Higher Education category: 3664 books
Sustainable Development and Quality Assurance in Higher Education
Transformation of Learning and Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
To help address the challenges of sustainable development, higher education institutions must transform themselves, bringing together best practice in quality management for tertiary education with best practice in education for sustainable development. This book provides tested strategies and pathways for undertaking this successfully.
Student Politics and Protest
International perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Despite allegations of political disengagement and apathy on the part of the young, the last ten years have witnessed a considerable degree of political activity by young people – much of it led by students or directed at changes to the higher education system. Such activity has been evident across...
Cultivating the Spirit
How College Can Enhance Students' Inner Lives
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
Praise for Cultivating the Spirit
"A groundbreaking study of the spiritual growth of college students.... The spiritual dimension of higher education has been explored from a variety of angles for the past twenty years, but not until now have we had a competent and comprehensive body of...
Faces of Discrimination in Higher Education in India
Quota policy, social justice and the Dalits
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
This book illuminates the experiences of a set of students and faculty who are members of the Dalit caste – commonly known as the ‘untouchables’ – and are relatively ‘successful’ in that they attend or are academics at a prestigious university. The book provides a background to the study,...
by Vinod Kumar Bansal
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2011
This book provides a historical perspective on the development of the education system in India, highlighting the changing emphases within government policy. Since Independence, the education policies of successive governments have built on the substantial legacies of the Nehruvian period, targeting...
Catholic Higher Education in the 1960s
Issues of Identity, Issues of Governance
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Catholic Higher Education in the 1960s is a series of cases that describes and analyzes the transitions made by representative Catholic institutions in their attempts to update their governance structures and maintain their Catholic identity in the midst of the postVatican II era. This book will be...
Best Practices of Online Education
A Guide for Christian Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
The book provides best practices from online educators who are engaged in online teaching and program development in Christian higher education. It also explores the distinct aspects of teaching and developing online courses and programs from a Christian perspective and within Christian higher education...
Transforming Ourselves, Transforming the World
Justice in Jesuit Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Transforming Ourselves, Transforming the World is an insightful collection that articulates how Jesuit colleges and universities create an educational community energized to transform the lives of its students, faculty, and administrators and to equip them to transform a broken world. The essays are...
From the Air Force to College
Transitioning from the Service to Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
The Air Force can be the initial platform of a lifelong career pathway for individuals interested in serving one contract or those who stay on active-duty for a full career. The education and certification options available to airmen can enhance the career viability of those who choose to take advantage...
Globalization and Education
Integration and Contestation across Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
We offer in this book a collection of chapters that reflect a broad range of issues linking globalization to education in an accessible yet theoretically grounded and detailed form. The authors analyze phenomena on the global plane, in local spaces, and in the connections between the global and the...
Kenyan Public Universities in the Age of Internationalization
Challenges and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
This book presents a comprehensive institutional level analysis of a single public institution of higher education in the Republic of Kenya using the case study method of investigation. It is the first case study to use both qualitative and quantitative research methodology to illuminate the experiences...
Hope, Utopia and Creativity in Higher Education
Pedagogical Tactics for Alternative Futures
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Reappraising ideas associated with Ernst Bloch, Roland Barthes and Gaston Bachelard within the context of a utopian pedagogy, Hope, Utopia and Creativity in Higher Education reframes the transformative, creative and collaborative potential of education offering new concepts, tactics and pedagogical...
The Experiences of Black and Minority Ethnic Academics
A comparative study of the unequal academy
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Recent research suggests that Black and minority ethnic (BME) academics remain underrepresented, particularly at senior levels in higher education, and tend to be concentrated in new, post-1992 universities. This book provides an original comparative study of BME academics in both the UK and the USA,...
Higher And Technical Education
Book of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
The authors, from world experience, offer new visions of new world to the Indian higher and technical education. In knowledge driven economy, they identify weaknesses and prescribe innovation, creativity, commercial exploitation of research, VCF and essentially spin off new technology based firms, which...