Education - Higher

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,...

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,...

Based on lessons learned from the ASSET programme, a national project to develop a competence-based model of curriculum and assessment, this text presents a research based description of a possible future for higher education and for education of the profession.Author: Richard Winter,Maire MaischISBN-10: 0750705566ISBN-13:...

This text offers descriptions and analyses of some of the different ways in which schools and other educational institutions have started to establish new collaborative relationships in today's competitive educational marketplace.Author: Chris Husbands,David BridgesISBN-10: 0750704497ISBN-13: 9780750704496Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/14/1995Pages: 192Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 9.21h x...

The Burden of Academic Success: Loyalists, Renegades, and Double Agents explores working-class college students' understandings of class and social mobility through in-depth interviews rich in ethnographic detail. This book is a compelling read for students and a much-needed addition to our understanding of how...

Written by renowned British and American educational theorists, Marxism Against Postmodernism in Educational Theory-a substantially revised edition of the original 1999 work- examines the infusion of postmodernism and theories of postmodernity into educational theory, policy, and research.Author: Michael W. AppleISBN-10: 0739103458ISBN-13: 9780739103456Publisher: Lexington BooksLanguage:...

Oxford, the home of lost causes, the epitome of the world of medieval and renaissance learning in Britain, has always fascinated at a variety of levels: social, institutional, cultural. Its rival, Cambridge, was long dominated by mathematics, while Oxford's leading study was Classics. In...

You're going to love the way John Garger approaches dissertations. He is a dissertation coach with a sense of humor and a way of drawing out the practical side of student research that embodies The Science Survival Academy's dedication to Learning, Teaching, and Growing....

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

How can online instructors and course designers' instruction harness the popular Web 2.0 tool, the wiki, for successful collaboration and learning outcomes? This book focuses on using wikis in the active learning processes that are the hallmark of collaborative learning and constructivism. It provides...

Across the world, universities are transforming their teaching and learning practices to meet the challenges facing Higher Education in the 21st century. Research into teaching and learning in Higher Education has never been a more important issue. Growing numbers of academics across disciplines are...

Grounded in relevant international research, Students' Experiences of e-Learning in Higher Education helps academic instructors and university managers understand how e-learning relates to, and can be integrated with, other student learning experiences, such as learning in lectures, seminars and laboratories, as well as private...

This innovative book - the first to deepen the descriptive and conceptual understanding of the process by which states determine merit aid scholarship criteria - is crucial to understanding merit aid's success and failures at fulfilling the promise of education.Author: Erik C. NessISBN-10: 0415961009ISBN-13:...

Masculinities in Higher Education provides empirical evidence, theoretical support and developmental interventions for educators working with college men both in and out of the classroom. Author: Jason A. LakerISBN-10: 0415874645ISBN-13: 9780415874649Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/18/2011Pages: 248Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d

As universities have become more market focused, has the law kept up? This book explains and grounds legal concepts, indicating where doctrines and standards have evolved, where difficulties may arise, and where change may be merited.Author: J. Douglas TomaISBN-10: 0415872456ISBN-13: 9780415872454Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/18/2011Pages:...

Weakened by two Opium Wars and a succession of internal rebellions in the mid-1800s, China's imperial leaders made a historic decision-to break a tradition of isolation and seek education outside the homeland's borders. This book does not attempt to debate or determine the extent...

Teaching Online: A Practical Guide is an accessible, introductory, and comprehensive guide for anyone who teaches online. The fourth edition of this bestselling resource has been fully revised, maintains its reader-friendly tone, and offers exceptional practical advice, new teaching examples, faculty interviews, and an...

Helping Doctoral Students Write offers a proven approach to effective doctoral writing. By treating research as writing and writing as research, the authors offer pedagogical strategies for doctoral supervisors that will assist the production of well-argued and lively dissertations. It is clear that many...

Detox Your Writing is intended to be a companionable work book - something doctoral researchers can use throughout their doctorate to ask questions about taken-for-granted ways of writing and reading, and to develop new and effective approaches. Author: Pat Thomson,Barbara KamlerISBN-10: 0415820839ISBN-13: 9780415820837Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage:...

Women continue to comprise a small minority of students in engineering education and subsequent employment. This book demonstrates the ways in which traditional engineering education has not attracted, supported or retained female students and identifies the issues needing to be addressed in changing engineering...

Governing Cross-Border Higher Education examines the role of governments in relation to three key aspects of international education: student mobility; migration of international students; and transnational provision through collaboration or branch campuses. The research for this book is informed by interviews with key stakeholders...

The great universities of the world are to a large extent defined in the public imagination by their physical form: when people think of a university, they usually think of a distinctive place, rather than about say the teaching or the research that might...

Higher Education Revolutions in the Gulf explores the reasons behind this dramatic growth. It examines the causes of the sharp shift in educational practices and analyses how these new systems of higher education are regulated, evaluating the extent to which the new universities and...

