Higher Education category: 3664 books
Policy Discourses in Malaysian Education
A nation in the making
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Since independence in 1957, Malaysia has become a globally-recognised industrial trading partner. With a 60% Muslim population, it also enjoys the reputation of being a moderate and peaceful nation. However, with just a short time left to realising its Vision 2020 of developed nationhood, the pathway...
Cultivating Inquiry-Driven Learners
A College Education for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Inquiry-driven learners anticipate, embrace, and adapt to disruptive change. Clifton Conrad and Laura Dunek advance a transformative purpose of a college education. They invite stakeholders from across higher education to engage in vigorous dialogue about the aims of a college education—and how...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
This book discusses essential approaches and methods in connection with engineering education for sustainable development. Prepared as a follow-up to the 2015 Engineering Education in Sustainable Development (EESD) Conference held in British Columbia, Canada, it offers the engineering community key...
The New Education
How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World In Flux
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
A leading educational thinker argues that the American university is stuck in the past--and shows how we can revolutionize it for our era of constant change
Our current system of higher education dates to the period from 1865 to 1925, when the nation's new universities created grades and departments,...
The War on Learning
Gaining Ground in the Digital University
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
An examination of technology-based education initiatives—from MOOCs to virtual worlds—that argues against treating education as a product rather than a process.
Behind the lectern stands the professor, deploying course management systems, online quizzes, wireless clickers, PowerPoint slides,...
Putting the Local in Global Education
Models for Transformative Learning Through Domestic Off-Campus Programs
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2015
This book presents both the rationale for and examples of “study away”, an inclusive concept that embraces study abroad while advocating for a wide variety of domestic study programs, including community-based education programs that employ academic service-learning and internships.With the growing...
Experiential Education in the College Context
What it is, How it Works, and Why it Matters
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Experiential Education in the College Context provides college and university faculty with pedagogical approaches that engage students and support high-impact learning. Organized around four essential categories—active learning, integrated learning, project-based learning, and community-based learning—this...
Throwing Voices
Five Autoethnographies on Postradical Education and Fine Art of Misdirection
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
This book is a search for the promises of public education and the places where these are broken by critics feeding at the academic and professional trough. This book is a venture in critical autoethnography. Exploring critique through this ethnographic technique has allowed me to bring stories to...
The End of College
Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
From a renowned education writer comes a paradigm-shifting examination of the rapidly changing world of college that every parent, student, educator, and investor needs to understand.
Over the span of just nine months in 2011 and 2012, the world’s most famous universities and high-powered...
Internationalisation in Secondary Education in Europe
A European and International Orientation in Schools Policies, Theories and Research
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
The scope of the book is an integrated discussion of several aspects of the internationalisation process in secondary education in Europe. The European and International Orientation (EIO) in education is dealt with from different national angles and theoretical visions, supported by recently conducted...
ProjectBased Second and Foreign Language Education
Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
Dewey's idea of Projectbased Learning (PBL) was introduced into the field of second language education nearly two decades ago as a way to reflect the principles of studentcentered teaching (Hedge, 1993). Since then, PBL has also become a popular language and literacy activity at various levels and...
Learning, Teaching and Development
Strategies for Action
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
This best practice guide to teaching in the Further Education and Skills sector, and professional organisational learning contexts, examines the key concepts underpinning effective teaching and learning and combines this with case studies which demonstrate meaningful connections between theory and...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
The number of English language students in American schools has dramatically increased in recent years, creating a greater awareness of cross-cultural issues and considerations in education. Globalization as well as an increase in international exchange student programs has proven that pre-service...
The Credential Society
An Historical Sociology of Education and Stratification
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
The Credential Society is a classic on the role of higher education in American society and an essential text for understanding the reproduction of inequality. Controversial at the time, Randall Collins’s claim that the expansion of American education has not increased social mobility, but rather...