Higher Education category: 3664 books
Hispanic-Serving Institutions
Advancing Research and Transformative Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Despite the increasing numbers of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) and their importance in serving students who have historically been underserved in higher education, limited research has addressed the meaning of the growth of these institutions and its implications for higher education. Hispanic-Serving...
Creativity and Spirituality
A Multidisciplinary Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
The volume was developed to address conceptual, relational and formational questions around the phenomena of creativity and spirituality from a multidisciplinary perspective. We acknowledge the complexity of each phenomenon, and the need for multiple perspectives, in a number of ways. First, different...
Professorial Pathways
Academic Careers in a Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
In the twenty-first century, universities worldwide have found themselves thrust into a great "brain race" as nations, both developed and developing, seek to enhance their place in the global knowledge economy. As the concept of the de-localized university—one that has radically expanded,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Nonviolent environments are desirable in many areas of life, yet none are as essential as within our educational institutions. Providing a safe space for students has become a critical concern in modern society. Violence Prevention and Safety Promotion in Higher Education Settings is a vital resource...
Engaging Students through Social Media
Evidence-Based Practices for Use in Student Affairs
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
Using social media to enhance learning outcomes, engagement, and retention
Although research shows that most of today's college students adopt and use social media at high rates, many higher education professionals are unaware of how these technologies can be used for academic benefit. Author...
Reflections of a Rookie Dean
Lessons from the First Year
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Conversational in tone and providing highly practical advice for new deans, Reflections of a Rookie Dean: Lessons from the First Year chronicles the experiences of a novice college leader. Providing aspiring and new deans with insight and direction into the job of leading a college, this book is well...
The Educated Woman
Minds, Bodies, and Women's Higher Education in Britain, Germany, and Spain, 1865-1914
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
The Educated Woman is a comparative study of the ideas on female nature that informed debates on women’s higher education in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in three western European countries. Exploring the multi-layered roles of science and medicine in constructions of sexual...
Assessing Service-Learning and Civic Engagement
Principles and Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2018
This book offers a broad overview of many issues related to assessment in higher education, with specific application for understanding the impact of service-learning and civic engagement initiatives. This revised edition includes an additional chapter that explores recent changes in the assessment...
New Scholarship in Critical Quantitative Research, Part 2: New Populations, Approaches, and Challenges
New Directions for Institutional Research, Number 163
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
This volume is the second in a two-part series on differentiating approaches to quantitative research
from more traditional positivistic and postpositivistic approaches. While the first volume provided an expanded conceptualization of critical quantitative inquiry, this volume concludes the series...
New Scholarship in Critical Quantitative Research, Part 1: Studying Institutions and People in Context
New Directions for Institutional Research, Number 158
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
This volume presents work focused on underrepresented persons in a variety of levels of higher education. Each scholar has used critical quantitative approaches to examine access and/or success in the higher education arena. Their scholarship pushes the boundaries of what we know by questioning mainstream...
Undergraduate Student Engagement
Theory and Practice in China and the UK
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
This book focuses on undergraduate student engagement in China and the UK. It offers an innovative perspective on this aspect, which, although pervasive, is not always acknowledged by its users to be complex and multidimensional in nature, firmly rooted in cultural, social and disciplinary norms,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
This is the most comprehensive international discussion of higher education governance ever published. It presents a critical analysis of governance issues and reforms in: Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the UK, and the USA. The book explores different theoretical...
by Dave Lochtie, Emily McIntosh, Andrew Stork
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
This is an important new text for all academic and professional staff within higher education (HE) who have a personal tutoring, student support or advising role.
It examines key topics in relation to tutoring including definitions, coaching, core values and skills, boundaries, monitoring students,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
E-assessments of students profoundly influence their motivation and play a key role in the educational process. Adapting assessment techniques to current technological advancements allows for effective pedagogical practices, learning processes, and student engagement. The Handbook of Research on E-Assessment...