Higher Education category: 3664 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Research, Development, and Innovation in Asia Pacific Higher Education critically examines recent policies and practices adopted by governments and universities in Asia Pacific in promoting research and development, innovation, and entrepreneurial activities between the universities, industry and...
Social Games and Identity in the Higher Education Workplace
Playing with Gender, Class and Emotion
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
We all play games at work – but have you ever wondered how your identity becomes bound up with game playing? This book is about employees in the Higher Education workplace and it provides an interpretation of why people act the way they do at work as an expression of game playing. It offers an insight...
Distinctively American
The Residential Liberal Arts Colleges
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
There is much change underway in American higher education. New technologies are challenging the teaching practices of yesterday, distance learning is lauded, and private firms offer to certify the educational credentials that businesses and others will deem satisfactory. In this new environment,...
Universities, Rankings and the Dynamics of Global Higher Education
Perspectives from Asia, Europe and North America
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Global university rankings are now more than a decade old and this book uses the data they have produced to examine how the international landscape of universities has changed over the years. It offers new insights into the power and limits of league tables, a key element of globalized higher education...
Present Successes and Future Challenges in Honors Education
Present Successes and Future Challenges in Honors Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Present Successes and Future Challenges in Honors Education is the first volume in an edited series examining the proliferation of honors programs and colleges in American higher education. While honors education has become ubiquitous in American higher education, this transformation has happened...
Understanding Experiences of First Generation University Students
Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Methodologies
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Over the past few decades universities have opened their doors to students whose parents and grandparents were historically excluded from societal participation and higher education for reasons associated with racial, ethnic, socio-economic and/or linguistic diversity. Many of these students are first...
Deliberation & the Work of Higher Education
Innovations for the Classroom, the Campus, and the Community
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
This book, edited by Kettering Foundation Vice President and Program Director John Dedrick along with Laura Grattan and Harris Dienstfrey, demonstrates how deliberation can help higher education renew its mission of preparing citizens to sustain democracy and stimulate civic involvement on college...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Higher education systems have changed all over the world, but not all have changed in the same ways. Although system growth and so-called massification have been worldwide themes, there have been system-specific changes as well. It is these changes that have an important impact on academic work and...
Excellence in University Assessment
Learning from award-winning practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Assessment in higher education is an area of intense current interest, not least due to its central role in student learning processes*. Excellence in University Assessment* is a pioneering text which contributes to the theory and practice of assessment through detailed discussion and analysis of...
Culture, Capitals and Graduate Futures
Degrees of class
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
In a time of too many graduates for too few jobs, and in a context where applicants have similar levels of educational capital, what other factors influence graduate career trajectories? Based on the life history interviews of graduates and framed through a Bourdieusian sociological lens, Culture,...
Racial Battle Fatigue in Higher Education
Exposing the Myth of Post-Racial America
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Racial Battle Fatigue is described as the physical and psychological toll taken due to constant and unceasing discrimination, microagressions, and stereotype threat. The literature notes that individuals who work in environments with chronic exposure to discrimination and microaggressions are more...
Higher Education and Community-Based Research
Creating a Global Vision
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
A unique, comparative survey of community-based research within a higher education context, featuring some of the top scholars in the field, this book brings together a global range of experiences with community-based research and engages the leaders in the field worldwide to set out visions for future directions, practices, and developments.
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Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
This book presents the analysis of the representative survey about the academic profession in twelve European countries. Higher education in Europe has experienced a substantial change in recent years: Expansion progresses further, the expectation to deliver useful contributions of knowledge to the...
To Improve the Academy
Resources for Faculty, Instructional, and Organizational Development
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
An annual publication of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD), To Improve the Academy offers a resource for improvement in higher education to faculty and instructional development staff, department chairs, faculty, deans, student services staff, chief...