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Craftsmanship In Teaching is a classic educational book written by William Chandler Bagley in 1911. Bagley was a prominent American educator who believed that teaching should be viewed as a craft, much like the work of a skilled artisan. In this book, he argues...

Globalization and internationalization are salient features of our times in significant modern and post-modern social theories. This study contributes to the literature, and delineates a comprehensive picture of China's higher education internationalization, with an analysis of its costs and benefits, set in an international...

The College Instructor's Guide to Writing Test Items: Measuring Student Learning addresses the need for direct and clear guidance on item writing for assessing broad ranges of content in many fields. Author: Michael Rodriguez,Anthony AlbanoISBN-10: 1138886521ISBN-13: 9781138886520Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/26/2017Pages: 158Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 9.00h...

This volume provides higher education scholars, administrators, and practitioners with a more holistic understanding of the challenges that colleges and universities face in implementing adequate and effective sexual assault prevention and response practices.Author: Sara Carrigan WootenISBN-10: 1138849405ISBN-13: 9781138849402Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/09/2015Pages: 216Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsSize:...

Exploring the Palestinian Student Movement from an historical and sociological perspective, this book demonstrates how Palestinian national identity has been built in the absence of national institutions, whilst emphasizing the role of higher education as an agent of social change, capable of crystallizing patterns...

In this book, Phan Le-Ha identifies and discusses four growing self-sustained/sustaining fundamental phenomena in transnational education (TNE), namely (1) the planned, evolving and transformative mediocrity behind the endorsement of English-medium education legitimized by the interactive Asia-the West relationship; (2) the strategic employment of the...

This book illuminates the experiences of a set of students and faculty who are members of the Dalit caste - commonly known as the 'untouchables' - and are relatively 'successful' in that they attend or are academics at a prestigious university. The book provides...

Affirmative Action and Racial Equity is an important resource for higher education scholars and administrators to understand the nuances of the affirmative action legal debate and to identify the challenges and potential strategies toward racial equity and inclusion moving forward.Author: Uma M. Jayakumar,Liliana M....

In the World Library of Educationalists series, international scholars compile career-long selections of what they judge to be among their finest pieces so the world has access to them in a single manageable volume. Readers are able to follow the themes and strands and...

This book is about the internationalization of higher education institutions. The internationalization of higher education is a global phenomenon, but with substantial variation in how it is made operational across regions and individual institutions. This book's focus is on the actual practices in institutions...

Measurements in Distance Education is a concise, well-organized guide to some of the many instruments, scales, and methods that have been created to assess distance education environments, learners, and teachers.Author: Amy J. CatalanoISBN-10: 113871447XISBN-13: 9781138714472Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/12/2018Pages: 174Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w...

This important book introduces Arnett's emerging adulthood theory to scholars and practitioners in higher education and student affairs, illuminating how recent social, cultural, and economic changes have altered the pathway to adulthood.Author: Joseph L. MurrayISBN-10: 1138654124ISBN-13: 9781138654129Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/28/2018Pages: 220Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.03lbsSize: 9.00h...

Since the 1960s, Japan has been a historical leading study abroad destination for US undergraduate students. This book explores the long-term impacts of study abroad through a lens of knowledge diplomacy and the cultivation of individuals with understanding of the host country and world...

Women Activating Agency in Academia seeks to create and expand safe spaces for scholarly, professional and personal stories and assemblages of agency. It provides readers with the opportunity to connect with the strategies women are using to navigate academe and the core values, linked...

Free speech has been a historically volatile issue in higher education. In recent years, however, there has been a surge of progressive censorship on campus. This wave of censorship has been characterized by the explosive growth of such policies as "trigger warnings" for course...

This volume seeks to identify and explore the dynamics of global forces on the development of higher education in Asia, in particular, how neoliberalism has affected reforms on university governance and management in the region. It includes a set of country-specific studies on how...

Originally published in 1975 The Highest Education is the first thorough study of the growth of students at British universities from the 1940s to 1975, particularly in the field of postgraduate study. The book reviews the history of graduate education in Britain and evaluates...

For hundreds of years, knowledge has been central in understanding the university. Over recent decades, however, it is the economic value of knowledge that has come to the fore. Now, in a post-truth world, knowledge is also treated with suspicion and has become a...

Originally published in 1984 The Student Experience of Higher Education provides a detailed analysis of the student experience, based on first hand discussion and observation. Information taken from interviews with a wide variety of students is used to explore the way in which new,...

Originally published in 1969, Anarchy and Culture both documents and describes the influence of the student and academic in the case of revolution and protest within the university. The book looks at the theory behind the culture of revolution within the contemporary university and...

Beyond McDonaldization provides new concepts of higher education for the twenty-first century in a unique manner, challenging much that is written in mainstream texts. This book undertakes a reassessment of the growth of McDonaldization in higher education by exploring how the application of Ritzer's...

What explains the peculiar trajectory of the university and liberal education in India? Can we understand the crisis in the university in terms of the idea of education underlying it?This book explores these vital questions and traces the intellectual history of the idea of...

When the Soviet Union collapsed universities were freed from state control and left to themselves. This forced universities to be much more market-oriented. This book explores this transformation from the end of the Soviet Union until the present. Based on extensive original research, the...

While many students, parents, educators, and organizations who hire their graduates hold US universities in high regard, the cost of higher education has risen much faster than the rate of inflation. High costs, in turn, have severely limited access to higher education for large...

