Teaching & Learning Products

Edited by Cristine Smith, Katherine Hudson

Learner-centered approaches to teaching, such as small group discussions, debates, role plays and project-based assignments, help students develop critical thinking, creativity and problem-solving skills. However, more traditional lecture-based approaches still predominate in classrooms in higher…

Paperback – 2019-06-07
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Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education

By Leonard Cantor

First published in 1989, this book primarily sets out to provide detailed accounts of the policy towards and the provision of vocational education and training in five countries of the developed world: Japan, Australia, the United States, the Federal Republic of Germany, and the United Kingdom.…

Paperback – 2019-06-06
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Routledge Revivals

By Geoffrey M. Cox

This book proposes a new theory of change in American higher education that explains the resilience of colleges and universities, and demonstrates how they adapt to new social and economic conditions. It argues that the demands for new educational missions, new sources of capital to finance…

Hardback – 2019-06-03
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By Sheila Harri-Augstein, Michael Smith, Laurie Thomas

Originally published in 1982. This book is concerned with the new kinds of demands on our reading ability made by the work we undertake for A-level, or in college, or at university, or indeed at work. It is not a speed reading book, or a reading skills book. Anyone with a lot of reading to get…

Paperback – 2019-05-29
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Routledge Library Editions: Literacy

Edited by Dawne J. Gurbutt, Rachel M. Cragg

Addressing the contemporary issues relating to the delivery of education, Culture, Change and Community in Higher Education explores the challenges of creating effective learning communities. Focusing on the creation and implementation of strategies which permeate and influence culture and enable…

Hardback – 2019-05-29
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Edited by David Palfreyman, Ted Tapper, Scott Thomas

An almost universal driving force for contemporary change in universities is the shifting view of higher education as more of a private than a public good. Towards the Private Funding of Higher Education presents a contemporary global picture of this move towards the privatisation of higher…

Paperback – 2019-05-21
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Edited by Katrien Van Poeck, Leif Östman, Johan Öhman

The aim of this book is to support and inspire teachers to contribute to much-needed processes of sustainable development and to develop teaching practices and professional identities that allow them to cope with the specificity of sustainability issues and, in particular, with the teaching…

Hardback – 2019-05-10
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Routledge Studies in Sustainability

Edited by Patricia A. Perez

This anthology addresses the role of postsecondary institutional structures and policy in shaping the tenure-track process for Chicana and Latina faculty in higher education. Each chapter offers first-person narratives of survival in the academy employing critical theoretical contributions and…

Hardback – 2019-05-10
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Routledge Research in Higher Education

Edited by Cordelia Bryan, Karen Clegg

Contextualising why assessment is still the single most important factor affecting student learning in higher education, this second edition of Innovative Assessment in Higher Education: A Handbook for Academic Practitioners offers a critical discourse about the value of assessment for learning…

Paperback – 2019-04-18
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Edited by Sveva Magaraggia, Gerlinde Mauerer, Marianne Schmidbaur

Feminist Perspectives on Teaching Masculinities looks at teaching non-hegemonic forms of masculinities and highlights their diversity. The collection foregrounds and discusses concepts which are described and gathered as positive, caring, and inclusive masculinities, thus offering a timely and…

Paperback – 2019-04-17
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Teaching with Gender

By Arnold Wentzel

Integrating insights from learning science with practical guidelines and stepwise approaches, Teaching Complex Ideas helps educators masterfully translate their expertise into easy-to-understand, interesting, and memorable instruction. Covering areas such as identifying the critical ideas within a…

Paperback – 2019-04-09
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By Lydia M. Andrade, Scott Dittloff, Lopita Nath

A Guide to Faculty-Led Study Abroad provides practical information on the curricular and administrative considerations necessary to design and implement a course-based study abroad experience of the highest quality. From techniques for funding the trip, to legal considerations, curricular…

Paperback – 2019-03-28
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