Education: Higher Education

Edited by Europa Publications

Now in its 68th edition, The Europa World of Learning is one of the world's leading reference works. Updated to the highest editorial standards, entries are sourced directly from the organizations to ensure accurate and reliable information. The accreditation status of every university and college…

Hardback – 2017-09-07 
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The Europa World of Learning

By Thomas Discenna

Discourses of Denial explores the myriad ways that the labor of those employed by universities is situated as somehow distinct from ordinary labor. Focusing on a variety of sites where academic labor is discursively constructed in popular consciousness including among the professoriate itself, its…

Hardback – 2017-09-04 
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Routledge Critical Studies in Discourse

By Joseph L. Murray

There is growing interest in undergraduate research, given its benefits to students, faculty members, and the institution. For higher education scholars, faculty, and administrators, this book logically synthesizes the literature to demonstrate its impact on facilitation of learning and engagement…

Paperback – 2017-08-29 
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Edited by Judy Marquez Kiyama, Cecilia Rios-Aguilar

Refining and building on the concept in a sophisticated and multidisciplinary way, this book uses a funds of knowledge approach and connects it to other key conceptual frameworks in education to examine issues related to the access and transition to college, college persistence and success, and…

Paperback – 2017-08-29 
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By John K Marah

This book makes a critical contribution to the study of pan-Africanism and the education of African people for continental African citizenship; it is a unique endeavor in that it intersects the social history of pan-Africanism and the education of African people at a 'global' level and provides…

Hardback – 2017-08-29 
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African Studies

By Tanya Ovenden-Hope, Sonia Blandford

Understanding Applied Learning enables teachers, lecturers, educators to facilitate applied learning effectively with learners in schools, colleges and universities. It introduces teachers to the concept of applied learning in practice, cutting across any vocational and academic divide to show how…

Paperback – 2017-08-28 
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Edited by Jane Fried, Ruth Harper

Although student affairs practitioners play a key role in student learning, few are familiar with learning theories, the design of experiential education, or pedagogical theory. This edited collection describes programs in which student affairs professionals work independantly or in collaboration…

Paperback – 2017-08-22 
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Edited by Susan Carter, Deborah Laurs

Developing Research Writing is designed to encourage, inspire and improve the advisory practice of providing writing feedback. This book provides insights and advice that supervisors can use to advance their support of their research students’ writing and at the same time survive increasing…

Paperback – 2017-08-21 
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Edited by Richard Waller, Nicola Ingram, Michael R.M. Ward

A university education has long been seen as the gateway to upward social mobility for individuals from lower socio-economic backgrounds, and as a way of reproducing social advantage for the better off. With the number of young people from the very highest socio-economic groups entering university…

Hardback – 2017-08-21 
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Sociological Futures

Edited by Ryoko Tsuneyoshi

Globalization is the most common overriding characteristic of our time, with societies all over the world struggling to change their educational systems to meet what are perceived to be the needs of globalization. This book provides an insider's account of how the Japanese educational system is…

Hardback – 2017-08-18 
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Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education

Edited by David Guile, David Lambert, Michael Reiss

This volume brings together an international set of contributors in education research, policy and practice to respond to the influence the noted academic Professor Michael Young has had on sociology, curriculum studies and professional knowledge over the past fifty years, and still has on the…

Hardback – 2017-08-18 
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By Stavros Moutsios

Society and Education explores the relation of society to education in Europe, as well as its comparative perspective towards overseas societies and their institutions. It is an enquiry into the social-historical institution of education and cross-cultural studies in Europe. Elaborating on the…

Hardback – 2017-08-18 
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