Kategoria BISAC: Education >> Adult & Continuing Education

This book spotlights new pathways for academic career progression beyond the traditional teaching-and-research model.  It sets out key parameters for constructive conversations about alignment to these new pathways, which are examined from the point of view of individuals at different stages in their careers, as well as at an institutional level.  The authors offer guidance on how to implement new pathways and how to realign professional development for academics so that the new pathways fully achieve their purpose to support universities’ contribution to society.  The...

Dans le domaine de l'évaluation en éducation, les technologies numériques mettent à la portée des chercheurs et des praticiens des outils qui évoluent sans cesse et de plus en plus vite. Dans cet ouvrage, ces avancées sont déclinées en trois parties. La première partie décrit des environnements virtuels ou simulés visant à reproduire la réalité et ainsi fournir des lieux propices à l'évaluation qui étaient jusqu'à très récemment inaccessibles au monde de l'éducation. La deuxième partie détaille des dispositifs perfectionnés pour collecter des données. Finalement,...

This edited volume argues for positioning students at the centre of higher education, drawing from the concepts of student agency and self-formation. The volume highlights that higher education has broader and more important purposes than what a neoliberal human capital approach would suggest, and explores how students exercise their agency and realise self-formation as inherently connected concepts throughout university education. With disciplinary, cultural, and contextual diversity, this volume will provide international perspectives to readers interested in higher education theories,...

Academic accommodations have become quite commonplace in universities in the Global North. At their best, accommodations support the rights of all students to an education, making it possible for students with disabilities or those who learn differently to succeed in the university and beyond. But are accommodations at their best?

Reflecting on his own experiences as a Black student with a disability and the experiences of other Black students accessing accommodations at Canada's premier university, the University of Toronto, Baker examines how Black students who...