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What Universities Owe Democracy by Ronald J. Daniels
RRP: £25.00£20.09Universities have historically been integral to democracy. What can they do to reclaim this critical role?Universities play an indispensable role within modern democracies. But this role is often overlooked or too narrowly conceived, even by universities... -
Game On!: Gamification, Gameful Design, and the Rise of the Gamer Educator by Kevin Bell 9781421423968
RRP: £35.00£33.07The changing student body in American higher education demands a new approach to teaching, one that moves toward inclusive, hyperpersonalized learning environments that have much in common with games and social media. Kevin Bell's Game On! presents... -
Learning, Teaching and Assessment in Higher Education: Global Perspectives by Sally Brown
RRP: £42.99£40.40For both new and existing staff in HE, this book provides a handbook on learning to teach. Whilst considering the scholarship that has underpinned teaching and learning for the last half century, the book also takes into account the changing nature of... -
Digital Internationalization in Higher Education: Beyond Virtual Exchange by Taylor C. Woodman 9781642675450
RRP: £31.99£28.33This resource explores the intersection of technology, sustainability, and global learning in the evolving landscape of international higher education. Although virtual exchange and mobility programs are essential components of digital... -
Developing Intercultural Competence in Higher Education: International Students' Stories and Self-Reflection by Lily A. Arasaratnam-Smith
RRP: £38.99£34.22This book presents students' reflections on their intercultural student experiences, and utilizing the UNESCO Story Circle methodology, illustrates how such reflection can aid the development of intercultural competence (IC).The volume features a broad... -
Comprehensive Internationalization: Institutional pathways to success by John K. Hudzik
RRP: £46.99£40.97This book is a timely insight into the internationalization of higher education institutions. The internationalization of higher education is a global phenomenon, but with substantial variation in how it is made operational in individual institutions... -
The University in Crumbs: A Register of Things Seen and Heard by Robert Porter 9781538165324
RRP: £69.00£59.99Occupying a space in-between conventional scholarship and imaginative storytelling, The University in Crumbs: A Register of Things Seen and Heard is an experimental work that dramatizes the everyday life of the academy. Consisting primarily of a series... -
What Snowflakes Get Right: Free Speech, Truth, and Equality on Campus by Ulrich Baer
RRP: £37.99£32.57Angry debates about polarizing speakers have roiled college campuses. Conservatives accuse universities of muzzling unpopular opinions, betraying their values of open inquiry; students sympathetic to the left openly advocate against completely... -
The Price of Defiance: James Meredith and the Integration of Ole Miss by Charles W. Eagles 9781469613949
RRP: £44.95£43.74When James Meredith enrolled as the first African American student at the University of Mississippi in 1962, the resulting riots produced more casualties than any other clash of the civil rights era. Eagles shows that the violence resulted from the... -
Connecting in the Online Classroom: Building Rapport between Teachers and Students by Rebecca A. Glazier
RRP: £26.50£23.29Building rapport with students can revive the promise of online education, leading to greater success for students, more fulfilling teaching experiences for faculty, and improved enrollment for universities.More students than ever before are taking... -
The Spark of Learning: Energizing the College Classroom with the Science of Emotion by Sarah Rose Cavanagh 9781943665334
RRP: £22.95£18.24Historically we have constructed our classrooms with the assumption that learning is a dry, staid affair best conducted in quiet tones and ruled by an unemotional consideration of the facts. The field of education, however, is beginning to awaken to the... -
From Black Power to Black Studies: How a Radical Social Movement Became an Academic Discipline by Fabio Rojas
RRP: £25.50£22.44The black power movement helped redefine African Americans' identity and establish a new racial consciousness in the 1960s. As an influential political force, this movement in turn spawned the academic discipline known as Black Studies. Today there are... -
Creating the Market University: How Academic Science Became an Economic Engine by Elizabeth Popp Berman
RRP: £25.00£19.59American universities today serve as economic engines, performing the scientific research that will create new industries, drive economic growth, and keep the United States globally competitive. But only a few decades ago, these same universities... -
Writing in the Disciplines by Mary Deane 9780230237087
