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This open access book provides insights from Indigenous higher degree research (HDR) students on supervision practices in an Australian context. It examines findings from qualitative studies conducted with Indigenous HDR students from different academic...

There is a misty-eyed vision of Bhutan which has popularized it as 'the last Shangri-la', the hidden Himalayan jewel, the travel destination of celebrities and unique-experience-hunters. We are not entirely comfortable with this image. Bhutan has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949800302Author Darryl W StephensFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Atla Open PressPublisher Atla Open PressWeight(grams) 544g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937063030Author Sesquicentennial History CommFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Columbia College Alumnae AssociationPublisher Columbia College Alumnae...

Catholic Higher Education in the 1960s is a series of cases that describes and analyzes the transitions made by representative Catholic institutions in their attempts to update their governance structures and maintain their Catholic identity in the midst...

This volume represents a detailed analysis of the grade placement of mathematics learning goals across all state-level curriculum standards published as of May 2005. The volume documents the varied grade-level mathematics curriculum expectations in the U...

This book establishes community engagement and service-learning as pathways to advancing human development and common good. Using the human development and capability approach as normative frameworks, with South Africa as a frame of reference, the author...

This collected volume examines the multifaceted contexts and experiences of Chinese students, teachers and scholars in Australia, Denmark, France, Japan, the UK and the US. It can serve both as an introduction to Chinese people's mobility and migration...

This volume explores the tensions between the student affairs foundation of holistic student development and the changing culture of corporatization. While there is ample evidence of neoliberalism in the academic affairs of higher education there is very...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946432230Author Rachel a WinstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 484Imprint Lizard PublishingPublisher Lizard PublishingWeight(grams) 907g

This book suggests how the internationalisation of teaching and learning for sustainability can be a vehicle for a two-way flow of knowledge across national, cultural and theoretical boundaries. Establishing links between the internationalisation of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781449704322Author Gabe BarrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Westbow PressPublisher Westbow PressWeight(grams) 198g

Are you going to college soon? Do you really know what you are getting yourself into? College isn't just going to class and partying-well maybe for some-but in reality it's way more than that. Want to be successful? Make a name for yourself? Create a new...

This volume explores the tensions between the student affairs foundation of holistic student development and the changing culture of corporatization. While there is ample evidence of neoliberalism in the academic affairs of higher education there is very...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798988130802Author Arati Bora BaruahFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint Chandra PrakasonPublisher Chandra PrakasonWeight(grams) 367g

In this follow up to Laukaitis' Denominational Higher Education During World War II (Palgrave 2018), this collection investigates connections between religion, student activism, and higher education to reveal the complexity of public reactions to the...

Looking across national contexts and drawing on ethnographic studies of schools in the UK and Australia, the book explores the implications of the contemporary education policy context and processes and practices inside schools for students as learners...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789970259359Author Jude SsempebwaFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Fountain PublishersPublisher Fountain PublishersWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm)...

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...

This book explores the capacities and desires of academic women to reimagine and transform academic cultures. Embracing and championing feminist scholarship, the research presented by the authors in this collection holds space for a different way of...

This book explores the access and participation issues present within Higher Education in Ireland. It examines policy, pedagogy and practices in relation to widening participation and documents the progress and challenges encountered in furthering the...

Instead of thinking about education as the mastery of a body of knowledge where the subject matter becomes the focus of our attention, The Gamification of Higher Education encourages us to think of it as a process that draws out the best in individuals...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596052611Author Thorstein VeblenFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 249g

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...

The image of the university is tarnished: this book examines how recent philosophies of education, new readings of its economics, new technologies affecting research and access, and contemporary novelists' representations of university life all describe...

This edited book contains chapters related to the excellent management and leadership practices currently taking place at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the context an economic recession. Each chapter highlights successful...

So, you made it to college! Now what? College is full of new opportunities and new challenges for you. You Made It, Now What? A College Student's Guide to Success offers strategies that will help you develop your path to success whether your college is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639093841Author Karen BaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 113g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783030696931Author Orlanda TavaresFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Palgrave MacMillanPublisher Palgrave MacMillanWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781465253484Author Jack EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.

No Small Lives: Handbook of North American Early Women Adult Educators, 1925-1950 contains the stories of 26 North American women who were active in the field of adult education sometime between the years of 1925 and 1950. Generally, women's...

Education and educational research, according to the current fashion, are supposed to be concerned with 'what works', to the exclusion of all other considerations. All over the world, and particularly in the English-speaking countries, governments look...

Over the last decade the structure of higher education in most countries has undergone significant change brought about by social demands for expanded access, technological developments, and market forces. In this period of change the traditional...

"We become what we love," states Jim Garrison in Dewey and Eros: Wisdom and Desire in the Art of Teaching. This provocative book represents a major new interpretation of Dewey's education philosophy. It is also an examination of what motivates us to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798218458119Author Mitanni Spruill-LesueurFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint Mitanni Spruill-LesueurPublisher Mitanni Spruill-LesueurWeight(grams) 64g

This book introduces Bourdieu in the context of higher education for unfamiliar readers or those who would like to see his theories applied in the higher education setting. It builds upon research into higher education leadership and administration to...

In what ways does access to undergraduate education have a transformative impact on people and societies? What conditions are required for this impact to occur? What are the pathways from an undergraduate education to the public good, including inclusive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781464810145Author Maria Marta FerreyraFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint World Bank PublicationsPublisher World Bank Publications

This book provides a critical theory of branding in higher education. The author argues for a higher education for all and positions higher education as a human right necessary for the well-being of citizens and democracy. Firstly, the book introduces...

This book examines twenty-five years of the Australian framework for student equity in higher education, A Fair Chance for All. Divided into two sections, the book reflects on the legacy of equity policy in higher education, the effectiveness of current...