Higher Education category: 3664 books
by Robyn Benson, Margaret Heagney, Lesley Hewitt
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Government initiatives in many countries emphasise social inclusion in higher education, resulting in a more diverse student population. This presents opportunities and challenges for academic and professional staff in managing and supporting these students. Managing and Supporting Student Diversity...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
This book is designed for higher education instructors. The focus of the book is to assist all faculty instructors in higher education to better meet the needs of their student populations. It addresses the major issue of higher education teaching today: the need to reach all higher education students...
by Jordan Hensley, Stanley N. Katz, Bruce A. Kimball
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
In The Economics of Higher Education in the United States, editors Thomas Adam and A. Burcu Bayram have assembled five essays, adapted from the fifty-second annual Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lecture Series, that focus on the increasing cost of college—a topic that causes great anxiety among students,...
Risk-Taking in Higher Education
The Importance of Negotiating Intellectual Challenge in the College Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Risk-taking is foundational to the structure and goals of higher education. Encouraging students to consider new, diverse, even uncomfortable ideas is needed to develop a critically informed view of the world and establish one’s own values and beliefs. Yet, students and parents are increasingly...
The Order of Learning
Essays on the Contemporary University
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
The Order of Learning considers the problems facing higher education by focusing on main underlying factors: the relationship of higher education to government, academic freedom, and the responsibilities of the academic profession, among others. Edward Shils argues that higher education has a central...
The Minoritisation of Higher Education Students
An Examination of Contemporary Policies and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Research into ethnic attainment differences in British higher education and elsewhere tends to depict students from minority ethnic backgrounds as disadvantaged, marginalised, discriminated against and excluded. In The Minoritisation of Higher Education, Mieschbuehler demonstrates that this idea is...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Until recently government policy in the UK has encouraged an expansion of Higher Education to increase participation and with an express aim of creating a more educated workforce. This expansion has led to competition between Higher Education institutions, with students increasingly positioned as...
Learning as a Creative and Developmental Process in Higher Education
A Therapeutic Arts Approach and Its Wider Application
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Much has been written about the importance of creativity in learning and education over the last few decades. This unique book extends beyond the usual focus on implementing creative methods in learning, teaching and assessing within higher education, to an examination of creativity as central to...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
Higher Education has become a central institution of society, building individual knowledge, skills, agency, and relational social networks at unprecedented depth and scale. Within a generation there has been an extraordinary global expansion of Higher Education, in every region in all but the poorest...
Teaching, Learning and Research in Higher Education
A Critical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Teaching, Learning and Research in Higher Education offers a combination of critical perspectives and practical advice that is ideally suited for individuals interested in enhancing their practice through analysis and critique. The aim is to promote a critical understanding of one’s own practices:...
Revolution in Higher Education
How a Small Band of Innovators Will Make College Accessible and Affordable
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
A report from the front lines of higher education and technology that chronicles efforts to transform teaching, learning, and opportunity.
Colleges and universities have become increasingly costly, and, except for a handful of highly selective, elite institutions, unresponsive to twenty-first-century...
by Christopher Ziguras, Grant McBurnie
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Governing Cross-Border Higher Education examines the role of governments in relation to three key aspects of international education: student mobility; migration of international students; and transnational provision through collaboration or branch campuses. The research for this book is informed...
World Yearbook of Education 2008
Geographies of Knowledge, Geometries of Power: Framing the Future of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This volume examines higher education in globalized conditions through a focus on the spatial, historic and economic relations of power in which it is embedded. Distinct geometries of power are emerging as the knowledge production capability of universities is increasingly globalized. Changes in the...
Policy Analysis of Structural Reforms in Higher Education
Processes and Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
This book addresses the complex phenomenon in higher education of structural reforms in higher education systems. Across the globe, governments initiate comprehensive reforms of their higher education systems because they want their models to be the best and to excel at what they do. This regularly...