Higher Education category: 3664 books
The Changing Governance of Higher Education and Research
Multilevel Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
This book analyses and describes the effects of the reforms of the European science systems on research. Taking the multilevel governance of the science system into account, the authors describe the effects of the reforms on different aspects: research collaborations and research lines, PhD education,...
Berea College
An Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2006
The motto of Berea College is "God has made of one blood all peoples of the earth," a phrase underlying Berea's 150-year commitment to egalitarian education. The first interracial and coeducational undergraduate institution in the South, Berea College is well known for its mission to provide...
Portraying Lives
Headmistresses and Women Professors 1880s1940s
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The expansion of women’s higher education in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Australia and New Zealand offered educated women opportunities to broaden their aspirations, horizons and experiences across many professional fields. Engaged in the public activity of teaching in a range of educational...
Political Correctness and Higher Education
British and American Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
How many times have you heard the phrase: `it’s all political correctness gone mad!’
Do you ever wonder whether colleges and universities are really awash with trivial concerns about the use of language or whether they are actually trying to address serious concerns about discrimination and harassment?
Have...
Epistemic Fluency and Professional Education
Innovation, Knowledgeable Action and Actionable Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
This book, by combining sociocultural, material, cognitive and embodied perspectives on human knowing, offers a new and powerful conceptualisation of epistemic fluency – a capacity that underpins knowledgeable professional action and innovation. Using results from empirical studies of professional...
Writing Groups for Doctoral Education and Beyond
Innovations in practice and theory
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Writing is the principal means by which doctoral candidature is monitored and measured; this, combined with the growing tendency to use publications as proxy measures of individual and institutional productivity, underlines the centrality of writing in academia. One of the central questions for scholars...
The State and Higher Education
State & Higher Educ.
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2018
This book investigates how the performing arts in higher education nationally contribute to the “high impact practices,” as identified by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU). Using the well-known map of the HIPs for illustrating the centrality of performing arts practices...
by Jonathan Haber
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Everything you always wanted to know about MOOCs: an account of massive open online courses and what they might mean for the future of higher education.
The New York Times declared 2012 to be “The Year of the MOOC” as millions of students enrolled in massive open online courses (known as...
The Splintering of the American Mind
Identity Politics, Inequality, and Community on Today’s College Campuses
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
A timely, provocative, necessary look at how identity politics has come to dominate college campuses and higher education in America at the expense of a more essential commitment to equality.
Thirty years after the culture wars, identity politics is now the norm on college campuses-and it hasn't...
Diversity and Triumphs of Navigating the Terrain of Academe
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
Many challenges are faced by under-represented groups in academia. Difficulties during the tenure process, prejudice stemming from affirmative action and higher levels of scrutiny than their colleagues are just a few tribulations experienced by faculty members from minority groups that have gone unnoticed...
Land-Grant Colleges and Popular Revolt
The Origins of the Morrill Act and the Reform of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2018
The land-grant ideal at the foundation of many institutions of higher learning promotes the sharing of higher education, science, and technical knowledge with local communities. This democratic and utilitarian mission, Nathan M. Sorber shows, has always been subject to heated debate regarding the...
by Lionel S. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2019
In the American university system for most of this century, the academic reward system has been blamed for both the neglect of teaching and a glut of uninspiring research. The salaries for faculty at institutions that place special emphasis on teaching are lower than those for faculty at institutions...
Higher Education in Post-Communist States
Comparative and Sociological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
To what extent have universities in post-Communist states adopted the practices and habits of their branded and consumer-oriented equivalents in the English-speaking world? While not assuming that university education in those states reflects in any mechanistic way the regulated, business-led system...