Higher Education category: 3664 books
Collaborative Learning Techniques
A Handbook for College Faculty
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
A guide to thirty-five creative assignments for pairs and groups
Collaborative Learning Techniques is the bestseller that college and university faculty around the world have used to help them make the most of small group learning.
A mountain of evidence shows that students who learn...
Sustaining Mobile Learning
Theory, research and practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Mobile technologies are one of the fastest growing areas of technology in education. For learners, they offer an appealing opportunity to transcend teacher-defined knowledge and approaches by being able to access multiple, alternative sources of information anytime and anywhere. While the pace of...
Ensuring Quality in Professional Education Volume I
Human Client Fields Pedagogy and Knowledge Structures
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2019
This book analyses examples of quality teaching in professional education in the human client fields. The first of two volumes, the editors and contributors use case studies to illustrate the elements deemed good practice within professional education. There are many different routes towards preparing...
College
What it Was, Is, and Should Be
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
As the commercialization of American higher education accelerates, more and more students are coming to college with the narrow aim of obtaining a preprofessional credential. The traditional four-year college experience--an exploratory time for students to discover their passions and test ideas and...
Traditions of Eloquence
The Jesuits and Modern Rhetorical Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
This groundbreaking collection explores the important ways Jesuits have employed rhetoric, the ancient art of persuasion and the current art of communications, from the sixteenth century to the present. Much of the history of how Jesuit traditions contributed to the development of rhetorical theory...
by Victor C.X. Wang, Kathleen P. King
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Career and Technical Education (CTE) has become a vibrant source of workforce development across the globe. It is no longer an offering only for a specialized sector of students. Instead, it has matured into a sound and meaningful program for high school and postsecondary students across interest areas,...
Changing Educational Landscapes
Educational Policies, Schooling Systems and Higher Education - a comparative perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2010
Analyzing educational landscapes – the fundamental values, principles and institutions of the sector – is a highly complex and demanding task for any researcher. Like shifting desert sands, these aspects of education are in a constant state of flux, changing according to the unpredictable economic,...
Sentipensante (Sensing/Thinking) Pedagogy
Educating for Wholeness, Social Justice and Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
“Rendón’s book, is the Pedagogy of the Oppressed for our time, bringing the lenses of feminist, postmodernist, anticolonial, and critical theory to bear on liberatory education.”?Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning"An important, thought-provoking, and unique addition to the literature...
Middle Grades Curriculum
Voices and Visions of the SelfEnhancing School
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
High stakes testing, standards, and accountability politics is taking us away from the importance of the affective domain in curriculum development. This critical learning domain is often an unrecognized and infrequently considered topic in the literature. Through this book we extend the current knowledge...
African American Students’ Career and College Readiness
The Journey Unraveled
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
African American Students’ Career and College Readiness: The Journey Unraveled explores the historical, legal, and socio-political issues of education affecting African American students and their career and college readiness. Each chapter has been written based on the authors’ experience and...
The Role of Leadership Educators
Transforming Learning
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Leadership, as a discipline, leadership education, as a field, and leadership educator, as a profession are still in their infancy and rapidly evolving. As professionals in higher education, we are constantly asked to provide opportunities for students to learn leadership, whether that is inside or...
First-in-Family Students, University Experience and Family Life
Motivations, Transitions and Participation
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
This book examines the university experiences of first-in-family university students, and how these students’ decisions to return to education impact upon their family members and significant others. While it is well known that parental educational background has a substantial impact on the educational...
The Decentring of the Traditional University
The Future of (Self) Education in Virtually Figured Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
The Decentring of the Traditional University provides a unique perspective on the implications of media change for learning and literacy that allows us to peer into the future of (self) education. Each chapter draws on socio-cultural and activity theory to investigate how resourceful students are...
Assessment Clear and Simple
A Practical Guide for Institutions, Departments, and General Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
The first edition of Assessment Clear and Simple quickly became the essential go-to guide for anyone who participates in the assessment process in higher education. With the increased pressure to perform assessment to demonstrate accountability, Assessment Clear and Simple is needed more than ever....