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Student Learning in College Residence Halls: What Works, What Doesn't, and Why Gregory S. Blimling (Rutgers University) 9781118551608
RRP: €38.07€34.19Add value to the student experience with purposeful residential programs Grounded in current research and practical experience, Student Learning in College Residence Halls: What Works, What Doesn't, and Why shows how to structure the peer environment in... -
Speaking of Universities by Stefan Collini 9781786631657
€28.16In recent decades there has been an immense global surge in the numbers both of universities and of students. In the UK alone there are now over 140 institutions teaching more subjects than ever to nearly 2.5 million students. New technology offers new... -
Doing a PhD in the Social Sciences: A Student's Guide to Post-Graduate Research and Writing by Francis Jegede
RRP: €33.31€28.89Covering the academic and operational aspects of PhD research degree programmes, this accessible yet comprehensive book is an essential guide to navigating through the PhD research journey. Using a mixture of useful information, practical strategies and... -
Using Simulations to Promote Learning in Higher Education: An Introduction John Paul Hertel 9781579220525
RRP: €32.12€27.92"Not only did I learn more substantive law than in any other course I've taken, but I learned why I needed to learn all those things." Alumnus of a legal simulation courseSimulations create and use a complete environment within which students can... -
Celtic Folklore Cooking by Joanne Asala
RRP: €26.17€17.80Much of the folklore, proverbs, songs and legends of the Celtic nations revolve around this wonderful variety of food and drink. Drawn from the author's travels through Scotland, Ireland and Wales, the recipes presented in this text come with proverbs,... -
The Pocket Guide for Students: Navigating Your University Journey by Vanessa Parson 9780198865230
RRP: €11.89€11.13Get the most out of your time at university with this essential guide to preparing for the experience you want. This practically-focused text will support your transition to higher education, whatever your background, and however you plan to steer... -
Strategies & Tactics for the MBE by Steven L Emanuel 9781543839395
RRP: €133.22€117.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781543839395Author Steven L EmanuelFormat PaperbackPage Count 846Imprint Aspen PublishingPublisher Aspen PublishingWeight(grams) 1919gDimensions(mm) 279mm *... -
Flipped Learning: A Guide for Higher Education Faculty by Robert Talbert
RRP: €38.07€33.71Flipped learning is an approach to the design and instruction of classes through which, with appropriate guidance, students gain their first exposure to new concepts and material prior to class, thus freeing up time during class for the activities where... -
Myanmar's Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim 'Other' by Francis Wade
RRP: €15.46€11.65In 2017, Myanmar's military launched a campaign of violence against the Rohingya minority that UN experts later said amounted to a genocide. More than seven hundred thousand civilians fled to Bangladesh in what became the most concentrated flight of... -
Transformative Research and Higher Education by Azril Bacal Roij 9781801176958
RRP: €82.10€67.77Providing a critical look at how it is possible for institutions of higher education to go beyond the institutional constraints that plague the neo-liberal university, the authors of this volume explore the powerful role of transformative... -
The Degree Generation: The Making of Unequal Graduate Lives Nicola Ingram (Manchester Metropolitan University) 9781529208856
RRP: €17.84€14.43What are the challenges for the current generation of graduate millennials? The role of universities and the changing nature of the graduate labour market are constantly in the news, but less is known about the experiences of those going through it. ... -
Researching Sex and Sexualities by Paul Boyce 9781786993199
€45.33Sexuality is a complex and multifaceted domain - encompassing bodily, contextual and subjective experiences that resist ready categorisation. To claim the sexual as a viable research object therefore raises a number of important methodological questions:... -
Professional Values and Practice: The Essential Guide for Higher Level Teaching Assistants Anne Watkinson 9781843122500
RRP: €33.31€28.89Professional Values and Practice concentrates on the more theoretical aspects of the HLTA role: professionalism, relationships, statutory frameworks and knowing your limits. It offers guidance and support on fulfilling the standards and succeeding both... -
An Honest Living: A Memoir of Peculiar Itineraries by Steven Salaita 9781531506353
RRP: €23.79€18.87An exiled professor's journey from inside and beyond academe In the summer of 2014, Steven Salaita was fired from a tenured position in American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois for his unwavering stance on Palestinian human rights and other... -
Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Politics in Kenya by Nanjala Nyabola
RRP: €20.22€15.66From the upheavals of recent national elections to the success of the #MyDressMyChoice feminist movement, digital platforms have already had a dramatic impact on political life in Kenya - one of the most electronically advanced countries in Africa. While... -
Getting into Oxford and Cambridge 2021 Entry Mat Carmody 9781912943241
€18.12Do you want to study at one of the most prestigious universities in the country? Updated annually to include all the vital details of the latest admissions procedures, and packed with essential advice to help you win one of the fiercely sought-after... -
Be Visible Or Vanish: Engage, Influence and Ensure Your Research Has Impact by Inger Mewburn
RRP: €22.60€20.08The world of the academic researcher is changing; it used to be enough to work hard, do your research and get your results published. Not so these days. Universities now expect researchers to share their work with the world, as widely as possible... -
Secrets Of The Tomb by Alexandra Robbins 9780316735612
€22.24The Ivy League is full of societies and clubs, some public and some very private, but none is as secret as Yale's Skull and Bones, a tiny, mysterious society that has spawned three presidents, including George W. Bush and his father. Skull and Bones'... -
The Fall of the Faculty by Benjamin Ginsberg 9780199975433
RRP: €40.45€26.05Until very recently, American universities were led mainly by their faculties, which viewed intellectual production and pedagogy as the core missions of higher education. Today, as Benjamin Ginsberg warns in this eye-opening, controversial book,... -
The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture by Heather Mac Donald 9781250307774
RRP: €22.61€13.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250307774Author Heather Mac DonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams)... -
