Higher Education category: 3664 books
Lowering Higher Education
The Rise of Corporate Universities and the Fall of Liberal Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
What happens to the liberal arts and science education when universities attempt to sell it as a form of job training? In Lowering Higher Education, a follow-up to their provocative 2007 book Ivory Tower Blues, James E. Côté and Anton L. Allahar explore the subverted 'idea of the university' and...
Higher Education in America
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2015
Higher Education in America is a landmark work--a comprehensive and authoritative analysis of the current condition of our colleges and universities from former Harvard president Derek Bok, one of the nation's most respected education experts. Sweepingly ambitious in scope, this is a deeply informed...
Understanding College and University Organization
Theories for Effective Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
A Management Resource for Higher Education Leaders“Quite simply a tour de force. Not only have the authors written by far the broadest and deepest theoretical analysis of college and university organization I've seen, but they have clearly organized a complex topic, and written it engagingly. This...
Academic Leadership and Governance of Higher Education
A Guide for Trustees, Leaders, and Aspiring Leaders of Two- and Four-Year Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
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"The book is content rich for those looking for detailed background information on a wide range of topics. The list is far too long to repeat here, but suffice it to say that this is a comprehensive work that addresses issues related to organizational dynamics, policy frameworks,...
Changing Identities in Higher Education
Voicing Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2007
In this timely and innovative book scholars from Europe, the UK, North America and Australia, explore their own sense of identity, reflecting both on their research and scholarly interests, and their work experiences.
Taking the form of a debate, Changing Identities in Higher Education helps...
by Buffy Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Mentoring At-Risk Students through the Hidden Curriculum of Higher Education reveals how the institutional culture and social networks of universities influence the academic success of underrepresented students. This book is based on a qualitative study that integrates a sociological and higher education...
Student Attainment in Higher Education
Issues, controversies and debates
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Student Attainment in Higher Education: Issues, controversies and debates is a timely exploration of student attainment in a rapidly changing higher education context and a rapidly changing world. The effects of neoliberalism and the commercialization of everyday life on education have been well documented,...
Engaging Civic Engagement
Framing the Civic Education Movement in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Civic education in higher education is housed in various types of institutions (i.e., community colleges, four year universities, public and private institutions), institutional offices, academic departments, and larger, cross-campus initiatives and organizations. Civic education programs promote...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
The first volume in the Core Concepts of Higher Education series, The History of U.S. Higher Education: Methods for Understanding the Past is a unique research methods textbook that provides students with an understanding of the processes that historians use when conducting their own research. Written...
Practice-based Learning in Higher Education
Jostling Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
This book addresses issues confronting universities’ attempts to integrate practice-based learning in higher education curriculum, yet which reveals the jostling of cultures which exist within and amongst the academy, industry, government and professional bodies and other educational providers....
Clark Kerr's World of Higher Education Reaches the 21st Century
Chapters in a Special History
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2012
This volume consists of original essays by academic leaders and scholars connected to Clark Kerr’s life and work. He was arguably America’s most significant higher education thinker and public policy analyst in the last 50 years of the 20th century and renowned globally. However, little thoughtful...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
This volume explores the various issues that have an impact on the academic career of professionals in European higher education. Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are currently subject to profound uncertainties and are more challenged than ever on quality issues, both with regard to their conceptual...
Western Higher Education in Asia and the Middle East
Politics, Economics, and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
This multidisciplinary volume highlights the transformed nature of the relationship between higher education and society in the 21st century. In particular, it argues that the development of the global university, especially in the non-western world, has transformed the traditional understanding of...
Towards Inclusive Learning in Higher Education
Developing Curricula for Disabled Students
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
It is widely recognised that the provision of an inclusive education is critical to maintaining high standards of learning and teaching for all students in higher education - a fact that is backed up by recent introduction of legislation and best practice guidelines around the world.
This book...