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Cost Control, College Access, and Competition in Higher Education (Hardcover): Robert E. Martin Cost Control, College Access, and Competition in Higher Education (Hardcover)
Robert E. Martin
R3,203 Discovery Miles 32 030 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Quality has never been more important for the future of higher education and the economy than it is today. Unfortunately, the decline in student quality is accompanied by costs that are out of control, a governance system that will not permit any reallocation of resources, and a society that expects higher education to address problems that are well beyond its core competencies. In this timely volume, Robert E. Martin presents a thorough treatment of the social contract between those who fund higher education and those who benefit from it. In-depth discussions include: * the institution's role as steward of the higher education social contract * the role of transaction costs, risk bearing, production technology, and asset ownership in determining the internal structure of the institution * the market for academic charities * price, quality, and advertising competition in higher education. Formal models of production and cost, optimal fundraising, the maximization of academic reputation, agency behavior, and the student's enrollment decision are also presented and analyzed. Cost Control, College Access, and Competition in Higher Education will be of great interest to higher education researchers and administrators, economists, and public policymakers.

The Entrepreneurial Humanities - The Crucial Role of the Humanities in Enterprise and the Economy (Paperback): Alain-Philippe... The Entrepreneurial Humanities - The Crucial Role of the Humanities in Enterprise and the Economy (Paperback)
Alain-Philippe Durand, Christine Henseler
R1,129 Discovery Miles 11 290 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

With AI, cryptocurrency, and more in the news, it seems that being an entrepreneur means being in IT, but humanities graduates are launching new businesses every day, turning a profit and having social impact. This book explores how a humanities background can enable entrepreneurs to thrive. Across all levels of education, students are given the message that to change the world - or make money - the arts and humanities are not the subjects to study. At the same time, discussions of innovation and entrepreneurship highlight the importance of essential skills, such as critical thinking, storytelling, cultural awareness, and ethical decision-making. Here's the disconnect: the subjects that help to develop these vital skills are derided at critical points in any aspiring entrepreneur's education. This collection of perspectives from entrepreneurs in a range of fields and humanities educators illustrates what individuals, and the wider world, are missing when humanities are overlooked as a source of inspiration and success in business. Featuring a foreword by Sensemaking author Christian Madsbjerg, this is a thought-provoking guide for aspiring entrepreneurs in all sectors, and for educators, a window on the practical value of the humanities in an ever more mechanized world._

Creative Expression and Wellbeing in Higher Education - Making and Movement as Mindful Moments of Self-care (Paperback):... Creative Expression and Wellbeing in Higher Education - Making and Movement as Mindful Moments of Self-care (Paperback)
Narelle Lemon
R1,016 Discovery Miles 10 160 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

*Focuses on individual and collective practices of creativity, embodiment and movement as acts of self-care and wellbeing *Positions creative expression as an important act for professionals working in higher education, as a way to connect, communicate, practice activism or simply to slow down *Provides examples as diverse as movement through dance and exercise, expression through drawing, writing or singing, and creating objects with one's hands

A History of American Higher Education (Paperback, second edition): John R. Thelin A History of American Higher Education (Paperback, second edition)
John R. Thelin
R691 Discovery Miles 6 910 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Colleges and universities are among the most cherished--and controversial--institutions in the United States. In this updated edition of "A History of American Higher Education," John R. Thelin offers welcome perspective on the triumphs and crises of this highly influential sector in American life.

Thelin's work has distinguished itself as the most wide-ranging and engaging account of the origins and evolution of America's institutions of higher learning. This edition brings the discussion of perennial hot-button issues such as big-time sports programs up to date and addresses such current areas of contention as the changing role of governing boards and the financial challenges posed by the economic downturn.

