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A Promising Reality: Reflections on Race, Gender, and Culture in Cuba is a compilation of the reflections of a group of chief diversity officers, faculty, and educators from the United States about Cuba. As part of the National Association of Diversity...

One of the qualities of this book is the authors'engagement with personal experience. This is part of the contextualising of issues within particular cultural, historical and social contexts. I shall begin the Foreword in the same spirit by recounting an...

The book discusses issues leading to degradation of higher education in India which has seen a much faster pace compared to the decades of 1980s and 90s. In a country with still 21.2 percent of its population living below poverty line, itself proofs the...

Universities face the prospect of becoming redundant unless the way teaching and learning takes place changes. This book explores the idea of transformation and pedagogy, In particular, it will highlight how universities are transformed through a set of...

The book introduces readers with theory and empirical findings related to uncivil behaviour in academic settings and discusses its precursors, implications and remedies. In the first part, we define academic incivility, its manifestations and dimensions,...

This book examines the origins of higher learning, and then traces education exchange to the aftermath of World War II, when the United States was internationally recognized as the epicenter of critical thinking and scientific discovery. As centers of...

The modern university started as an innovative model - a research-driven teaching and service model in the 19th century -, but the contemporary university is in a crisis of identity. The major challenge is how to harmonize different missions, e.g.,...

This volume presents the story of Delta State University, in a form both narrative and pictorial, at a time when many participants in the early history of the institution were still living. This account of the major events under the administrations of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887190495Author Patricia E SalkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Touro University PressPublisher Touro University PressWeight(grams) 499g

This book investigates and discusses the phenomenon of internationalization of education policy and its consequences for national policymaking processes. By comparing educational outcomes and actors' reactions in different countries, it provides detailed...

This book examines some of the major higher education reforms and policy shifts globally, particularly in the light of recent shifts in quality and standards-driven education and policy research. It critiques the neo-liberal ideological imperatives of...

An examination of the role of universities in developing regions. The themes include the development role of a university in peripheral regions as diverse as northern Sweden and southern Israel, and the role of universities in training professional...

This open access book provides related theories, methods, strategies, and practical cases for implementing education reform through blended learning in curriculum, program, and institutions in the digital age. It sums up the research and practice...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798889590958Author Rabiul IslamFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Notion Press, Inc.Publisher Notion Press, Inc.Weight(grams) 299g

This book explores the multiple pathways from scholarships for international study to positive social change. Bringing together studies from academic researchers, evaluators and program designers and policymakers from Africa, Asia, Latin and North...

Over the past three decades, professions across the European Union have faced significant and radical challenges. This book analyses three professional groups involved in the academic and health sectors and how they are affected by different national...

This book highlights the importance of English academic vocabulary for success at university and explores written tasks as effective pedagogical tools to promote the acquisition of academic words. The book reviews germane and recent SLA,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781991201225Author Peter RuleFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint African Sun PressPublisher African Sun PressWeight(grams) 500g

This book explores and compares the systems of doctoral education in twelve higher education systems, consisting of four systems in East Asia, four in Europe and four Anglo-American systems. The emphasis placed on doctoral education and training has...

This book explores the effects of racial microaggressions on Asian American (AA) faculty members currently at higher education institutions utilizing the frameworks of the Model Minority Myth and Perpetual Foreigner Stereotype. The book delves into how...

This open access book addresses challenges related to women in STEM in higher education, presenting research, experiences, studies, and good practices associated with the engagement, access, and retention of women in the STEM disciplines. It also...

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...

This book offers eight validated instruments on workplace bullying to support robust mixed methods approaches for social justice research. Workplace bullying is an excellent starting point from which scholars can consider social justice research. The...

This book reviews and analyses higher education financing and explores the innovative ways by both public higher education and private higher education institutes in the context of globalization, with India, Russia and Tanzania as a case study. It...

This book explores the interlinkages between copyright and tertiary education regimes, and their complementary roles for sustainable human development. Emphasizing issues that are not addressed in-depth in the existing works, this book employs a new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798892480819Author Akkyz MustafinaFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Bayshop (Generis Publishing)Publisher Bayshop (Generis Publishing)Weight(grams) 118g

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

This open access book expands the scholarly and policy debates surrounding digital transformation in higher education. The authors adopt a pluralistic conceptual framework which uncovers three analytical elements – contexts, mediations, and type of...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524927714Author Robert OstromFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.

This book is a practical approach to insuring financial sustainability of US colleges, presented through the lens of organizational strategic thinking. The book does not simply offer models of how colleges can become financially sustainable in cost...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781482811933Author Dr Amarja NargundeFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Partridge PublishingPublisher Partridge PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602350977Author Lori OstergaardFormat PaperbackImprint Parlor PressPublisher Parlor PressWeight(grams) 413g

This book explores the phenomenon of researchers at risk: that is, the experiences of scholars whose research topics require them to engage with diverse kind of dangers, uncertainties or vulnerabilities. This risk may derive from working with variously...

This book examines how sole parents are constituted within university contexts, through social discourse and social policies. The gendered assumptions of female parental care-work are analysed as both constraining and enabling sole parent participation...

This collection weaves together the personal narratives of a group of diverse scholars in academia in order to reflect on the ways that grief and hope matter for those situated within higher education. Each chapter explores a unique aspect of grief and...

This Open Access volume is based on selected articles from the Challenges and Solutions in the Romanian Higher Education Conference (Bucharest, 2021) and aims to make the Romanian education system more visible and also comparable with other countries...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781928357803Author Eli BitzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Sun Press BloemfonteinPublisher African Sun MediaWeight(grams) 500g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524991807Author Lisa MongnoFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781920677893Author Johann MoutonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Puo Educational ProductsPublisher Puo Educational ProductsWeight(grams) 363g