Higher Education category: 3664 books
Flipped Learning
A Guide for Higher Education Faculty
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Flipped learning is an approach to the design and instruction of classes through which, with appropriate guidance, students gain their first exposure to new concepts and material prior to class, thus freeing up time during class for the activities where students typically need the most help, such...
Compelling Interest
Examining the Evidence on Racial Dynamics in Colleges and Universities
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2003
In recent years American colleges and universities have become the locus of impassioned debates about race-conscious social policies, as conflicting theories clash over the ways to distribute the advantages of higher education in a fair and just manner. Just below the surface of these policy debates...
Higher Education Access and Choice for Latino Students
Critical Findings and Theoretical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Now the largest and fastest-growing ethnic population in the U.S., Latino students face many challenges and complexities when it comes to college choice and access. This edited volume provides much needed theoretical and empirical data on how the schooling experiences of Latino students shape their...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Spirituality Research Studies in Higher Education offers two uniquely designed sections that showcase a group of talented scholars from major research institutions. This edited volume by Terence Hicks provides the reader with topics such as spiritual aspects of the grieving college students, spirituality...
English Education at the Tertiary Level in Asia
From Policy to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
This is the third volume of a trilogy on English Language education in Asia within the Routledge Critical Studies in Asian Education. Put together by editors and contributors selected by Asia TEFL, this book provides a timely and critical review of the current trends in tertiary level English education...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Citizenship, democracy and human rights have always been central to higher education and increasing globalization has amplified their urgency and complexity. This volume explores conceptual, theoretical and policy implications for post-secondary education engaging with these topics, comparing the USA, Canada, Eastern Europe and Western Europe.
Elite Education and Internationalisation
From the Early Years to Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
This book offers both a theoretical and empirical examination of elite education, at all stages from the early years to university level. The book explores the various manifestations of internationalisation of education; the implications of these for national education systems; the formation and re-articulation...
Higher Education Across Asia
An Overview of Issues and Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Higher education (HE) is seen to have an ever more important role in human resource development and the movement of people, students, and the workforce in the region. The Asian Development Bank's developing member countries are increasing investment in HE to support social and economic development...
Managing Copyright in Higher Education
A Guidebook
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
As more and more colleges and universities establish copyright offices and/or assign the responsibilities of copyright education and advisory services to specific individuals within the institution, many times librarians, there is a paucity of resources available on how to manage that responsibility....
Becoming a Professor
A Guide to a Career in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Becoming a Professor is designed primarily for graduate and undergraduate students and others – instructors, lecturers and new tenure-track professors – contemplating careers as professors in post-secondary education at colleges, institutes, and universities. The book identifies kinds of higher...
Educating for Civic-mindedness
Nurturing authentic professional identities through transformative higher education
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Imagined at their best, how might professions contribute most effectively to their local and global communities, and how could higher education support graduates/future professionals in making this contribution? The answer proposed in this book is to educate students for ‘civic-mindedness’, an...
Higher Education Administration
50 Case-Based Vignettes
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
A volume in Education Policy in Practice: Critical Cultural Studies Series Editors Edmund T. Hamann, University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Rodney Hopson, George Mason University For most of US history, most of America's Latino population has lived in nine states-California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado,...
Rethinking Widening Participation in Higher Education
The Role of Social Networks
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Extending the chance for people from diverse backgrounds to participate in Higher Education (HE) is a priority in the UK and many countries internationally. Previous work on widening participation in HE however has focussed on why people choose to go to university but this vital new research has focussed...
Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education and Societal Contexts
International and Interdisciplinary Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
Groundbreaking in its international, interdisciplinary, and multi-professional approach to diversity and inclusion in higher education, this volume puts theory in conversation with practice, articulates problems, and suggests deep-structured strategies from multiple perspectives including performed...