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Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > General
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Index; 2003
(Hardcover)
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
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R835
Discovery Miles 8 350
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Responsive learning and responsible learning have not been
considered and utilized appropriately in the past, especially in
light of the post-pandemic higher education landscape. A discussion
and consideration of the different elements that make up responsive
and responsible learning such as agency, agility, mindfulness,
connectedness, resourcefulness, active and seamless learning, and
regulation of learning are required to advance the field of higher
education. Cases on Responsive and Responsible Learning in Higher
Education encompasses cases on responsive and responsible learning
in higher education and focuses on how the concepts are translated
into practice by instructors, learning facilitators, and higher
education managers. The book also deals with various practicalities
and strategies and adopts existing models and frameworks for 21st
century learning. Covering key topics such as learner agency,
mindfulness, and personalized learning, this reference work is
ideal for administrators, policymakers, researchers, academicians,
practitioners, scholars, instructors, and students.
Women leaders and the COVID-19 pandemic are currently trending in
the news. Major news outlets are all offering their positive
opinions on how world-wide women leaders have addressed the crisis
and reassured their people. While this sort of press coverage is
certainly uplifting, little to no research has been conducted to
investigate the effectiveness of women's leadership decisions and
strategies in these difficult times. In concert with these global
struggles resulting from the pandemic are the challenges faced by
higher education. Many colleges and universities have all but
shuttered their doors and are conducting instruction, student
support, and day-to-day business almost completely online. Women
academic leaders bear a great load during global crises, with the
combination of maintaining work responsibilities and caring for
families and personal households. It is shown that women leaders
may feel overwhelmed but remain heroes in unprecedented times of
crisis. Women and Leadership in Higher Education During Global
Crises informs readers and expands their understanding about
specific challenges, issues, strategies, and solutions that are
associated with women leaders in higher education, the implications
during the current pandemic and other natural disasters, and how
these strategies can be used for future agility and success. The
chapters will cover narratives, strategies, and initiatives that
women leaders are using to lead their institutions, departments,
sectors, and organizations. It ties together the unimaginable
challenges, joys, struggles, and successes encountered by women in
leadership in higher education and is ideal for higher education
administrators, teachers, leaders, faculty, provosts, deans,
program leaders, researchers, academicians, and students interested
in both the challenges and successes women leaders in higher
education face during global crises.
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Index; 1902
(Hardcover)
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
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R832
Discovery Miles 8 320
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Bearing the Torch stands as a comprehensive history of the
University of Tennessee, replete with anecdotes and vignettes of
interest to anyone interested in UT, from the administrators and
chancellors to students and alums, and even to the Vols fans whose
familiarity with the school comes mainly from the sports page. It
is also a biography of a school whose history reflects that of its
state and its nation. The institution that began as Blount College
in 1794 in a frontier village called Knoxville exemplifies the
relationship between education and American history. This is the
first scholarly history of UT since 1984. T. R. C. Hutton not only
provides a much-needed update, but also seeks to present a social
history of the university, fully integrating historical context and
showing how the volume's central "character"-the university
itself-reflects historical themes and concerns. For example, Hutton
shows how the school's development was hampered in the early
nineteenth century by stingy state funding (a theme that also
appears in subsequent decades) and Jacksonian fears that publicly
funded higher education equaled elite privilege. The institution
nearly disappeared as the Civil War raged in a divided region, but
then it flourished thanks to policies that never could have
happened without the war. In the twentieth century, students
embraced dramatic social changes as the university wrestled with
race, gender, and other important issues. In the Cold War era, UT
became a successful research institution and entered into a deep
partnership with Oak Ridge National Laboratories that persists to
this day. All the while UT athletics experienced the highs of
national championships and the lows of lawsuits and losing seasons.
UT is a university with a universe of historical experiences. The
University of Tennessee's story has always been defined by
inclusion and exclusion, and the school has triumphed when it
practiced the former and failed when it took part in the latter.
Bearing the Torch traces that ongoing process, richly detailing the
University's contributions to what one president, Joseph Estabrook,
called the "diffusion of knowledge among the people."
Executive functions develop during the first years of life and
determine future learning and personal development. Executive
dysfunction is related to various neurodevelopmental disorders, so
its study is of great interest for intervention in children with
neurotypical development and in those who have suffered a
neurodevelopmental disorder. The Handbook of Research on
Neurocognitive Development of Executive Functions and Implications
for Intervention offers updated research on executive functions and
their implication in psychoeducational intervention. It establishes
a multidisciplinary context to discuss both intervention experience
and research results in different areas of knowledge. Covering
topics such as childhood inhibitory processing, mindfulness
interventions, and language development, this major reference work
is an excellent resource for psychologists, medical professionals,
researchers, academicians, educators, and students.
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Index; 1949
(Hardcover)
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
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R888
Discovery Miles 8 880
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