The Real World of College: What Higher Education Is and What It Can Be by Wendy Fischman 9780262046534
RRP: €38.08€27.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262046534Author Wendy FischmanFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Is Going to Uni Worth it? by Michael Tefula 9781911067849
RRP: €15.46€13.10Not sure what path to take once you leave school? Worried about choosing the 'right' option? Don't panic! Faced with mounting student debt, and stories of graduates left without a job, it's understandable to ask whether going to uni is REALLY worth it... -
The Experimenters: Chance and Design at Black Mountain College by Eva Diaz
RRP: €41.65€35.66Practically every major artistic figure of the mid-twentieth century spent some time at Black Mountain College: Harry Callahan, Merce Cunningham, Walter Gropius, Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Robert Rauschenberg, Aaron Siskind, Cy... -
The Good Supervisor: Supervising Postgraduate and Undergraduate Research for Doctoral Theses and Dissertations by Gina Wisker 9780230246218
€42.38This engaging book outlines effective strategies for supervising students on a wide variety of research projects, whether at undergraduate or postgraduate level. It covers each stage of the research journey and provides guidance on working with students... -
The Night Climbers of Cambridge by Whipplesnaith 9780906672839
RRP: €26.12€19.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906672839Author WhipplesnaithFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint The Oleander PressPublisher The Oleander Press -
The Innovative University: Changing the DNA of Higher Education from the Inside Out by Clayton M. Christensen
RRP: €29.74€21.43The Innovative University illustrates how higher education can respond to the forces of disruptive innovation , and offers a nuanced and hopeful analysis of where the traditional university and its traditions have come from and how it needs to change for... -
Social Theory and Education Research: Understanding Foucault, Habermas, Bourdieu and Derrida by Mark Murphy
RRP: €33.31€28.89Social Theory and Education Research is an advanced and accessible text that illustrates the diverse ways in which social theories can be applied to educational research methodologies. It provides in-depth overviews of the various theories by well-known... -
Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University by William Clark 9780226109220
€33.78Tracing the transformation of early modern academics into modern researchers from the Renaissance to Romanticism, Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University uses the history of the university and reframes the "Protestant Ethic" to... -
The Open University: A History by Daniel Weinbren
RRP: €23.79€17.75This historical perspective on The Open University, founded in 1969, frames its ethos (to be open to people, places, methods and ideas) within the traditions of correspondence courses, commercial television, adult education, the post-war social... -
Making Inclusive Higher Education a Reality: Creating a University for All Anna M. Kelly 9781032182599
RRP: €35.69€31.70Revealing higher education inclusive practice in action, this key title showcases a range of international case studies from a number of universities in order to highlight approaches to developing a culture of access and inclusion. It provides detailed... -
The Aims of Higher Education: Problems of Morality and Justice Harry Brighouse (University of Wisconsin, Madison) 9780226259482
RRP: €28.56€27.41In this book, philosopher Harry Brighouse and Spencer Foundation president Michael McPherson bring together leading philosophers to think about some of the most fundamental questions that higher education faces. Looking beyond the din of arguments over... -
Academic Standards in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives and Practical Strategies Nicola Reimann 9781032460260
RRP: €35.69€31.70Academic standards in higher education are important but largely misunderstood. This book examines the notion of academic standards, explaining what they are and why they are important, and identifying the many myths that surround them.Based on the... -
Writing for Peer Reviewed Journals: Strategies for getting published Pat Thomson (University of Nottingham, UK) 9780415809313
RRP: €42.83€37.71It's not easy getting published, but everyone has to do it. Writing for Peer Reviewed Journals presents an insider's perspective on the secret business of academic publishing, making explicit many of the dilemmas and struggles faced by all writers, but... -
Writing Philosophical Autoethnography Alec Grant 9781032229126
RRP: €45.21€39.72Writing Philosophical Autoethnography is the result of Alec Grant's vision of bringing the disciplines of philosophy and autoethnography together. This is the first volume of narrative autoethnographic work in which invited contributing authors were... -
Cardinal's College: Christ Church, Chapter and Verse by Judith Curthoys
RRP: €47.60€36.00Christ Church, founded by Cardinal Wolsey in 1525, and arguably the grandest college in the University of Oxford, has been the subject of only one previous history. Now Judith Curthoys, the college archivist, presents a new and fascinating account of... -
Rethinking Widening Participation in Higher Education: The Role of Social Networks Alison Fuller 9780415575645
RRP: €51.16€44.73Extending the chance for people from diverse backgrounds to participate in Higher Education (HE) is a priority in the UK and many countries internationally. Previous work on widening participation in HE however has focussed on why people choose to go to... -
University and Chronic Illness: A Survival Guide by Pippa Stacey
€18.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916225121Author Pippa StaceyFormat PaperbackPage Count 205Imprint Daisa & CoPublisher Daisa & Co -
Creative Universities: Reimagining Education for Global Challenges and Alternative Futures Anke Schwittay (University of Sussex) 9781529213652
RRP: €23.79€18.75How can higher education contribute to tackling today's complex challenges? In this wide-ranging book, Anke Schwittay argues that, in order to inspire and equip students to generate better responses to global challenges, we need a pedagogy that... -
The Quantified Scholar: How Research Evaluations Transformed the British Social Sciences by Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra
RRP: €35.70€27.72Since 1986, the British government, faced with dwindling budgets and growing calls for public accountability, has sought to assess the value of scholarly work in the nation's universities. Administrators have periodically evaluated the research of most... -
Academic Freedom by Jennifer Lackey
€57.43Academic freedom allows members of institutions of higher learning to engage in intellectual pursuits without fear of censorship or retaliation, and lies at the heart of the mission of the university. Recent years have seen growing concerns about threats...