Education - Higher

This book addresses the growing demand for applied experiences that move students beyond learning into the realm of doing by supporting the development of skills and competencies that align with emerging areas of innovation and work. It considers the urgent need to promote and...

Ever since its origins as a post-World War II movement designed to democratize education and promote civic engagement, General Education has been the source and subject of political battles. From Liberation to Remediation explores how Gen Ed's initial goal of providing a common intellectual...

The essential guide to teaching and learning in higher education for anyone in teaching and learning support roles at university, including early career academics, postgraduate researchers and graduate teaching assistants.Author: Richard Bale,Mary SeabrookISBN-10: 1529680042ISBN-13: 9781529680041Publisher: Sage Publications LtdLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/11/2025Pages: 264Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 9.61h...

"Thematic Materia Medica: A Clinical Axis-Based Homoeopathic Materia Medica for the Modern Practitioner" presents a fresh, structured, and clinically grounded approach to understanding remedies.Built around the concept of clinical axes - linking systems such as Mind + Skin, Heart + Uterus, Nerves + Glands...

"Fun Facts for Adults: Quirky, Clever & Just Plain Cool" is a smart, funny, and endlessly entertaining journey through the weird, wonderful, and downright surprising corners of human knowledge. Packed with bite-sized trivia across psychology, food science, language, pop culture, and everyday mysteries, this...

This book is dedicated to the countless individuals living with Adult ADHD who demonstrate remarkable resilience, perseverance, and creativity in the face of significant challenges. Their unwavering spirits, coupled with their persistent quest for self-understanding and improved wellbeing, inspire us all. It is also...

This book, Macro Economics, has been carefully designed to meet the requirements of the NEP B.Com program prescribed by Assam and Gauhati University. It provides a comprehensive, structured, and student-friendly approach to understanding key concepts, ensuring clarity and academic rigor. The content has been...

Author: Uday Shanker DixitISBN-10: 9811980152ISBN-13: 9789811980152Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/03/2023Pages: 249Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 9.13h x 5.98w x 0.32d

This volume presents a distinctively Lacanian psychoanalytic approach to the theorizing, understanding, and critique of curriculum in higher education. In this work, the author presents the main theories of curriculum in the current discourse, develops a notion of critique, and applies it to existing...

This book draws on the perspectives of authors, supervisors, reviewers and editors to present a rich, nuanced picture of the practices and challenges involved in writing for scholarly publication. Organized into four sections, it brings together international experts and junior scholars from a variety...

This book investigates transdisciplinary, arts-based approaches to developing innovative and pertinent higher education pedagogy. Introducing timely critical thinking strategies, the author addresses some of the key issues facing educators today in an increasingly complex digital, technological and ecological world. The author combines emerging ideas...

Argues that rankings and indicators are constitutive elements of global knowledge governanceExplores how higher education and innovation policies have become central aspects in national economic competitivenessExamines the history of rankings, their politicization, their shifting practices and growing fragmentationAuthor: Tero Erkkilä,Ossi PiironenISBN-10: 3319689401ISBN-13: 9783319689401Publisher: Palgrave...

Highlights the difficulties of holding a position within academia and how these might differ across the career span Draws together an international and interdisciplinary range of contributions to present a variety of experiences Asks whether feminist spaces can offer freedom or flight from the...

Provides new approach to understanding the relationship between inequality, knowledge production and innovationContributes to innovation literature by analyzing the role of universities and the academic environmentPresents comparative cases to help readers better grasp these trends in an international contextAuthor: Rodrigo Arocena,Bo Göransson,Judith SutzISBN-10: 3319641514ISBN-13:...

Highlights issues and challenges that affect the assessment of EFL writing in the Arab world Examines the Arab world, an area which is often neglected by EFL researchersProvides practical guidance for teachers and researchers working with EFL students in this part of the worldAuthor:...

Explores what is it like for low-income students to feel the need to "pass" in their new college environments where the majority of their peers enjoy a high level of economic, social, and cultural capital Presents ethnographic data to show disparities between low-income students...

This book explores the multiple pathways from scholarships for international study to positive social change. Bringing together studies from academic researchers, evaluators and program designers and policymakers from Africa, Asia, Latin and North America, Europe, and Australia, the book compiles the latest research and...

This book provides new insights on the unique role of doctoral students and new faculty as they join other stewards of the academy working within Christian higher education. Weaving together a variety of voices--graduate students, pastors, and seasoned scholars--the book examines the Christian university's...

This book offers both a theoretical and empirical examination of elite education, at all stages from the early years to university level. The book explores the various manifestations of internationalisation of education; the implications of these for national education systems; the formation and re-articulation...

This book offers a conceptual re-think of how university community engagement functions as a lifelong learning resource for communities. While having a specific focus on the South African context, it has important implications for other universities which are concerned with their communities, and makes...

Author: Diane E. EynonISBN-10: 3319531433ISBN-13: 9783319531434Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/05/2017Pages: 252Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.63d

This book advances an in-depth, comprehensive analysis of flagship universities in Africa - the largest, most selective, and most prestigious universities on the continent. The book draws on a range of country-specific case-studies, including Botswana, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania and...

This book examines career patterns of the professoriate. Professors may appear as specialised individualists in their fields, and yet they follow pathways which are anything but unique. Drawing from a unique data set, the authors analyse the trajectories of the almost 2000 linguists and...

In this book, eleven recent college graduates describe in vivid detail their journeys from racially segregated, underfunded public schools to a state university, and the obstacles they encountered along the way. Chapters highlight personal accounts of poverty, violence, and bullying in childhood, the persistence...

