Higher Education and Job Employability / / edited by Betsy Ng
| Higher Education and Job Employability / / edited by Betsy Ng |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2022.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (296 pages) |
| Disciplina |
650.14
378.5 |
| Collana | Knowledge Studies in Higher Education |
| Soggetto topico |
Education, Higher
Professional education Vocational education Maturation (Psychology) Industrial sociology Education and state Higher Education Professional and Vocational Education Personal Development Sociology of Work Educational Policy and Politics Educació superior Llicenciats universitaris Ocupació |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Llibres electrònics |
| ISBN |
9783031057168
9783031057151 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Chapter 1: Current status of higher education research in work readiness and job employability -- Section I: Importance of Higher Education on Work Readiness -- Chapter 2: Preparing Graduates for Future Workplace: Development and Validation of Work Readiness Assessment Inventory (WRAI) -- Chapter 3: Graduate Attributes of Singapore University Students: Perspectives of Singapore Universities and International Employers -- Chapter 4: Key attributes of work readiness: Perspectives from employers, university students and instructors -- Chapter 5: From School Success to Work Readiness: Motivational and Cognitive factors predicting Work- Ready Attributes -- Chapter 6: Developing an entrepreneurial competence framework for tertiary arts education through a Delphi method – A Chinese perspective -- Chapter 7: Empirical Development and Verification of the Taiwanese Career Decision Scale for Undergraduate Students: Implications for Career Counselling -- Section II: Job Employability and Outcomes -- Chapter 8: Employability and Employment: The Role of Higher Education in a Rapidly Changing World -- Chapter 9: From Lifelong Learning to Lifelong Employability: How SkillsFuture has Re-conceptualised Higher Education for the Future of Work -- Chapter 10: Does Empowerment Matter? Promoting Employee’s Job Satisfaction, Creativity and Learning Commitment for Lifelong Employability -- Chapter 11: Navigating the home labour market: Multifaceted stories of Vietnamese returnees -- Chapter 12: Pursuing Continuing Education Courses to Promote Employability: Importance of Perceived Support and Growth Mindset -- Chapter 13: Graduate resilience in future workplace: Mindfulness-based research on personality traits, trait affect and resilience -- Conclusion -- Chapter 14: Future directions: Importance of higher education on work readiness and job employability. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910580148803321 |
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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In foreign lands, the migration of scientists for political or economic reasons / / edited by Maria Teresa Borgato and Christine Phili
| In foreign lands, the migration of scientists for political or economic reasons / / edited by Maria Teresa Borgato and Christine Phili |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (405 pages) |
| Disciplina | 331.62 |
| Collana | Trends in the History of Science |
| Soggetto topico |
Employment in foreign countries
Ocupació Mobilitat geogràfica dels treballadors Treball a l'estranger Científics Matemàtics Condicions econòmiques |
| Soggetto genere / forma |
Congressos
Llibres electrònics |
| ISBN | 3-030-80249-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Introduction -- Contents -- 1 Leonhard Euler in St. Petersburg and Berlin -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Situation in Basel -- 3 Euler's First Stay in St. Petersburg -- 4 Euler's Stay in Berlin -- 5 Euler's Second Stay in St. Petersburg -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- 2 Lagrange's Mathematical Life in Berlin and Paris. A Reappraisal -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 From Turin to Berlin -- 3 Lagrange at the Academy of Berlin -- 4 The Prussian Widows' Pension Fund and the Conflict with the Minister -- 5 Leaving Berlin for Paris -- 6 Lagrange in Paris. Collaboration with Political Authorities -- 7 Conclusions -- Aknowledgements -- Appendix. Lagrange at the Berlin Academy -- Archiv der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften -- References -- 3 The Delisle Brothers in Russia: Victims of Historiography and Scurvy -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Early Russian Discoveries in the Pacific -- 3 The Infernal Question -- 4 The Mysterious Lands on the Maps of the North Pacific -- 5 The First Kamchatka Expedition of Bering -- 6 The Second Kamchatka Expedition (1733-1743): the Delisle Map -- 7 In Search of Mysterious Lands: Losses and Discoveries -- 8 The Disastrous Ecological Setbacks of the Discovery -- 9 Back to Delisle's Maps -- 10 Delisle's Provocation -- 11 Secrecy as a Double-Edged Sword… -- 12 The Russian Reaction -- 13 Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- 4 A Corfiot Scientist in the Russian Empire: The Case of Nikephoros Theotokis (1731-1800) -- Abstract -- 1 His First Steps in Italy (1749-1752) -- 2 Returning to Corfu -- 3 The Voyage to Constantinople and the Directorship at the Iassy Academy -- 4 Leipzig-Constantinople-Vienna -- 5 Russia: His New Destiny -- 6 Theotokis's Mathematical Treatise Edited in Moscow -- 7 Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 5 Boscovich and the Matter of the Mediterranean Harbours -- Abstract.
