Education - Higher

By drawing on qualitative research conducted in universities in Cyprus, this book presents an account of life in the academy from a feminist perspective. In doing so, the texts uncover new, gendered identities emerging as a result of neoliberal and postfeminist discourses in Higher...

With the growing environment and consciousness of "outcome-based education," the importance of this subject has increased manyfold. Unfortunately, there is little information on engineering pedagogy available outside of scattered journal articles, conference and symposium proceedings, workshop notes, and government and company reports. This book...

Using Marxist critique, this book explores manifestations of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Higher Education and demonstrates how it contributes to the functioning and existence of the capitalist university. Challenging the idea that AI is a break from previous capitalist technologies, the book offers nuanced...

This book explores European student migration from the perspectives of Eastern European students moving to Western Europe for study. Whilst most research on student migration in Europe focuses on the experiences of Western European students, this book uniquely casts a light on Eastern European...

This edited volume contributes a novel understanding of the past, present and future of higher education across the six countries that make up the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).Against the backdrop of intense political, ideological and epistemological disruptions across the Arabian Gulf Region over the...

Providing an extraordinary picture of the inner workings of elite universities, Elite Universities and the Making of Privilege draws on current debates on education and inequality and considers the relevance of universities' global brand identities.Author: Kalwant Bhopal,Martin MyersISBN-10: 0367466066ISBN-13: 9780367466060Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/31/2023Pages: 146Format:...

Through in-depth interviews with the presidents of major Chinese universities, this text explores the changing demands on leaders in Higher Education in the wake of globalization, and develops a contemporary model of Hybrid Leadership.Glocalization and the Development of a Hybrid Leadership Model examines the...

Exploring the predicates of education from theoretical, practical and historical perspectives, this book revalorizes the central role of the humanities in the ethical and aesthetic formation of the individual.This book considers timely questions of process and epistemology in today's academy. It examines the subject...

Bringing together accounts of online community engagement from a range of perspectives, this book considers how the changing landscape of doctoral communities might be used to inform institutional level decisions about doctoral provision and support.Author: Julie SheldonISBN-10: 0367224003ISBN-13: 9780367224004Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/11/2021Pages: 168Format: HardcoverWeight:...

Leading Higher Education As and For Public Good asserts that the purpose of higher education is twofold: for public good and as public good. Acknowledging that the notion of public good increasingly cannot be taken for granted, the book argues that leading, teaching and...

Addressing the contemporary issues relating to the delivery of education, this book explores the challenges of creating effective learning communities. It focuses on the creation and implementation of strategies which permeate and influence culture and enable staff to innovate. Author: Dawne J. GurbuttISBN-10: 0367183447ISBN-13:...

Waking up to the reactivity of concepts, to their myriad possibilities for signification, to the range and strength of affective responses they provoke, can happen at any time, in any place. Conceptual contestations shake up the comfortably consolidated foundations of sociological knowledge production, but...

This book critiques models of intercultural competence, whilst suggesting examples of specific alternative approaches that will successfully foster intercultural competence in teacher education.Bringing together diverse perspectives from teacher educators and student teachers, this volume discusses the need to move beyond essentialism, culturalism and assumptions...

""Informed by an intimate knowledge of a social literacies perspective, this book is full of profound insights and unexpected connections. Its scholarly, clear-eyed analysis of the role of new media in higher education sets the agenda for e-learning research in the twenty-first century" Ilana...

Private higher education is perhaps the most rapidly growing segment of postsecondary education worldwide. In this collection, the authors provide a multifaceted and comparative analysis of private higher education and consider both broad issues and specific case studies. The only book currently available to...

The freedom of academics to pursue knowledge and truth in their research, writing, and teaching is a fundamental principle of contemporary higher education in the United States. But this freedom has been hard won and regularly abridged, reinterpreted, and violated. Academic freedom has been...

Emphasizing that diversity in the curriculum is as much about a way of thinking as it is about specific information, Lutzker presents a compendium of innovative and practical classroom strategies and widely available information resources which will enable faculty to increase the multicultural content...

Asia is home to a majority of the world's population and has an expanding economy. As the West engages in greater interaction with the East, developments in Asia have increasingly greater significance throughout the world. Higher education is central to the tremendous expansion of...

This book examines faculty mobility in the 1980s from the perspective of process and market environment, and makes comparisons between current research findings and those reported by Theodore Caplow and Reece McGee in 1958 in The Academic Marketplace. The present study, like the earlier...

Behind the hallowed walls of higher education are students who did not grow up expecting to attend college, students who walked through open doors not knowing what to expect on the other side. For some, these open doors became revolving doors, and they simply...

Leading African American scholars examine the often neglected cultural context in research and policy development in African American higher education in this collection of essays. Past research has most often been conducted by individuals unfamiliar with the historical and cultural considerations of specific ethnic...

Believing that current educational policies and practices in American institutions of higher learning contribute to an incoherent, disjunctive, and wasteful four-year experience for many undergraduates, the author provides a sense of new direction to aid in the restructuring and reform of undergraduate education in...

The American university has embraced a thorough secularism that makes it increasingly marginal in a society that is characterized by high levels of religious belief. The very secularization that was supposed to be a liberating influence has resulted in the university's failure to provide...

This unique hands-on guide uses a highly effective case approach to explore specific, reality-based examples of the complex, controversial, and difficult ethical issues that students face on college campuses today-e.g., plagiarism, racism and hate speech, date rape, alcohol abuse. Then, through thought-provoking questions and...

