Stylus Publishing: 272 books
Leading the e-Learning Transformation of Higher Education
Meeting the Challenges of Technology and Distance Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Written by pioneers in the field of online learning, this book offers insights and guidance to the rising generation of leaders in the field of higher education. It explains how to integrate online learning into an institution during a period of rapid social and institutional change.This important volume:...
Working Side by Side
Creating Alternative Breaks as Catalysts for Global Learning, Student Leadership, and Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
This book constitutes a guide for student and staff leaders in alternative break (and other community engagement, both domestic and international) programs, offering practical advice, outlining effective program components and practices, and presenting the underlying community engagement and global learning...
Preparing to Study Abroad
Learning to Cross Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
A Student Text to Build Cultural Sensitivity, Confidence and Openness to the Expience of Study Abroad"I highly recommend that college students include a well-planned and rigorous international immersion experience in their college curriculum. This book makes an excellent starting place for embarking...
Community College Leadership
A Multidimensional Model for Leading Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
“Pamela L. Eddy’s book deserves our time for two simple reasons: first, the multidimensional model for leading change transcends community colleges and is applicable broadly within and beyond education; and, second, the author’s thoughtful inclusion of vignettes and case studies provides the day-to-day...
Transformative Learning Through Engagement
Student Affairs Practice as Experiential Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2012
"This book examines the important role student affairs professionals can and should play in teaching and learning. As colleges and universities adapt to the new realitites of higher education (including new understandings about how people learn), student affairs professionals can provide experiential...
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...
by Sonja Ardoin
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
“The Strategic Guide to Shaping Your Student Affairs Career is a one of a kind resource for student affairs administrators in any stage of their career. The book is well organized around five key elements of career strategy that helpfully prompt readers to not only focus and reflect on critical...
Gateway to Opportunity?
A History of the Community College in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
“A strength of this book is Beach’s focus on the community college as an evolving social institution, a perspective not common in previous literature. Another strength is Beach’s focus on the dilemmas faced by community colleges as presented from the perspectives of faculty, administrators, state officials, local communities, and students.”?NACADA Journal
Teaching the Whole Student
Engaged Learning With Heart, Mind, and Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Teaching the Whole Student is a compendium of engaged teaching approaches by faculty across disciplines. These inspiring authors offer models for instructors who care deeply about their students, respect and recognize students’ social identities and lived experiences, and are interested in creating...
Transforming Teacher Education
What Went Wrong with Teacher Training, and How We Can Fix It
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
"[This book] provides a thorough and complex consideration of possibilities for reinventing teacher education. Diverse, research based chapters approach transformation in teacher education from a vast range of perspectives and ask the reader to analyze and question how to transform teacher education....
Understanding College and University Organization
Theories for Effective Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Now available in paperback, this two-volume work is intended to help readers develop powerful new ways of thinking about organizational principles, and apply them to policy-making and management in colleges and universities.The book is written with two audiences in mind: administrative and faculty leaders...
"Proof," Policy, and Practice
Understanding the Role of Evidence in Improving Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
How can we “fix” our schools? Improve graduation rates in college? What works?These are questions that make the headlines and vex policy makers, practitioners, and educational researchers. While they strive to improve society, there are frequently gulfs of mutual incomprehension among them.Academics,...
Why Students Resist Learning
A Practical Model for Understanding and Helping Students
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
However personally committed faculty may be to helping students learn, their students are not always as eager to participate in this endeavor, and may react with both active and passive resistant behaviors, including poor faculty evaluations. The purpose of this book is to help faculty develop a coherent...
Developing Effective Student Peer Mentoring Programs
A Practitioner's Guide to Program Design, Delivery, Evaluation, and Training
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
This is a comprehensive resource for creating, refining and sustaining effective student peer mentoring programs. While providing a blueprint for successfully designing programs for a wide range of audiences – from freshmen to doctoral students – it also offers specific guidance on developing programs...