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Index; 1951
(Hardcover)
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
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R871
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Knowledge management principles, strategies, models, tools, and
techniques have been proven in government, business, and industry.
More recently, knowledge management has emerged as an essential
enabler for the successful pursuit of scholarly activities in
higher education. Knowledge management has significant
contributions to make in capturing, storing, processing, and
disseminating knowledge between and across these stakeholder
entities and their processes to better support these interrelated
processes and activities. Given the impetus provided by the United
Nations Global Knowledge Economy Policy, institutions worldwide are
actively pursuing the use of knowledge management in all facets of
social and economic development. The importance of knowledge
management research and application in academia is a critical
element of this multifaceted endeavor. The Handbook of Research on
Knowledge Management Tools in Higher Education is a compendium of
cutting-edge research on the use of knowledge management in higher
education and provides original, theoretical, and
application-oriented research within this domain. The book will
also provide insights on the management of expertise, knowledge,
information, and organizational development in different types of
work communities and environments. By including research on global
perspectives, the implementation of knowledge management at
universities, current trends in the field, and the results, this
book is a valuable reference work for professionals and researchers
working in the field of information and knowledge management in
various disciplines, and academics, analysts, developers, students,
technologists, education consultants, higher education
administrators, academicians, stakeholders, and practitioners
seeking to learn, improve, and expand their theoretical and applied
knowledge of knowledge management tools and techniques, models,
processes, and systems in higher education.
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Index; 1993
(Hardcover)
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
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R886
Discovery Miles 8 860
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Mathematics for Social Justice offers a collection of resources for
mathematics faculty interested in incorporating questions of social
justice into their classrooms. The book begins with a series of
essays from instructors experienced in integrating social justice
themes into their pedagogy; these essays contain political and
pedagogical motivations as well as nuts-and-bolts teaching advice.
The heart of the book is a collection of fourteen classroom-tested
modules featuring ready-to-use activities and investigations for
the college mathematics classroom. The mathematical tools and
techniques used are relevant to a wide variety of courses including
college algebra, math for the liberal arts, calculus, differential
equations, discrete mathematics, geometry, financial mathematics,
and combinatorics. The social justice themes include human
trafficking, income inequality, environmental justice,
gerrymandering, voting methods, and access to education. The volume
editors are leaders of the national movement to include social
justice material into mathematics teaching. Gizem Karaali is
Associate Professor of Mathematics at Pomona College. She is one of
the founding editors of The Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, and
an associate editor for The Mathematical Intelligencer and
Numeracy; she also serves on the editorial board of the MAA's Carus
Mathematical Monographs. Lily Khadjavi is Associate Professor of
Mathematics at Loyola Marymount University and is a past co-chair
of the Infinite Possibilities Conference. She has served on the
boards of Building Diversity in Science, the Barbara Jordan-Bayard
Rustin Coalition, and the Harvard Gender and Sexuality Caucus.
The moment is right for critical reflection on what has been
assumed to be a core part of schooling. In Ungrading, fifteen
educators write about their diverse experiences going gradeless.
Some contributors are new to the practice and some have been
engaging in it for decades. Some are in humanities and social
sciences, some in STEM fields. Some are in higher education, but
some are the K-12 pioneers who led the way. Based on rigorous and
replicated research, this is the first book to show why and how
faculty who wish to focus on learning, rather than sorting or
judging, might proceed. It includes honest reflection on what makes
ungrading challenging, and testimonials about what makes it
transformative.
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