Education - Higher

In 1930, the great Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset set forth a program for reforming the modern Spanish universityAuthor: Gerard ChaliandISBN-10: 1138528196ISBN-13: 9781138528192Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/20/2017Pages: 110Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d

By almost any measure, higher education is a vital part of the U.S. economy and society. Yet there is concern that the sector is inefficient or ill equipped to adapt to a changing environment. The information revolution, an aging population, demographic shifts, and a...

There is much change underway in American higher educationAuthor: Stephen R. GraubardISBN-10: 1138522384ISBN-13: 9781138522381Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/02/2017Pages: 336Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.37lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d

Much has been written about the importance of creativity in learning and education over the last few decades. This unique book extends beyond the usual focus on implementing creative methods in learning, teaching and assessing within higher education, to an examination of creativity as...

Understanding Student Mobility in Europe interprets student mobility in European higher education through an active dialogue between disciplines, voices and variables of interest. Providing the conceptual, methodological, pedagogical and empirical foundations of an interdisciplinary approach, this book advances readers' understanding of the student exchange...

Grounded in the theory of sociologist Karl Weick, this edited volume explores key concepts of educational leadership and organizational learning. Author: Bob Jr. JohnsonISBN-10: 1138080004ISBN-13: 9781138080003Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/11/2019Pages: 242Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.12lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

Through stories, conversations, and essays, this book pursues interwoven critical and philosophical inquiries into the nature of the contemporary in the North Atlantic, asking how are we to live as intellectuals, individually and in community?Social Thought From the Ruins: Quixote's Dinner Party is the...

This book explores how first-generation college students navigate the culture of higher education and argues that institutions should factor the experiences of first-generation students into the process of revitalizing their mission. This resource will appeal to scholars, researchers, and upper-level students interested in higher...

This skills-oriented handbook for English Medium Instruction (EMI) learners provides students with a toolbox of strategies and approaches to maximize their performance in their courses. This is a valuable resource for any EMI student across the world, EMI teachers, EAP/ESP educators, and academic support...

Gamify Your College Classroom is an instructor playbook for nurturing life skills through the incorporation and customization of games and game elements into coursework.Author: Sierra Adare-Tasiwoopa ÁpiISBN-10: 1032827793ISBN-13: 9781032827797Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/29/2025Pages: 296Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.66d

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,...

Peripheral Visions for Writing Centers aims to inspire a re-conception and re-envisioning of the boundaries of writing center work. Moving beyond the grand narrative of the writing center-that it is solely a comfortable, yet iconoclastic place where all students go to get one-to-one tutoring...

Where you're going to college is just the first of the questions you'll face as you prepare to step onto the campus. But what happens once you're there? College in a Can is chock full of all the answers you need -- from what...

In the current ever changing world the most pressing psychological challenge to all of us is to create and maintain a personal balance between mental stability and mental flexibility. In this book Knud Illeris, one of the leading thinkers on the way people learn,...

This book illustrates how Legitimation Code Theory is helping to transform the field of Higher Education by bringing research together from across the disciplinary map and by enabling practical change in a rigorously theorised way.Author: Christine WinbergISBN-10: 0367463326ISBN-13: 9780367463328Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/10/2020Pages: 294Format: HardcoverWeight:...

Split into three main sub-themes and drawing on examples from Australia, New Zealand and Canada, this work explores the relationship between philosophy (including the programs' philosophies, educators' philosophies and cultural beliefs), pedagogy and how it can effectively shape the practice of transition and enable...

Science, Democracy, and the University is a significant contribution to the field of curriculum studies, linking to the work of philosophers such as Max Planck, Donna Haraway, Max Weber, and Jacques Derrida to make the case for rethinking the reason of the university. John...

Science, Democracy, and the University is a significant contribution to the field of curriculum studies, linking to the work of philosophers such as Max Planck, Donna Haraway, Max Weber, and Jacques Derrida to make the case for rethinking the reason of the university. John...

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:...