1 Introduction -- 2 Boscovich's Journey in the Papal State (1750-1752) and His First Commissions Concerning Waters -- 3 Boscovich's Travels Around Europe (1759-1762) -- 4 The Year 1764: From Rome to Pavia -- 5 Boscovich's Return to Practical Hydraulics -- 6 Boscovich's Research in Paris -- 7 Boscovich's Project for the Nuovo Ozzeri (1782) and His Return to Italy -- 8 Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 6 An Enlightened Expert on the Movement and Globalization of Civil Engineering: Augustin Betancourt (1756-1824) -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Universe of Travels: Modalities, Temporalities, Causalities -- 3 The Expert at Work, or the Rise of Technical Expertise in Russia -- 4 Social Network and the Construction of an Expert Authority -- 5 Some Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- 7 The Migration of Italian Mathematicians Between the 18th and 19th Centuries -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Républiques Soeurs -- 3 Giambattista Venturi (1746-1822) -- 4 Lorenzo Mascheroni (1750-1800) -- 5 Vincenzo Brunacci (1768-1818) -- 6 Giovanni Plana (1781-1864) -- 7 Interrupted Careers -- References -- 8 Guglielmo Libri, Mathematician, Historian, Collector, Patriot, and Liberal -- Abstract -- 1 Libri, a Refugee in Paris and London -- 2 Libri's Histoire, a Pioneering Work Pervaded by Patriotism and National Spirit -- 3 From London to Florence, Libri's Final year -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- 9 The Spread of Scientific Knowledge and Technology Transfer: André Coyne (1891-1960) and the Construction of Dams in 20th Century Portugal -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction: The Affirmation of Hydroelectricity in Portugal -- 2 Building the Great Dams: Financing, Technical Knowledge, and Monitoring -- 3 The Construction of Dams: Supranational Knowledge and Expertise. 4 The Construction of Dams in Portugal (1907-1940): Engineer Mobility, Foreign Investment, and Technology Transfer -- 5 André Coyne and the Construction of Large Dams in Portugal: An Exemplary Case of Expert Mobility -- 5.1 The Trajectory of an Expert in Dam Construction -- 5.2 Coyne, an Engineer "in the Four Corners of the World" -- 5.3 Coyne and the Construction of Large Dams in Portugal -- 6 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- 10 On the Emigration of Russian Mathematicians During the Revolutionary and Post-revolutionary Events of the 1910s and '20s -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Emigration from the Capital Cities -- 3 Emigration from the Russian Province -- 4 Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- 11 Exile's Experts. Some Considerations on the Activity of the Russian Academic Group in Paris -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A Role of Academic Support -- 2.1 Action Towards Experienced Scientists -- 2.2 Action Towards Students -- 3 1925, a Year of Rupture? -- 4 An International Expansion -- 4.1 The International Institute for Intellectual Cooperation, a Privileged Partner -- 4.2 A Role of Consultant -- 5 Conclusion -- 12 The Roads of Russian Emigrant Zoologists -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Destinies of the Emigrant Zoologists Under Study -- 3 "Control" Case -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- 13 Aldo Mieli (1879-1950) and the Origin of the History of Science in Spain: From the Creation to the Dissolution of the Spanish Group -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The National Groups of the Academy -- 3 The Spanish National Group (1931) -- 4 Aldo Mieli and Spain -- 5 The 1934 International Congress in Spain? -- 6 Serious Controversies: The Congress was Moved to Portugal -- 7 The Crisis of the Spanish Group in Light of the Creation of the History of Science as a Modern Discipline -- 8 To Conclude -- References. 14 Jewish Mathematicians, Their Escape from Nazi Germany from 1933 on and Their Paths into Exile -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Situation in Nazi Germany from Spring 1933 on -- 3 The Displacement of Jewish Scientists and Mathematicians from Universities -- 4 Live and Work in Exile -- Bibliography -- 15 Czechoslovakia - A Good Place to Live? (Immigration and Emigration from the Viewpoint of Mathematicians) -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction - A Historical Background -- 2 Emigration from Bohemia in the Second Half of the 19th Century -- 3 Emigration from Czechoslovakia (1910s and 1920s) -- 4 Immigration to Czechoslovakia (1920s) -- 5 Immigration to Czechoslovakia (1930s) -- 6 Emigration from Czechoslovakia (1930s) -- 7 The Situation During and Shortly After WWII -- 8 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 16 The Jewish Intellectual Diaspora and the Circulation of Mathematics: Alessandro Terracini in Argentina (1939-1948) -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 "Relegated to a Caste of Pariahs": The Autumn of 1938 -- 3 Getting Ready to Flee: The Last Months in Turin -- 4 "As a Missionary would Explain the Gospel to Cannibals": Research and Teaching -- 5 Taking the Voice of Italy Over There: Public Conferences and Publishing -- 6 "Years of Anxious Search for News" -- 7 The Bittersweet Return to "The Italy of the Stunning Amnesty" -- 8 Final Remarks -- Bibliography -- 17 Physical Chemistry in Greece Before and After World War II as a Case Study for the Effect of Politics on Science and Scientists -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 George Karagounis -- 3 Elly Agallidis and Georg Maria Schwab -- Bibliography -- Author Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996472038503316 |
| Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022] | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Work and occupations
| Work and occupations |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Thousand Oaks, Calif.] : , : Sage Publications, , ©1982- |
| Disciplina | 306 |
| Soggetto topico |
Occupations
Professions Social sciences Sociology Social Sciences Work Professions libérales Sciences sociales Sociologie Travail social sciences sociology labor Ocupació |
| Soggetto genere / forma |
Bibliography
Fulltext Internet Resource Periodical Statistics. Periodicals. Revistes electròniques. |
| ISSN | 1552-8464 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Periodico |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910446748903321 |
| [Thousand Oaks, Calif.] : , : Sage Publications, , ©1982- | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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