Education - Higher

Author: Rickey Lee StoneISBN-13: 9798261888147Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/18/2025Pages: 136Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.42lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.29d

Are you tired of standing over a patient, staring at a complex dressing, and feeling that "hit" of uncertainty?Wound care is one of the most stressful parts of clinical practice. Between the confusing staging of pressure injuries, the endless sea of brand-name dressings, and...

What nobody honestly explains during your PhD or postdoc is this: there isn't one "real" academic career. There are dozens-and most of them are invisible.You've absorbed a hidden curriculum without realizing it. Research beats teaching. Permanent beats temporary. Staying means success; leaving means failure....

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is transforming education, and language classrooms are no exception. This groundbreaking volume brings together international scholars and practitioners to examine how AI is reshaping the teaching and learning of additional languages. Edited by Louise Ohashi, Mary Hillis, and Robert Dykes,...

A Study of Educational Innovation, Leadership, and Politics The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College (UTB/TSC), on the Mexican border at the tip of South Texas, was an innovative partnership between a university and a community college. Yet just two decades...

Permaculture gardens are hands-on holistic regenerative opportunities for more life-centred business education. Community gardening is a growing movement worldwide, offering multiple environmental and social benefits, including greater energy efficiency in buildings, enhanced biodiversity in cities, production of locally grown, organic vegetables, integration of local...

Author: James L. ShulmanISBN-10: 0691253390ISBN-13: 9780691253398Publisher: Princeton University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/24/2026Pages: 272Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.61d

This new and expanded edition is designed for students taking DC electrical circuit analysis courses. It includes a range of problems and detailed solutions to enhance understanding of the subject. The textbook features partially and fully solved exercises and hints for the necessary formulas...

New Conversations on Global Citizenship Education explores the multifaceted aspects of global citizenship education (GCE) in the context of contemporary university research, teaching and learning.Through dialogues, interviews and chapters from internationally recognised experts, the book illuminates GCE's complexities and potential within higher education contexts....

Navigating the Doctoral Journey: A Handbook of Strategies for Success, Second Edition provides doctoral students with a practical, cross-disciplinary handbook for successfully navigating the doctoral process-from initial program selection to program completion to post-program. With a dual focus on professional (EdD, DNP, etc.) and...

"The Great Dimming: The Modern IQ Decline" investigates a paradox that would have seemed unthinkable just decades ago: even as technology advances at breakneck speed, our collective cognitive capabilities appear to be deteriorating.Through compelling research and analysis, the book reveals how IQ scores that...

Intended for the interested medical or neuroscience student, this short book reviews the history of explorations into a neuroanatomy of language. From the 1860s to today, the production and interpretation of words, words, words has engaged clinical and scientific thinking. To tell that story,...

A medical student asks the teacher why the brains hemispheres control opposite sides of the body. In this short book, the teacher engages the medical student, all neuroscience students, and anyone interested in the structure of brains in humans and other animals. Why does...

The Schooled Heart addresses a basic question about the nature of the university: should moral education figure among the university's purposes? This volume offers an affirmative response to that question. A central purpose of the university is the moral formation of students--what Beaty and...

For those undertaking an education or teaching degree within higher education, this book provides study support and skills development for both oral and written communication in the context of education and teaching.Author: Jane Bottomley,Kulwinder Maude,Steven PryjmachukISBN-10: 1912508613ISBN-13: 9781912508617Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/16/2019Pages: 122Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize:...

How can we ensure that students truly benefit from the expert knowledge of their professors and tutors, and how can we enable them to put knowledge into practice? Decision-Based Learning (DBL) is an innovative instructional strategy that uncovers the 'expert blind spot' to reveal...

From Britain's 'Generation Rent' to Hong Kong's notorious 'cage homes', societies around the world are facing a housing crisis of unprecedented proportions. The social consequences have been profound, with a lack of affordable housing resulting in overcrowding, homelessness, broken families and, in many countries,...

China is transforming Africa's information space. It is assisting African broadcasters with extensive loans, training and exchange programmes and has set up its own media operations on the continent in the form of CCTV Africa. In the telecommunications sector, China is helping African governments...

What does it mean to teach well? In short, it means a willingness to do anything that helps students learn. Teaching Well investigates the fundamental principle of what teaching effectively entails by exploring the key dynamics of a learning-centered classroom. Based on interviews with...

This book ""Advanced Uses Of Measurement" For Class 9 Part-1" deals with the essential concepts in physics from fundamental to advanced level and it's also useful for secondary and higher secondary students of Physics. This book is easy for example the fundamental concepts of...

This book on service-learning provides a current view of service-learning research in the second language classroom and practical applications for the acquisition of both cultural knowledge as well as the different language modalities. This book helps in understanding how using service-learning in the language...

This book on service-learning provides a current view of service-learning research in the second language classroom and practical applications for the acquisition of both cultural knowledge as well as the different language modalities. This book helps in understanding how using service-learning in the language...

Have you been working toward a qualitative doctorate without a guide? Immy Holloway and Lorraine Brown are here to help. Breaking down the process step by step, this book gives essential advice on navigating the whole program. You'll first get some tips on selecting...

There is no question to the fact that online video is as ubiquitous today as any phenomenon of the past. Countless hours of digital video are uploaded to various online video platforms every minute. Faced with the incredible changes underway, it only makes sense...

The early boom of Web-based education in the 1990s, both in the United States and abroad (e.g., in Australia and the UK), saw a flurry of publications on the subject of university and industry partnerships, with a focus on ways in which online learning...

