Education - Higher

Actor-network theory (ANT) has enjoyed wide uptake in the social sciences in the past three decades, particularly in science and technology studies, and is increasingly attracting the attention of educational researchers. Across these diverse environments and uptakes, the authors trace how learning and practice...

The Impact of Legislature brings together key articles and path-breaking scholarship published in The Journal of Legislative Studies during its first 25 years of publication, enabling the reader to make sense of the impact of the legislature in the modern world.Author: Philip NortonISBN-10: 0367524589ISBN-13:...

An eye-opening look at how parents' mistrust of colleges has less to do with what their kids are learning than with whom they come to trust. Higher education is a familiar battlefield in today's culture wars. The right accuses colleges and universities of indoctrinating...

Two IITians have teamed up to conjure 100 tips and tricks to crack the IIT. Their only mantra is 'Smart work will trump hard work'. It not only answers questions about all things physics, chemistry and maths but also addresses issues that students worry...

Based on faculty leadership and administrative experiences, The Intentional Dean explores the reasons to pursue a deanship and how to successfully attain a position as an academic dean. Additionally, this accessible guide provides understanding of key activities and responsibilities of the deanship, such as...

Draws attention to the importance of support networks for students as they make, keep, and lose friends throughout college and beyond. We're all familiar with the sentiment that "college is the best time of your life." Along with a newfound sense of freedom, students...

Author: Paul A. M. DiracISBN-10: 1950217132ISBN-13: 9781950217137Publisher: Bow Wow PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/15/2025Pages: 350Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.08lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.73d

Author: Joel Iliff, William SkilesISBN-13: 9798292119630Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/11/2025Pages: 302Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

Unveiling HBCUs: A Historical Journey and Impact on Graduates' Triumphs, Academic Excellence, Athletic Achievements, and Strides in Equality.Dive into the fascinating story of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) with HBCU Greatness. This compelling book elucidates the origins of HBCUs, their establishment by institutions...

This book aims to teach burgeoning writers how to begin their journey in the creative writing arena. As writers, we constantly seek ways to enhance our craft and develop the skills necessary to become better writers. Gaining the skills and learning techniques to guide...

Begin a fascinating trip through the depths of neural networks with "Mastering Neural Networks: From Basics to Advanced Deep Learning." This book, written by, Yugant Gotmare, Shreya Manapure, and Madhuri Sahu, is an essential resource for both beginners and seasoned experts who want to...

It is not surprising that in order to meet the job demands of the future, we need to ensure that students have the knowledge and opportunity to choose from an array of postsecondary options before graduating from high school. Particularly as our society continues...

U.S. colleges and universities are rapidly diversifying. In 2018, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated that nearly half of undergraduate students were of non-white racial identities, with that number only increasing for future generations. This increase in diversity holds true for many other identity groups....

Learning a new language is like embarking on an exciting journey-a journey that not only expands your communication skills but also opens doors to new cultures, perspectives, and connections. Whether you're learning Arabic for travel, work, or personal enrichment, this book, "Complete Spoken Arabic...

James Yimm Lee was a pivotal figure in the early development of Jeet Kune Do. As a seasoned martial artist, accomplished author, and close collaborator of Bruce Lee. he played an essential role in refining and disseminating the principles that would define a global...

Uses a comprehensive approach by looking at causes, implications and remediesExplains the phenomenon of incivility in academia from the viewpoint of students and facultyDiscusses methodological concerns and challengesAuthor: Yariv Itzkovich, Dorit Alt, Niva DolevISBN-10: 3030467465ISBN-13: 9783030467463Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/13/2020Pages: 127Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 9.21h x...

Class Cultures and Social Mobility tells the stories of people who grew up working-class, became the first members of their family to graduate from college, and undertook professional work that serves working-class people. Drawing upon personal narratives to appeal to both academics and first-gen...

Families for Mobility documents elite Korean transnational families, focusing on how they use elite education abroad as a tool for class reproduction. Drawing on over 100 interviews with both parents and children at elite U.S. colleges, the book explores the desires, aspirations, and expectations...

In Better Assessment in Higher Education, Kevin Merry reveals that assessment within your Universal Design for Learning (UDL) based higher ed curriculum can do more than just measure performance-it can also inspire student learning. Merry guides you in the design of accessible and inclusive...

53 tried and tested tips for creating dynamic lectures and presentations that your students will remember.Author: Anthony Haynes, Karen Haynes, Sue HabeshawISBN-10: 1743311567ISBN-13: 9781743311561Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2012Pages: 148Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60d

Feminist Mentoring in Academia offers a varied collection of autoethnographic and research-based accounts of support, struggle, and resilience from the ivory tower. Contributors write about the moments in-between, where feminist mentoring initiates, renews, thrives, and sometimes struggles. The work presented in this book highlights...

