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77 produkter
Acting Otherwise
The Institutionalization of Women's / Gender Studies in Taiwan's Universities
Av Peiying Chen
Häftad, 2014
870 kr
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Acting Otherwise concerns the strategies of action that have been used by feminist scholars to attain the institutionalization of women's/gender studies in universities.
Dominant Beliefs and Alternative Voices
Discourse, Belief, and Gender in American Study
Häftad, 2012
233 kr
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This book examines why study abroad is a marginal activity in American higher education and evaluates the role gender has played in the development and maintenance of this marginality.
Teacher Education for Critical Consumption of Mass Media and Popular Culture
Av Stephanie A. Flores-Koulish
Häftad, 2013
870 kr
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The study develops a baseline of knowledge to encourage the inclusion of media literacy education in teacher education.
Teaching and Learning in Diverse Classrooms
Faculty Reflections on their Experiences and Pedagogical Practices of Teaching Diverse Populations
Häftad, 2012
870 kr
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This study describes how faculty who participated in the Teaching and Learning in Diverse Classroom Faculty and TA Partnership Project (1994-2000) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, reflected on their experiences and pedagogical practices as instructors in diverse classrooms.
Scholarship Unbound
Häftad, 2014
431 kr
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Examining a number of academic institutions, this book highlights how they have broadened their promotion policies in order to weigh faculty professional service equally with scholarship.
Philanthropists in Higher Education
Institutional, Biographical, and Religious Motivations for Giving
Häftad, 2013
1101 kr
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The main purpose of this book is to explore and understand the motivation behind major donations to higher education and what the role of religion is in these motivations. Features interviews with major donors.
Democratizing Higher Education Policy
Constraints of Reform in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Av M.T. Sehoole
Häftad, 2010
743 kr
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This book was written with the purpose of analyzing the challenges faced by the post-apartheid government in South Africa with regard to reform of higher education. It covers the apartheid context of higher education, resistance to the system and its ultimate demise, democratic processes in …
I Prefer to Teach
An International Comparison of Faculty Preference for Teaching
Inbunden, 2001
2667 kr
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This book draws on the perspectives of nearly 20 000 faculties from around the world to determine significant trends in how professors view teaching and research.
Virtual Delivery and Virtual Organization of Post-secondary Education
Inbunden, 2002
2073 kr
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How virtual post-secondary educational organisations (popularly called virtual universities) function is the central subject in this new book based on a comparative study of five U.S based institutions.
Technology Transfer Via University-Industry Relations
The Case of the Foreign High Technology Electronic Industry in Mexico's Silicon Valley
Inbunden, 2002
2133 kr
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This book examines the technology that is transferred in Mexico's Silicon Valley and the role that institutions of higher education and foreign electronics corporations play in the process. Riveria Vargas delineates that technology transfer is occurring, describes it nature, the channels of …
Tenure on Trial
Case Studies of Change in Faculty Appointment Policies
Inbunden, 2001
1195 kr
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This book examines how and why colleges abolish or institute tenure by profiling four colleges: two that moved from tenure to term contracts and two that moved from contracts to tenure.
Scholarship Unbound
Inbunden, 2001
743 kr
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Examining a number of academic institutions, this book highlights how they have broadened their promotion policies in order to weigh faculty professional service equally with scholarship.
From Here to University
Access, Mobility, & Resilience Among Latino Youth
Inbunden, 2002
2441 kr
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From Here to University examines factors leading to successful college preparation and academic mobility for historically underrepresented, low-income, inner-city youth. Alexander Jun analyzes theories of social and cultural capital, as well as the effects of incorporating family and community …
University Autonomy in Russian Federation Since Perestroika
Av Olga Bain
Inbunden, 2003
2441 kr
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This study focuses on the national higher education policies and institutional strategies that foster or hinder individual Russian universities in applying newfound principles of autonomy. This new autonomy has become more dramatic with the decentralization of power, transition to the market …
Barely There, Powerfully Present
Years of US Policy on International Higher Education
Inbunden, 2002
2667 kr
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Internationalizing higher education requires significant institutional and academic change. This book addresses how the U.S. federal government affected the development, institutionalization and diffusion of this change process across the higher education system from 1958 to 1988.
