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...

What happens when educators ignore the moral aspects of education? What are the effects of educating with an eye on the limitations of the past rather than the opportunities of the future? In his latest book, Educating for Completeness, Dr. Reggies Wenyika answers these...

Author: Janna DresdenISBN-10: 1009285815ISBN-13: 9781009285810Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/07/2025Pages: 946Format: HardcoverWeight: 4.04lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 1.94d

Top 100 Schools in Asia PacificThis book highlights the top 100 schools in the Asia-Pacific region with the most admissions to Oxford and Cambridge Universities. It examines their achievements, educational strengths, and competitive advantages based on Oxbridge admission data.The book uncovers key educational trends...

Heralded as "A crucial, compelling, and cautionary read for higher education in the 2020s and beyond," Requiem for a College offers a riveting and heartbreaking insider's view of the troubling trend of college closures in the United States.There are two kinds of institutions that...

Since the first American colonial colleges, higher education has served the nation as an arbiter of knowledge, conduit of democratic idealism, and producer of leaders, workers, and innovation. As the nation changed alongside world events and technological advancement, postsecondary institutions supported growth, met demands...

This book offers the first systematic study of gender equality in academia in the South Mediterranean region, with a unique focus on the intersection of gender and class. Drawing on rich qualitative data from in-depth interviews with female academics in the region, this analysis...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has rapidly emerged as a revolutionary force across various sectors, with a profound influence permeating the domain of higher education. AI in higher education encompasses a wide range of applications designed to enhance teaching methodologies, streamline administrative processes, and personalize learning...

Indian Country Today: Then and Now is a collection of stories written by Indigenous journalists at ICT that take the reader on a journey through its great legacy. ICT, formally known as Indian Country Today, is deeply rooted in Native American culture, values, and...

This volume investigates a number of issues needed to develop a modular, effective, versatile, cost effective, pedagogically-embedded, user-friendly, and sustainable online laboratory system that can deliver its true potential in the national and global arenas. This allows individual researchers to develop their own modular...

This book focuses on Indigenous participation in postgraduate education. The collaborating editors, from the contexts of Australian, Canadian and Nordic postgraduate education, have brought together voices of Indigenous postgraduate students and researchers about strategies to support postgraduate education for Indigenous students globally and to...

Co-published with The field of Adult and Continuing Education (ACE) has long been influential beyond its already porous borders and continues to be a source of important ideas, inspiration, and innovative practices for those in disciplines such as educational administration, social work, nursing, and...

Housing and Residence Life (HRL) plays an important role in the safety, well-being, and sense of belonging for college students, but gender-inclusive policies and practices in HRL are largely under-explored in student affairs and higher education publications. .Author: Jason C. GarveyISBN-10: 1620367688ISBN-13: 9781620367681Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage:...

This book provides an essential resource for educators and museum professionals who wish to develop education focused eMuseums that feature motivational standards-based curriculum for diverse learners. The book is divided into three sections: Section 1. Planning, Developing, and Evaluating eMuseums guides the reader through...

This work captures the voices of TFA novices who offer candid accounts of their experiences in Becoming Teach For America Teachers. Previously unanswered questions are addressed: Why do recent college graduates apply to Teach For America? How are they recruited, trained, and hired? How...

This volume, The New Social Studies: People, Projects and Perspectives is not an attempt to be the comprehensive book on the era. Given the sheer number of projects that task would be impossible. However, the current lack of knowledge about the politics, people and...

As technology progresses, new systems emerge to assist educators in preparing and managing courses. Audience response systems (ARS) are now used to facilitate greater interaction with participants engaged in a variety of group activities by allowing participants to express views in complete anonymity. These...

Why is it that, while women in the United States have generally made great strides in establishing parity with their male counterparts in educational attainment, they remain substantially underrepresented in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)? Why is it that, in...

This substantially expanded new edition of this widely-used and acclaimed text maintains the objectives and tenets of the first. It is designed to help students understand and reflect on their community service experiences both as individuals and as citizens of communities in need of...

This book focuses on guiding individuals and groups through learning how to have difficult conversations that lead us to act to create more just campuses, and provides illustrations of multiple ways to respond to difficult situations.Author: Vasti TorresISBN-10: 1579224660ISBN-13: 9781579224660Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/28/2012Pages: 216Format:...

When faculty unexpectedly encounter students' religious ideologies in the classroom, they may respond with apprehension, frustration, dread, or concern. Instructors may view this exchange as a confrontation that threatens the very heart of empirical study, and worry that this will lead to a dead-end...

* What should students be able to do and how should they be able to think as a result of study in a discipline?* What does learning in the disciplines look like at different developmental levels?* How does one go about designing such learning...

* Reveals continuing barriers to success for women students* Offers remedies that will benefit all studentsWhat are the realities behind recent press reports suggesting that women students have taken over higher education, both outnumbering males and academically outperforming them? Does women's development during college...

This volume, like its series companions, goes beyond simple "how-to" to discuss the implementation of service-learning within religious studies and what that discipline contributes to the pedagogy of service learning. The volume contains both theoretical and pedagogical essays by scholar-teachers in religious studies education,...

This book represents the 18th of AAHE's series on service-learning in the disciplines and focuses on service-learning strategies and models in biology. Although, there are obvious applications for service-learning in such fields as nursing and teacher education, incorporating it into natural science courses has...

This practical guide is intended for faculty and service-learning directors, combining the how-to information and rigorous intellectual framework that teachers seek. What distinguishes this volume is that the contributors are writing for their peers. They discuss how service-learning can be implemented within political science...

