Education - Higher

The Bound-for-College Guidebook is a step-by-step guide to the student transition from high school to postsecondary education, including the self-awareness, exploration, goal-setting, decision-making, application and enrollment stages that must be successfully navigated to ensure the best results. This edition addresses the recent changes and...

Sacred and secular worldviews have long held a place in U.S. higher education, although non-religious perspectives have usually been privileged in the modern era. This book illustrates the importance of cultivating multiple worldviews.Author: Michael D. WaggonerISBN-10: 0415887550ISBN-13: 9780415887557Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/28/2011Pages: 272Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.18lbsSize:...

In a world where lab tests are a cornerstone of modern medicine, this book transforms abstract medical concepts into tangible insights. It empowers you to discover the significance of common lab tests, from blood work and urinalysis to genetic screenings, and see how they...

Small Talk and Friendships in English gives you the tools to feel comfortable in real conversations. Learn how to start small talk, make friends, join casual conversations, attend social events, navigate dating, send natural text messages, and understand the unwritten social rules of English-speaking...

Author: Ben WildavskyISBN-10: 0691239819ISBN-13: 9780691239811Publisher: Princeton University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/31/2026Pages: 176Format: Paperback

We are living in complex and divided times. As a professor of 8 years, and before that, 17 years of serving children and families on the margins, and as a person of color, I have come to learn that individuals and marginalized communities are...

This volume offers replicable approaches for centering equity as a core value in community-campus relationships.Through interrogation of contemporary practice, chapter authors examine the many ways in which equity is deliberately centered in community relationships, practices, research, and pedagogies, thereby accounting for how equity is...

Intercultural Preparation in Higher Education critically examines the complexities of intercultural preparation, challenging reductionist, competence-based approaches and emphasising critical reflection, linguistic sensitivity and intersectional perspectives, which offer transformative insight.Author: Ning ChenISBN-10: 1041116837ISBN-13: 9781041116837Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/15/2025Pages: 98Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.31d

The book aims to study the current transformations of higher education in the BRICS countries. The conditions imposed by the pandemic exposed many vulnerabilities in higher education systems, but also provided valuable lessons that led to the implementation of effective changes.Author: Nicholas Sun-Keung PangISBN-10:...

Bamboo cultivation and utilization are guided by several fundamental principles that ensure sustainable practices and maximize the benefits offered by this versatile plant. Firstly, proper site selection is essential which involves considering factors such as soil type, drainage, sunlight exposure, and moisture levels to...

he Art and Science of Decision-Making: Navigating Complexity, Ethics, and Growth invites you to embark on a transformative journey through the intricate processes that define our choices and shape our lives. Part of the Core Concepts Series, this book explores decision-making as a multifaceted...

This book is written for engineering students and working professionals. Technical professionals are increasingly involved in IT issues, such as implementing IT systems, managing them, and taking part in requirements analysis/vendor selection. In this book, the basics of production planning systems (PPS) are covered,...

The University of Florida has an ambitious goal: to harness the power of its faculty, staff, students, and alumni to solve some of society's most pressing problems and to become a resource for the state of Florida, the nation, and the world. Florida has...

Advances in technology are making virtual education a force behind the educational policies and programmes being developed for use in today's colleges and universities. This work examines the challenges and issues that universities face when implementing virtual education technologies.Author: AlbalooshiISBN-10: 193177739XISBN-13: 9781931777391Publisher: IGI GlobalLanguage:...

Work Want Work considers in captivating detail how a logic of work has become integral to everything we do, even as the place of formal work has become increasingly precarious. With reference to sociological data, philosophy, political theory, legislation, the testimonies of workers and...

Women were at the forefront of the Egyptian Revolution in 2011, with the Arab Spring protests providing an unprecedented opportunity to make their voices heard. But these women also faced an intense backlash from Egypt's patriarchal authorities, with female activists subjected to sexual violence...

The invention of the nation state was the crowning achievement of the Sykes-Picot Agreement between the United Kingdom and France in 1916. As a geostrategic move to divide, defeat, and dismantle the Ottoman Empire during the World War I it was a great success...

Amidst the turmoil of the Middle East, few have noticed the extent to which Israel has slowly but surely been building alliances on the African continent. Facing a growing international backlash, Israel has had to look beyond its traditional Western allies for support, and...

The higher education industry might seem like it's booming, with over 200 million students in universities and colleges worldwide and funds flowing in like never before. But the truth is that these institutions have never been unhappier places to work. Corporate-style management, cost-cutting governments,...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been widely derided as a failed state, unable to meet the basic needs of its citizens. But while state infrastructure continues to decay, many essential services continue to be provided at the local level, often through grassroots...

The smartphone and social media have transformed Africa, allowing people across the continent to share ideas, organise, and participate in politics like never before. While both activists and governments alike have turned to social media as a new form of political mobilization, some African...

When Hissène Habré, the deposed dictator of Chad, was found guilty of crimes against humanity in 2016, it was described as 'a watershed for human rights justice in Africa and beyond'. For the first time, an African war criminal had been convicted on African...

Celebrated as a beacon of democracy and reconciliation, many people in South Africa continue to live in severe poverty, particularly in the Eastern Cape Province. Backed by the United Nations Development Programme, the Eastern Cape's provincial government consequently launched an historically ambitious programme -...

