Education category: 70663 books
Educating Physicians
A Call for Reform of Medical School and Residency
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2010
PRAISE FOR EDUCATING PHYSICIANS
"Educating Physicians provides a masterful analysis of undergraduate and graduate medical education in the United States today. It represents a major educational document, based firmly on educational psychology, learning theory, empirical studies, and careful...
Between Citizens and the State
The Politics of American Higher Education in the 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
This book tracks the dramatic outcomes of the federal government's growing involvement in higher education between World War I and the 1970s, and the conservative backlash against that involvement from the 1980s onward. Using cutting-edge analysis, Christopher Loss recovers higher education's central...
by John Agresto, James W. Ceaser, Daniel E. Cullen
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2016
The essays in this book reflect on the paradoxical relationship of liberal education and liberal democracy. Liberal education emphasizes knowledge for its own sake, detached from all instrumental purposes. It also aims at liberation from the manifold sources of unfreedom, including political sources....
In Search of Subjectivities
An Educational Philosophy and Theory Teacher Education Reader, Volume II
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
While traditionally identified as a practice-based endeavour, the many dimensions of teacher education raise important philosophical issues that emphasise the centrality of ethics to questions of relationality and professional practice. This second volume of the Educational Philosophy and Theory reader...
Developing the Higher Education Curriculum
Research-Based Education in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
A complementary volume to Dilly Fung’s A Connected Curriculum for Higher Education (2017), this book explores ‘research-based education’ as applied in practice within the higher education sector. A collection of 15 chapters followed by illustrative vignettes, it showcases approaches to engaging...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
Proponents of education reform are committed to the idea that all children should receive a quality education, and that all of them have a capacity to learn and grow, whatever their ethnicity or economic circumstances. But though recent years have seen numerous reform efforts, the resources available...
What Really Works in Special and Inclusive Education
Using evidence-based teaching strategies
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
As teachers around the world deal with the challenges of inclusive education, they must find effective ways of enhancing their classroom teaching methods. What Really Works in Special and Inclusive Education presents teachers with a range of evidence-based strategies they can immediately put into...
Transforming Higher Education
Economy, Democracy, and the University
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The university is being transformed and can be transformed. This doubleness informs this book. 'Transforming' in 'transforming higher education' can be read as adjective, suggesting that higher education is being transformed by the social and political situation in which it is enmeshed. 'Transforming'...
by David Oyebamiji Akanji
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2009
Despite policies to provide equal education opportunities for African children, the dreams of most disabled students are not realized, especially for blind children. Many blind students do not have an opportunity to continue their education. In this study, The Management of the Education of Blind...
Americans by Heart
Undocumented Latino Students and the Promise of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Americans by Heart examines the plight of undocumented Latino students as they navigate the educational and legal tightrope presented by their immigration status. Many of these students are accepted to attend some of our best colleges and universities but cannot afford the tuition to do so because...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Equity, Opportunity and Education in Postcolonial Southeast Asia addresses the ways in which colonial histories, nationalist impulses and forces of globalization shape equity and access to education in Southeast Asia. Although increasingly identified as a regional grouping (ASEAN), Malaysia, Indonesia,...
Global Constructions of Multicultural Education
Theories and Realities
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2001
This book tells us how various global regions are dealing with three major concerns within the field of multicultural education:
*the conceptualization and realization of "difference" and "diversity";
*the inclusion and exclusion of social groups within a definition of multicultural...
by Torcuato Di Tella
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
History of Higher Education Annual, Volume 23 provides insight into the struggle for civil rights and desegregation of Southern higher education, illuminating how this conflict affected private, historically black colleges and white denominational colleges, while interpreting the dynamics of segregation...
by Robert Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
This book hopes to change the nature of the conversation about higher education from critiques to focusing on efforts of systematic improvement in undergraduate education. Changing the Conversation about Higher Education establishes a culture of experimentation and evidence for undergraduate education...