Education - Higher

Teaching Undergraduate Science offers college and university instructors evidence-based strategies to help students learn those specific skills and habits of mind necessary for succeeding in STEM fields.Author: Linda C. HodgesISBN-10: 1032818964ISBN-13: 9781032818962Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/24/2025Pages: 238Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53d

Technical education has been a hallmark of modern society and infrastructure development. This book explores the importance of technical education in society, including different methods, forms, and subjects. This book presents an insight into the establishment of professional and technical schools and their potential...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Shows that the communist system in science and higher education was created less by an intentionally-imposed Soviet model than by the pressures and agendas developed within communist societies to reshape science and learning in successive periods of upheaval and consolidation. The communist academic regime...

Based on research and projects in the field, the perspective of this book is that long-term, sustainable social and economic development requires strategies geared to the scientific, technical, cultural, and environmental aspects of development. The chapters illustrate the different ways in which universities pursue...

Virgin Envy sets out to re-conceive the ways that we describe and relate to virginity as a cultural construct. Who is a virgin? How do we lose our virginities? What if we regret our "first time"? Contributors to Virgin Envy everything from medieval romance...

In his autobiography, My Many Selves, Wayne C. Booth is less concerned with his professional achievements---though the book by no means ignores his distinguished career---than with the personal vision that emerges from a long life lived thoughtfully. For Booth, even the autobiographical process becomes...

Begun more than a decade ago while their author taught at the Ethiopian National University, this study examines the development of the institutions of higher education and the roles they played in transforming traditional Ethiopian society. Wagaw sets out to prove that, although other...

This is a general introduction for frazzled teachers to unravelling the maze of assessment in FE. Andy Armitage and Mandy Renwick provide readers with helpful hints and strategies for answering the key questions, including why, what, how and where to assess? Well-written and accessible,...

This collection identifies the challenges facing area studies as an organized intellectual project in this era of globalization, focusing in particular on conceptual issues and implications for pedagogical practice in Asia and the Pacific. The crisis in area studies is widely acknowledged; various prescriptions...

Practicing Writing examines a pivotal era in the history of the most ubiquitous-and possibly most problematic-course in North American colleges and universities: the requireAd first-year writing course generally known as \u201cfreshman English.\u201d Thomas Masters's focus is the mid-twentieth century, beginning with the returning waves...

Writing in Disguise is a series of increasingly personal essays that both discuss and dramatize through firsthand experience the significance of subordination in academic life, in terms of issues and structures but above all in terms of texts. Some are written: memos, rejection letters,...

An engaging history of The University of Alabama President's MansionAs part of The University of Alabama's 175th anniversary celebration (2006), the new edition of A Mansion's Memories includes details of the tenures of the four presidents who have served since the Mathews term. Profusely...

Author: Eric A. MoyenISBN-10: 0813129834ISBN-13: 9780813129839Publisher: University Press of KentuckyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/25/2011Pages: 416Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.54lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.30d

This volume provides a roadmap for libraries seeking to establish their own Academic Commons, complete with suggestions regarding physical structure and software/hardware options and information regarding the latest technological advances.Author: Thomas H. P. GouldISBN-10: 081088108XISBN-13: 9780810881082Publisher: Scarecrow PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/14/2011Pages: 318Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.40lbsSize: 9.00h...

This book documents the shortcomings of the MLS project--an ill-conceived approach to a situation that no longer exists--and suggests a new approach to professionalism for librarians.Author: Boyd Keith SwiggerISBN-10: 0810877031ISBN-13: 9780810877030Publisher: Scarecrow PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/19/2010Pages: 170Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60dReview Citation(s):...

This book contains both a warning and a challenge--a warning that the age-old inertia of the common man" has permitted inefficiency and abuses in our industries, schools, and government; and a challenge to men in all fields to exert their wills and devote their...

This volume looks at school-university partnerships from sociocultural perspectives of learning that view participation in social practice as fundamental to the process of learning. Its two major themes - school-university partnership and sociocultural and social theories of learning - have both been treated extensively...

The first year of college represents an enormous milestone in students' lives. Whether attending a four-year or two-year institution of higher education, living on campus or at home, or enrolled in a highly selective school or a college with an open-admissions policy, students are...

This research-based overview of the types of 2nd-language programs found at the undergraduate level is the first to bring this info together in one vol. Premise is that the boundaries between these programs are no longer applicable in multilingual world.Author: Judith W. RosenthalISBN-10: 0805830227ISBN-13:...

Inquiring into the future of the university, Susan Giroux finds a paradox at the heart of higher education in the post-civil rights era. Although we think of "post-civil rights" as representing a colorblind or race transcendent triumphalism in national political discourse, Giroux argues that...

Based on new data and new analytical frameworks, this book assesses the forces of change at play in the development of American universities and their prospects for the future. The book begins with a lengthy introduction by Clark Kerr that not only provides an...

This book studies Oxford University's transformation--and the political hazards for academics that ensued--when, after World War II, it changed from a private liberal-arts club with aristocratic pretensions into a state university heavily committed to the natural sciences, and with a middle-class constituency and a...

A Stanford University Press classic.Author: Kenneth J. ArrowISBN-10: 0804725950ISBN-13: 9780804725958Publisher: Stanford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/1996Pages: 532Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.97lbsSize: 9.32h x 6.31w x 1.41d

Delivers uncomplicated and useful techniques for better teaching to nonmajors in liberal arts courses.Teaching Nonmajors focuses on what dedicated teachers want to know-how can I teach better in the classroom? Unlike most books on teaching, this book delivers uncomplicated and immediately useful techniques and...

Eminent scholars discuss the politics and practices of generating scholarship in rhetoric and composition studies.Publishing in Rhetoric and Composition is a collection of essays about the politics and practices of generating scholarship in rhetoric and composition. The contributors to this book, many of whom...

At the turn of the century Protestantism permeated the cultural fabric of English-Canadian society. By 1970, however, universities were primarily secular. Was this change the result of the changing nature of Protestantism at the turn of the century or forces external to it? By...