Youth Created Media on the Climate Crisis - Hear Our Voices (Paperback): Richard Beach, Blaine Smith Youth Created Media on the Climate Crisis - Hear Our Voices (Paperback)
Richard Beach, Blaine Smith
R1,164 Discovery Miles 11 640 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This timely book provides effective methods and authentic examples of teaching about climate change through digital and multimodal media production in the English Language Arts classroom. The chapters in this edited volume demonstrate the benefits of addressing climate change in the classroom through innovative media production and cover a range of different types of media, including video/digital storytelling, social media, art, music, and writing, with rich resources for instruction in every chapter. Through the engaging ideas and strategies, the contributors equip educators with the critical tools for supporting students’ media production. In so doing, they offer new perspectives on how students can employ media and production techniques to critique the status quo, call for change, and acquire new literacy skills. As the effects of the climate crisis become increasingly visible to the youth population, this book helps foster and support youth agency and activism. Youth Media Creation on the Climate Change Crisis: Hear Our Voices is a necessary text for students, preservice teachers, and educators in literacy education, media studies, social and environmental studies, and STEM education. The eBook+ version of the text features embedded audio and video components as well as interactive links to reflect the multimodal nature of students’ work, spotlighting how youth media production supports the development of students’ critical literacy skills and shapes their voices and identities.

ACT Math Prep Book 2020 and 2021 - ACT Math Workbook and Practice Tests [2nd Edition] (Paperback): Test Prep Books ACT Math Prep Book 2020 and 2021 - ACT Math Workbook and Practice Tests [2nd Edition] (Paperback)
Test Prep Books
R378 Discovery Miles 3 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Inclusive Learning Design in Higher Education - A Practical Guide to Creating Equitable Learning Experiences (Paperback): Virna... Inclusive Learning Design in Higher Education - A Practical Guide to Creating Equitable Learning Experiences (Paperback)
Virna Rossi
R965 Discovery Miles 9 650 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

How can you design more inclusive learning experiences and environments? How can you overcome some of the challenges of designing and implementing more inclusive learning? Readers will find the answers to these questions and much more in this dynamic new text. Asserting that good teaching is inclusive teaching, it demonstrates how university modules and courses can be designed so that each student, regardless of their complex diversity, is valued equally. Drawing from the contributions of over 80 experts and colleagues alongside her own extensive experience, Rossi explores how to embed inclusivity at the point of course design and how to set up, run, assess and evaluate inclusive learning environments and experiences. Following a unique 'roots to shoots' journey through an inclusive learning design tree, chapters focus on 5 dimensions: Values Context Content Assessment Evaluation An accessible and practical guide for higher education course design, this book is a must read for higher education educators looking to be more inclusive in the way they design and offer learning experiences. For further reading, please visit inclusivelearningdesign.com where you'll find extended contributor bios, more case studies, key concepts and background, an 'inclusive learning design' checklist and glossary.

Wits: The Early Years - A History Of The University Of The Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, And Its Precursors 1896-1939... Wits: The Early Years - A History Of The University Of The Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, And Its Precursors 1896-1939 (Paperback)
Bruce Murray; Foreword by Keith Breckenridge
R375 R293 Discovery Miles 2 930 Save R82 (22%) In Stock

Wits: The Early Years is a history of the University up to 1939.

First established in 1922, the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg developed out of the South African School of Mines in Kimberley circa 1896. Examining the historical foundations, the struggle to establish a university in Johannesburg, and the progress of the University in the two decades prior to World War II, historian Bruce Murray captures the quality and texture of life in the early years of Wits University and the personalities who enlivened it and contributed to its growth.

Particular attention is given to the wider issues and the challenges which faced Wits in its formative years. The book examines the role Wits came to occupy as a major centre of liberal thought and criticism in South Africa, its contribution to the development of the professions of the country, the relationship of its research to the wider society, and its attempts to grapple with a range of peculiarly South African problems, such as the admission of black students to the University and the relations of English- and Afrikaans speaking white students within it.

