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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781920355272Author Nico CloeteFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint African MindsPublisher CompressWeight(grams) 205g

This book focuses on the way academics understand, embrace and enact the concepts of mindfulness in approaching their work in demanding and dynamic contemporary higher education environments. It examines how they implement formal and informal mindfulness...

This Open Access book analyses the past, present and future of the technical university as a single faculty independent institution. The point of departure is a view of changing academic realities, through which the identity as a technical university is...

In this book, Dieter Lenzen analyzes the world's three major educational systems: the Continental-European, the Atlantic (Anglo-American) and the East Asian. Distancing himself from the current trend towards the economically driven Anglo-American system...

This book depicts the diverse approaches of established women professors in perceiving and developing intellectual leadership in Hong Kong. It analyzes the combined influences of various disciplines, different higher education institutions, and gender on...

This book addresses the complex phenomenon in higher education of structural reforms in higher education systems. Across the globe, governments initiate comprehensive reforms of their higher education systems because they want their models to be the best...

This work prepares teachers, college students, and higher education faculty to conduct various types of presentations, including workshops and teacher inservice trainings; poster sessions; panel discussions; roundtables; research forums; and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639095920Author Brencleveton TrussFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publisher VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Weight(grams) 327g

A problematic, yet uncommon, assumption among many higher education researchers is that recruitment, retention, and engagement of African-American males is relatively similar and stable across all majority White colleges and universities. In fact, the...

This book offers philosophical readings of the contemporary university and is motivated by a series of pressing challenges in the global context of Higher Education. It argues that the university is a place for community, for refuge, for enlightenment...

This volume provides a critical examination of branding and marketing in higher education from national, regional, and global perspectives. Contributors with expertise in higher education, sociology, comparative and international education, marketing,...

The book is linked to the annual theme of the 2008 CAERDA International Conference with contributing authors serving as keynote speakers, invited panelists, paper presenters, as well as specialists and educators in the field. The book provides a most...

Essays analyze the global movement to "reform" and standardize higher education as a translation of disciplinary technologies of new managerialism from business and industry to the university.About the AuthorBrett de Bary is professor of Asian Studies...

The e-learning research literature is characterized by studies that investigate the practice of teaching and learning online (pedagogy) and those that investigate the planning and administrative functions associated with e-learning delivery (management)...

This book will discuss the intersection of personal identity, professional identity, and positionality with supervision techniques. The structure of the text will outline historical contexts to supervision, development of models, connection to identity,...

While situated and constructivist theory has generated useful guidelines for the foundations of authentic learning environments, few concrete examples exist. ""Authentic Learning Environments in Higher Education"" provides rich...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789918009565Author Alexander FarrugiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint National Book Council (Malta)Publisher National Book Council (Malta)Weight(grams)...

This multidisciplinary book brings together scholars from Norway and the UK to discuss the notion of trust within the structures and forms of higher education located in two distinctive localities. The meaning of trust is multi-variant and nuanced, but...

This book focuses on how the Northern futures are transformed through regional cooperation in the Barents eduscape: a study of the social, cultural and political aspects of higher education and the exchanges of learning and people in the Euro-Arctic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789324192691Author Nandini SharmaFormat PaperbackPage Count 674Imprint Arihant Publications India LimitedPublisher Arihant Publications India Limited

This open access volume explores peer review in the scientific community and academia. While peer review is as old as modern science itself, recent changes in the evaluation culture of higher education systems have increased the use of peer review, and...

This Open Access book analyses the interplay between governing, evaluation and knowledge with an empirical focus on Swedish higher education. It investigates the origins, logics, and mechanisms of evaluation and quality assurance reforms and their...

"Renowned as a leading practitioner and voice of wisdom and reason, Annie Grant now shares her insight with those who are still on their professional journey within the higher education student experiential services through her writing. I commend...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781426930935Author Terry D AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford PublishingWeight(grams) 294g

Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue is the journal of the American Association of Teaching and Curriculum (AATC). An important historical event in the development of organizations dealing with the scholarly field of teaching and curriculum was the founding...

Processes of knowledge production and dissemination are increasingly set in an international context. In research and higher education the links between local actors and the international environments are both proliferating and intensifying. Individual...

Over the past two decades, the theoretical interests of mathematics educators have changed substantially-as any brief look at the titles and abstracts of articles shows. Largely through the work of Paul Cobb and his various collaborators, mathematics...

This book showcases a compilation of research partnerships produced by the Federation University Gippsland School of Education. Through this book, readers will gain valuable insights into how education research initiatives can help adapt to an age...

Lifelong learning is a key feature of society today, and is apparently embraced by a wide range of educators and trainers, as well as by governments and employers. In this wide-ranging book, Sue Jackson shows that universities have been slow to embrace a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781792406577Author Aaron ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.

Investigating University-School Partnerships: A Volume in Professional Development School Research, the fourth book in the PDS Research Series developed by the same editors, includes a collection of organized papers that represent the best and latest...

Continuing to challenge American colleges and universities is the underrepresentation of women faculty in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields, particularly Latinas and other underrepresented women of color. Advancing Women in...

The discourse of decolonisation, though littered with unresolved contestation in the university as an institution of higher learning, has often been blamed on the impact of neoliberal globalisation philosophy. The volume focuses on unfinished project of...

Otto Huther and Georg Krucken analyze the developments of the last 20 years in their new book on German higher education. The foreign observer of German higher education, even the informed foreign observer, struggles to find denominators, not to...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789004704756Author Haiqin YuFormat PaperbackPage Count 415Imprint BrillPublisher Brill

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781928502395Author Melanie WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint African MindsPublisher African MindsWeight(grams) 376g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524992798Author Margie KarwowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint 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 9781617351396Author Dr. Lynn AndersonFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Information Age PublishingPublisher Information Age Publishing

This book introduces a new typology of "inward- and outward-oriented" higher education internationalization, and investigates China's current situation of shifting from a mainly "inward-oriented" higher education internationalization...