£39.11Writing in the Disciplines' (WiD) is a growing field in which discipline-based academics, writing developers, and learning technologists collaborate to help students succeed as subject specialists. This book places WiD in its theoretical and cultural... -
The Productive Graduate Student Writer: A Guide to Managing Your Process, Time, and Energy to Write Your Research Proposal, Thesis, and Dissertation, and Get Published by Jan E. Allen
RRP: £22.99£20.16This book is for graduate students, and others, who want to become more productive writers. It's especially written for those who want to:increase their motivation, focus, and persistence to move a project to completionovercome procrastination and... -
Lower Ed: How For-Profit Colleges Deepen Inequality in America by Tressie McMillan Cottom 9781620970607
RRP: £19.99£13.56Despite the celebrated history of not-for-profit institutions of higher education, today more than 2 million students are enrolled in for-profit colleges such as ITT Technical Institute, the University of Phoenix, and others. Yet little is known about... -
University-Industry Partnerships for Positive Change: Transformational Strategic Alliances Towards UN SDGs by Tim Bodley-Scott 9781447364238
RRP: £63.99£48.96Robust university-industry partnerships are vital to achieve the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and create a better world for everyone. Developing the theory and practice of the '5th Generation University', this book shows how cross-sector... -
The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them by Christopher Newfield
RRP: £26.50£23.29A remarkable indictment of how misguided business policies have undermined the American higher education system.Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRLHigher education in America, still thought to be the world leader, is in... -
An Academic Life: A Memoir by Hanna Holborn Gray 9780691179186
RRP: £25.00£19.99A compelling memoir by the first woman president of a major American universityHanna Holborn Gray has lived her entire life in the world of higher education. The daughter of academics, she fled Hitler's Germany with her parents in the 1930s, emigrating... -
Promoting Inclusive Classroom Dynamics in Higher Education: A Research-Based Pedagogical Guide for Faculty by Kathryn C. Oleson
RRP: £29.99£25.94This powerful, practical resource helps faculty create an inclusive dynamic in their classrooms, so that all students are set up to succeed. Grounded in research and theory (including educational psychology, scholarship of teaching and learning,... -
Global Perspectives on Higher Education by Philip G. Altbach
RRP: £25.00£22.03Over the past half-century, globalization has had a profound impact on postsecondary education. The twin forces of mass higher education and the global knowledge economy have driven an unprecedented transformation. These fundamental changes have pulled... -
Education and Reconciliation: Exploring Conflict and Post-Conflict Situations by Julia Paulson
£43.02This book explores the role education has played in fostering or hindering reconciliation between groups divided by violent and/or social conflict. What is the relationship between education and reconciliation initiatives? Who encourages and enacts it... -
Unprotected: A Campus Psychiatrist Reveals How Political Correctness in Her Profession Endangers Every Student by Miriam Grossman 9781595230454
RRP: £24.00£16.22Our campuses are steeped in political correctness-that's hardly news to anyone. But no one realizes that radical social agendas have also taken over campus health and counseling centers, with dire consequences. Psychiatrist Miriam Grossman knows this... -
The Branding of the American Mind: How Universities Capture, Manage, and Monetize Intellectual Property and Why It Matters by Jacob H. Rooksby 9781421420806
RRP: £26.50£23.29Universities generate an enormous amount of intellectual property, including copyrights, trademarks, patents, Internet domain names, and even trade secrets. Until recently, universities often ceded ownership of this property to the faculty member or... -
Research with International Students: Critical Conceptual and Methodological Considerations by Jenna Mittelmeier 9781032269832
RRP: £38.99£34.22This must-read book combines carefully selected contributions to form a collective scholarly critique of existing research with international students, focusing on key critical and conceptual considerations for research where international students are... -
College Based Higher Education and its Identities: History, Pedagogy and Purpose within the Sector by Karima Kadi-Hanifi 9783030423889
£55.58This book explores the history, purpose and understandings of College Based Higher Education. Drawing together the perspectives of researchers and practitioners in the field, the book traces its history and aims, and identifies issues paramount to the... -
The Great Upheaval: Higher Education's Past, Present, and Uncertain Future by Arthur Levine 9781421442570
