Higher Education list 44

Key Issues in English for Specific Purposes in Higher Education

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Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018

This volume offers research-based studies on English for Specific Purposes in higher education from across the world. By drawing on international studies, the book brings together diverse ESP practices and aspects of relevant issues in the development of ESP programs, teachers and learners in a coherent...

Digital Technology as Affordance and Barrier in Higher Education

by Mariana Regalado, Maura A. Smale
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016

This book explores college students’ lived experiences of using digital technologies for their academic work. Access to and use of digital technologies is an integral aspect of higher education in the twenty-first century. However, despite the tech-savvy image of them propagated by the media, not...

Higher Education under Late Capitalism

Identity, Conduct, and the Neoliberal Condition

by Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017

This book explores questions concerning personal identity and individual conduct within neoliberal academe. The author suggests that neoliberal academe is normal academe in the new millennium though well aware of its contested nature and destructive capacities. Examining higher education through a...

The Dynamics of Higher Education Development in East Asia

Asian Cultural Heritage, Western Dominance, Economic Development, and Globalization

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Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013

This book examines four theses regarding Asian higher education and development: interplay between cultural traditions, economic development, globalization, and the evolution of the 'hybrid' university. Top scholars evaluate these hypotheses and determine the elements shaping the history and present circumstances of Asia-Pacific higher education.

Evaluating Collaboration Networks in Higher Education Research

Drivers of Excellence

by Denise Leite, Isabel Pinho
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016

This book identifies key factors that drive the development and improvement of higher education research in emerging and advanced economies. In an increasingly interconnected world, knowledge production supported by strong research is a channel for the development of nations. The authors of this book...

Higher Education Policies in Central and Eastern Europe

Convergence towards a Common Model?

by M. Dobbins
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011

A political science perspective on higher education reform in Central and Eastern Europe. Examines the impact of historical institutions and transnational networking on institutions of higher education and assesses whether Poland, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria and Romania are converging towards a common model of market-based governance.

Engaging Leaders

The challenge of inspiring collective commitment in universities

by Paul Gentle, Dawn Forman
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014

Addressing the question of how leadership can work most successfully in universities, Engaging Leaders strengthens the sense of shared professional knowledge and capability amongst leaders in higher education. Presenting a narrative of change which not only spells out why universities need to work...

Comprehensive Internationalization

Institutional pathways to success

by John K. Hudzik
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014

This book is a timely insight into the internationalization of higher education institutions. The internationalization of higher education is a global phenomenon, but with substantial variation in how it is made operational in individual institutions. Comprehensive Internationalization focuses on...

Assessment of Learning Outcomes in Higher Education

Cross-National Comparisons and Perspectives

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Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018

This book offers a comprehensive overview of current, innovative approaches to assessing generic and domain-specific learning outcomes in higher education at both national and international levels. It discusses the most significant initiatives over the past decade to develop objective, valid, and...

Recognizing and Serving Low-Income Students in Higher Education

An Examination of Institutional Policies, Practices, and Culture

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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010

Written for administrators, faculty, and staff in Higher Education who are working with low income and first-generation college students, Recognizing and Serving Low-Income Students in Higher Education uncovers organizational biases that prevent post-secondary institutions from adequately serving...

Approaches to Assessment that Enhance Learning in Higher Education

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Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014

This book addresses the need to diversify mainstream forms of assessment currently used in Higher Education in order to re-establish the focus on the learning process. Making assessment central to student learning is about returning to what current research emphasises: the primary beneficiary of assessment...

Transforming Understandings of Diversity in Higher Education

Demography, Democracy, and Discourse

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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016

This exciting new text examines one of the most important and yet elusive terms in higher education and society: What do we mean when we talk in a serious way about “diversity”? A distinguished group of diversity scholars explore the latest discourse on diversity and how it is reflected in research...

Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research

Volume 26

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Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011

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...