Higher Education category: 3664 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Structural Challenges and the Future of Honors Education is the third volume in an edited series examining the proliferation of honors programs and colleges in American higher education. While honors education has become ubiquitous in American higher education, this transformation has happened without...
Education, Ethnicity, Society and Global Change in Asia
The Selected Works of Gerard A. Postiglione
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
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...
Globalization and Internationalization in Higher Education
Theoretical, Strategic and Management Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Universities all over the world are increasingly recognising the challenges of globalization and the pressures towards internationalization. This collection draws together a wealth of international experience to explore the emerging patterns of strategy and practice in internationalizing Higher Education.
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The Years That Matter Most
How College Makes or Breaks Us
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2019
The best-selling author of How Children Succeed returns with a powerful, mind-changing inquiry into higher education in the United States
Does college still work? Is the system designed just to protect the privileged and leave everyone else behind? Or can a college education today provide real...
by Corey Seemiller, Meghan Grace
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2015
Say Hello to Your Incoming Class—They're Not Millennials Anymore
Generation Z is rapidly replacing Millennials on college campuses. Those born from 1995 through 2010 have different motivations, learning styles, characteristics, skill sets, and social concerns than previous generations. Unlike...
Universities for a New World
Making a Global Network in International Higher Education, 1913-2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Universities for a New World takes the Centenary of the ‘Association of Commonwealth Universities’ (ACU) as its point of departure in exploring what a 2009 ‘United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’ (UNESCO) Report has evocatively termed an ‘academic revolution’...
Diversity and Inclusion on Campus
Supporting Racially and Ethnically Underrepresented Students
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
As scholars and practitioners in higher education attempt to embrace and lead diversity efforts, it is imperative that they have an understanding of the issues that affect historically underrepresented students. Using an intersectional approach that connects the categories of race, class, and gender,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
This volume examines the evolution of higher education opportunities for African Americans in the early and mid-twentieth century. It contributes to understanding how African Americans overcame great odds to obtain advanced education in their own institutions, how they asserted themselves to gain...
by Elizabeth Murphy, María A. Rodríguez-Manzanares
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Activity Theory is a tool that can help make sense of the complex changes taking place in higher education because of the integration of technology. Unlike other theories, it allows for a focus that includes elements in the social, cultural, and historical setting in which the technology is used. In...
Globalization and Japanese Exceptionalism in Education
Insiders' Views into a Changing System
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Globalization is the most common overriding characteristic of our time, with societies all over the world struggling to change their educational systems to meet what are perceived to be the needs of globalization. This book provides an insider's account of how the Japanese educational system is trying...
Digital Technology and the Contemporary University
Degrees of digitization
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Digital Technology and the Contemporary University examines the often messy realities of higher education in the ‘digital age’. Drawing on a variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives, the book explores the intimate links between digital technology and wider shifts within contemporary higher...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
This book offers a moral rather than instrumental notion of university education whilst locating the university within society. It reflects a balancing of the instrumentalization of higher education as a mode of employment training and enhances the notion of the students’ well-being being at the...
Universities and the Production of Elites
Discourses, Policies, and Strategies of Excellence and Stratification in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
This book explores how universities as organizations influence and construct the production of academic elites and elitist institutions. It analyzes the role played by the reorganization of higher education (HE) institutions, stimulated by new performance-based narratives aimed at building attractiveness...
Getting to Graduation
The Completion Agenda in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
The United States, long considered to have the best higher education in the world, now ranks eleventh in the proportion of 25- to 34-year-olds with a college degree. As other countries have made dramatic gains in degree attainment, the U.S. has improved more slowly. In response, President Obama recently...