Higher Education category: 3664 books
The Handbook of Practice and Research in Study Abroad
Higher Education and the Quest for Global Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Co-published with the Association for American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U)
If we are all becoming global citizens, what then are our civic responsibilities? Colleges and universities across the United States have responded to this question by making the development of global citizens...
International Higher Education Volume 1
An Encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
This encyclopedia is the result of a highly selective enterprise that provides a careful selection of key topics in essays written by top scholars in their fields. Comprehensive and in-depth coverage of a limited number of countries, regions and themes is provided. The essays not only feature statistical...
Managing Universities
Policy and Organizational Change from a Western European Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
This book asks how modern universities are organized and managed, and questions whether 30 years of university reforms have resulted in stronger managerial structures and leadership control. It further asks whether current organisational and decision-making structures can be explained by public reform...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
A volume of specially commissioned papers which draws on the diverse expertise of academic researchers, policy makers and educational practitioners to address the changing patterns of competition and provision, in international higher education. Topics addressed range from policy, provision, teaching, research and business engagement.
The Global Future of Higher Education and the Academic Profession
The BRICs and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
This is the first book to critically analyze the future of higher education systems in the four BRIC countries - Brazil, Russia, India and China - and the USA, analyzing academic salaries, contracts and working conditions and how national policy will affect the academic profession in each context.
Voices of Conflict
Desegregating South African Universities
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2002
The South African higher education system has historically been characterized by racial and gender inequities inherited from the discriminatory policies of the apartheid era. Emerging from a higher education history plagued with deeply entrenched racial disparities, Voices of Conflict examines how...
The Emerging Markets and Higher Education
Development and Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book analyzes the relationship between higher education, the economy and government in the development of a democratic and market economy society in emerging market countries. (Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, China, Hong Kong, Korea, Mexico, Chile and Brazil).
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Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
The cultural industries are an area of continued international debate. This edited volume brings together original contributions to examine the experiences and realities of working within a number of creative sectors and address how higher education can both enable students to pursue and critically examine work in the cultural industries.
Widening Participation in Higher Education
Casting the Net Wide?
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
This collection offers an authoritative, up-to-date commentary on the challenges facing higher education today across both the UK and internationally. The book charts the impact of global economic trends and recent policy developments for students, academics, providers and changing course provision.
Teaching with Sociological Imagination in Higher and Further Education
Contexts, Pedagogies, Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
This book uses research and personal stories from university lecturers to explore pedagogical strategies that illuminate how students’ minds can be ‘switched on’ in order to unlock their extraordinary potential. It presents diverse ways to create inspiring learning environments, in chapters...
International Higher Education Volume 2
An Encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
This encyclopedia is the result of a highly selective enterprise that provides a careful selection of key topics in essays written by top scholars in their fields. Comprehensive and in-depth coverage of a limited number of countries, regions and themes is provided. The essays not only feature statistical...
Understanding Teaching Excellence in Higher Education
Towards a Critical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2005
What makes a university teacher 'excellent'? As debates rage about whether this is down to subject knowledge, communication skills, taking a research-led approach or being a technological whiz, this book provides the first in-depth examination of teaching excellence in higher education. Identifying...
by William H. Bergquist
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2010
Since the first edition of A Guide to Faculty Development was published in 2002, the dynamic field of educational and faculty development has undergone many changes. Prepared under the auspices of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD), this thoroughly revised,...
Affirmative Action and Racial Equity
Considering the Fisher Case to Forge the Path Ahead
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
The highly anticipated U.S. Supreme Court decision in Fisher v. University of Texas placed a greater onus on higher education institutions to provide evidence supporting the need for affirmative action policies on their respective campuses. It is now more critical than ever that institutional leaders...