Epistemic Justice And The Postcolonial University (Paperback): Amrita Pande, Ruchi Chaturvedi, Shari Daya Epistemic Justice And The Postcolonial University (Paperback)
Amrita Pande, Ruchi Chaturvedi, Shari Daya
R370 R289 Discovery Miles 2 890 Save R81 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

This book addresses urgent current debates on decolonisation by offering reimagined teaching and learning interventions for obtaining greater epistemic justice in the contemporary postcolonial university.

At a time when debates on decolonisation have gained urgency in academic, civic and public spaces, this interdisciplinary collection by authors based at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, serves as a valuable archive documenting and reflecting on a turbulent period in South African higher education. It is an important resource for academics looking to grasp debates on decoloniality both in South Africa, and in university and teaching spaces further afield.

Calling for concerted and collaborative work towards greater epistemic justice across diverse disciplines, the book puts forward a new vision of the postcolonial university as one that enables excellent teaching and learning, undertaken in a spirit of critical consciousness and reciprocity.

Mindfulness-Based Teaching and Learning - Preparing Mindfulness Specialists in Education and Clinical Care (Hardcover):... Mindfulness-Based Teaching and Learning - Preparing Mindfulness Specialists in Education and Clinical Care (Hardcover)
Seonaigh MacPherson, Patricia Rockman
R3,550 Discovery Miles 35 500 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Offers a comprehensive view of the emerging fields of secular-scientific mindfulness and Mindfulness-Based Teaching and Learning (MBTL) for professionals for use in a range of educational and clinical settings, including preK-12, higher education, adult and community education, social work, workplace education, medicine, psychology, and counselling. Provides intellectual depth, including addressing key critiques, while offering constructive support to practitioners and professionals in the full spectrum of skills and competencies required of secular-scientific mindfulness specialists, including an up-to-date competency framework. Presents a multi-disciplinary approach to secular-scientific mindfulness and its practices, with implications for teacher preparation and continuing education for a range of professions. These multi-disciplinary perspectives provide a fulsome view of mindfulness as it is unfolding in modern contexts, including the continuing dialogue with traditional Buddhist and classical Western philosophical sources; empirical perspectives from psychology and cognitive science, and practice-oriented scholarship from education, medicine, and social work.

Sensory Affect, Learning Spaces and Design Education - Strategies for Reflective Teaching and Student Engagement in Higher... Sensory Affect, Learning Spaces and Design Education - Strategies for Reflective Teaching and Student Engagement in Higher Education (Paperback)
Lorraine Marshalsey
R1,089 Discovery Miles 10 890 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Through the lens of sensory affect, this book offers a new way of thinking about day-to-day teaching and student engagement within learning spaces in design education. The book examines the definitions, concepts, ideas and overlaps of a repertoire of learning spaces prevalent in higher education and addresses the pedagogical gap that exists between broader learning structures and spaces, and the requirements of specialist design education. Recognising that mainstream teaching environments impact upon design studio learning and student engagement, the book positions creative learning spaces at the heart of practice-based learning. It defines the underlying pedagogical philosophy of a creative learning space in design education and reports on how practical strategies incorporating sensory affect may be implemented by educators to foster better student engagement in these spaces within higher education. Bringing much needed attention to specialist design teaching and learning spaces in higher education, this book will be of interest to educators, researchers and post graduate students immersed in design education, pedagogy and learning spaces more broadly.

Practising Compassion in Higher Education - Caring for Self and Others Through Challenging Times (Paperback): Narelle Lemon,... Practising Compassion in Higher Education - Caring for Self and Others Through Challenging Times (Paperback)
Narelle Lemon, Heidi Harju-Luukkainen, Susanne Garvis
R944 Discovery Miles 9 440 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

*Takes a unique approach to navigating and surviving challenges in higher education and offers valuable lessons for the pandemic era and beyond. *Offers learning through story, presenting a range of theoretical and personal perspectives with contributors sharing their own approaches to self-care and compassion. *An essential resource for students and professionals working in all areas of higher education.

