Education - Higher

How the fear of a shortage in American science talent fuels cycles in the technical labor market Is the United States falling behind in the global race for scientific and engineering talent? Are U.S. employers facing shortages of the skilled workers that they need...

Long obscured by the more dramatic activities of post-World War II student activists, the history of the Japanese left-wing student movement during its formative period from 1918 until its suppression in the 1930s is analyzed here in detail for the first time. Focusing on...

For many college students, studying the hard sciences seems out of the question. Students and professors alike collude in the prejudice that physics and molecular biology, mathematics and engineering are elite disciplines restricted to a small number with innate talent. Gregory Light and Marina...

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...

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...

Student Bodies is the first book to link developments in college health with larger trends in American cultural and medical history. This comprehensive and engrossing study describes the origins and development of health services at institutions of higher education in the United States from...

Ivory Towers and Nationalist Minds traces the rise of the great American universities through their formative years, 1862-1920, examining the role of these schools and their leadership in shaping American politics and public policy. Nemec's provocative study demonstrates that universities provided the intellectual and...

After a remarkable career in higher education, Sidonie Smith offers Manifesto for the Humanities as a reflective contribution to the current academic conversation over the place of the Humanities in the 21st century. Her focus is on doctoral education and opportunities she sees for...

Interdisciplining Digital Humanities sorts through definitions and patterns of practice over roughly sixty-five years of work, providing an overview for specialists and a general audience alike. It is the only book that tests the widespread claim that Digital Humanities is interdisciplinary. By examining the...

A penetrating exploration of affirmative action's continued place in 21st-century higher education, The Next Twenty-five Years assembles the viewpoints of some of the most influential scholars, educators, university leaders, and public officials. Its comparative essays range the political spectrum and debates in two nations...

This book argues a new and more complex interpretation of the development and manifestations of the liberal arts movement in American higher education during the 1930s, 40s and 50s. Specifically, the book elucidates the under-explored yet formative role that the University of Virginia and...

Teachers are really performers, classrooms are stages, and students the captivated audience. In beautiful prose, Felman invites us to watch her one woman show on the art of performance in today's classrooms. These essays take on the greatest hits of the academy: identity politics,...

Creating Campus Cultures is the first book to explicitly focus on how campus cultures shape the experiences of racially diverse student populations.Author: Samuel D. MuseusISBN-10: 0415888190ISBN-13: 9780415888196Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/12/2011Pages: 240Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.20w x 0.70d

Written for educators seeking to engage students in collaboration and communication about authentic scenarios, The Power of Role-Based e-Learning offers helpful, accessible advice on the practice and research needed to design online role play.Author: Sandra Wills,Elyssebeth Leigh,Albert IpISBN-10: 0415877849ISBN-13: 9780415877848Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/18/2010Pages: 280Format:...

The book draws from a range of contributors in a wide variety of roles in Higher Education and all contributors are actively involved in the RAISE Network (Researching, Advancing and Inspiring Student Engagement). While utilising detailed case examples from UK universities the authors also...

In India, two critical aspects of public policy -- social justice and higher education -- have witnessed unprecedented expansion in recent years. While several programmes have been designed by the State to equalise access to higher education and implement formal inclusion, discrimination based on...

An Education in Facebook? examines and critiques the role of Facebook in the evolving landscape of higher education. Author: Mike KentISBN-10: 041571317XISBN-13: 9780415713177Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/14/2014Pages: 232Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.80d

This volume brings together internationally comparative academic perspectives, critical accounts and empirical research to fully explore the issues and experiences of education as a commodity.Author: Mike MolesworthISBN-10: 0415584450ISBN-13: 9780415584456Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/28/2010Pages: 264Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d

What does it mean to be authentic? Why should it matter whether or not we become more authentic? How might authenticity inform and enhance the social practice of the scholarship of university teaching and, by implication, the learning and development of students?Authenticity in and...

The authors of this innovative book explore in detail the challenges faced by doctoral researchers conducting practitioner research today.Author: Pat Drake,Linda HeathISBN-10: 0415490219ISBN-13: 9780415490214Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/02/2010Pages: 144Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.70d

In this timely and innovative book scholars from Europe, the UK, North America and Australia, explore their own sense of identity, reflecting both on their research and scholarly interests, and their work experiences. Taking the form of a debate, Changing Identities in Higher Education...

Offering a wealth of advice on how to foster creativity on an individual and an institutional level, this book will encourage lecturers to engage with the ideas and practice involved in helping students to be creative in all areas of their study.Author: Norman JacksonISBN-10:...

This guide provides user friendly advice and support for those currently involved with open learning and those considering it for the first time.Author: Phil RaceISBN-10: 0415342775ISBN-13: 9780415342773Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/11/2004Pages: 198Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 9.18h x 6.34w x 0.57d

In this book leading researchers in the field analyse in-depth the many changes that have taken place in learning and teaching in higher education over the last thirty years, with a detailed look at likely and desirable scenarios in the future.Author: Paul AshwinISBN-10: 0415341280ISBN-13:...

It is widely recognized that online and e-learning is no longer an exclusive approach used only in distance education and in isolation from traditional education programmes. A real difficulty facing educators and trainers is how to integrate these new learning methods and embed them...

This concise, no-nonsense guidebook de-mystifies first-class degrees in the arts, humanities and social sciences by explaining how to develop excellent reading, thinking and writing skills.Author: Thomas DixonISBN-10: 0415317320ISBN-13: 9780415317320Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/05/2004Pages: 192Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.78h x 5.70w x 0.74d

The Philosophy of Human Learning addresses current concerns with the nature of human learning from a distinctive philosophical perspective. Using insights derived from the work of Wittgenstein, it mounts a vigorous attack on influential contemporary accounts of learning, both in the 'romantic' Rousseauian tradition...

