Higher Education category: 3664 books
Taking It to the Streets
The Role of Scholarship in Advocacy and Advocacy in Scholarship
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
Higher education scholars often conduct research on topics about which they care deeply, but to what extent should they be advocates for reform and social change? One school of thought believes researchers should remain dispassionate and data focused; the other, that a researcher, by the very questions...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
This volume is a detailed and up-to-date reference work providing an authoritative overview of the main issues in higher education around the world today. Consisting of newly commissioned chapters and impressive journal articles, it surveys the state of the discipline and includes the examination and discussion of emerging, controversial and cutting edge areas.
Intellectual Leadership in Higher Education
Renewing the role of the university professor
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
What is ‘intellectual leadership’ and how might this concept be better understood in the modern university? Drawing on research into the role of full or chair professors, this book argues that it is important to define and reclaim intellectual leadership as a counter-weight to the prevailing managerial...
Integrative Learning
International research and practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Current teaching, learning and assessment practices can lead students to believe that courses within a programme are self-sufficient and separate. Integrative Learning explores this issue, and considers how intentional learning helps students become integrative thinkers who can see connections in...
Anti-Intellectual Representations of American Colleges and Universities
Fictional Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017
This book explores popular media depictions of higher education from an American perspective. Each chapter in this book investigates the portrait of higher education in an exciting array of media including novels, television, film, comic books, and video games revealing the ways anti-intellectualism...
Developing a Center for Teaching Excellence
A Higher Education Case Study Using the Integrated Readiness Matrix
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Developing a Center for Teaching Excellence: A Case Study Using the Integrated Readiness Matrix builds on the 2015 text, Integrating Pedagogy and Technology: Improving Teaching and Learning in Higher Education with a focus on teaching in higher education.
Developing a Center for Teaching Excellence...
Contemplative Approaches to Sustainability in Higher Education
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
How do we foster in college students the cognitive complexity, ethical development, and personal resolve that are required for living in this "sustainability century"? Tackling these complex and highly interdependent problems requires nuanced interdisciplinary understandings, collective...
Helping Students Learn in a Learner-Centered Environment
A Guide to Facilitating Learning in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Before entering higher education, most students’ learning experiences have been traditional and teacher-centered. Their teachers have typically controlled their learning, with students having had little say about what and how to learn. For many students, encountering a learner-centered environment...
Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2008
As universities increasingly offer courses that break the confines of a single subject area, more students are enrolling on interdisciplinary programmes within multidisciplinary departments. Teaching and learning within interdisciplinary study requires new approaches, including an understanding of...
Degrees That Matter
Moving Higher Education to a Learning Systems Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Concerned by ongoing debates about higher education that talk past one another, the authors of this book show how to move beyond these and other obstacles to improve the student learning experience and further successful college outcomes. Offering an alternative to the culture of compliance in assessment...
A Pocket Guide to Mentoring Higher Education Faculty
Making the Time, Finding the Resources
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
This book is written for senior faculty and administrators at resource-strapped institutions who are not trained in higher education administration who are concerned with mentoring. It is written in accessible, nontechnical language but references the more scholarly and statistically based journals...
Seeking the Common Dreams between the Worlds
Stories of Chinese Immigrant Faculty in North American Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
This is the first book that probes the lived experiences of Chinese immigrant faculty in North American higher education institutions: their struggles, challenges, successes, etc. It explores how their past experiences in China have shaped who they are now, what they do and how they pursue their teaching,...
Shaping the University of the Future
Using Technology to Catalyse Change in University Learning and Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
This book focuses on developing an understanding of the complex interplay of forces acting on individual universities and higher education systems to enable leaders and practitioners to take purposeful and strategic action. It explores the challenging landscape of higher education and the pressures...
Whackademia
An Insider's Account of the Troubled University
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
A scathing insider exposé, this account lifts the lid on a higher education system that’s corporatized beyond recognition, steeped in bureaucracy, and dominated by marketing and PR imperatives rather than intellectual pursuit. Fearless, ferocious, and often funny, this exposes a world that stands...