Education category: 70663 books
Assessing Schools for Generation R (Responsibility)
A Guide for Legislation and School Policy in Science Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Today’s youth will face global environmental changes, as well as complex personal and social challenges. To address these issues this collection of essays provides vital insights on how science education can be designed to better engage students and help them solve important problems in the...
by Collective
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2010
In recent years, the Government of Egypt has driven major reforms for modernising the country. However, Egypt’s higher education system has remained largely unchanged and without fundamental reform of the sector the country will face difficulties in improving its competitiveness.
This independent...
Radical Equality in Education
Starting Over in U.S. Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Tinkering with the current educational system from within has not provided a just and equitable education for all children. In this book, acclaimed education theorist Joanne Larson poses basic questions about the nature and purpose of schooling. Proposing that what is needed is a new purpose that...
Education in a Globalized World
The Connectivity of Economic Power, Technology, and Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2002
The seemingly amorphous phenomenon we call 'globalization' involves concrete realities that make it a major source of social change in our contemporary world. Bringing globalization alive for students, this book uses examples and perspectives from economics, technology, and mass media to show how...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2011
What is the value of an education? Volume 4 of the Handbooks in the Economics of Education combines recent data with new methodologies to examine this and related questions from diverse perspectives. School choice and school competition, educator incentives, the college premium, and other considerations...
Students' Experiences of e-Learning in Higher Education
The Ecology of Sustainable Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Students’ Experiences of e-learning in Higher Education helps higher education instructors and university managers understand how e-learning relates to, and can be integrated with, other student experiences of learning. Grounded in relevant international research, the book is distinctive in that...
by Darren Shi
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2014
For caring parents and interested students, The Value of Education is a concise guide to supervising education and designing curricula. It is written in the interest of families and individuals. Drawing upon the author's extensive experience with both Western and Eastern cultural traditions, this...
by John R. Thelin
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
John R. Thelin’s A History of American Higher Education has become a standard in higher education studies. Designed to be used alongside this groundbreaking book or on its own, Essential Documents in the History of American Higher Education presents primary sources that chart the social, intellectual,...
Knowledge for Sale
The Neoliberal Takeover of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
How free-market fundamentalists have shifted the focus of higher education to competition, metrics, consumer demand, and return on investment, and why we should change this.
A new philosophy of higher education has taken hold in institutions around the world. Its supporters disavow the pursuit...
Integrating Gender Equality into Business and Management Education
Lessons Learned and Challenges Remaining
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
This volume addresses the need to integrate gender equality into business and management education and provides examples of leading initiatives illustrating how this can occur from various disciplinary and global perspectives. Gender inequality has a long history in business schools and the workplace,...
The Educated Child
A Parents Guide From Preschool Through Eighth Grade
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 1999
If you care about the education of a child, you need this book. Comprehensive and easy to use, it will inform, empower, and encourage you.
Just as William J. Bennett's The Book of Virtues has helped millions of Americans teach young people about character, The Educated Child delivers what you need...
by Robert B. Archibald, David H. Feldman
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
Much of what is written about colleges and universities ties rapidly rising tuition to dysfunctional behavior in the academy. Common targets of dysfunction include prestige games among universities, gold plated amenities, and bloated administration. This book offers a different view. To explain rising...
Servant Leadership for Higher Education
Principles and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
SERVANT LEADERSHIP
FOR HIGHER EDUCATION
"Given the myriad of complex problems facing higher education, it is difficult to imagine that an administrator at any level of the institution could be effective without engaging in servant leadership. Higher education is a service industry and,...
Choosing Students
Higher Education Admissions Tools for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2005
This volume brings a variety of perspectives to bear on the issue of how higher education institutions can - or should - choose students during the early part of the 21st century. Many of the contributors report on research to develop and validate potential tools to assist those responsible for admission...