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This volume of The David C. Anchin Research Center Series on Educational Policy in the 21st century: Opportunities, Challenges, and Solutions focuses on tribal colleges and universities. As a recent member of higher education community, tribal colleges...

This edited volume, authored by scholars, students, and activists, focuses on how peace educators at the collegiate level can more effectively address gender and sexuality. Chapters focus on the classroom and the campus at large, and emphasize the...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781928331049Author Tor HalvorsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint African MindsPublisher African MindsWeight(grams) 313g

This work analyses how political economic shifts contribute to competition within higher education systems in the US, EU, and Canada. The authors highlight competition for prestige and public and private subsidies, exploring the consequences of these...

The fruit of the authors' more than 15 years of using and writing about ePortfolios in general education and disciplinary programs and courses, this book is a comprehensive and practical guide to the use of the ePortfolio as a pedagogy that facilitates...

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 book explores pedagogy appropriate for the secondary school technology education classroom. It covers the dimensions of pedagogy for technology with scholarly research, including information strongly related to practice. The book discusses the...

With baby boomers swelling the ranks of grandparents, there is a large and growing audience for Let's Grandparent. There are no other books on the market with the variety of content or perspective presented in this book. With its emphasis upon the...

Assessment is a fundamental factor in monitoring the learning process of students and therefore an essential component of effective teaching and learning in the online environment. In the course of the (corona-induced) wave of digitization, the new and...

This book offers a clear, accessible exploration of lifelong learning and educational opportunities for women in higher education. It has been developed from work undertaken by members of the Women in Higher Education Network with chapters organized in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951943035Author Jesse MogleFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Hybrid Global PublishingPublisher Hybrid Global PublishingWeight(grams) 181g

This book is about design and innovation - what it is and how to teach it. The blending of design and innovation is having an increasing impact not only on the world of products and services but on a wide variety of disciplines such as information and...

This book aims to provide insight into the complexities confronting higher education today and to highlight tangible opportunities that exist to address such issues. We are in a constant state of flux and higher education needs to respond in more...

This book brings together reflections from seventy academics - everyone from doctoral students to a retired provost - who share their lived experiences in graduate school and beyond. Career seekers, adjunct professors, those in or considering graduate...

This book explores pedagogy appropriate for the secondary school technology education classroom. It covers the dimensions of pedagogy for technology with scholarly research, including information strongly related to practice. The book discusses the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783836436052Author Merrelyn BatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publisher VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Weight(grams) 549g

This book analyzes the political economy of higher education finance across a range of OECD countries, exploring why some students pay extortionate tuition fees whilst for others their education is free. What are the redistributional consequences of...

What constitutes the public good in a highly individualistic, consumerist and privatized society?The global financial crisis of 2008 revealed the extent to which the public realm had been eroded over the last thirty years and the inroads that...

The idea for Unlearning and Relearning, A Guide to College Composition, emanated from several conversations between two English composition instructors, John Tiech and John Isaacs, in their shared Waynesburg University office. After noticing a steady...

This is a powerful and inspiring study of the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter: the only student-run shelter in the United States. Every winter night the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter brings together society's most privileged and marginalized groups...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798892485838Author Dr Fu-Hsuan ChenFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Bayshop (Generis Publishing)Publisher Bayshop (Generis Publishing)Weight(grams) 209g

(Re)Discovering University Autonomy has far reaching implications for leaders and managers, researchers, educators, practitioners, and policy makers by addressing modern challenges to university autonomy in Europe and beyond in a new and innovative way...

This book examines how heteronormativity in higher education can be interrupted and resisted. Located within the theoretical framework of queer and critical pedagogy and based on extensive empirical research, the author explores the dynamics of...

This book addresses policies and strategies on internationalization across very different higher education systems globally, including inter alia from South America, Asia and Africa. The volume zooms in on the interplay between the national,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781959203094Author Tiffani TijerinaFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint University of North GeorgiaPublisher University of North GeorgiaWeight(grams) 313g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798986086866Author Rhea Victoria B Razon-WuFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint A1 Dragon Enterprise, LLCPublisher A1 Dragon Enterprise, LLCWeight(grams) 64g

The field of educational technology is one that requires a high level of problem solving critical thinking, and interpersonal skills to solve problems that are often complex and multi-dimensional. Analyzing cases provides an opportunity to explore...

The chapters in this book grapple in varying ways with Barbara Adam's concept of timescapes, which provides a powerful metaphor that extends the imagery of landscapes to enable an understanding of time as entwined with space, conceptually drawn and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788027343997Author Thorstein VeblenFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint E-ArtnowPublisher E-ArtnowWeight(grams) 191g

The 11 chapters in this book provide a glimpse into the journeys thatwomen from diverse backgrounds and ethnic differences take in their higher education undergraduate or graduate careers. The diverse women include ethnicities of Arabic, Asian,...

This open access book examines how the social sciences can be integrated into the praxis of engineering and science, presenting unique perspectives on the interplay between engineering and social science. Motivated by the report by the Commission on...

The purpose of Career Development in Higher Education is to provide a broad and in-depth look at the field of career development as it applies to individuals involved in higher education activities, in a variety of educational and vocational training...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798991185318Author Sujay SoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Essayt.comPublisher Essayt.comWeight(grams) 413g

This book examines how a working-class habitus interacts with the elite culture of academia in higher education. Drawing on extensive qualitative data and informed by the work of Pierre Bourdieu, the author presents new ways of examining impostor...

This book investigates origins, meanings, uses and effects of student engagement in higher education, and addresses three core questions: (1) Why is student engagement so visible in higher education today? (2) What are its dominant characteristics? (3)...

This book presents an extensive analysis of the multifaceted benefits that higher education in the humanities offers individuals and society, as explored in the context of Hong Kong. Using both quantitative graduate employment survey data and qualitative...

"Financing Public Universities" addresses newer practices of resource allocation which tie funding to indicators of performance. The gist of these efforts is to raise the quality of institutional systems. Performance-based budgeting and funding of public...

This book examines the way Chinese academics returning from the US re-establish their academic identities and professional practices at China's research universities in the context of higher education internationalization in China. It goes beyond...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593324148Author Alejandra RinconFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint LFB Scholarly PublishingPublisher LFB Scholarly PublishingWeight(grams) 384g