Higher Education 50

Are you facing the daunting and highly competitive Veterinary school application process? Do you want to know how you can increase your chances of gaining a place? With only a small number of UK……続きを見る

The first nation-wide analysis of the politics of performance funding in higher education. Performance funding ties state support of colleges and universities directly to institutional performance o……続きを見る

Going to college can be exciting, anxiety inducing, and expensive! You want your child to get the most out of their college experienceーwhat advice do you give? Thriving at College by Alex Chediak i……続きを見る

The most powerful black American of his time, this book captures him at his zenith and reveals his complex personality. 続きを見る

Now the largest and fastest-growing ethnic population in the U.S., Latino students face many challenges and complexities when it comes to college choice and access. This edited volume provides much ……続きを見る

Narrative inquiry is being used more widely in the UK, the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Northern European countries to conduct research across a range of disciplines. It is gaining popula……続きを見る

An essential guide to incorporating critical research into higher education scholarship. Winner of the Outstanding Publication Award of the Post-secondary Education Division of the American Educatio……続きを見る

An annual prize is awarded for the best paper appearing in Accounting Education: an international journal, and this book contains the prize-winning papers for every year from 1992 to 2012. The journ……続きを見る

Mapping Corporate Education Reform outlines and analyzes the complex relationships between policy actors that define education reform within the current, neoliberal context. Using social network ana……続きを見る

As colleges and universities in North America increasingly identify "internationalization" as a key component of the institution’s mission and strategic plans, faculty and administrators are charged……続きを見る

This volume highlights issues of power, inequality, and resistance for Asian, African American, and Latino/a students in distinct U.S. and international contexts. Through a collection of case studie……続きを見る

With the admittance in 1948 of Silas Hunt to the University of Arkansas Law School, the university became the first southern public institution of higher education to officially desegregate without ……続きを見る

One of the most important routes to employment within the social welfare sector worldwide is higher education, which equips students not only with the knowledge for employment, but with the tools to……続きを見る

Higher education and the institution of the university exist in time, their essential nature now continually subject to change: change in students, in knowledge, in structure and in their own commun……続きを見る

Photography in education involves the use of photographs to engage research participants in representing and reflecting upon their own experiences. This book explores how photographic images can be ……続きを見る

To receive tenure college and university professors have long been required to write scholarly monographs or articles, engage in serious research, and teach effectively. In recent years, however, th……続きを見る

The virtual campus: Trends for higher education and trainingwas the theme of the IFIP Working Conference on which this book is based. lt was a joint event of Working Groups 3.3 and 3.6, Research and……続きを見る

Winner: North American Society for Sport History Award Notable Title in American Intellectual History, Society for United States Intellectual History Award of Superior Achievement, Illinois Historic……続きを見る

In the United States, 1,200 community colleges enroll over ten million students each yearーnearly half of the nation’s undergraduates. Yet fewer than 40 percent of entrants complete an undergraduate……続きを見る

The American university has embraced a thorough secularism that makes it increasingly marginal in a society that is characterized by high levels of religious belief. The very secularization that was……続きを見る

Heyes' monograph in feminist philosophy is on the connection between the idea of "normalization"--which per Foucault is a mode or force of control that homogenizes a population--and the gendered bod……続きを見る

This book focuses on sciences in the universities of Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the chapters in it provide an overview, mostly from the point of view of the history of sci……続きを見る

Keep students engaged and actively learning with focused, relevant discussion Second only to lecture as the most widely used instructional strategy, there's no better method than classroom discussio……続きを見る

This book investigates professional practice at the interface of sociology and epistemology for progressive educational change. It suggests that orthodox sociology and sociology of education have no……続きを見る

Assessment in higher education is an area of intense current interest, not least due to its central role in student learning processes*. Excellence in University Assessment* is a pioneering text whi……続きを見る

The first scholarly edition of Thorstein Veblen’s classic indictment of the corporate model of American university governance. Since its publication in 1918, Thorstein Veblen’s The Higher Learning i……続きを見る

This book analyzes the reforms that led to a differentiated landscape of higher education systems after university practices and governance were considered poorly adapted to contemporary settings an……続きを見る

This is the dramatic story behind the transformation of Duke University from an isolated, exclusive institution to the dynamic, civically engaged campus that exists today.Better Togetherexamines the……続きを見る

Universities tend to be judged by the test scores of their incoming students and not on what students actually learn once they attend these institutions. While shared tests and surveys have been dev……続きを見る

Excellent social work education and training is vital for ensuring best practice, and it is important to understand the key approaches and methods in order to provide the best teaching and ensure ef……続きを見る