RRP: £29.95£19.81How will America's colleges and universities adapt to remarkable technological, economic, and demographic change?The United States is in the midst of a profound transformation the likes of which hasn't been seen since the Industrial Revolution, when... -
The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses by Alan Charles Kors 9780060977726
RRP: £18.99£14.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060977726Author Alan Charles KorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Alternative Universities: Speculative Design for Innovation in Higher Education by David J. Staley 9781421449029
RRP: £23.00£20.35Imagining the universities of the future.How can we re-envision the university? Too many examples of what passes for educational innovation today-MOOCs especially-focus on transactions, on questions of delivery. In Alternative Universities, David J... -
The Merit Myth: How Our Colleges Favor the Rich and Divide America by Anthony P. Carnevale
RRP: £19.99£13.56Colleges fiercely defend America's deeply stratified higher education system, arguing that the most exclusive schools reward the brightest kids who have worked hard to get there. But it doesn't actually work this way. As the recent college-admissions... -
Women Practicing Resilience, Self-care and Wellbeing in Academia: International Stories from Lived Experience by Ida Fatimawati Adi Badiozaman
RRP: £29.99£26.64Through a lens of self-care and wellbeing, this book shares stories of struggle and success from a diverse range of women in academia. Each story highlights how these women mitigated and overcame various barriers as part of their academic trajectory and... -
Researching Learning and Teaching with Adults: An Introduction by Ralf St. Clair
RRP: £32.99£29.16Designed to help the reader move through an empirical research project, this book describes how they can think like a researcher. Methods and methodologies are presented as pragmatic tools to address research questions. Research into adult learning is... -
The Textbook and the Lecture: Education in the Age of New Media by Norm Friesen 9781421424330
£31.80Why are the fundamentals of education apparently so little changed in our era of digital technology? Is their obstinate persistence evidence of resilience or obsolescence? Such questions can best be answered not by imagining an uncertain high-tech... -
Teaching and Learning Sustainable Consumption: A Guidebook by Daniel Fischer
RRP: £31.99£28.33This book is a comprehensive guide on how to teach sustainable consumption in higher education. Teaching and Learning Sustainable Consumption: A Guidebook systematizes the themes, objectives, and theories that characterize sustainable consumption as an... -
The New PhD: How to Build a Better Graduate Education by Leonard Cassuto
RRP: £29.00£26.48This book examines the failed graduate school reforms of the past and presents a plan for a practical and sustainable PhD.For too many students, today's PhD is a bridge to nowhere. Imagine an entering cohort of eight doctoral students. By current... -
Ethics, Ethnography and Education by Lisa Russell 9781839822476
RRP: £68.99£57.35By its very nature ethnography is an emergent methodology. To be ethical the ethnographer needs to manage research ethics in-situ. This need to manage ethical dilemmas as they arise often comes into conflict with increased ethical regulation and... -
Shaping Higher Education with Students: Ways to Connect Research and Teaching by Vincent C. H. Tong 9781787351127
RRP: £15.00£13.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787351127Author Vincent C. H. TongFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 555g -
Teaching Well: Understanding Key Dynamics of Learning-Centered Classrooms by Stephen D. Brookfield 9781642674736
RRP: £31.99£28.33What does it mean to teach well? In short, it means a willingness to do anything that helps students learn. Teaching Well investigates the fundamental principle of what teaching effectively entails by exploring the key dynamics of a learning-centered... -
SoTL Research Methodologies: A Guide to Conceptualizing and Conducting the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning by Michelle Yeo 9781642672411
RRP: £31.99£28.33Combining real examples with a roadmap of how to construct studies, analyze results, and share work, this book serves as a primary research methodology text for the field of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL).The volume seeks to explore key... -
British Universities in the Brexit Moment: Political, Economic and Cultural Implications by Mike Finn 9781787437432
RRP: £48.99£40.83This timely book provides an invaluable analysis of the impact the Brexit decision has had, and will have, on Britain's universities. International by nature, British universities draw their students and staff from across the global community. Britain is...