Higher Education category: 3664 books
Resisting Neoliberalism in Higher Education Volume I
Seeing Through the Cracks
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2018
In light of the overwhelming presence of neoliberalism within academia, this book examines how academics resist and manage these changes. The first of two volumes, this diptych of critical academic work investigates generative spaces, or ‘cracks’ in neoliberal managerialism that can be exposed,...
ESL Readers and Writers in Higher Education
Understanding Challenges, Providing Support
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
ESL Readers and Writers in Higher Education describes the challenges ESL students in U.S. postsecondary institutions face when studying in a second language, and offers suggestions for how teachers, advisors, tutors, and institutions might provide support that meets the reading and writing needs of...
Blended Learning Designs in STEM Higher Education
Putting Learning First
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
This book offers a set of learning principles to support the design of rich learning experiences in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) higher education, including detailed evaluations and discussions for a variety of science subjects. Further, it presents a professional learning...
Co-Teaching in Higher Education
From Theory to Co-Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Co-Teaching in Higher Education, edited by Daniel Jarvis and Mumbi Kariuki, brings together an international group of educators and scholars to examine the theoretical frameworks and practical experiences relating to co-planning, co-teaching, and co-assessing at the post-secondary level.
Co-teaching...
Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954
An Intellectual History
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
"Provides scholars with a historical lens from which to view the higher education of black women . . . [and] how one generation of black women benefited from the work and sacrifices of the prior generation."--Adah L. Ward Randolph, Ohio University "Keen historical and theoretical observation...
The Athletics Incubus: How College Sports Undermine College Education
How College Sports Undermine College Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
Previously published as part of HIGHER EDUCATION?
A quarter of a million dollars. It's the going tab for four years at most top-tier colleges. But is it worth it?
In this provocative work, the renowned sociologist Andrew Hacker and New York Times writer Claudia Dreifus make an incisive...
Leading Internationalization
A Handbook for International Education Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Co-published with AIEA.
What do university leaders need to know and be able to do to internationalize their institutions?
This volume provides senior professionals in international education, increasingly known as Senior International Officers (SIOs), with the foundational knowledge...
Building Global Education with a Local Perspective
An Introduction to Glocal Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
"Glocal" education melds the economic advantages of globalizing higher education with the benefits of incorporating local perspectives. This book explores glocal education's rationale; social, cultural, and economic foundations; key concepts; and implementation.
by Ryan C. McIlhenny
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Reforming the Liberal Arts, published on the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, provides a nuanced account of the religious nature of higher learning. Drawing together studies in neuroscience, contemporary mysticism, and best practices in higher education, McIlhenny artfully argues that...
Beyond the University
Why Liberal Education Matters
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Contentious debates over the benefits—or drawbacks—of a liberal education are as old as America itself. From Benjamin Franklin to the Internet pundits, critics of higher education have attacked its irrelevance and elitism—often calling for more vocational instruction. Thomas Jefferson, by contrast,...
by Adam Tar
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2011
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2011 in the subject Pedagogy - Higher Education, grade: 95%, Webster University (Sarasota), course: MKT5000, language: English, abstract: Because of a troubled economy that is showing no signs of improvement, the cost of a college education is experiencing...
Teaching, Coaching and Mentoring Adult Learners
Lessons for professionalism and partnership
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
The challenge for those coaching, mentoring, supervising or teaching adults is to design and deliver high-quality programmes that encompass a blend of teaching and learning approaches and strategies, that are constructed for adult learners in multiple educational environments and that cater for the...
by Joseph Benjamin
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
There are three lists in Indian Constitution namely Central list, State list and Concurrent list. Education comes under concurrent list where Centre as well as States are competent to legislate and establish university-level institutions. Central as well as States governments have to regulate and...
Online Education Policy and Practice
The Past, Present, and Future of the Digital University
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Online Education Policy and Practice examines the past, present, and future of networked learning environments and the changing role of faculty within them. As digital technologies in higher education increasingly enable blended classrooms, collaborative assignments, and wider student access, an understanding...