The Economic Institutions of Higher Education - Economic Theories of University Behavior (Hardcover): J. P. Raines, Charles G.... The Economic Institutions of Higher Education - Economic Theories of University Behavior (Hardcover)
J. P. Raines, Charles G. Leathers
R3,096 Discovery Miles 30 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Working within the context of the evolutionary-institutional transformation of higher education, the authors trace the development of an economic model by which the behavioral tendencies of modern universities can be evaluated. That model is expanded to provide insights to the following questions: Why do universities compete and how do they develop and implement their competitive strategies? How do universities make critical institutional decisions about operational missions, academic policies, and internal resource allocation? Do universities efficiently and effectively pursue the special social functions assigned to them? Patrick Raines and Charles Leathers present an integrated, coherent theory to explain the behavior of universities and provide a realistic economic model that predicts how universities allocate their scarce educational resources. This alternative view is contrasted with the mainstream explanations of university behavior based on the maximization of student welfare or faculty influences. The authors extend the existing literature on the operation of universities by presenting a history of the evolution of the modern entrepreneurial universities as well as an explanation of academic capitalism. This absorbing volume will appeal to anyone interested in the history of economic thought or the history of education. Scholars of Veblen, Smith, and Malthus will be fascinated by their individual and comparative theories of the purpose and failures of higher education.

We Will Not Be Silenced - The Academic Repression of Israel's Critics (Paperback): William I. Robinson, Maryam S. Griffin We Will Not Be Silenced - The Academic Repression of Israel's Critics (Paperback)
William I. Robinson, Maryam S. Griffin; Foreword by Cynthia McKinney; Preface by Richard Falk
R512 R456 Discovery Miles 4 560 Save R56 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

As criticism continues to mount over Israel's violation of Palestinian human rights and of international law, campaigns to silence and repress those who speak out against Israeli apartheid have grown alarmingly. College and university campuses across the United States now find themselves centre stage in this conflict over free speech: targeted by the Israel 'lobby' for the critical content of their scholarship, academics have been turned away from jobs, denied tenure and promotion, rejected for funding, and even expelled from institutions, while student groups like the 'Irvine 11' have faced harassment and sanctions. From establishment figures like Richard Falk and former US Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, to professors, postgraduates and activist alumni, We Will Not Be Silenced contains thirteen testimonials from those whose struggle to defend their academic freedom has garnered widespread public and international attention.

Learning in the Global Classroom - A Guide for Students in the Multicultural University (Paperback): Carol Dalglish, Peter... Learning in the Global Classroom - A Guide for Students in the Multicultural University (Paperback)
Carol Dalglish, Peter Evans, Lynda Lawson
R1,111 Discovery Miles 11 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'In the age of the 'global village' this book will enable its future citizens to understand how they can improve their learning experience as they travel to and learn in different countries, contexts and environments. The authors have produced a rigorous yet easy to read book that is full of information, advice and practical tips for the International student. Reading and using this book will improve the quality of the experience for both the student and their teacher.' - Roger Palmer, Henley Business School, UK'This book provides an excellent insight into the means of gaining the most out of an international education. It is simple in language, invaluable in cross-cultural behaviour guidance, meaningful in challenging stereotypes, and useful in self-reflection. Quotes from students bring cultural differences to life. - Ayse Saka-Helmhout, University of Surrey, UK 'Learning in the Global Classroom is an excellent reference for both university students and for academics who take their responsibilities seriously. This book makes study in another county more do-able, and is very timely given the increasing push for internationalization in universities. What could be an overwhelming challenge for the potential international student is tackled in a logical, reassuring way, with practical strategies that cover personal, social and academic issues. For most students, this text will be an 'ongoing' reference, to be referred to as situations arise. Issues that academics often complain about with regard to non-Western students are addressed, such as learning how to speak up in class discussions, critical thinking and punctuality. The text also offers sage advice that would be valuable to students who are returning to study after a prolonged absence. I will certainly recommend this book to both colleagues and students.' - Paddy O'Toole, Monash University, Australia This unique and fascinating book is written for tertiary level students in the multi-cultural classroom, whether studying abroad or at home alongside international students. It relates a genuine understanding of the student perspective of learning in a multi-cultural classroom, highlighting how students possess different learning styles and attitudes to teaching and learning and demonstrating that students not only face language issues, but also numerous other unanticipated challenges. The contributors present both theoretical and practical examples of various teaching and learning strategies that international students will encounter, and reveal how to maximize the benefit of these different approaches. They provide invaluable guidance on how to overcome many of the often-unexpected factors that arise when students are faced by a different cultural environment or people who have different cultural expectations and behavior patterns. Students arrive in the tertiary classroom with a set of behaviors, characteristics and expectations derived from the educational practices of their home-country communities. With these in mind, the book asserts the importance of the student considering what they hope to learn, why they chose the particular institution enrolled with, and whether they will use their newly acquired skills in their own country, the country in which they are studying or somewhere else entirely. It illustrates that understanding exactly what a student wishes to achieve can greatly help get the best out of the international experience both inside and outside of the classroom. This highly original and insightful book will prove invaluable to all tertiary level students who move abroad to study, or who are studying in an international classroom at home.