This Handbook provides windows into worldwide research endeavors, including countries not usually widely known in international education studies. The goal of this compendium is to foster the understanding of research and education from different national and cultural perspectives, and to support the exchange of...

The primary purpose of this book is to invite educators to (re)think what it means to critically conceptualize knowledge about the world. In other words, imagining curriculum in a critical way means decolonizing mainstream knowledge about global societies. Such an approach re-evaluates how we...

Research Perspectives: Thought and Practice in Music Education calls attention to various theoretical and methodological aspects within the expanding field of research in music education. Perspectives presented in this volume offer readers a host of ideas and practices that range from international and historical...

(orginally published by Allyn & Bacon 1997)This book provides a powerful and clear picture of some of the outstanding programs designed and implemented in the United States to provide young adolescents with rich, meaningful, and powerful learning activities with community service.The book is comprised...

Since the beginning of the 20th century, the film industry has confronted, challenged, and explored various social issues through its films. Social issue films are an excellent resource for teaching social issues. Teachers will find this book to be a valuable resource for teaching...

Research Perspectives: Thought and Practice in Music Education calls attention to various theoretical and methodological aspects within the expanding field of research in music education. Perspectives presented in this volume offer readers a host of ideas and practices that range from international and historical...

Higher education (HE) in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has expanded dramatically in the last fifteen years, as the average gross enrollment rate has grown from 21% to 43% between 2000 and 2013, and many new institutions and programs have opened. While HE...

Teaching Double Negatives: Disadvantage and Dissent at Community College asks whether exploring narratives that subvert dominant Western paradigms of progress in classrooms enables students to re-narrate and represent their lives. In seven years of teaching literature and philosophy at Brooklyn's only community college, Robert...

Satisfaction ratings from tenure-track faculty at 200 institutions across the country reveal best practices and the key elements of workplace success.Landing a tenure-track position is no easy task. Achieving tenure is even more difficult. Under what policies and practices do faculty find greater clarity...

The third volume of Margaret W. Rossiter's landmark survey of the history of American women scientists focuses on their pioneering efforts and contributions from 1972 to the present. Central to this story are the struggles and successes of women scientists in the era of...

A decade ago, the majority of liberal arts colleges, suffering from a decline in resources, drifted from their traditional missions. This study looks at three insitutions and suggests that a clear mission is more than a common goal.Author: Matthew HartleyISBN-10: 1138988049ISBN-13: 9781138988040Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

This book documents the lived experiences of women of color academics who have leveraged their professional positions to challenge the status quo in their scholarship, teaching, service, activism, and leadership. By presenting reflexive work from various vantage points within and outside of the academy,...

This comprehensive guide for new university teachers brings together straightforward and practical advice on small group teaching alongside examples of practice across disciplines. Author: Kate Exley,Reg Dennick,Andrew FisherISBN-10: 1138590630ISBN-13: 9781138590632Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/12/2019Pages: 202Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.87lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d

This title, first published in 1975, analyses the ways in which developments in Victorian universities have shaped both the structure and the assumptions of British higher education in the twentieth century. No period of British higher education has been more full of change nor...

Ahlia University contributes to the advancement and propagation of knowledge by encouraging its academics and research students to publish their original research that can be applied to real-life situations. Co-operation with Brunel University London in the United Kingdom led to the establishing of a...

If the body of knowledge of a profession is a living landscape of practice, then our personal experience of learning can be thought of as a journey through this landscape. Within Learning in Landscapes of Practice, this metaphor is further developed in order to...

Author: Mary M. Licklider,The University of Missouri Grant WriterISBN-10: 1118192478ISBN-13: 9781118192474Publisher: Jossey-BassLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/28/2012Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.70lbsSize: 10.90h x 8.50w x 0.80d

Strong academic advising has been found to be a key contributor to student persistence (Center for Public Education, 2012), and many are expected to play an advising role, including academic, career, and faculty advisors; counselors; tutors; and student affairs staff. Yet there is little...

This guide informs the construction and execution of studies exploring college student development over time.Longitudinal studies represent a gold standard for understanding college student experiences and outcomes, yet many scholars partake in single-time surveys and interviews to avoid the challenges that occur during prolonged...

This book reports on an empirical study of oral feedback practices in doctoral supervision meetings, observing supervisors' and students' conduct to enable a new understanding of the social organisation of doctoral research supervision.In a field that has predominantly drawn on surveys and interviews, this...

In this practical book, Professor Abby Day addresses two inter-related and most challenging areas for academics and researchers: how to secure research funding and how to get research published. It draws on and builds upon her two international bestsellers, How to Get Research Published...

Helping you get to grips with online learning, this book contains a wealth of practical tips and strategies that will make studying online easier.Author: Graham JonesISBN-10: 103219538XISBN-13: 9781032195384Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/07/2022Pages: 232Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d

This book outlines creative and effective course organization and teaching-learning strategies for higher education courses. By organizing the strategies according to course progress, and offering corresponding rubrics for assessment, this guide for instructors offers a solid foundation for an ever-changing teaching and learning landscape....

Rethinking Problem-based Learning for the Digital Age provides grounded, evidence-based strategies for teaching faculty, academic developers, and educational technologists who are changing their problem-based learning modules and programmes from face-to-face to online. Author: Maggi Savin-Baden,Heather FraserISBN-10: 1032153202ISBN-13: 9781032153209Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/15/2023Pages: 184Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize:...

International Student Recruitment and Mobility in Non-Anglophone Countries offers a detailed analysis of global dimensions and trends in international student mobility and recruitment.Author: Hans de WitISBN-10: 1032102349ISBN-13: 9781032102344Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/25/2022Pages: 304Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.41lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d