Higher Education category: 3664 books
Developing the Global Student
Higher education in an era of globalization
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Developing the Global Student addresses the question of how students of higher education can emerge from their university life better equipped to dwell more effectively, ethically, and comfortably amidst the turmoils of a globalizing world. It does this from a number of theoretical perspectives, illustrating...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
As the world becomes more navigable, opportunities arise for people to live in different countries and for students to study internationally. Such capabilities require universities and other institutions of higher learning to accommodate cultural diversity. Promoting Ethnic Diversity and Multiculturalism...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
The integration of technology has become so deeply rooted into modern society that the upcoming generation of students has never known a world without such innovations. This defining trait calls for an examination of effective methods in which to support and motivate these learners. The Handbook of Research...
Towards a Philosophy of Caring in Higher Education
Pedagogy and Nuances of Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2018
This book advances a re-imagined view of caring in higher education. The author proposes an argument of rhythmic caring, whereby teachers hold back or release their judgments in such a way that students’ judgments are influenced accordingly. In doing so, the author argues that rhythmic caring encourages...
Advancing Higher Education with Mobile Learning Technologies
Cases, Trends, and Inquiry-Based Methods
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Rapid advancements in technology are creating new opportunities for educators to enhance their classroom techniques with digital learning resources. Once used solely outside of the classroom, smartphones, tablets, and e-readers are becoming common in many school settings. Advancing Higher Education...
by Priyanki R. Vyas
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Higher education is very important for the development of any country. Government also realized the same and giving more importance to it. The success of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) and Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) has laid a strong foundation for primary and secondary education in India....
Higher Education and Social Justice
The Transformative Potential of University Teaching and the Power of Educational Paradox
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2018
This book demonstrates how the pedagogical decision making of university academics can be shaped by engagement with an educational philosophy known as “relationship-centred education”. Beginning with critical analysis of concepts such as student engagement, student satisfaction, and student-centred...
The Flexible Professional in the Knowledge Society
New Challenges for Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Higher education policy has increasingly gained a European dimension, with its own distinct influence over national education policies. Against this background, a major project was launched, the REFLEX project, which aims to make a contribution to assessing the demands that the modern knowledge society...
From Vocational to Professional Education
Educating for social welfare
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
One of the most important routes to employment within the social welfare sector worldwide is higher education, which equips students not only with the knowledge for employment, but with the tools to use and build on this knowledge. During the last few decades there has been an academic drift in professional...
Widening Participation, Higher Education and Non-Traditional Students
Supporting Transitions through Foundation Programmes
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
This book highlights the problems that have developed as students lack either the social or cultural capital to take the opportunity of Higher Education through conventional routes. This might be due to leaving school early, lacking entry qualifications or wanting to further their education and prospects...
A New Moral Vision
Gender, Religion, and the Changing Purposes of American Higher Education, 1837-1917
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
In A New Moral Vision, Andrea L. Turpin explores how the entrance of women into U.S. colleges and universities shaped changing ideas about the moral and religious purposes of higher education in unexpected ways, and in turn profoundly shaped American culture. In the decades before the Civil War, evangelical...
Black Administrators in Higher Education
Autoethnographic Explorations and Personal Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2018
This Black Administrators in Higher Education book displays a group of administrators from predominantly white and historically black institutions from both four-year and two-year institutions. Through the lenses of autoethnography and personal narrative studies, this extraordinary edited volume by...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
While research into intercultural teaching has grown exponentially during the past two decades, the research has primarily resorted to the use of quantitative data collection instruments and the interpretation of scores calculated through them. As such, studies in the field can seem somewhat decontextualized,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Published annually since 1985, the Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities. Each chapter provides a comprehensive review of research findings on a selected...