Reimagining Research - Engaging Data, Research, and Program Evaluation in Social Justice Counseling (Paperback): Trevor J... Reimagining Research - Engaging Data, Research, and Program Evaluation in Social Justice Counseling (Paperback)
Trevor J Buser, Sandy Gibson
R2,079 Discovery Miles 20 790 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Each chapter opens with a "Potential for Practice," illustrating a research-related challenge in the practice of counseling. Online resources-including videos of group interviews, role-play counseling sessions, and counseling staff meetings-present these Potentials for Practice in experiential ways. The closest competitors to this textbook are written in formal, technical language, lack online resources accompanying the textbook, and cover research concepts and techniques unlikely to be used by master's-level counselors in practice.

The Global Market for Higher Education - Sustainable Competitive Strategies for the New Millennium (Hardcover, illustrated... The Global Market for Higher Education - Sustainable Competitive Strategies for the New Millennium (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
Tim Mazzarol, Geoffrey N. Soutar
R2,850 Discovery Miles 28 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The economic and social impact of international education is substantial with many educational institutions now dependent on the recruitment of overseas students for their survival. The authors of The Global Market for Higher Education discuss this industry from a strategic and services marketing perspective and suggest a model to explain how to obtain and maintain a competitive advantage. The book draws on more than ten years of research with students and educational institutions in a number of countries, using both secondary and primary data to develop the model. The results presented suggest that an institution's internal resources are key determinants of its appropriate strategy. The authors also suggest that decision makers and education marketers take account of the appropriate market literature when developing international plans and considering new international markets. This book will prove a valuable contribution to the literature and resources for academics and students, university and college administrators, government officials and policy makers focused on higher education as well as recruitment and marketing offices of higher education institutions themselves.

Further Perspectives on Researching Play from a Playwork Perspective - Process, Playfulness, Rights-based and Critical... Further Perspectives on Researching Play from a Playwork Perspective - Process, Playfulness, Rights-based and Critical Reflection (Paperback)
Pete King, Shelly Newstead
R1,216 Discovery Miles 12 160 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Building on the success of the first volume of Researching Play from a Playwork Perspective, this book further develops the crucial research of playwork as an emerging and unique discipline. The first volume explored how an understanding of playwork theory and practice can inform research into children's play. From the seven contributors, four common themes to researching play from a playwork perspective were identified: rights-based; process, critical reflection and playfulness. This second volume aims to explore these four factors from two angles. The first considers how four more playworkers have researched play in four different contexts: prison, gender and toys, in Dutch play provision, and in the area of autism. In the second part of the book, the four pillars of playwork research are explored by academics from other disciplines with an interest in playwork research. This will be of great interest to researchers and upper-level students in the fields of playwork, childcare, early years, education, psychology and children's rights. It will also appeal to practitioners in a wide variety of professional contexts, including childcare and therapy.

