Leadership u.: preparing students for college, career, and beyond

Leadership u: preparing students for college, career, and beyond

Welcome to Leadership U., a comprehensive, equitably designed college and career preparation program for students in grades four through twelve intended to complement the academic groundwork being laid by educators. Early and ongoing intervention is known to be a critical element in increasing th...

Leadership u: preparing students for college, career, and beyond

Welcome to Leadership U., a comprehensive, equitably designed college and career preparation program for students in grades four through twelve intended to complement the academic groundwork being laid by educators. Early and ongoing intervention is known to be a critical element in increasing th...

Lean six sigma in higher education

This book illustrates the integration of both Lean and Six Sigma as a process excellence methodology which can be utilized in Higher Education environments for achieving and sustaining world class efficiency and effectiveness. It showcases various studies carried out by leading research scholars,...

Learning differentiated curriculum design in higher education

This book presents a comprehensive, systematic approach to the development of curricula in higher education in which each component is configured to optimize learning. The approach is based in an analysis of the psychophysics of the learner and employs theories of learning, instruction, and envir...

Management and administration of higher education institutions in times of change

The experts and practitioners contributing to this volume reveal a complex reality of HEI today. The book links the debate on education to topical issues in politics, society and economy, including questions of technological progress, social responsibility, sustainability, well-being and, broadly...

Materiality and writing studies

Winner of the 2024 Best Book Award from the Council of Writing Program Administrators An expansive look at the discipline of writing studies, with a focus on serving and supporting first-year writing students and instructors at open access institutions.There is a huge gap between perceptions of t...

Misbehavior online in higher education

Misbehavior Online in Higher Education is rich in contemporary case studies, analytical reports, and up-to-date research providing detailed overviews of various misbehavior, including cyberbullying, cyberstaling, cyberslacking, and privacy invasion, hacking, cheating, teasing, and enhanced prej...

Paradoxes of the democratization of higher education

Research in Social Problems and Public Policy presents important themes of: social/crime problems and their treatment; criminal justice; law and public policy; crime, deviance and social control; substance use/abuse and treatment; health and society; and institutional interaction. This volume foc...

Pedagogy in islamic education

This book provides an understanding of pedagogy rooted in the developments of Islamic Education. It is the first book to explore this in the Madrasah context. The focus on Islamic pedagogy provides a way to explore knowledge, spirituality and education that is shaped by a universal approach to pe...

Perspectives on access to higher education

This book brings together researchers and practitioners to critically reflect upon the current diversity of Access to Higher Education programmes and their different perspectives on widening participation and access education.

Perspectives on diverse student identities in higher education

This volume provides educators with a global understanding of the challenges associated with the growing diversity of student identities in higher education, and it provides evidence-based strategies for addressing the challenges associated with implementing equity and inclusion at different high...

Promises fulfilled and unfulfilled in management education

This is the first of two volumes written to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of EFMD. Through an open-ended interview research process, it seeks to explore the perspectives and views of a wide range of experts drawn not only from the European environment but also from the United States and other gl...

Radicalisation and counter-radicalisation in higher education

This book draws on primary research to present a critical overview of debates about UK university campuses as a location for radicalisation and the impact of counter-radicalisation policies. It provides a historical overview and a contemporary assessment of radicalisation in Universities and cove...

Recognising students who care for children while studying

Problematising ‘who’ is recognised in widening participation and equalities policy, Samuel Dent presents an Institutional Ethnographic study, involving 16 students at a research-intensive UK University, and collected over two years, to gain further insight into the institutional experiences of st...

Redesigning courses for online delivery

Redesigning Courses for Online Delivery takes a unique approach to course redesign. Both scholarly and practical, the considerations and methods will assist readers in the development of high quality online experiences. It moves beyond the technology, driving course development to best fit the co...

Refugee education

This volume examines how universities and colleges are working towards implementing various interventions to integrate refugees along with non-governmental organizations and local governments to achieve an optimal level of integration with host communities.

Rethinking the business models of business schools

Business schools around the world have grown and prospered in the last few decades, but what does the future hold for business schools? This book explores the potential future disruption of the business school tradition by considering funding, value chains, strategic groups, value orientation, in...

Securing the future of management education

This is the second of two volumes written to celebrate the 40th anniversary of EFMD. The second volume discusses a range of alternative future scenarios for management education, and urges the field to resist the lures of the dominant paradigm and to develop new models instead.

Social justice issues and racism in the college classroom

How do faculty members include social justice issues related to race/ethnicity in their curricula? How are issues associated with race or ethnicity discussed in the classroom by students, as well as minority and nonminority faculty? This book deals with these questions.

