Higher Education category: 3664 books
by Jonathan Tummons
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
Curriculum is a key issue for trainee teachers in the lifelong learning sector and a core component of most courses. It lies at the heart of the work of teachers and trainers, it shapes the programmes and courses that are taught, and dictates which students can have access to courses. What goes in...
A Common Wealth of Learning
Millennium Development Goals Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
A Common Wealth of Learning takes a look at the millennium development goals that were set out at the start of the century. Utilising a far reaching set of case studies from a large percentage of commonwealth countries, this book looks at what the colonial legacy has left us with; and what we can...
General Education and the Development of Global Citizenship in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China
Not Merely Icing on the Cake
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
General Education has taken center stage in the greater China area (Hong Kong, Taiwan and mainland China) because of a number of important developments. First, globalization has created both opportunities and challenges for college students. When they graduate and enter the real world, they must have...
World Yearbook of Education 2015
Elites, Privilege and Excellence: The National and Global Redefinition of Educational Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
This latest volume in the World Yearbook of Education Series focuses on educational elites and inequality, focusing particularly on the ways in which established and emergent groups located at the top of the social hierarchy and power structure reproduce, establish or redefine their position.
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Strategic Role of Tertiary Education and Technologies for Sustainable Competitive Advantage explores how education enables social and economic development through the targeted training of human capital and the evaluation and dissemination of knowledge resources across generations. This book provides...
Teacher Education
Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Educators play a significant role in the intellectual and social development of children and young adults. Next-generation teachers can only be as strong as their own educational foundation which serves to cultivate their knowledge of the learning process, uncover best practices in the field of education,...
Quality in Undergraduate Education
How Powerful Knowledge Disrupts Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Globally, the appetite for higher education is great, but what do students and societies gain? Quality in Undergraduate Educationforegrounds the importance of knowledge acquisition at university. Many argue that university education is no longer a public good due to the costs incurred by students...
Political Economy of Adult Learning Systems
Comparative Study of Strategies, Policies and Constraints
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Based on comparative adult education statistics offered by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) and country case studies, this book analyses the policies and structures that foster adult learning. It examines a variety of forms of adult learning,...
Exploring Education at Postgraduate Level
Policy, theory and practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
There is a growing demand for educational professionals to develop a more critical understanding of the key and emerging debates in education so that they can better meet the challenges and demands placed upon them. Exploring Education at Postgraduate Level represents a range of perspectives from...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
This handbook illustrates how education scholars employ Critical Race Theory (CRT) as a framework to bring attention to issues of race and racism in education. It is the first authoritative reference work to provide a truly comprehensive description and analysis of the topic, from the defining conceptual...
by Guangli Zhou, Xiang Zhou
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2019
This book examines educational development and reform in contemporary China and focuses on some of the major issues facing education in both rural and urban areas, across the spectrum of primary, secondary, higher, adult and vocational educational pathways. The book reflects on Chinese educational...
The Athletic Trap
How College Sports Corrupted the Academy
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
The unrivaled amount of cash poured into the college athletic system has made sports programs breeding grounds for corruption while diverting crucial resources from the academic mission of universities. Like money in Washington politics, the influence bought by a complex set of self-interested actors...
Revolution of the Mind
Higher Learning among the Bolsheviks, 1918–1929
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Using archival materials never previously accessible to Western scholars, Michael David-Fox analyzes Bolshevik Party educational and research initiatives in higher learning after 1917. His fresh consideration of the era of the New Economic Policy and cultural politics after the Revolution explains...
by Clark Kerr
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2001
America's university president extraordinaire adds a new chapter and preface to The Uses of the University, probably the most important book on the modern university ever written. This summa on higher education brings the research university into the new century. The multiversity that Clark Kerr so presciently...