Publishing Pedagogies for the Doctorate and Beyond is a timely and informative collection of practical and theorised examples of innovative pedagogies that encourage doctoral student publishing.Author: Claire AitchisonISBN-10: 0415480183ISBN-13: 9780415480185Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2010Pages: 176Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d

Written by experts in the field, this book aims to provide an alternative approach to quality teaching in higher education by deriving a model of good university teaching from the academics which universities have chosen as their best teachers. Award-winning teachers outline their beliefs...

Covering the academic and operational aspects of PhD research degree programmes, this accessible yet comprehensive book is an essential guide to navigating through the PhD research journey.Author: Francis JegedeISBN-10: 0367519402ISBN-13: 9780367519407Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/07/2021Pages: 262Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.27lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d

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: 0367471442ISBN-13:...

The Gender-Sensitive University explores the prevailing forces that pose obstacles to driving a gender-sensitive university, which include the emergence of far-right movements that seek to subvert advances towards gender equality and managerialism that promotes creeping corporatism. Author: Eileen DrewISBN-10: 0367431173ISBN-13: 9780367431174Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/10/2020Pages:...

The book discusses the status and importance of decolonisation and "indigenous" knowledge in academic research, teaching and learning programmes and beyond.Author: Emnet Tadesse WoldegiorgisISBN-10: 0367360608ISBN-13: 9780367360603Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/31/2020Pages: 244Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.01lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.70d

By showcasing asset-based approaches inspired by individual reflection, research, and experience, this volume offers a fresh and timely perspective on grief and trauma within higher education and illustrates how these approaches can serve as opportunities for hope and allyship.Author: Nicole SiebenISBN-10: 036734548XISBN-13: 9780367345488Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage:...

Covering globally diverse perspectives, this book uses a range of international case studies to help practitioners and researchers review, reflect on and refresh their ability to bridge the gap between university and industry. Author: Hong BuiISBN-10: 0367179849ISBN-13: 9780367179847Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/14/2019Pages: 176Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.99lbsSize:...

Essential reading for teachers in higher education and educational researchers with an interest in how technologies impact learning and teaching, this book uses cutting edge research to bridge the gap between theoretical perspectives and practice. Author: Toril Aagaard,Andreas LundISBN-10: 0367074133ISBN-13: 9780367074135Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/03/2019Pages:...

Many problems that plague modern American society, including disappearance of community, decaying inner cities, racial tensions, environmental degradation, declining civic engagement, and the increasing ineffectiveness of government, to name a few, are in many respects problems of leadership. Leadership means not only what elected...

Educational advisers around the world respond daily to numerous questions about study or research in the United States. In order to adequately address the growing volume of these crucial inquiries, advisers must begin to develop themselves as information professionals. To this end Where in...

This book is a basic treatment of faculty performance appraisal in higher education. It is written for those scholars faced with the need to understand the issues and solutions to the often thorny problems posed by having to judge the performance of their colleagues...

Budget deficits, gas prices, health care costs, social security, job security.... Anxiety over the economy pervades our daily lives--from reports on the early morning newscasts to gossip around the water cooler to dinner table debate. Yet most citizens are woefully ignorant when it comes...

Companies that have survived the perils of startup face an entirely new and different set of challenges as the firm prospers and grows. For owners, executives, managers, and employees alike, the evolution of an enterprise from entrepreneurship to maturity is aruduous and requires a...

Previous analyses of the student antiwar movement during the Vietnam War have focussed almost exclusively on a few radical student leaders and upon events that occurred at a few elite East Coast universities. This volume breaks new ground in the treatment it affords critiques...

Leaders in interprofessional education efforts examine the potential and the challenges of developing effective partnerships between universities and communities focusing on improving the lives of families and children. Until recently, higher education has had little to do with the multiple service reform efforts underway...

Higher education is changing dramatically as a result of global telecommunications. This book surveys and synthesizes the material currently available on this important topic. Much of the volume provides detailed and fascinating information on experiments, organizations, and ideas related to computer networks and higher...

The controversial book that crystallized the current debate over the value and purpose of a college educationWhen Professor X's article that inspired this book was published in the Atlantic Monthly, a firestorm of controversy began as teachers across the country weighed in, some thanking...

As higher education becomes increasingly globalized, the experiences and perspectives of international students play a key role in shaping the academic and social dynamics of universities worldwide. These students navigate complex intersections of identity and adaptation as they cross national and linguistic borders in...

The Handbook of Bullying in Schools is a comprehensive analysis of the worldwide bullying phenomena. It is the first volume to systematically review and integrate what is known about how cultural and regional issues affect bullying behavior and its prevention.Author: Shane R. JimersonISBN-10: 0805863931ISBN-13:...

Know what academic freedom is? Or what it's come to mean? What's affirmative about affirmative action these days? Think you're up on the problem of sexual harassment on campus? Or know how much the university depends on part-time faculty? Academic Keywords is a witty,...

Every day, teachers design and test new ways of teaching, using learning technology to help their learners. But their discoveries remain local. By representing and communicating their best ideas as structured pedagogical patterns, teachers could develop this vital professional knowledge collectively. From this unique...

As the number of doctoral students continues to rise, this book examines the context of the doctorate in modern times and the new challenges that it faces. The authors reassess what once was considered the basics of a doctoral curriculum to reshape the doctoral...