Strategies for facilitating inclusive campuses in higher education

This volume provides educators with a global understanding of the successes and challenges associated with facilitating inclusive campuses in higher education amidst the growing diversity of students by providing evidence-based strategies and ideas for implementing equity and inclusion at higher ...

Strategies for fostering inclusive classrooms in higher education

This volume will provide educators with an understanding of challenges associated with equity and inclusion at higher education institutions globally and with evidence-based strategies for addressing the challenges associated with implementing equity and inclusion.

Teacher leadership in professional development schools

Featuring scholarly descriptions, teacher leader reflections, and thoughtful questions, this thoughtful collection will immerse readers in deep exploration of teacher leadership and student learning; definitions, structures, and cultures that promote teacher leadership; and teacher leader prepara...

Teacher preparation in scotland

This book charts the origins and development of teacher preparation in Scotland from 1872 onwards, covering key milestones in policy and practice, and looking ahead to the future. It is a truly comprehensive record of the historic, current and potential evolution of teacher preparation in Scotland.

Teaching and learning practices for academic freedom

Although academic freedom in teaching and learning methods is crucial to a nation’s growth, the concept comes with numerous misnomers and is subjected to much academic debate and doubt. This volume maps out how truth and intellectual integrity remain the fundamental principle on which the foundat...

Teaching and learning strategies for sustainable development

This timely book explores the sustainable development goals,  how well universities have been able to integrate them into their curriculum, and how universities can institutionalize the goals and sustainable development into their strategic plans and institutional culture

The coercive community college

Few studies address workplace bullying in American higher education. Leah P.Hollis, EdD, author of Bully in the Ivory Tower addressed the issue of workplace bullying in four-year institutions. This volume, The Coercive Community College, replicates the study to reveal that 64% of community coll...

The complete guide to college transfer

The Insider’s Guide That Takes the Confusion Out of Transferring “Jaime Smith turns what feels like a maze into a map.” — Jeffrey Selingo, NYT bestselling author of Who Gets In and Why Over a million students embark on the journey of transferring colleges each year — from community colleges to ...

The disruptive power of online education

This book explores how higher education institutions across the globe respond to the disruptive changes triggered by online technologies. Contributions address transformations regarding program design, business models and pedagogical interventions in a digital teaching environment.

The fall of affirmative action

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice For decades, affirmative action reshaped not just American higher education but the broader society, opening doors that had been closed for centuries and transforming who entered the pathways to power. But the Supreme Court in 2023 killed affirmative ...

The flipped approach to higher education

From the world’s first completely flipped institution, the authors address the socio-economic and socio-technical nature of today's world and how this effects the education sector, outlining how and why they adopted Flipped Learning, and definitively describe the organizational design process ne...

The fully functioning university

The three main goals of universities are the education of students, the advancement of knowledge, and the university’s social engagement. This book introduces the concept of a 'post-Humboldtian university' which values each of these goals in its own right, and the 'fully functioning university' a...

The marketisation of english higher education

This book traces the development of a fully marketised higher education system in England over a 30-year period, and identifies five distinct stages of market reforms culminating in the Higher Education and Research Act. It employs a critical policy discourse analysis and addresses several key as...

Theory and method in higher education research

This volume of Theory and Method in Higher Education Research contains analyses and discussions of, amongst others, topic modelling, geometric data analysis,creativity and playfulness, longitudinal network analysis, grounded theory methods and autonetnography.

Theory and method in higher education research

Theory and Method in Higher Education contains contributions to international debates regarding the application and development of theory and methodology in researching higher education.

Theory and method in higher education research

This volume of Theory and Method in Higher Education Research contains contemporary contributions to international debates regarding the application and development of theory and methodology in researching higher education.

Transfer in an urban writing ecology

Transitions from vocational qualifications to higher education

This book explores the Business and Technology route into higher education and how students with these qualifications are often at a disadvantage compared to their peers at University. Strategies of intervention such as individual facing and system facing changes at universities are outlined to e...

University partnerships for academic programs and professional development

This volume examines the diverse ways in which universities and colleges around the world are partnering and collaborating with other institutions to fulfil their missions and visions.

University partnerships for community and school system development

This volume examines the diverse ways in which universities and colleges around the world are partnering and collaborating with other institutions to fulfil their missions and visions.

University partnerships for international development

This volume examines the diverse ways in which universities and colleges around the world are partnering and collaborating with other institutions to fulfill their missions and visions.

University partnerships for pre-service and teacher development

This volume examines the diverse ways in which universities and colleges around the world are partnering and collaborating with other institutions to fulfill their missions and visions.

Warrior women

"Warrior Women" makes visible the ongoing intergenerational narrative reverberations (Young, 2003; 2005) shaped through Canada's residential school era which denied the communal and cultural, economic, educational, human, familial, linguistic, and spiritual rights of Aboriginal people.