
The paradox of a global USA
This book analyses discourses of effective learning environments globally. It focuses on the students' cultural identity and academic achievement, the significance of cultural and social capital to students' academic achievement, motivational strategies enhancing engagement and …