Higher education, tertiary education

Previous research has generally shown a very small although statistically significant economic benefit from attending high-quality colleges.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the organizational models of distance and online learning from an international perspective and from the point of view of economic planning, costing and management decision-making.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the organizational models of distance and online learning from an international perspective and from the point of view of economic planning, costing and management decision-making.

This book explores the goals, efforts and outcomes of international assistance to higher education over the past three decades and investigates how these have impacted changing State-university relations.

Academic assertiveness is an essential capability that is required of students who wish to achieve academic and professional success.

Academic assertiveness is an essential capability that is required of students who wish to achieve academic and professional success.

A thought-provoking textbook written for students enrolled in graduate Higher Education and Student Affairs Masters and PhD programs, College Organization and Professional Development focuses on the framing of critical issues in organization practice, the gaps between moral beliefs and actions, and improving equity within organizations.

A thought-provoking textbook written for students enrolled in graduate Higher Education and Student Affairs Masters and PhD programs, College Organization and Professional Development focuses on the framing of critical issues in organization practice, the gaps between moral beliefs and actions, and improving equity within organizations.

While racism continues to be a persistent and pervasive issue in our schools nationwide, the professionals charged with creating safe and nurturing educational environments have few resources available to address racism directly.

First Published in 2004.

Building on Karabenick's earlier volume on this topic and maintaining its high standards of scholarship and intellectual rigor, Help Seeking in Academic Settings: Goals, Groups, and Contexts brings together contemporary work that is theoretically as well as practically important.

Building on Karabenick's earlier volume on this topic and maintaining its high standards of scholarship and intellectual rigor, Help Seeking in Academic Settings: Goals, Groups, and Contexts brings together contemporary work that is theoretically as well as practically important.

This handbook provides all those teaching in higher and further education with a reference on how to develop and use a "e;toolkit"e; which is capable of exploring and assessing all the relevant aspects of their students' learning.

This volume looks at the relationship between society and human resource management (HRM) in China.

Maintaining the practical and interactive focus of the series, this book features a collection of case studies of best practice from around the world, covering different situations, environments and course types.

The intention of this book is to develop an increased awareness of the place of professional practice in the realms of research in teaching.

Addresses issues of concern in the area of women's studies, aiming to offer fresh perspectives on sexuality, paid work, the development process, equal opportunities legislation, lesbian history and women's writing.

Part of the well-known Staff and Educational Development Series, this practice oriented book brings together leading research and evaluation approaches and supporting case studies from leading educational researchers and innovative teachers.

Lecturing can be a terror, a chore or an exhilarating experience.

Lecturing can be a terror, a chore or an exhilarating experience.

This text presents evidence of the work and action of feminists in academia and shows that there is still much to be done before academia is a safe and welcoming environment for women.

First Published in 1992.

The author argues for much greater attention to ethical education and responds to sceptics who say that it can't be done in the face of a pluralistic secular society badly fragmented over values.

First Published in 1992.

Examining common assumptions and routines through the lens of critical theory, the authors question several aspects of graduate education, including the conception of graduate students as institutional capital; institutionalized prejudice based on age, gender, sexual orientation, race and class; and competing power and value systems.

Since 1989 initial teacher training courses in England and Wales have included teacher preparation for taking a lead in a school subject area in their first appointment.

First published in 1995.

This text provides an evaluation of headteachers' tasks, including categories and specific tasks.

This book examines factors surrounding the partnership between school-based training and mentoring in Physical Education.

Fullan's first book on this subject was an instant and best-selling success.

This book aims to bring together two movements - multiculturalism and anti- racism - which, though having aims in common, have been at arms length in the past.

Why is it that in many universities the number of women professors can literally be counted on the fingers of one hand while the number of men number in the hundreds?

First Published in 2004.

Contributors from around the world tackle the factors that have the greatest impact on creating quality learning opportunities for students: namely policy, school leadership and teaching/teachers' lives.

Contributors from around the world tackle the factors that have the greatest impact on creating quality learning opportunities for students: namely policy, school leadership and teaching/teachers' lives.

Management of premises can seem like the most complex and onerous of all tasks facing FE / HE college principals.

'Lifelong Learning' is a hot issue for educators across the world, as societies everywhere are concerned with developing a literate, skilled and flexible workforce and to widen participation in education at all levels and for all age-groups.

'Lifelong Learning' is a hot issue for educators across the world, as societies everywhere are concerned with developing a literate, skilled and flexible workforce and to widen participation in education at all levels and for all age-groups.

Catholic School Leadership addresses many of the challenges facing those who prepare faith leaders and education leaders for the Catholic schools of the future.

Over the past ten years there has been increased interest in research on various aspects of teacher education, ranging from the preparation of teachers to continuing professional development.

Over the past ten years there has been increased interest in research on various aspects of teacher education, ranging from the preparation of teachers to continuing professional development.

This volume is an extended case study of a hypothetical school district--its residential communities, a middle school and secondary school, its students, teachers, administrators, parents and board members.

This collection of essays explores teaching in Japan as it relates to contemporary social change in the past two decades.

This collection of essays explores teaching in Japan as it relates to contemporary social change in the past two decades.

Making culture a more central concept in the texts and contexts of teacher education is the focus of this book.

This book defines literacy broadly as it explores concepts within core subjects and shows how to make standards-based literacy the goal and outcome of school reform.

This book advocates the use of case methods to promote democratic teaching and learning.

The intuitive mind is a powerful force in the classroom and often an undetected one.

This practical guide is designed to help college teachers plan their undergraduate courses and deliver high-quality instruction.

Mathematics Classrooms That Promote Understanding synthesizes the implications of research done by the National Center for Research in Mathematical Sciences on integrating two somewhat diverse bodies of scholarly inquiry: the study of teaching and the study of learning mathematics.