Art as a Way of Listening - Centering Student and Community Voices in Language Learning and Cultural Revitalization... Art as a Way of Listening - Centering Student and Community Voices in Language Learning and Cultural Revitalization (Paperback)
Amanda Claudia Wager, Berta Rosa Berriz, Laura Cranmer, Vivian Maria Poey
R1,158 Discovery Miles 11 580 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Offering a wealth of art-based practices, this volume invites readers to reimagine the joyful possibility and power of language and culture in language and literacy learning. Understanding art as a tool that can be used for decolonizing minds, the contributors explore new methods and strategies for supporting the language and literacy learning skills of multilingual students. Contributors are artists, educators, and researchers who bring together cutting-edge theory and practice to present a broad range of traditional and innovative art forms and media that spotlight the roles of artful resistance and multilingual activism. Featuring questions for reflection and curricular applications, chapters address theoretical issues and pedagogical strategies related to arts and language learning, including narrative inquiry, journaling, social media, oral storytelling, and advocacy projects. The innovative methods and strategies in this book demonstrate how arts-based, decolonizing practices are essential in fostering inclusive educational environments and supporting multilingual students' cultural and linguistic repertoires. Transformative and engaging, this text is a key resource for educators, scholars, and researchers in literacy and language education.

Transformational Change in Higher Education - Positioning Colleges and Universities for Future Success (Hardcover): Madeleine... Transformational Change in Higher Education - Positioning Colleges and Universities for Future Success (Hardcover)
Madeleine B. d'Ambrosio, Ronald G. Ehrenberg
R2,841 Discovery Miles 28 410 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The volume, part of the TIAA-CREF Institute Series on Higher Education, is based on a national conference, Transformational Change in Higher Education: Positioning Your Institution for Future Success, which was convened by the TIAA-CREF Institute in November 2006. This unique volume discusses the management of transformational change in higher education as a key element of success. With input from researchers, presidents, provosts, and other senior leaders of the higher education community, this edited volume explores transformational change in a range of institutions from small teaching and community colleges to large comprehensive research universities. The role of entrepreneurial leaders and their interactions with trustees, policymakers and the public, are discussed, as are strategic issues such as financing college and university operations and student access, as related to pricing. The editors maintain that managing change in these areas impacts both an institution's balance sheet and ultimate success in realizing its vision. In this book, higher education presidents, chancellors, provosts, CFOs and governing boards will find new and actionable information to enhance decision-making and inform strategic planning. Association leadership will be provided with a deeper understanding of the challenges faced by their membership - and possible responses. Researchers and practitioners in education, public policy, business, management and entrepreneurship interested in the business of higher education will find much of value.

Routledge Library Editions: Higher Education (Hardcover): Various Routledge Library Editions: Higher Education (Hardcover)
Various
R73,395 Discovery Miles 733 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The volumes in this set, originally published between 1964 and 2002, draw together research by leading academics in the area of higher education, and provide a rigorous examination of related key issues. The volume examines the concepts of learning, teaching, student experience and administration in relation to the higher education through the areas of business, sociology, education reforms, government, educational policy, business and religion, whilst also exploring the general principles and practices of higher education in various countries. This set will be of particular interest to students and practitioners of education, politics and sociology.

Unintended Consequences of Internationalization in Higher Education - Comparative International Perspectives on the Impacts of... Unintended Consequences of Internationalization in Higher Education - Comparative International Perspectives on the Impacts of Policy and Practice (Paperback)
Shahrzad Kamyab, Rosalind Latiner Raby
R1,121 Discovery Miles 11 210 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

By presenting case studies of internationalization in institutions of higher education around the world, this volume identifies unforeseen or unintended impacts within and across countries. With contributions from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, and North America the volume considers the nature and origin of positive and negative unintended consequences of internationalization policy and practice in national contexts, while also offering uniquely comparative insights. Chapters consider how internationalization is reflected in curricula, teaching, research, and mobility initiatives to highlight common pitfalls, as well as best practice for effective, sustainable, and equitable internationalization globally. Using a critical lens, the book explores how internationalization offers opportunities for learning, for entrepreneurial change, and for knowledge dissemination, and generates paradoxes and dilemmas in terms of political and ethical issues for individuals, communities, and the institutions themselves. Foregrounding the study of internalization in countries not typically studied, this book is a valuable resource for researchers and academics with an interest in internationalization, comparative and international education, and the sociology of education.