This book argues that the current structure of student affairs work is not sustainable, as it depends on the notion that employees are available to work non-stop without any outside responsibilities, that is, the Ideal Worker Norm.Author: Margaret SalleeISBN-10: 1620369508ISBN-13: 9781620369500Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/14/2020Pages:...

New Directions for University Museums is intended to help university museum leaders to help them plan strategically in the context of the issues and needs of the 2020s by examining trends affecting them and directions in response to those forces. It will lay out...

Since second-wave feminism of the 1970s, women's rights and opportunities in education and employment have increased across the globe, but has equality, whether social, political or legal, really been achieved? In this fascinating book, Miriam E. David, a well-known and influential feminist in higher...

Understanding and Preventing Faculty-on-Faculty Bullying provides a comprehensive understanding of workplace harassment, aggression, violence, bullying, and incivility in academia. Using a psychological, sociological, and organizational approach, this book explores the issue from the perspective of the individual, the department, and from the higher education...

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,...

Since 1989, new laws on higher educational institutions laid down rules for establishing Polish nonstate institutions of higher education, and their number has been steadily growing since then. The result of these legal changes, as well as Poland's agreeing to implement the Bologna Process...

This volume documents the experiences of international students and recent international initiatives at US community colleges to better understand how to support and nurture students' potential. Author: Gregory MalveauxISBN-10: 0367640708ISBN-13: 9780367640705Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/31/2023Pages: 244Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d

Since the earliest days of universities, students have told stories about their daily lives, often emphasizing extraordinary, surprising, and baffling events. This book examines the fascinating world of college and university legends. While it primarily looks at legends, it also gives some attention to...

In the period between the Civil War and World War I, German universities provided North American women with opportunities in graduate and professional training that were not readily available to them at home. This training allowed women to compete to a greater degree with...

Author: Anonymous Simplicity PressISBN-13: 9798291060766Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/04/2025Pages: 82Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.27lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.17d

Guiding students through their university applications can be a fulfilling but daunting task.How do you know you are successfully empowering your students to make informed decisions that could potentially alter the course of their lives? Where do you go for training and advice? What...

Beyond the Code: Applying Real-World Ethics in School and Mental Health Counseling is all about helping counselors like you handle the tricky ethical situations you face every day. This will discuss the ethical expectations and guidelines from the American Counseling Association, the American School...

For decades, affirmative action reshaped not just American higher education but the broader society, opening doors that had been closed for centuries and transforming who entered the pathways to power. But the Supreme Court in 2023 killed affirmative action in Students for Fair Admissions...

Due to rapid technological advancements, evolving workplace structures, and a shift towards remote work, the nature of work is undergoing transformations influencing communication, work dynamics, and learning processes. Improving the skills of future workforces is now a necessity as the growth of work-skill misalignment...

Women play a pivotal role when shaping higher education. They drive change through leadership, innovation, and advocacy for inclusivity, breaking barriers in academia and leading policy reforms. Women are redefining what it means to lead in educational institutions, and their contributions are advancing research,...

This book identifies many situations to which businesses have responded to customer trends and feedback. and adapted successfully. There also are situations where businesses have been unsuccessful, by misinterpreting or ignoring feedback, or being totally unaware of consumer trends. Succeeding in business does not...

In this comprehensive yet cheeky collection, F.G. Katcoff provides 1000+ words to set you off on your GRE adventure. In 'Mansplaining and More, ' you will find: - 1000+ Graduate-level words and roots you need to know to nail GRE Verbal - 1 pre-test...

An in-depth exploration of how international teaching assistants (ITAs) make their accents workable to fulfill their duties as academic laborers. In this book, "workable" refers not only to manipulating an accent, but also to ensuring that an accent achieves certain objectives such as being...

Learning and Teaching Across Cultures in Higher Education contains theoretical rationale, resources and examples to help readers understand and deal with situations involving contact between learners or educators from different cultural backgrounds, as well as giving insights into the new global context of higher...

The is this the book-length work addressing the development of academic freedom and the procedures designed to protect it from the 1915 founding of the AAUP and the AAC to their endorsement of the key document in the history of professorial rights and responsibilities,...

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,...

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,...

An examination of the founding and development of the Seven Sisters colleges--Mount Holyoke, Vassar, Wellesley, Smith, Radcliffe, Bryn Mawr, and Barnard--Alma Mater focuses on the ideas behind their establishment and the colleges' architectural, academic, and social histories, as well as those of their twentieth-century...

The professional biography of influential Canadian educator and statesman, Tom Symons. Tom Symons: A Canadian Life is a compelling portrait of one of Canada's pre-eminent educational and cultural statesmen of the twentieth century. An outstanding public figure, Symons was a leader in many areas...