By blending norm-challenging, robust discussion on enrollment management with practical guidance for administrative and academic leaders, this book seeks to tackle long-standing issues of recruitment, retention, persistence, and completion in higher education.Author: Jason L. MeriwetherISBN-10: 1642673161ISBN-13: 9781642673166Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/16/2024Pages: 186Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 9.00h...

At the time of its initial publication in 1904, The Higher Learning in America was known in educated circles as the most reflective study ever made of the university system in America. Veblen's evaluation of the misleading notions and erroneous beliefs were inherent in...

Provides a resource for researchers and practitioners in the area of online collaborative learning (also known as CSCL, computer-supported collaborative learning), particularly those working within a tertiary education environment. It includes articles of relevance to those interested in both theory and practice in this...

In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, college-age Latter-day Saints began undertaking a remarkable intellectual pilgrimage to the nation's elite universities, including Harvard, Columbia, Michigan, Chicago, and Stanford. Thomas W. Simpson chronicles the academic migration of hundreds of LDS students from the 1860s...

MENTAL SYSTEMS THEORY This book offers a unique and extremely useful model of the mind mechanism and its connections with the soul and the body. It develops a set of concepts and laws that explain the mind phenomena and lay the foundations for a...

This book explores issues of teaching science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) through the medium of English in the context of higher education in Hong Kong. It analyses policy issues and language challenges faced by university students and pedagogical strategies for the professional development...

This handbook brings together scholarship from various subfields, disciplinary traditions, and geographic and geopolitical contexts to understand how student voice is operating in different higher education dimensions and contexts around the world. The handbook helps not only to map the range of student voice...

Higher Education in the American West: Regional History and State Contexts is the first comprehensive regional history of American higher education. It offers new historical research on how societal forces and state actions brought about the region's one thousand two hundred institutions of higher...

Moore asks the question of whether and under what conditions experience constitutes a legitimate source of knowledge and learning in higher education. Drawing on theory and research, the book addresses three types of challenges and opportunities facing experiential educators: the epistemological, the pedagogical, and...

""Plane Geometry Problems With Solutions: College Outline Series"" by Horblit and Marcus is a comprehensive guidebook that offers a collection of mathematical problems and solutions in the field of plane geometry. This book is part of the College Outline Series and is designed to...

""Ethical and Moral Instruction in Schools"" is a book written by George Herbert Palmer, an American philosopher and educator. The book explores the importance of teaching ethics and morality in schools, and provides practical guidance for educators on how to do so effectively. Palmer...

This book provides a framework for analysis and reviews the changing landscape of doctoral education across fourteen global case studies before providing conclusions and recommendations for further research and development. Traditionally, doctoral education was a matter of the talented few being apprenticed to learn...

As Asia alone holds the majority of the world's fast-expanding private higher education (PHE), this volume probes the character, diversity, and significance of Asian PHE.Across seven national case studies, astride both developing and developed countries, older and newer HE systems, in entrenched democracies to...

The new edition of Governance of Higher Education explores the work of traditional and contemporary higher education scholarship, providing readers with an understanding of the assumptions, historical traditions, and paradigms that have shaped the scholarship on governance worldwide.Author: Ian Austin,Glen A. JonesISBN-10: 1032255137ISBN-13: 9781032255132Publisher:...

In this scholarly work, Theodore Wesley Koch offers a detailed history of the University of Louvain and its library. The book covers the founding of the university, its growth and development over the centuries, and the important role that its library has played in...

Discover the latest research on barley diseases in Kansas with this groundbreaking study. Written by Hussain Yousif Alani, a leading expert in the field, this book is an essential resource for agricultural researchers, farmers, and anyone interested in improving crop yield and disease resistance.This...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Investigates the impact that certain globalizing practices have on European and American universities. Due to dwindling resources and the ideology of privatization, universities are becoming more corporatized and managerial. The authors investigate the consequences of these changes on the lives of academics and analyze...

Wilke has called upon sociologists, observers as well as victims of the caste system, to describe by use of case studies and to analyze the plight of non-tenured faculty and their efforts to survive in an increasingly hostile environment. These stories reveal the human...

Featuring many personal accounts, the twenty-four essays in this collection explore the challenges and possibilities confronting those, especially women, who combine parenting and academic work. Written by a diverse group of educators who present a real-world variety of situations, the collection also includes ideas...

This report assesses the status and practice of higher education quality assurance in Sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on degree-granting tertiary institutions. A main finding is that structured national-level quality assurance processes in African higher education are a very recent phenomenon and that most countries face...

Since the early 1990s, there has been a proliferation of memoirs by tenured humanities professors. Although the memoir form has been discussed within the flourishing field of life writing, academic memoirs have received little critical scrutiny. Based on close readings of memoirs by such...

At Fault is an exhilarating celebration of risk-taking in the work of James Joyce. Esteemed Joyce scholar and teacher Sebastian Knowles critiques the state of the modern American university, denouncing what he sees as an accelerating trend of corporatization that is repressing discussions of...

The Elective Mind discusses the relevance of philosophy courses within the undergraduate curriculum as integral to the self-formation that is at the heart of a liberal education. The objective is to provide a historically layered view of what it can still mean to study...

This book explores what motivates net-generation community college students to complete their degrees. By emphasizing relationships, personal growth, and support systems, the author's research will empower educational institutions to increase retention and foster success.Author: Shalom Michael AkiliISBN-10: 0761864342ISBN-13: 9780761864349Publisher: University Press of AmericaLanguage: EnglishPublished:...