Transformative Sustainability Education - Reimagining Our Future (Paperback): Elizabeth A. Lange Transformative Sustainability Education - Reimagining Our Future (Paperback)
Elizabeth A. Lange
R1,138 Discovery Miles 11 380 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book lays out the principles and practices of transformative sustainability education using a relational way of thinking and being. Elizabeth A. Lange advocates for a new approach to environmental and sustainability education, that of rethinking the Western way of knowing and being and engendering a frank discussion about the societal elements that are generating climate, environmental, economic and social issues. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous and lifegiving cultures, the book covers educational theory, transformation stories of adult learners, social and economic critique and visions of changemakers. Each chapter also has a strong pedagogical element, with entry points for learners, embodied practices and examples of taking action at micro/meso/macro levels woven throughout. Overall, this book enacts a relational approach to transformative sustainability education that draws from post humanist theory, process thought, relational ontology, decolonization theory, Indigenous philosophy and a spirituality that builds a sense of sacred toward the living world. Written in an imaginative, storytelling manner, this book will be a great resource for formal and nonformal environmental and sustainability educators.

Critical Perspectives on Equity and Social Mobility in Study Abroad - Interrogating Issues of Unequal Access and Outcomes... Critical Perspectives on Equity and Social Mobility in Study Abroad - Interrogating Issues of Unequal Access and Outcomes (Paperback)
Peggy Gesing, Chris Glass
R1,152 Discovery Miles 11 520 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This edited volume brings together the perspectives of a diverse group of international scholars to explore the intersections of study abroad and social mobility. In doing so, it challenges universalist assumptions and power imbalances implicit in study abroad across the Global North and South, and explores the implications of COVID-19 for equity within study abroad programs, policy, and practice going forward. Offering empirical, theoretical, and conceptual contributions, Critical Perspectives on Equity and Social Mobility in Study Abroad foregrounds critical reflection on the stratification of access to study abroad and examines the varied outcomes of international study in relation to graduates' entry into domestic and international labor markets. Focusing on the experiences and outcomes of students from varied backgrounds, chapters identify a number of power imbalances relating to student race, ethnicity, religion, local and international policies and politics, and put forward valuable recommendations to ensure greater equity within the field. Against the backdrop of growing criticism over the power imbalances in international exchange, this text will benefit researchers, academics, and educators with an interest in higher education, international and comparative education, and multicultural education. Those interested in educational policy and the sociology of education more broadly will also benefit from this book.

Applying Anthropology to General Education - Reshaping Colleges and Universities for the 21st Century (Hardcover): Jennifer R... Applying Anthropology to General Education - Reshaping Colleges and Universities for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
Jennifer R Wies, Hillary J Haldane
R3,832 Discovery Miles 38 320 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The current higher education policy and practice landscape is simultane-ously marked by uncertainty and hope, and nowhere are these tensions more present than in discussions and actions around general education. This volume uses an anthropological approach to contemplate ways of re-imagining general education for the 21st century and how faculty, teach-ers, administrators, and others can transform the educational endeavor to be holistic, comprehensive, and aligned with the needs of people and the planet in the decades to come. Included are analyses of general education concepts such as "diversity," case studies of general education and con-necting curricula, opportunities for faculty development, unique general education student populations, assessment strategies, and philosophical/ pedagogical challenges. Contributors make the case that far from receding from a central role in higher education, there is a need to strengthen general education curricula as key to the educational needs of students, for the skills and competencies they require in the workplace and for civic engagement.

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