The Economics of Screening and Risk Sharing in Higher Education explores advances in information technologies and in statistical and social sciences that have significantly improved the reliability of techniques for screening large populations. These advances are important for higher education worldwide because they affect...

Bridges, Pathways and Transitions: International Innovations in Widening Participation shows that widening participation initiatives and policies have had a profound impact on improving access to higher education to historically marginalized groups of students from diverse socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds. The research presented provides a...

A Global Perspective on Private Higher Education provides a timely review of the significant growth of private higher education in many parts of the world during the last decade. The book is concurrent with significant changes in the external operating environment of private higher...

Cathedrals of Learning: Great and Ancient Universities of Western Europe provides a conspectus of the great Western European universities, pithily tells their life stories, showcases their architectural heritage, and describes the art, literary, and natural history collections they have accumulated over the centuries. This...

In an era where sustainable development is paramount, higher education stands as a pivotal force in shaping the future of international development. Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) explores the profound influence of higher education as a hub for human capital building, emphasising the necessity...

This book is designed to introduce professors and administrators in higher education to the philosophical, theoretical, and research support for using a constructivist perspective on learning to guide the reconstruction of undergraduate education. It presents an original framework for systematically linking educational philosophy and...

Author: Bryan YackulicISBN-13: 9798278634935Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/05/2026Pages: 128Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.29lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.27d

Author: Steven GlasserISBN-13: 9798261889632Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/03/2026Pages: 108Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.34lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.22d

Author: Victoria I. EkpoISBN-10: 183708243XISBN-13: 9781837082438Publisher: Emerald Publishing LimitedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/30/2026Pages: 188Format: Hardcover

Teaching Teachers: The Afrocentric Model of Education presents a powerful framework for rebuilding education through African-centered knowledge, cultural identity, and the ethical principles of Maat. Drawing on the metatheory of Afrocentricity, Dr. Nah Dove demonstrates how meaningful learning begins with cultural memory and the...

This is a "starter book" for preparing successful Two-Year College (TYC) faculty. In this slim tome graduate students, as well as TYC and four-year college faculty, articulate their experience and expertise with the goal of improving and expanding graduate students' career dreams and intellectual...

Higher Education and SDG12 focuses on how higher education institutions worldwide are furthering Sustainable Development Goal 12 'Responsible Consumption and Production' through the integration of knowledge and practice toward sustainability in their campuses, curriculum, collaborations, and cultures. Offering an international view, the chapters present...

First published in 1984, The Politics and Ethics of Evaluation considers, from the vantage point of the authors' considerable experience of a wide range of evaluation, the ways in which they, and others, have coped with ethical and political problems that inherently arise during...

The Letters asks what do Equity, diversity, and inclusion-related letters do for the university as an institution and for those who are supposed to benefit from EDI initiatives? What do these letters tell us about institutionalized relationships, control, and creative resistance? Intimate and moving,...

Walk With Me: Lessons in Transcendent Leadership is a powerful exploration of leadership beyond position and performance--offering a visionary model rooted in spiritual intelligence, ethical courage, and communal elevation. Authored by Dr. Hakim J. Lucas, a transcendent higher education leader, this book reimagines what...

Universities are in a unique position to be agents of change in their communities and to contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This edited collection features an up-to-date collection of in-depth case studies from universities in the MENA region, as well as comparative...

This Calculus I workbook is designed to provide structure to the Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL) Workshop. These materials, originally developed from courses at the University of Maine, Morehouse College, and Prince George's Community College in Maryland, have been tested and provide students with many...

This book offers an immersive exploration of how Higher-Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) are nurtured in higher education, drawing on phenomenological research and innovative methodology. It challenges the idea that HOTS can be instilled through strategies alone, instead revealing the lived experiences of educators navigating...

Beyond the Notes: Teaching and Learning Music at Historically Black Colleges and Universities examines teaching and learning music at America's Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) through a quadripartite framework - the context (sociocultural influences and institutional missions); the constituents (demographic and characteristics traits...

The Bakous Unified Field Theory (BUFT) presents a cohesive model of the universe, connecting gravity, electromagnetism, time, matter, and consciousness as different expressions of a single energetic field. This theory proposes that the cosmos originated from a subtle fluctuation in a foundational energy medium,...

Literacy Tutoring in the Community presents best practices in literacy tutoring through a guidebook of high-impact and systematic instruction toward successful tutoring. With a grounding in pedagogical philosophies, this book includes structured approaches to tutoring aligned to the five pillars set forth by the...

This book explores the global dimensions of internationalization in business and management education. Highlighting India's growing influence and expanding presence in the international education landscape, it addresses institutional strategies for global relevance, focusing on innovation, international positioning, and the role of technology. It delves...

Author: Alexandra RansfordISBN-13: 9798884781498Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/13/2024Pages: 34Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.13lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.07d

Sergeants Lead the Way is a Practical Leadership Guide for police sergeants with a focus on Professionalism, Character Based Leadership, and Leading From the Front. Many programs focus on management and supervision, which are both components of leadership. Here you will see the frontline...

Has studying Pharmacology been a Catch-22 for you? Does it seem a closed book, something nigh to impossible? Now that this book is in your hands, It is for sure you are interested in the subject and trying to decipher it out. Well, You...

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...