Higher Education category: 3664 books
Critical Approaches to the Study of Higher Education
A Practical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Critical theory has much to teach us about higher education. By linking critical models, methods, and research tools with an advocacy-driven vision of the central challenges facing postsecondary researchers and staff, Critical Approaches to the Study of Higher Education makes a significant—and long...
Developing Cultural Capability in International Higher Education
A Narrative Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
To function in the diverse world of the twenty-first century requires a crucial ability to navigate its international and interconnected environments effectively. Such a skill may be defined as cultural capability and developing it is at the forefront of this book, as it guides readers in considering...
Failing the Future
A Dean Looks at Higher Education in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 1998
Both revealing and compelling, Annette Kolodny’s Failing the Future: A Dean Looks at Higher Education in the Twenty-first Century is drawn from the author’s experience as a distinguished teacher, a prize-winning scholar of American literature, a feminist thinker, and an innovative administrator...
Advancing Knowledge in Higher Education
Universities in Turbulent Times
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Over the last three decades, higher education institutions have experienced massive changes. In particular, institutions of higher education have been positioned as a means to contribute to the knowledge economy and gain a level of competitive advantage in the global marketplace. Advancing Knowledge...
An Introduction to the Internationalization of Higher Education
Essential Topics
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Internationalization of higher education is a concept that is currently making its way to every corner of the globe. An Introduction to the Internationalization of Higher Education aims to provide the reader with an introduction to this subject and explore three of its most fundamental aspects; namely,...
The Lost Soul of Higher Education
Corporatization, the Assault on Academic Freedom, and the End of the American University
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
The professor and historian delivers a major critique of how political and financial attacks on the academy are undermining our system of higher education.
Making a provocative foray into the public debates over higher education, acclaimed historian Ellen Schrecker argues that the American...
European Higher Education and the Internal Market
Tensions Between European Policy and National Sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2018
This book analyses European higher education policies and their three main drivers: the European Commission, the European Court of Justice and the building of the European Higher Education Area through the Bologna Process. Central to the volume is the issue of European institutions’ intervention...
The Right to Higher Education
Beyond widening participation
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
The landscape of higher education has undergone change and transformation in recent years, partly as a result of diversification and massification. However, persistent patterns of under-representation continue to perplex policy-makers and practitioners, raising questions about current strategies,...
Soulware
The American Way in China's Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2019
This book is a critical account of the history, evolution and challenges of higher education in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, with important reflections on other systems, notably those in the US, UK, Korea and Japan. In addition to hardware and software, it introduces the concept of "Soulware"...
by Mario C. Martinez, Brandy Smith, Katie Humphreys
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Service delivery is part and parcel of every higher education professional’s job, both to improve service to students and to each other as “internal customers”. Until now higher education professionals have had to rely on books and training designed for the business sector. This book is the first...
Posthumanism and Higher Education
Reimagining Pedagogy, Practice and Research
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2019
This book explores ways in which posthumanist and new materialist thinking can be put to work in order to reimagine higher education pedagogy, practice and research. The editors and contributors illuminate how we can move the thinking and doing of higher education out of the humanist cul-de-sac of...
Higher Education Research
The Developing Field
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Research into higher education has blossomed internationally during the last few decades, as participation in higher education has expanded and concern over delivering it effectively has increased. Higher Education Research offers an overview of what we have learnt through researching different aspects...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Two recent initiatives from the EU, namely the Bologna Process and the Lisbon Agenda are likely to have a major influence on European Higher Education. It seems unlikely that traditional teaching approaches, which supported the elitist system of the past, will promote the mobility, widened participation...
The Great Mistake
How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Higher education in America, still thought to be the world leader, is in crisis. University students are falling behind their international peers in attainment, while suffering from unprecedented student debt. For over a decade, the realm of American higher education has been wracked with self-doubt...