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Continue reading →: Our Commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals
A recent post on The Scholarly Kitchen blog, How Can Scholarly Publishing Overcome Its ‘SDG Inertia’? raises some thought-provoking questions about the scholarly publishing industry’s efforts to support the SDGs and encourages publishers to take stock of their SDG progress. As a signatory of the UN SDG Publishers Compact, we…
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Continue reading →: Bringing Learning to Life: Project-Based and Problem-Based Learning in Business Education
By Georgy Petrov, Janelle Emmert Goodnight and Gary Coombs In an era where business schools are increasingly challenged to demonstrate relevance, impact and graduate employability, the question is no longer what we teach, but how we teach it. Our new book, Project-Based and Problem-Based Learning, published by Edward Elgar, addresses…
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Continue reading →: Book Presentation: India’s High-Tech Leap, Industrial Policy and Future of Innovation
An embedded PDF presentation discussing Sunil Mani’s India’s High-Tech Leap, Industrial Policy and the Future of Innovation.
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Continue reading →: From Autonomy to Ambiguity: Why Law Needs a More Realistic View of the Human Mind
Much of modern law rests on a simple idea about human beings: we are rational, autonomous individuals who make decisions based on information and deliberate choice. But what if this picture of the human being is incomplete?
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Continue reading →: A New Compass: Navigating Through the Many Faces of Inequality in the Global South
The concept of inequality has been evolving over the last few decades, it acquired importance during the 1990s and expanded during the 21st century, with a preeminence in the economic field. From the end of the 20th century to the beginning of the 21st century the study of inequalities was…
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Continue reading →: Why We Must Treat the Leadership Classroom as a Lab for Praxis
There is a persistent, nagging gap in our field that most of us feel but few of us have successfully closed: the space between the high-level theory of the graduate seminar room and the gritty, unpredictable reality of an educational leader’s day-to-day environment. As scholars and practitioners, we’ve often struggled…
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Continue reading →: Mixed Methods Research in a Mixed-Up World of Education
Mixed methods research in education and the social sciences is here to stay, and it is no longer in its infancy. n complimenting Bent Flyvbjerg’s ground-breaking volume Making Social Science Matter (2001)*, Sanford Schram (2012)* commented that, in contrast to the limits of natural science’s practices of testing hypotheses and…
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Continue reading →: Political Environments In Legitimating Assisted Dying Law
This new Research Handbook from Edward Elgar examines the many ways in which health engages human rights law. It also explores current debates which challenge traditional perspectives of rights and identifies potential new directions in which human rights law might venture. Elizabeth Wicks and Nataly Papadopoulou bring together renowned experts…
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Continue reading →: We Were Never Global: Rethinking Norms Beyond Western Universalism
We Were Never Global: Rethinking Norms Beyond Western Universalism. By Adam Fejerskov, Lars Engberg Pedersen, Meron Zeleke, and Dereje Feyissa
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Continue reading →: Beneath the Buzzword of “Interaction”
We talk about “interaction” as if it were self-evident — something everyone needs more of, something that can be improved, managed, or taught. In this blog, Melisa Stevanovic explores what lies beneath that comforting word: the fragile, complex process through which people build understanding and hold the social world together.
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