This book examines how sole parents are constituted within university contexts, through social discourse and social policies. The gendered assumptions of female parental care-work are analysed as both constraining and enabling sole parent participation in higher education. Social welfare policies and the policies of...

This book is a narrative study of the lives and experiences of sixty-eight Black collegians in a set of northern private colleges in the Midwest between 1945 and 1965. Through oral histories and archival material, this text documents and reflects on their experiences in...

This book employs an an intersectional feminist approach to highlight how research and teaching agendas are being skewed by commercialized, corporatized and commodified values and assumptions implicit in the neoliberalization of the academy. The authors combine 50 years of academic experience and focus on...

Author: Geeta NairISBN-10: 1137574712ISBN-13: 9781137574718Publisher: Palgrave PivotLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/28/2017Pages: 74Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.25d

Provides the reader with a robust theoretical account of branding higher education while providing a practical means of undertaking branding that will not isolate faculty and split the plurality of stakeholder communitiesDraws on the works of Jacques Lacan and Ernesto Laclau to underpin critical...

Author: Mary Ann StankiewiczISBN-10: 1137544481ISBN-13: 9781137544483Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/15/2016Pages: 263Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.12lbsSize: 8.54h x 6.08w x 0.81d

This book explores higher education, social class and social mobility from the point of view of those most intimately involved: the undergraduate students. It is based on a project which followed a cohort of young undergraduate students at Bristol's two universities in the UK...

The First World War had innumerable consequences for all aspects of society; universities and education being no exception. This book details the myriad impacts of the war on British universities: telling how universities survived the war, their contribution to the war effort and the...

This book emphasizes the inherently democratic nature of education; from those who practice in higher education institutions and are involved in decision-making, to those questioning the methods of reform processes in those institutions. As they are faced with increasing pressures to restructure and change...

This book suggests how the internationalisation of teaching and learning for sustainability can be a vehicle for a two-way flow of knowledge across national, cultural and theoretical boundaries. Establishing links between the internationalisation of education and the ideal of global sustainability, the author presents...

This book examines the unexpected convergence between the higher education systems of India and France. This has resulted due to links between higher education investment and economic growth in the light of the knowledge triangle and the Lisbon strategy, which has recently been replaced...

This book explores how the kinds of world-wide restructurings of higher education and research work that are underway today have not only increased employment insecurity in academia but may actually be producing unemployment both for those within academia and for graduate job-seekers in other...

Around the globe, faculty and higher education leaders are actively changing what they teach to create a sustainable world. This book shares how to transition to programs and courses that teach just and sustainable business management practices critical for success.Author: Morgane FritzISBN-10: 1032862106ISBN-13: 9781032862101Publisher:...

Pursuing a Doctoral Degree demystifies the journey of selecting a program, navigating the application process, and engaging in the work required to complete a doctorate. Drawing on extensive interviews from over 20 diverse, accomplished professionals who have successfully attained doctorates, this book provides a...

Around the globe, faculty and higher education leaders are actively changing what they teach to create a sustainable world. This book shares how to transition to programs and courses that teach just and sustainable business management practices critical for success.Author: Morgane FritzISBN-10: 103283238XISBN-13: 9781032832388Publisher:...

Bringing together international perspectives, this book demonstrates the importance of reframing time in higher education and how we can view it as a resource to support wellbeing and self-care.Author: Sharon McDonoughISBN-10: 1032688610ISBN-13: 9781032688619Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/09/2024Pages: 168Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.61lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.41d

The Humanities, the Social Sciences and the University is an intellectual history of research in the humanities and social sciences. It scrutinizes the priorities, values, objectives and publishing agendas of the modern university in order to assess the institutional pressures on research in major...

Bourdieu's sociology has traditionally been confined to the limits of its French national context. This edited collection seeks to challenge these boundaries, applying Bourdieu's analysis of practice to Chinese education as it gains relevance and attention around the globe. This book stems from the...

Challenging Formalization in Education and Beyond addresses the effects of today's attempts to organize knowledge, processes, and performance in education, particularly in its ever-growing digital environments. Author: Peter SerdyukovISBN-10: 103226487XISBN-13: 9781032264875Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/03/2022Pages: 196Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

This timely book explores the transitional experiences of undergraduates in minority groups studying at university and how arts methods and practices can play an important role in facilitating these transitions.Based on research from UK universities, this volume is the first to draw together the...

Academic Coaching is the first comprehensive book about academic coaching in higher education, providing faculty and staff with a robust foundation in academic coaching that they can use to improve campus services to bolster student success.Author: Marc A. Howlett,Kristen RademacherISBN-10: 103226571XISBN-13: 9781032265711Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Teaching at Scale explores the characteristics and parameters of large-scale online learning by identifying, in its perceived drawbacks, a wealth of educational opportunities in disguise. Author: David JoynerISBN-10: 1032229411ISBN-13: 9781032229416Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/25/2022Pages: 278Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.24lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

This book provides an authoritative overview of the criteria and standards of the doctorate across a wide range of international settings, with a particular focus on the practices of examining.Author: Michael ByramISBN-10: 1032164360ISBN-13: 9781032164366Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/30/2022Pages: 272Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x...

This book explores higher education leadership during times of extreme pressures and limited, changing information. Author: Gabriela Cornejo WeaverISBN-10: 1032145552ISBN-13: 9781032145556Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/25/2022Pages: 246Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.16lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

This timely work investigates the possibility of unyoking and decolonising African university knowledges from colonial relics. It claims that academics from socially, politically, and geographically underprivileged communities in the South need to have their voices heard outside of the global power structure. The book...