Higher Education category: 3664 books
Ideological Function of Deming Theory in Higher Education
Emerging Research and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
Quality management initiatives have benefited organizations in the corporate world for several years. With this success, these methodologies are now being implemented into other sectors, such as educational institutions. Ideological Function of Deming Theory in Higher Education: Emerging Research and...
Teaching and Research in Contemporary Higher Education
Systems, Activities and Rewards
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book discusses how teaching and research have been weighted differently in academia in 18 countries and one region, Hong Kong SAR, based on an international comparative study entitled the Changing Academic Profession (CAP). It addresses these issues using empirical evidence, the CAP data. Specifically,...
The Changing Academic Profession
Major Findings of a Comparative Survey
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
This book provides an overview on the major findings of a questionnaire survey of academic profession in international perspective. More than 25,000 professors and junior staff at universities and other institutions of higher education at almost 20 countries from all over the world provide information...
Articulating Asia in Japanese Higher Education
Policy, Partnership and Mobility
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
This book is a study of cross-border activity in and around Japanese universities, employing ‘Asia’ as the cornerstone of inquiry. It offers qualitative, case-based analysis of Asia-oriented student mobility and partnership projects, framed by critical evaluation of discourses and texts concerning...
Reconstructing Identities in Higher Education
The rise of 'Third Space' professionals
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Reconstructing Identities in Higher Education: The Rise of Third Space Professionals draws on studies conducted in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States to explore the roles and identities of a growing number of staff associated with broadly based institutional projects such as student...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
Higher education is growing most rapidly in the Asia-Pacific region, and policy makers are facing the task of balancing quality and quantity. This book will help readers understand the current situation of higher education not only in this region but everywhere that they may work.' - Shinichi Yamamoto, Hiroshima University, Japan
The Indispensable University
Higher Education, Economic Development, and the Knowledge Economy
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
The Indispensable University describes the innovative transformation of institutions of higher education (HEIs) across the world, in response to the emerging realities of the twenty-first century global knowledge-based economy, as well as describes how HEIs are defining many of today's economic realities...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
This volume provides insightful analysis of the way higher education engages with socially excluded communities. Leading researchers and commentators examine the validity of the claim that universities can be active facilitators of social mobility, opening access to the knowledge economy for formerly...
by David Kember
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
This book is based upon three interrelated open naturalistic studies conducted to better characterise the motivational orientation of students in higher education. Open semi-structured individual interviews were conducted with undergraduates, students at community colleges and students in taught postgraduate...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
The importance of critical thinking has surged as academics in higher education realize that many students, upon entering college, lack the critical thinking skills necessary to succeed. While much has been written regarding the ‘lack’ of critical thinking, less has been written on the success of...
The University Next Door
What Is a Comprehensive University, Who Does it Educate, and Can It Survive?
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The challenges public comprehensive universities face today are expanding—they have been challenged to enroll and graduate more students, adopt new technologies that lower cost without sacrificing quality, and align program and curricular offerings with the skills that employers require. While...
The Learning Community Experience in Higher Education
High-Impact Practice for Student Retention
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Offering an interdisciplinary qualitative approach, this book examines and evaluates the role and benefits of a Learning Community (LC), a high-impact practice for student retention in higher education. Grounded in in-depth case studies and first-person student experiences, the authors studied four...
Higher Education and Hope
Institutional, Pedagogical and Personal Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Around the world, the landscape of Higher Education is increasingly shaped by discourses of employability, rankings, and student satisfaction. Under these conditions, the role of universities in preparing students for all facets of life, and to contribute to the public good, is reshaped in significant...
Implementing Communities of Practice in Higher Education
Dreamers and Schemers
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
In this edited collection, the authors pick up the communities of practice (CoP) approach of sharing practice in their reflection on the experience of taking their CoP vision from a dream to reality. Their stories articulate the vision, the passion and the challenge of working within and/or changing...