Higher Education category: 3664 books
Higher Education Discourse and Deconstruction
Challenging the Case for Transparency and Objecthood
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
This book presents a critique of neoliberalism within UK Higher Education, taking its cue from approaches more usually associated with literary studies. It offers a sustained and detailed close reading of three works that might be understood to fall outside the established body of educational theory....
A World History of Higher Education Exchange
The Legacy of American Scholarship
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2019
This book examines the origins of higher learning, and then traces education exchange to the aftermath of World War II, when the United States was internationally recognized as the epicenter of critical thinking and scientific discovery. As centers of learning arose in the ancient world, the gathering...
Shadow Libraries
Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
How students get the materials they need as opportunities for higher education expand but funding shrinks.
From the top down, Shadow Libraries explores the institutions that shape the provision of educational materials, from the formal sector of universities and publishers to the broadly informal...
Lasting Female Educational Leadership
Leadership Legacies of Women Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Our colleges and universities are being led in large part by baby boomers who are now in later midlife. Huge numbers of those middle-aged leaders will retire within the next 10 years. While we know that being in later midlife and impending retirement must influence a person in a leadership position...
Educating for Empathy
Service Learning in Public Policy Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
Service learning presents an experiential learning opportunity, particularly for students at higher education institutions. At the same time, it allows the university to engage communities and apply its considerable resources addressing community needs. This book, Educating for Empathy: Service Learning...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Thinking in Higher Education provides a single compendium on the nature, function, and applications of critical thinking. This book brings together the work of top researchers on critical thinking worldwide, covering questions of definition, pedagogy, curriculum, assessment, research, policy, and application.
Reaching the Mountaintop of the Academy
Personal Narratives, Advice and Strategies From Black Distinguished and Endowed Professors
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Since the U.S. Civil Rights era, the racial composition of higher education has changed dramatically, resulting in an increase in the number of African American students and African American faculty in predominantly white institutions (PWI). Nevertheless, the number of African American endowed or...
Creating Significant Learning Experiences
An Integrated Approach to Designing College Courses
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
"Dee Fink challenges our conventional assumptions and practices and offers an insightful approach to expanding our learning goals, making higher education more meaningful. This is a gem of a book that every college teacher should read." —Ken Bain, author, What the Best College Students...
Are You Smart Enough?
How Colleges' Obsession with Smartness Shortchanges Students
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
This book explores the many ways in which the obsession with “being smart” distorts the life of a typical college or university, and how this obsession leads to a higher education that shortchanges the majority of students, and by extension, our society’s need for an educated population. The author...
by Henry A. Giroux
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Students are graduating from college with an unprecedented amount of debt. The Quebec student movement and the Occupy Wall Street movement proves that large numbers of students are demanding explanations for why they are crippled with debt and subject to ever increasing tution.
Giroux shows...
Raising the Stakes
Gambling with the Future of Universities
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This fully revised new edition probes the state of Australian higher education and its future. Peter Coaldrake and Lawrence Stedman's seminal and comprehensive analysis of the challenges faced by the higher education sector has been updated with revisions and a new chapter that addresses current policy...
by William R. Freudenberg, Ted I. K. Youn
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Research in Social Problems and Public Policy (RSPPP) is a peer-reviewed series devoted to the sharpening and reshaping of scientific discourse involving the intersection of social problems and public policy. In particular, it is interested in the analysis of the potential failure of public institutions...
Indo-French Educational Partnerships
Institutions, Technologies and Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This book examines the unexpected convergence between the higher education systems of India and France. This has resulted due to links between higher education investment and economic growth in the light of the knowledge triangle and the Lisbon strategy, which has recently been replaced by the Horizon...
Searching for Higher Education Leadership
Advice for Candidates and Search Committees
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Dowdall's book offers sample documents for candidates as well as for the search committees, and includes a substantive bibliography. From her vantage point outside the institution, Dowdall is able to provide a unique point of view and insightful comments on the complex and often daunting process of...