Federalism and the Lander Autonomy
The Higher Education Policy Network in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1948-1998
Inbunden, 2002
2667 kr
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An interesting study of the German higher Education system, examining the development of higher education policies from the post-war years, to the post-unification period.
Philanthropists in Higher Education
Institutional, Biographical, and Religious Motivations for Giving
Inbunden, 2003
2667 kr
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The main purpose of this book is to explore and understand the motivation behind major donations to higher education and what the role of religion is in these motivations. Features interviews with major donors.
Resilient Spirits
Disadvantaged Students Making it at an Elite University
Inbunden, 2002
2406 kr
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This study explores the identity construction of socioeconomically and educationally disadvantaged students who enter an elite university. This critical ethnography gathered qualitative data about the twenty-three participants through non-participant observation, in-depth interviews, and focus …
Power and Politics in University Governance
Organization and Change at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Inbunden, 2003
2441 kr
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Drawing from a case study of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico , this work analyses the connection between political processes and change in higher education. The author explains that while there are increasing demands these have not produced rapid responses from the university and tries …
Call to Purpose
Mission-Centered Change at Three Liberal Arts Colleges
Inbunden, 2002
2667 kr
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A decade ago, the majority of liberal arts colleges, suffering from a decline in resources, drifted from their traditional missions. This study looks at three insitutions and suggests that a clear mission is more than a common goal.
Profile of the Community College Professorate, 1975-2000
Inbunden, 2018
2441 kr
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Through a national, longitudinal study, this book offers important insights into the attitudes and practices of the nation's 275,000 community college faculty. The book includes chapters on such crucial topics as instruction, satisfaction, professional involvement, and the use of reference groups. …
Call For Diversity
Pressure, Expectation, and Organizational Response in the Postsecondary Setting
Inbunden, 2003
2667 kr
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This book explores the organizational responses of professional schools and colleges to pressures, demands, requirements, expectations, and incentives related to diversity. The macro-organizational perspective supplies much-needed balance and complexity to traditional depictions of post-secondary …
Scientific Communication in African Universities
External Assistance and National Needs
Inbunden, 2003
2667 kr
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This is one of the few current books on African higher education, and focuses on scientific research and communication on the continent. Included are chapters on scientific journals, secondary avenues of scientific communication, and funding issues. There is also a focus on the challenges and …
University-Industry Partnerships in MIT, Cambridge, and Tokyo
Storytelling Across Boundaries
Inbunden, 2003
2441 kr
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The purpose of this study is to identify the nature of change taking place in university-industry partnerships, to understand the underlying factors that influence that change, and to explore the underlying process of change. Three in-depth case studies are considered, that of MIT, Cambridge …
Rise and Fall of Fu Ren University, Beijing
Catholic Higher Education in China
Av John S. Chen
Inbunden, 2003
2073 kr
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This new book tells the story of the rise and fall of Fu Ren University (1925-1952) and provides an analysis of a key Catholic higher education institution in China.
Women's Movement and the Politics of Change at a Women's College
Jill Ker Conway at Smith, 1975-1985
Inbunden, 2004
2666 kr
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This study analyzes how Jill Ker Conway, first woman president of Smith College, implemented programmatic initiatives and changes to Smith's institutional culture that fit with her vision for higher education.
Acting Otherwise
The Institutionalization of Women's / Gender Studies in Taiwan's Universities
Av Peiying Chen
Inbunden, 2004
2441 kr
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Acting Otherwise concerns the strategies of action that have been used by feminist scholars to attain the institutionalization of women's/gender studies in universities.
Transformation of the Student Career
University Study in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden
Inbunden, 2004
2441 kr
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This study examines the transformation of the structural characteristics and ideological assumptions of university study in these three countries between the mid-1950s and the early 1990s.
Teaching and Learning in Diverse Classrooms
Faculty Reflections on their Experiences and Pedagogical Practices of Teaching Diverse Populations
Inbunden, 2004
2667 kr
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This study describes how faculty who participated in the Teaching and Learning in Diverse Classroom Faculty and TA Partnership Project (1994-2000) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, reflected on their experiences and pedagogical practices as instructors in diverse classrooms.
Teacher Education for Critical Consumption of Mass Media and Popular Culture
Av Stephanie A. Flores-Koulish
Inbunden, 2004
2441 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The study develops a baseline of knowledge to encourage the inclusion of media literacy education in teacher education.
