Higher Education category: 3664 books
Boosting Impact and Innovation in Higher Education
The Knowledge Entrepreneur and High Diversity Groups in Universities
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
This book provides a practical guide to mastering The Knowledge Entrepreneur Toolkit and to establishing High Diversity Groups in universities. Both are key to universities boosting their capacity for innovation and their impact both internally and on major world issues. This is not a traditional...
Rising to the Challenge of Transforming Higher Education
Designing Universities for Learning and Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Creating a successful and distinctive approach to learning and teaching at scale is a challenge facing all universities. This brief presents the Self-Organizing University (SOU), a transformational whole-of-organization solution for the design, delivery, and evaluation of learning and teaching in...
The Self-organizing University
Designing the Higher Education Organization for Quality Learning and Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
This book challenges the orthodoxy of learning and teaching in higher education with an original change approach entitled the Self-Organizing University (SOU). It assists universities build a comprehensive model of learning and teaching at whole-of-organization scale. The chapters demonstrate how...
Strategies for Resisting Sexism in the Academy
Higher Education, Gender and Intersectionality
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2019
This book harnesses the expertise of women academics who have constructed innovative approaches to challenging existing sexual disadvantage in the academy. Countering the prevailing postfeminist discourse, the contributors to this volume argue that sexism needs to be named in order to be challenged...
Resisting Neoliberalism in Higher Education Volume II
Prising Open the Cracks
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
This book outlines the creative responses academics are using to subvert powerful market forces that restrict university work to a neoliberal, economic focus. The second volume in a diptych of critical academic work on the changing landscape of neoliberal universities, the editors and contributors...
Gaining A Master's Degree
How to invest in your own future
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Britain has over 100 institutes of higher education offering Master's degree courses. Access to higher education opportunities has therefore never been greater. As technology advances and new techniques are developed, there is a growing desire for skill updating and retraining throughout all walks...
Perspectives on Educational Quality
Illustrative Outcomes on Primary and Secondary Schooling in the Netherlands
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
The quality of education is a term that is frequently used in public debates. Understood in the sense of education being “generally okay” , or rather, most frequently, as “not okay”. Perhaps there is an overruling nostalgic view that formerly education was better than today. In scholarly discourse...
In Their Own Words
A Journey to the Stewardship of the Practice in Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED)—an interinstitutional action project of the Carnegie Foundation—is a consortium of universities pursuing the goals of instituting a clear distinction between the professional doctorate in education and the research doctorate; and improving...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
In recent years, Further Education has reached a crossroads, with questions being asked about its function, aims and focus, as well as querying the role of the FE teacher, the key aspects of the curriculum and which values should inform FE pedagogy. Identity and Resistance in Further Education explores...
Routledge Revivals: Further Education Today (1979)
A Critical Review
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
First published in 1979, this critical review covers further education in England and Wales, giving an overview of its administrative framework. Cantor and Roberts examine education for the sixteen to nineteen age group, giving details on school and college structure as well as an analysis on course...
Closing the Gap
Digital Equity Strategies for Teacher Prep Programs
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Closing the Gap is an ISTE book series designed to reflect the contributions of multiple stakeholders seeking to ensure that digital equity is achieved on campuses, in classrooms, and throughout education. In this series, authors Nicol R. Howard, Sarah Thomas, and Regina Schaffer offer historical...
Understanding Employer Engagement in Education
Theories and evidence
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
This collection focuses on employer engagement in education, how it is delivered and the differentiated impact it has on young people in their progression through schooling and higher education into the labour market. The focus is not narrowly on vocational or technical education or work-related learning,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
The quality of the academics who undertake the work of teaching and research is critical to the significance, status and relevance of our universities. There is widespread evidence that doctoral students are not being properly prepared for the changing face of higher education and that once they take...
Cooperative and Work-Integrated Education in Asia
History, Present and Future Issues
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
It has been over a century since "Cooperative System of Education," a work-study programme for higher education, was initiated by Herman Schneider at University of Cincinnati in the United States. Today, it is known as "Cooperative Education" which is commonly included within the umbrella term of...