Higher Education category: 3664 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
In this comprehensive volume, research-based chapters examine the experiences that have shaped college life for Black undergraduate women*,* and invite readers to grapple with the current myths and definitions that are shaping the discourses surrounding them. Chapter authors ask valuable questions...
Clearing the Path for First-Generation College Students
Qualitative and Intersectional Studies of Educational Mobility
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
Clearing the Path for First-Generation College Students comprises a wide range of studies that explore the multidimensional social processes and meanings germane to the experiences of first-generation college students before and during their matriculation into institutions of higher education. The...
The University and its Disciplines
Teaching and Learning within and beyond disciplinary boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
University teaching and learning take place within ever more specialized disciplinary settings, each characterized by its unique traditions, concepts, practices and procedures. It is now widely recognized that support for teaching and learning needs to take this discipline-specificity into account....
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Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
This book explores the perceptions of academic staff and representatives of institutional leadership about the changes in academic careers and academic work experienced in recent years. It emphasizes standardisation and differentiation of academic career paths, impacts of new forms of quality management...
Universities and Regional Development
A Critical Assessment of Tensions and Contradictions
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Universities are under increasing pressure to help promote socio-economic growth in their local communities. However until now, no systematic, critical attention has been paid to the factors and mechanisms that currently make this process so daunting. In Universities and Regional Development, scholars...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
This handbook presents a global overview of developments in education and policy change during the last decade. It provides an accessible, practical and comparative source of current research that examines the intersecting and diverse discourses of this important issue.
Divided into two parts, the...
Success in Higher Education
Transitions to, within and from University
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
This book explores successful transition strategies to, within and from university for students from around the globe, with Macquarie University, a large Australian university, studied in depth. It addresses the meaning of success taking a variety of perspectives, including student, staff and employer...
Socially Just Pedagogies, Capabilities and Quality in Higher Education
Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This book explores the idea that teaching and learning – pedagogy – at universities is a crucial space for students’ formation as ethical graduates, equipped with knowledge, skills and values to contribute to more equal societies. We know that universities across the globe do not stand apart...
by George Yancey, Laurel Shaler, Jerald H. Walz
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
This book aims to investigate the level of political tolerance at conservative Protestant colleges and universities. Through innovative and methodologically sophisticated techniques, the authors test the political openness of these institutions as a proxy for their willingness to accept opinions that...
by Betty Leask
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
The drive to internationalize higher education has seen the focus shift in recent years towards its defining element, the curriculum. As the point of connection between broader institutional strategies and the student experience, the curriculum plays a key role in the success or failure of the internationalization...
In Search of the Whole
Twelve Essays on Faith and Academic Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
The contributors to this inspiring anthology meet the challenge that everyone faces: that of becoming a whole person in both their personal and professional lives. John C. Haughey, SJ, has gathered twelve professionals in higher education from a variety of disciplines—philosophy, theology, health care,...
Innovative Business School Teaching
Engaging the Millennial Generation
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Innovative Business School Teaching showcases the latest pedagogic innovations that actively engage the millennial generation in learning within the business domain. In the context of the contemporary macro issues facing higher education, this book presents the latest teaching practices and tools...
Being an Early Career Feminist Academic
Global Perspectives, Experiences and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
This book highlights the experiences of feminist early career researchers and teachers from an international perspective in an increasingly neoliberal academy. It offers a new angle on a significant and increasingly important discussion on the ethos of higher education and the sector's place in society.
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by Study Destination USA
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Look up virtually every term or vocabulary relevant to US higher education! Save yourself time and learn the terminology used by US universities/colleges the quick and easy way. Written by former admission officers and international student recruiters, this book is designed to help you make sense...