This book establishes community engagement and service-learning as pathways to advancing human development and common good. Using the human development and capability approach as normative frameworks, with South Africa as a frame of reference, the author investigates the theoretical contributions and ultimate benefits of...

This book examines how the two educational systems of China and the Nordic countries intersect. Over the past decade, there has been increased growth and interaction between China and the Nordic countries due to both government encouragement and academic curiosity. This book rejects a...

This edited volume seeks to combine and highlight the theoretical and practical aspects of teaching by exploring and reflecting on the ways in which Cultural Studies is taught and practiced at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, in the US and internationally. Contributors create...

This book showcases and celebrates the work of Gender and Sexuality Education scholars in order to challenge current negative interpretations of the field, and work towards new shared visions. The editors and contributors call for, affirm and offer examples of pathways towards exciting and...

This book examines the learning and development process of students' scientific thinking skills. Universities should prepare students to be able to make judgements in their working lives based on scientific evidence. However, an understanding of how these thinking skills can be developed is limited....

This edited book examines the use of English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) in a variety of international higher education contexts. The internationalization of education - indicated by increasing mobility of students, staff and ideas, as well as by policies and programmes put...

This book investigates the sociolinguistic dimension of the internationalisation of higher education, examining the linguistic tensions and ambiguities experienced by universities around the world, particularly in non-anglophone contexts. Joining current debates within discursive and ethnographic approaches to language policy, the authors analyse the narrative...

Around the world, the landscape of Higher Education is increasingly shaped by discourses of employability, rankings, and student satisfaction. Under these conditions, the role of universities in preparing students for all facets of life, and to contribute to the public good, is reshaped in...

This book demonstrates how the pedagogical decision making of university academics can be shaped by engagement with an educational philosophy known as "relationship-centred education". Beginning with critical analysis of concepts such as student engagement, student satisfaction, and student-centred learning, the author goes on to...

Through the discursive political lenses of Occupy Wall Street and the 99%, this volume of essays examines the study of Shakespeare and of literature more generally in today's climate of educational and professional uncertainty. Acknowledging the problematic relationship of higher education to the production...

Author: Deane E. NeubauerISBN-10: 3030027945ISBN-13: 9783030027940Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/24/2019Pages: 250Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.06lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.69d

This book presents multiple cultural and contextual takes on working performances of academic/writer/thinker, both inside and outside the academy. With worldwide, seismic shifts taking place in both the contexts and terrains of universities, and subsequently the altering of what it means to write as...

This book examines quality teaching in professional education in the fields of engineering and international knowledge structures. The second of a two-volume series, the editors and contributors structure the book around case studies which highlight the elements constituting good practice within professional education. While...

When Stephen Lehmkuhle became the chancellor of the brand-new University of Minnesota-Rochester campus, he had to start from scratch. He did not inherit a legacy mission that established what the campus did and how to do it; rather, he needed to find a way...

Just how medieval is the modern university? Rarely do even scholars of medievalism employ its methods and approaches to thinking about institutions. Universities arose out of concerns of the church and the state in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries in Western Europe. From the...

Vocation is most often linked with a specific calling for those in professional ministry. Doing More with Life explores the way higher education can expand this limited understanding of vocation. Specifically, this volume shows that higher education can clarify how God calls all people,...

In Controlling Knowledge, Lorna Stefanick offers a provocative inquiry into the regulatory regime that governs freedom of information and the protection of privacy (FOIP). The application of FOIP laws requires a balancing act between two potentially competing goals -- the desire to provide citizens...

This unique book presents a personal and global approach to teaching mathematics at university level. It is impressively broad in its scope, and thought-provoking in its advice. The author writes with a love of his subject and the benefit of a long and varied...

Responding to the global and unprecedented challenge of capacity building for twenty-first century life, this book is a practical guide for tertiary education institutions to quickly and effectively renew the curriculum towards education for sustainable development. The book begins by exploring why curriculum change...

Higher education today is facing profound and unprecedented changes to which leaders must respond effectively. Offering a unique insider view of higher education, Ferris and Waldron skillfully showcase expert leadership, providing a rich and meaningful understanding of higher education leadership from across the nexus...

Although credit is a well-established feature of the higher education sector in the USA, it is a relatively recent and radical phenomenon in the UK. Credit is a vehicle for widening access and student choice, for curricular flexibility and mobility of learning. Credit provides...

Despite improved access to higher education for women, the distribution of women and men varies considerably between different fields of study. The chapters in this edited collection explore the participation status of women in higher education across the varying socio-economic and sociological backgrounds observed...

Canada has become one of the most popular destinations for international students at the higher education level. A number of complex factors and trends, both in Canada and globally, have contributed to the emergence of Canada as a destination for international higher education. However,...

The Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF)'s aims, implementation and effect on the English higher education sector remains a controversial and often contested subject. This text offers a stimulating and wide-ranging interdisciplinary discussion of the implications of the TEF on the UK's fast-moving policy environment, and...

The college experience is increasingly positioned to demonstrate its value as a worthwhile return on investment. Specific, definable activities, such as research experience, first-year experience, and experiential learning, are marketed as delivering precise skill sets in the form of an individual educational package. Through...

This book is needed to help guide the conversation around ways to address the great disparities that impact African American males in intercollegiate athletics. In particular, scholars and practitioners have grappled with issues surrounding the climate and opportunities presented to African American males as...