Higher Education category: 3664 books
Helping College Students Find Purpose
The Campus Guide to Meaning-Making
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
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"A generous and inspiring book! In the spirit of 'convocation,' Nash and Murray call together both university faculty and student affairs professionals to provide them new means for helping more college students realize the highest purpose...
Vocation across the Academy
A New Vocabulary for Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
Although the language of vocation was born in a religious context, the contributors in this volume demonstrate that it has now taken root within the broad framework of higher education and has become intertwined with a wide range of concerns. This volume makes a compelling case for vocational reflection...
Invitational Education and Practice in Higher Education
An International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
This edited collection examines the means to create, maintain, and enhance welcoming colleges and universities in the United States and abroad with personal accounts, case studies, models, programs, and other frameworks written by practitioners in higher education. The contributors explain how they...
Digital Storytelling in Higher Education
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2017
This book broadens the scope and impact of digital storytelling in higher education. It outlines how to teach, research and build communities in tertiary institutions through the particular form of audio-visual communication known as digital storytelling by developing relationships across professions,...
Understanding Neoliberal Rule in Higher Education
Educational Fronts for Local and Global Justice
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
The word fundamentalism usually conjures up images of religions and their most zealous followers. Much less often the word appears in connection with political economy. The phrase “free market” gives the connotation that capitalism is freedom. Neoliberalism is the rise of global freemarket fundamentalism....
Authentic Virtual World Education
Facilitating Cultural Engagement and Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
The book presents the possibilities and realities of virtual worlds in education through the application of 3D virtual worlds to support authentic learning, creativity, learner engagement and cultural diversity in higher education. It includes a unique variety of cross disciplinary approaches to research,...
Debating Moral Education
Rethinking the Role of the Modern University
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2010
After decades of marginalization in the secularized twentieth-century academy, moral education has enjoyed a recent resurgence in American higher education, with the establishment of more than 100 ethics centers and programs on campuses across the country. Yet the idea that the university has a civic...
Lost in Transition
Redefining Students and Universities in the Contemporary Kyrgyz Republic
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Being a “student” has been and remains a highly desirable status for young people and their families in Kyrgyzstan. “Giving their children education” (dat detyam obrazovaniye) meaning “higher education” has become an imperative for many parents, even in a time of serious economic and social...
China through the Lens of Comparative Education
The selected works of Ruth Hayhoe
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
In the World Library of Educationalists series, international experts compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces – extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical contributions – so the world can read them in a single,...
Understanding Mass Higher Education
Comparative Perspectives on Access
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2005
In recent years most western democracies have experienced a shift from elite to mass higher education, with the United States leading the way. This text compares the experience of this very important social change within different nation states. Whilst recognising the critical global economic forces...
American Academic Cultures
A History of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
At a time when American higher education seems ever more to be reflecting on its purpose and potential, we are more inclined than ever to look to its history for context and inspiration. But that history only helps, Paul H. Mattingly argues, if it’s seen as something more than a linear progress...
Abelard to Apple
The Fate of American Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
How institutions of higher learning can rescue themselves from irrelevance and marginalization in the age of iTunes U and YouTube EDU.
The vast majority of American college students attend two thousand or so private and public institutions that might be described as the Middle—reputable educational...
Higher Education in the American West
Regional History and State Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Higher Education in the American West: Regional History and State Contexts is the first comprehensive regional history of American higher education. It offers new historical research on how societal forces and state actions brought about the region's one thousand two hundred institutions of higher learning in 15 western states.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Delivering quality education to students while remaining competitive at an international level is only one of the many challenges universities face today. To attain their goals, universities must adopt new strategies to achieve academic excellence. World University Rankings and the Future of Higher Education...