Higher Education category: 3664 books
Universities and the Sustainable Development Future
Evaluating Higher-Education Contributions to the 2030 Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Since the mid-1970s, a series of international declarations that link environment and sustainable development to all aspects of higher learning have been endorsed and signed by universities around the world. Although university involvement in sustainable-development research and outreach has increased...
University of the World
A Case for a World University System
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2015
In this book, Dieter Lenzen analyzes the world's three major educational systems: the Continental-European, the Atlantic (Anglo-American) and the East Asian. Distancing himself from the current trend towards the economically driven Anglo-American system of education, the author proposes an alternative...
Perspectives on the History of Higher Education
Volume 26, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This volume of Perspectives opens with two contrasting perspectives on the purpose of higher education at the dawning of the university age-perspectives that continue to define the debate today. A. J. Angulo recreates the controversy surrounding the founding and early years of the Massachusetts Institute...
Private Higher Education
An International Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
This research project has been supported by the Ford Foundation, the Lynch School of Education at Boston College, and the Program of Research on Private Higher Education at the University at Albany.
The Power of Play in Higher Education
Creativity in Tertiary Learning
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
This book examines the increasing popularity of creativity and play in tertiary learning, and how it can be harnessed to enhance the student experience at university. While play is often misunderstood as something ‘trivial’ and associated with early years education, the editors and contributors...
by Charles P. Henry
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2016
This book aims to expand what scholars know and who is included in this discussion about black studies, which aids in the democratization of American higher education and the deconstruction of traditional disciplines of high education, to facilitate a sense of social justice. By challenging traditional...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
The number of staff members serving American higher education institutions has more than doubled in the past twenty years, as occupations in technology, development, government relations, and even athletic administration have grown as never before in the history of the academy. As the number, variety,...
Transformations in Research, Higher Education and the Academic Market
The Breakdown of Scientific Thought
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2012
This volume tackles head-on the controversy regarding the tensions between the principles underlying Academe on the one hand, and the free market on the other. Its outspoken thesis posits that seemingly irresistible institutional pressures are betraying a core principle of the Enlightenment: that...
The Future University
Ideas and Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Winner of the Comparative and International Education Society Higher Education Special Interest Group Best Book Award for 2014!
As universities increasingly engage with the world beyond the classroom and the campus, those who work within higher education are left to examine how the university’s...
by Stephen Steinberg
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
"This book covers well the issues and problems of the U.S. academic profession in the second half of the twentieth century." -- Contemporary Science
The tale of the American academic profession-that large company of men and women, unprecedented in its size and diversity-needs to be...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Any educational environment involves the interaction of diverse groups and individuals. To foster productive and effective communication, it becomes imperative to understand people’s different linguistic and cultural backgrounds, as well as their value systems. Promoting Intercultural Communication...
The Century of Science
The Global Triumph of the Research University
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Winner of the 2017 Award for Significant Research on International Higher Education (CIHE/ASHE)
Winner of the 2018 American Publishers Awards for Professional & Scholarly Excellence: Education Theory
In The Century of Science, a multicultural, international team of authors examine...
Teaching Across Cultural Strengths
A Guide to Balancing Integrated and Individuated Cultural Frameworks in College Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Promoting learning among college students is an elusive challenge, and all the more so when faculty and students come from differing cultures. This comprehensive guide addresses the continuing gaps in our knowledge about the role of culture in learning; and offers an empirically-based framework and model,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
To maintain the quality of education, integrity and honesty must be upheld by students and teachers in learning environments. The prevention of cheating is a prime factor in this endeavor. The Handbook of Research on Academic Misconduct in Higher Education is a pivotal reference source for the latest...