Based on research conducted in and around UK Universities, this book provides an examination of what quality assurance means for continuing professional education whilst exploring the range of existing practice within it.Author: Philip ToveyISBN-10: 0415098319ISBN-13: 9780415098311Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/16/1994Pages: 224Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.64lbsSize: 8.50h x...

This significant text employs an intersectional analysis and considers the role of queer frameworks to understand the experiences of Queer People of Color at historically white institutions of higher education in the U.S. By presenting data from student interviews and reflection journals, the book...

This book contributes to the growing body of work addressing the processes and consequences of national governments' audits of the performance of higher education institutions (HEIs) in different countries. Author: Martyna Śliwa,Neil KellardISBN-10: 036754749XISBN-13: 9780367547493Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/12/2021Pages: 96Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w...

Epistemic Justice, Mindfulness, and the Environmental Humanities explores how contemplative pedagogies and mindfulness can be used in the classroom to address epistemic and environmental injustice.In recent years, there has been a groundswell of interest in contemplative pedagogies in higher education, with increasing attention from...

This text presents a new critical theory addressing religious diversity, Christian religious privilege, and Christian hegemony in the United States. Author: Jenny L. SmallISBN-10: 0367438100ISBN-13: 9780367438104Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/31/2020Pages: 104Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.31d

This book critically examines the questions related to the access to and financing of higher education in India. The rapid expansion of knowledge economy in the neo-liberal era of globalisation has created an unprecedented demand for higher education, especially skill-based advanced learning. However, the...

Centered on the narratives from ethnically and racially diverse scholars of color with experience studying and working in predominantly White institutions in the United States, this volume offers critical reflection on common assumptions, policies, and practices which limit or preclude racial diversity and inclusion...

This volume investigates the "global education effect"--the impact of global education initiatives on institutional and individual practices and perceptions--with a special focus on the dynamics of border construction, recognition, subversion, and erasure regarding "Japan". The Japanese government's push for global education has taken shape...

This book problematises contemporary realities of the political dimension of the privatisation of higher education in Bangladesh. By exploring the complexities of neoliberalism as an economic and ideological doctrine, a mode of governance, and as a policy package, it considers the 'post' attached to...

Narrating the realities of teacher burnout, the reception of a Black intelligentsia, and HIV awareness in local communities, Black Americans in Higher Education, the eighth volume of Africana Studies, explores higher education across the United States as inextricably related to contemporary issues facing African...

In contrast to research that focuses on the underperformance of young Black males in the British education system, the dominant notion of this volume is educational success. By aiming to understand how young, Black--notably African and Caribbean--male education plays out in different educational spaces,...

Are you studying or working in academia and in need of support? Perhaps you're finding your work, study or personal life challenging or overwhelming; are experiencing bullying, harassment or abuse; or find your progress is being blocked by unfair, exploitative or precarious systems? Or...

Providing the latest research within the context of internationalization, this book presents internationally applicable, practical case studies that focus on support for integration programmes for international and home students, mobility programmes and initiatives which use an intercultural dialogue approach. Author: Ulla LundgrenISBN-10: 0367001438ISBN-13: 9780367001438Publisher:...

Academia is in trouble. Taxpayers are fed up with the enormous expenses associated with public universities, as well as administrators whose strategies and goals are fuzzy at best and destructive at worst. Parents worry about how they will find the wherewithal to send their...

This book surveys the history of higher education--principally universities--in Africa. Its geographical coverage encompasses the entire continent, from Afro-Arab Islamic Africa in the north to the former apartheid South Africa in the south, and the historical time span ranges from the Egyptian civilization to...

Higher education is going through a turbulent period of change. Based on a research project coordinated by J Durgen Enders at the University of Kassel in Germany, the book highlights the changes taking place in higher education and examines the working conditions of academic...

Colleges are becoming increasingly concerned with the quality of undergraduate instruction, and faculty are devoting more attention to improving their teaching skills. This volume will help college faculty improve their performance in the classroom. The book contains useful theoretical information on the learning styles...

Since the American University of Beirut opened its doors in 1866, the campus has stood at the intersection of a rapidly changing American educational project for the Middle East and an ongoing student quest for Arab national identity and empowerment. Betty S. Anderson provides...

This intriguing book reflects on the conditions on college campuses that give rise to words and acts of hate, on the consequences of these episodes, and on strategies intended to improve intergroup harmony. Using the speech given by Nation of Islam spokesperson Khalid Abdul...

Marxist thought pervades American academic discourse, particularly in the humanities and the social sciences. Fernández-Morera shows why the survival of these ideas is unjustified in the face of their theoretical and practical problems and their historical record. Fernández-Morera provides a comprehensive critique of Marxist/materialist...

This book presents the detailed life stories of nine women academics in business faculties throughout North America. Three are in their early careers, three are facing tenure, and three are recognized leaders in their field. Each of the authors presents her story as a...

Many Philippine educational and political leaders believe the nation is facing a crisis in education. This study focuses on the struggle of educators to develop excellence in higher education. E. Nelson Swinerton analyzes educational policy issues both under consideration and in implementation. He examines...

A vision of the future of education in which the classroom experience is distributed across space and time without compromising learning. What if there were a model for learning in which the classroom experience was distributed across space and time--and students could still have...