RoutledgeFalmer Studies in Higher Education
Teacher Education for Critical Consumption of Mass Media and Popular Culture
1st Edition
By Stephanie A. Flores-Koulish
July 26, 2013
The study develops a baseline of knowledge to encourage the inclusion of media literacy education in teacher education....
Teaching and Learning in Diverse Classrooms: Faculty Reflections on their Experiences and Pedagogical Practices of Teaching Diverse Populations
1st Edition
By Carmelita Rosie Castañeda
October 29, 2012
This study describes how faculty who participated in the Teaching and Learning in Diverse Classroom Faculty and TA Partnership Project (1994-2000) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, reflected on their experiences and pedagogical practices as instructors in diverse classrooms....
Dominant Beliefs and Alternative Voices: Discourse, Belief, and Gender in American Study
1st Edition
By Joan Elias Gore
June 28, 2012
This book examines why study abroad is a marginal activity in American higher education and evaluates the role gender has played in the development and maintenance of this marginality....
Democratizing Higher Education Policy: Constraints of Reform in Post-Apartheid South Africa
1st Edition
By M.T. Sehoole
August 18, 2010
This book was written with the purpose of analyzing the challenges faced by the post-apartheid government in South Africa with regard to reform of higher education. It covers the apartheid context of higher education, resistance to the system and its ultimate demise, democratic processes in ...
University Autonomy in Russian Federation Since Perestroika
1st Edition
By Olga Bain
March 28, 2003
This study focuses on the national higher education policies and institutional strategies that foster or hinder individual Russian universities in applying newfound principles of autonomy. This new autonomy has become more dramatic with the decentralization of power, transition to the market ...
Power and Politics in University Governance: Organization and Change at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
1st Edition
By Imanol Ordorika
January 31, 2003
Drawing from a case study of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico , this work analyses the connection between political processes and change in higher education. The author explains that while there are increasing demands these have not produced rapid responses from the university and tries...
Two-Year Colleges for Women and Minorities: Enabling Access to the Baccalaureate
1st Edition
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By Barbara K. Townsend
December 24, 2002
Two-year colleges are often the most financially, geographically, and academically accessible means of higher education for ethnic minorities and women. This book examines five types of two-year special focus schools....
The Virtual Delivery and Virtual Organization of Post-secondary Education
1st Edition
By Daniel Carchidi
March 22, 2002
How virtual post-secondary educational organisations (popularly called virtual universities) function is the central subject in this new book based on a comparative study of five U.S based institutions....
Technology Transfer Via University-Industry Relations: The Case of the Foreign High Technology Electronic Industry in Mexico's Silicon Valley
1st Edition
By Maria Isabel Rivera Vargas
January 25, 2002
This book examines the technology that is transferred in Mexico's Silicon Valley and the role that institutions of higher education and foreign electronics corporations play in the process. Riveria Vargas delineates that technology transfer is occurring, describes it nature, the channels of ...
Working Equal: Collaboration Among Academic Couples
1st Edition
Edited
By Elizabeth Creamer
December 14, 2000
Working Equal exposes the myth of heroic individualism that is central to contemporary western thought. With more than 35% of full-time faculty with a spouse or partner in the same profession, dual career couples are a growing presence in higher education in the U.S.. This compelling and innovative...
The Academic Corporation: A History of College and University Governing Boards
1st Edition
By Edwin D. Duryea, Donald T. Williams
April 27, 2000
This book, the first ever overview of the subject, traces the history of the government of higher education from the middle ages through the 1950's and concludes with a look towards the future. It provides insight into the origins and progression of corporate organization associated with western ...
Higher Education in Korea: Tradition and Adaptation
1st Edition
By Namgi Park, John Weidman
December 01, 1999
This definitive collection takes an in-depth look at the higher education system in Korea. The editors and contributors present a fundamentally Korean view of the important issues for the Korean higher education system. In systematic, well written essays, they construct theoretical perspectives to...