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Stories and personal narratives are powerful tools for engaging in self-reflection and application of critical theory in higher educational contexts. This edited text centers "name stories" as a vehicle to promote readers' understanding of...

Sustainability is a complex concept, and the challenge of understanding it and applying it to a diverse, multi-agent, organisational setting with its potentially conflicting priorities cannot be underestimated. Leadership for Sustainability in Higher...

Quality management initiatives have benefited organizations in the corporate world for several years. With this success, these methodologies are now being implemented into other sectors, such as educational institutions. Ideological Function of Deming...

Technology-Enhanced Learning in Higher Education is an anthology produced by the international association, Learning in Higher Education (LiHE). LiHE, whose scope includes the activities of colleges, universities and other institutions of higher...

This volume is designed to illuminate the educational experiences of Black women, from the time they earn their high school diplomas through graduate study, with a particular focus on their doctoral studies, by exploring the commonalities and the...

Narratives of Academics’ Personal Journeys in Contested Spaces provides theoretically-informed personal narratives of 11 emerging and established leaders in learning and teaching in Australia, Finland, New Zealand, Singapore, the UK and the USA. The...

This book goes beyond now-familiar analyses of ‘neoliberal governmentality’ which tend to characterise academics as passive subjects or as ‘strategic actors’, drawing on and cynically exploiting metrics as a form of capital exchangeable across different...

Teaching excellence is a topic of international significance, having importance for higher education worldwide, yet is generally considered to be poorly defined and understood. The current discourse of teaching excellence is narrowly framed, instrumental...

This edited volume brings together reflections on how students pursue the search for meaning and purpose in the context of higher education. It offers perspectives from humanities professors, college chaplains of multiple faiths, and observers of the...

The impact of changing demographics in higher education, and the importance of family-friendly policies, is well documented. There is an urgent need to keep PhDs in the higher education sector, to recruit talented scholars into academia, and retain them...

Interpretive Pedagogies for Higher Education focuses on providing a humanistic perspective on pedagogy by relating it to the interpretive practices of particular public educators: thinkers and writers whose work has had an immeasurable impact on how we...

Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning in Higher Education provides a resource for researchers and practitioners in the area of computer-supported collaborative learning (also known as CSCL); particularly those working within a tertiary education...

Being and Becoming Professionally Other: Identities, Voices, and Experiences of U.S. Trans* Academics is a path-clearing book that provides a rich, in-depth account of the lived experiences of 39 transgender or trans* academics. Despite increased...

Social Theory and the Politics of Higher Education brings together an international group of scholars who shine a theoretical light on the politics of academic life and higher education. The book covers three key areas: 1) Institutional governance, with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648022081Author Amy Johnson LachukFormat HardbackPage Count 150Imprint Information Age PublishingPublisher Information Age PublishingWeight(grams) 156g

The professional conference has been, for many years, the primary tool for continuing education and networking in many professions. Now, however, the economic and environmental costs associated with travel, and the opportunity costs associated with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781038774309Author Peter FileneFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint ReadHowYouWantPublisher ReadHowYouWantWeight(grams) 345g

Higher education is seen to be a means to "the" good life and is a dominant way societies distribute hope for social mobility. But does higher education deliver on its promise? This book attends to the hopes, experiences, and trajectories of...

When Andrew Cuomo was forced to resign as governor of New York in August 2021, a commentator on CNN remarked that he had "not gotten his own memo" on sexual harassment that he had signed into law two years earlier. Misogyny in English Departments...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646490127Author Russell StricklandFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Year of the Book PressPublisher Year of the Book PressWeight(grams) 225g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781928502098Author Ntokozo BhenguFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint African MindsPublisher African MindsWeight(grams) 553g

Because of the continued growth of online instruction, there is now a need to better understand every demographic of students in higher education. Achieving successful student-faculty engagement in distance learning is a growing challenge. Fostering...

Fundamental College Astronomy Experiments is the perfect companion to Fundamentals of College Astronomy. It contains 20 experiments used to enhance student learning with relevant examples on topics discussed in the text.Fundamental College Astronomy...

Academic Working Lives examines the ways in which lecturers and their roles have developed in the modern academic workplace. The book offers insights into changing occupational roles, institutions and the adaptations around flexible and mobile ...

This book offers a unique insight into the dynamics of the English language in higher education in Cyprus through the lens of universities situated on both sides of its geopolitical division. It takes an original perspective on 'value' in the context of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765120231Author William Elliott IIIFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Some scholars argue that education systems across the western world are becoming increasingly similar due to the influence of transnational discourses and organizations. Others believe that education is the panacea for all problems of social cohesion...

A reference work for all those concerned with the administration of higher education, this volume contains information on universities and other tertiary institutions worldwide.Book InformationISBN 9781349120390Author International Association of...

Higher education is seen to be a means to “the” good life and is a dominant way societies distribute hope for social mobility. But does higher education deliver on its promise? This book attends to the hopes, experiences, and trajectories of...

Today's colleges and universities are facing mounting criticism from both internal and external interest groups and constituencies. While strident calls for reform accelerate, resources for higher education have weakened. Thus, demands to improve college...

Decolonizing University Teaching and Learning considers apprehensions around decolonizing and offers a summary of key arguments within critical discussion around its meaning and value through engagement with a growing body of literature. The contextually...

All universities have to produce plans to eliminate the gaps in access, success and participation of disadvantaged student in higher education, setting targets with regards to Global Majority, working class, disabled and student with mental health...

This set includes Strategic Diversity Leadership and The Chief Diversity Officer.About the AuthorDamon A. Williams is the Associate Vice Chancellor, Vice Provost and Chief Diversity Officer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a clinical member of...

What is the future of the contemporary university and for those who wish to lead them? Considering leadership in the broadest sense, including academic leadership (teaching and research) as well as leadership practices of those in formal management...

Learn how to develop, manage, and maintain a scholarly communications department.More and more academic libraries are being asked to provide scholarly communications services to their campuses, ranging from general information about copyright law to...

From Lawrence Ross, author of The Divine Nine and the leading expert on sororities and fraternities, Blackballed exposes the white fraternity and sorority system, with traditions of racist parties, songs, and assaults on black students, and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591811817Author Jeremiah ConwayFormat PaperbackPage Count 163Imprint Sentient PublicationsPublisher Sentient PublicationsWeight(grams) 256g

Narratives of Becoming Leaders in Disciplinary and Institutional Contexts provides theoretically informed personal narratives of nine emerging and established leaders in learning and teaching in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Trinidad and Tobago, the UK and...

Rooted in the work of community - school collaborations, this text focuses on connecting the rigors of the classroom with the ambiguity of lived community experience. Community-Based Transformational Learning (CBTL) draws on the increasing evidence that...

The evolution of student activism in sub-Saharan Africa is crucial to understanding the process of democratic struggle and change in Africa. Focusing on the recent period of 'democratic transitions' in the 1990s, Leo Zeilig discusses the widespread...