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This book presents research that seeks to understand students' experiences of transnational mobility and transcultural interaction in the context of educational settings confronted with linguistic diversity.Book InformationISBN 9781137397461Author Anne H...

This edited volume offers a comprehensive reference point to an interdisciplinary and trans-boundary analysis of the sustainability of Asian tertiary education systems. The four sections of the volume –Collaborations, Transformations, Global-Local...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599426631Author Yingxia CaoFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Dissertation.comPublisher Dissertation.comWeight(grams) 463gDimensions(mm) 246mm * 189mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845401009Author Gordon GrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 350gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524929695Author Jodi L. McquillenFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S...

This book analyses European higher education policies and their three main drivers: the European Commission, the European Court of Justice and the building of the European Higher Education Area through the Bologna Process. Central to the volume is the...

A volume in the Chinese American Educational Research and Development Association Book Series Series Editor Jinfa Cai, University of Delaware The book is linked to the annual theme of the 2008 CAERDA International Conference with contributing authors...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887300313Author Evelyn Shepherd W. FarmerFormat HardbackPage Count 374Imprint Information Age PublishingPublisher Information Age Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648023941Author John A HardinFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Information Age PublishingPublisher Information Age PublishingWeight(grams) 156g

As authors, we are convinced that the time has finally arrived in academe for an extensive, experience-based, firsthand, seamless examination of what we are calling crossover pedagogy. There is no book-length examination of facultystudent affairs...

CONTENTS: The President' Message, William Veal. The Editor's Notes: Exploring Ways We View the World: Personal, Professional, Relational, Political . . ., Barbara Slater Stern. PART I. Musings on the Margins: Curriculum and Teaching in an Age of School...

This book is a straightforward and entertaining primer on college teaching. It discusses the nitty-gritty aspects of teaching while providing readers with a synoptic but concise explanation of the principles of the art. It also offers a viable...

Colleges and universities face a variety of challenges in meeting the needs of students, and one of the greatest is their ability to respond to student needs while protecting institutional and academic integrity. For those working with students, a...

This book is not just about thinking or acting in transdisciplinary ways, but about being transdisciplinary. To achieve this requires a deconstruction of our current way of acting within the definition of being that others impose upon us...

The quality of the academics who undertake the work of teaching and research is critical to the significance, status and relevance of our universities. There is widespread evidence that doctoral students are not being properly prepared for the changing...

A sequel to the insightful Race and Class Matters at an Elite College that examines the challenges of diversity from freshman orientation to graduationBook InformationISBN 9781439909669Author Elizabeth AriesFormat HardbackPage Count 238Imprint Temple...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627872621Author Janet MarthersFormat PaperbackImprint WheatmarkPublisher WheatmarkWeight(grams) 853g

This book explores the impacts of transnational education (TNE) from the perspectives of institutions and countries that primarily act as hosts. The authors describe and analyse TNE across a wide geographical area comprised of both established and...

In this edited volume, authors explore the ways in which departments, programs, and centers at public research universities are working to better engage students in the work of citizenship and social justice. The chapters in this book illuminate the...

This book explores heutagogy (self-determined learning) - a new approach to teaching and learning in higher education - and proposes a paradigm shift in teaching, learning, and the educational enterprise and ecosystem.The first part of the book presents...

This edited collection presents a compilation of personal essays on the role of public higher education in the lives of fourteen social scientists who are graduates of the Graduate Center, the doctoral granting institution at the City University of New...

Global university rankings are now more than a decade old and this book uses the data they have produced to examine how the international landscape of universities has changed over the years. It offers new insights into the power and limits of league...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783836437264Author Erik L CarltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publisher VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736260920Author Claire LawFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Educational Avenues, Inc.Publisher Educational Avenues, Inc.Weight(grams) 458g

This book addresses three central questions in contemporary university governance: (1) How and why has academic governance in Anglophone nations changed in recent years and what impact have these changes had on current practices? (2) How do power...

This volume captures the spirit of collaboration and innovation that its authors bring into the classroom, as well as to groundbreaking undergraduate programs and initiatives. Coming from diverse points of view and twenty different disciplines, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781482838510Author Ishfaq Ahmad MalikFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Partridge IndiaPublisher Partridge IndiaWeight(grams) 263g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789386845986Author Ajhar HussainFormat PaperbackPage Count 696Imprint Ramesh Publishing HousePublisher Ramesh Publishing House

This edited collection demonstrates how discourses and practices associated with marketisation, differentiation and equality are manifested in UK higher education today. Uniting leading scholars in higher education and equality in England, the...

This book reveals the layered effects of the corporatization of higher education, situated within the phenomenon of disaster capitalism. The authors argue that higher education administrators have seized on the Covid-19 pandemic as an opportunity to...

What does it mean to be starting an academic career in the twenty first century? What challenges and prospects are new academics facing and how are they dealing with these? This book provides answers to these questions through an investigation of the...

This book explores stakeholders’ perspectives, their practices, and engagement with enacting the employability agenda in the context of a rapidly changing world. It explains the need for developing graduate employability under socioeconomic, cultural,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524902155Author Kenneth SharkeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.

This book employs a fiction-based approach to address the revolving door of Black faculty and staff in American colleges and universities as a national crisis that needs to be resolved systematically. Alex-Assensoh coins the acronym SOULS to promote the...

This book presents the most comprehensive discussion of emerging trends in higher education in the Asia Pacific, ranging from graduate attributes to integrated workplace learning, with an in-depth focus on work readiness, employability and career...

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...

This book is a lively, passionate defence of contemporary work in the humanities, and, beyond that, of the university system that makes such work possible. The book's stark accounts of academic labour, and its proposals for reform of the tenure system,...

In this book about communities of practice in the international, higher education sector, the authors articulate the theoretical foundations of communities of practice (CoPs), research into their application in higher education, leadership roles and how...

This book focuses on academic writing and how academics who are experts in their fields can translate their expertise into publishable form. The magnitude and speed of the changes that are transforming the global academic landscape produce an ongoing...

This book explores the experiences and perspectives of female professors. Analysing the gendering of this process using various theoretical perspectives, this edited collection examines the active 'making' of careers, and how this has been possible. The...