This book represents the 14th in the Service-Learning in the Disciplines Series and concentrates on how service-learning can be successfully incorporated in engineering programs, a discipline to which is it relatively new. Contributors to the volume are experienced in using service-learning and address issues...

Using materials from the vast university archives in the Edith Garland Dupré Library, Drs. Zachary G. Stein and Michael S. Martin trace the University of Louisiana at Lafayette's dynamic history.The University of Louisiana at Lafayette (UL Lafayette) welcomed its first classes in 1901. Originally...

Author: Linda L. BipsISBN-10: 1410720519ISBN-13: 9781410720511Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/14/2003Pages: 248Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 8.50h x 6.68w x 0.63d

""Higher Education and Business Standards"" is a book written by Willard Eugene Hotchkiss and published in 1918. The book explores the relationship between higher education and the business world, arguing that the two are closely interconnected and that higher education institutions should be more...

Higher education is in a current state of flux and uncertainty, with profound changes being shaped largely by the imperatives of global neoliberalism. Changing Pedagogical Spaces in Higher Education forms a unique addition to the literature and includes significant practical pointers in developing pedagogical...

Emerging Perspectives on Disability Studies brings together up-and-coming scholars whose works expand disability studies into new interdisciplinary contexts. This includes new perspectives on disability identity; historical constructions of (dis)ability; the geography of disability; the spiritual nature of disability; governmentality and disability rights; neurodiversity and...

With a focus on commercial agents supporting international student recruitment, Student Recruitment Agents in International Higher Education provides an evidence-based exploration of this phenomenon, and will increase the reader's understanding of agent engagement, its contradictions and complexities.Author: Pii-Tuulia NikulaISBN-10: 1032136057ISBN-13: 9781032136059Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/30/2023Pages:...

This book is a comprehensive history of Northeastern University, a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. Beginning with the university's founding in 1898, the book traces the university's growth and development over the years, including its leadership in experiential education and commitment to...

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 volume presents the major outcomes of the third edition of the Future of Higher Education - Bologna Process Researchers Conference (FOHE-BPRC 3) which was held on 27-29 November 2017. It acknowledges the importance of a continued dialogue between researchers and decision-makers and benefits...

Author: Barry SmithISBN-10: 091441707XISBN-13: 9780914417071Publisher: Open CourtLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/1999Pages: 226Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 8.97h x 5.97w x 0.68d

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Special Publications Series.Graduate school can be an exciting, challenging time for students, but it can be scary and intimidating at the same time. Navigating Graduate School and Beyond: A Career Guide for Graduate Students...

'I Have Been Waiting' is an important work, confirming that sustained attention to issues of race in higher education is both difficult and necessary.Author: Jennifer S. SimpsonISBN-10: 0802085695ISBN-13: 9780802085696Publisher: University of Toronto PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/27/2003Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 9.22h x 5.88w x 0.79d

In Collaborative Learning, Kenneth Bruffee advocates a far-reaching change in the relations we assume between college and university professors and their students, between the learned and the learning. He argues that the nature and source of the authority of college and university professors is...

Ever the Leader gathers together selected speeches and writings from one of the great scholars and commentators of higher education. William G. Bowen's career at Princeton University--from economics professor to provost to a sixteen-year tenure as president--was marked by extraordinary accomplishments during times of...

Focusing on community colleges as a unique structure within American higher education, this text investigates the specific ways in which these institutions have been impacted by a global increase in neoliberal education policies. Author: Greg SetharesISBN-10: 0367860457ISBN-13: 9780367860455Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/07/2020Pages: 146Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.70lbsSize:...

Product information not available.Author: Susan Douglas Franzosa, Karen MazzaISBN-10: 0313244820ISBN-13: 9780313244827Publisher: GreenwoodLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/07/1984Pages: 100Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.31d

Through thirteen essays, Teaching Theatre Today addresses the changing nature of educational theory, curricula, and teaching methods in theatre programs of colleges and universities of the United States and Great Britain.Author: A. FliotsosISBN-10: 0230619002ISBN-13: 9780230619005Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/13/2010Pages: 283Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.40h x...

Volume XXVII/2 of History of Universities contains the customary mix of learned articles and book reviews which makes this publication such an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education. The volume is, as always, a lively combination of original research and invaluable reference...

Coming soon! An Educator's Guide to ADHD by Karen Costa.Coming soon! An Educator's Guide to ADHD by Karen Costa.Author: Karen CostaISBN-10: 1421453509ISBN-13: 9781421453507Publisher: Johns Hopkins University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/20/2026Pages: 280Format: PaperbackSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d

""The History of Education"" by Ellwood P. Cubberley is a comprehensive textbook that explores the evolution of education from ancient times to the modern era. The book covers the major developments in education, including the rise of formal schooling, the development of curriculum, and...

The accelerating technological transformation in learn- ing has necessitated an ability to search and differentiate among the one billion web pages, libraries, databases, books, newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations, and opinion columns available onlineAuthor: Roberto BrambillaISBN-10: 1138527084ISBN-13: 9781138527089Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/06/2017Pages: 146Format: HardcoverWeight:...

Understanding Community Colleges provides a critical examination of contemporary issues and practices and policy of community colleges. Author: John S. LevinISBN-10: 1138288128ISBN-13: 9781138288126Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/23/2018Pages: 314Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.68lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.75d

Bringing together a diverse set of global contributors, this volume covers contemporary thinking on the practices of academic planning and its impact on key issues such as access, institutional accountability, quality assurance, educational policy priorities, and the development of higher education data systems.Author: Karen...