Honored But Invisible: An Inside Look at Teaching in Community Colleges
ISBN: 9780415921657 / Angielski / Miękka / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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232,47 zł |
Academic Keywords: A Devil's Dictionary for Higher Education
ISBN: 9780415922036 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Know what academic freedom is? Or what it's come to mean? What's affirmative about affirmative action these days? Think you're up on the problem of sexual harassment on campus? Or know how much the university depends on part-time faculty?
Academic Keywords is a witty, informed, and sometimes merciless assessment of today's campus, an increasingly corporatized institution that may have bitten off more than its administration is ready to chew. Cary Nelson and Steve Watt use the format of a dictionary to present stories and reflections on some of... Know what academic freedom is? Or what it's come to mean? What's affirmative about affirmative action these days? Think you're up on...
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103,29 zł |
Beyond the Campus: How Colleges and Universities Form Partnerships with their Communities
ISBN: 9780415926225 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The role of the university and its relationship to the community has long been a highly debated topic among educators, administrators, and local business leaders. David J. Maurrasse offers a passionate appeal for community partnerships. Going further than a simple explanation of the problems at hand, Beyond the Campus offers a road map for both universities and local institutions to work together for the good of their communities.
The role of the university and its relationship to the community has long been a highly debated topic among educators, administrators, and local busin...
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247,97 zł |
Never a Dull Moment: Teaching and the Art of Performance
ISBN: 9780415926591 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Teachers are really performers, classrooms are stages, and students the captivated audience. In beautiful prose, Felman invites us to watch her one woman show on the art of performance in today's classrooms. These essays take on the greatest hits of the academy: identity politics, sexual harrassment, academic censorship, and radical pedagogy. Felman's book is a performance not to be missed.
Teachers are really performers, classrooms are stages, and students the captivated audience. In beautiful prose, Felman invites us to watch her one wo...
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697,56 zł |
Never a Dull Moment: Teaching and the Art of Performance
ISBN: 9780415926607 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Never a Dull Moment: Teaching and the Art of Performance is really about how teachers are performers, classrooms are stages, and students the captivated audience. Dynamic, animated, and often unpredictable, she invites us to take a seat and watch her one-woman show. This is where the feminist classroom meets live guerilla theater and once the show has begun, learning becomes interactive, intentionally dramatic and fully engaging as it was always meant to be. No one is left behind, bored or disinterested. All the cast, students, teaching assistants, as well as the professor, become...
Never a Dull Moment: Teaching and the Art of Performance is really about how teachers are performers, classrooms are stages, and students the captivat...
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196,30 zł |
Imagining the Academy: Higher Education and Popular Culture
ISBN: 9780415929363 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The essays in this work examine various forms of popular culture and the ways in which they represent, shape, and are considered by notions about and issues within higher education. From an exploration of rap music to an analysis of how the academy presents and markets itself on the World Wide Web, the essays focus attention on higher education issues that are bound up in the workings and effects of popular culture.
The essays in this work examine various forms of popular culture and the ways in which they represent, shape, and are considered by notions about and ...
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749,23 zł |
Who Killed Shakespeare: What's Happened to English Since the Radical Sixties
ISBN: 9780415930109 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Who killed Shakespeare? asks the world outside the university, convinced that something's rotten in the state of academia. Have English professors really tossed out the Bard to take up theory instead? After public relations disasters surrounding 'political correctness', deconstruction, and the social text hoax it seems that everyone - politicians, parents, and the press - has something to say about what's wrong with universities. Patrick Brantlinger argues that critiques of the university in ruins are misdirected. Shakespeare, English, and the humanities in general are all being marginalized...
Who killed Shakespeare? asks the world outside the university, convinced that something's rotten in the state of academia. Have English professors rea...
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439,15 zł |
Who Killed Shakespeare?: What's Happened to English Since the Radical Sixties
ISBN: 9780415930116 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Who killed Shakespeare? asks the world outside the university, convinced that something's rotten in the state of academia. Have English professors really tossed out the Bard to take up theory instead? After public relations disasters surrounding 'political correctness', deconstruction, and the social text hoax it seems that everyone - politicians, parents, and the press - has something to say about what's wrong with universities. Patrick Brantlinger argues that critiques of the university in ruins are misdirected. Shakespeare, English, and the humanities in general are all being marginalized...
Who killed Shakespeare? asks the world outside the university, convinced that something's rotten in the state of academia. Have English professors rea...
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134,30 zł |
The Virtual Delivery and Virtual Organization of Post-Secondary Education
ISBN: 9780415930888 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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.
How virtual post-secondary educational organisations (popularly called virtual universities) function is the central subject in this new book based on...
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620,05 zł |
Tenure on Trial: Case Studies of Change in Faculty Appointment Policies
ISBN: 9780415932196 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines how and why colleges abolish or institute tenure by profiling four colleges: two that moved from tenure to term contracts and two that moved from contracts to tenure.
This book examines how and why colleges abolish or institute tenure by profiling four colleges: two that moved from tenure to term contracts and two t...
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304,80 zł |
Scholarship Unbound: Assessing Service as Scholarship for Promotion and Tenure
ISBN: 9780415932233 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work is a response to the widely held view that faculty professional service is not as well rewarded as teaching and research in academic communities. Complaints about the promotion and tenure system have led many institutions to mend their process, often by expanding the definition of scholarship used in promotion. This book examines organizational change in a number of colleges and universities where promotion policies were expanded to include a broader definition of scholarship. The book focuses specifically on the assessment of service as scholarship for promotion and tenure.
This work is a response to the widely held view that faculty professional service is not as well rewarded as teaching and research in academic communi...
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206,63 zł |
Black Student Politics: Higher Education and Apartheid from Saso to Sansco, 1968-1990
ISBN: 9780415932486 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Black Student Politics, Higher Education and Apartheid examines two black national higher education student political organizations - the South African National Students' Congress (SANSCO) and the South African Students' Organization (SASO), popularly associated with Black Consciousness. It analyzes the ideologies and politics and organization of SASO and SANSCO and their intellectual, political and social determinants. It also analyzes their role in the educational, political and social spheres and the factors that shaped their activities. Finally, it assesses their contributions to the...
Black Student Politics, Higher Education and Apartheid examines two black national higher education student political organizations - the South Africa...
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697,56 zł |
University Autonomy in Russian Federation Since Perestroika
ISBN: 9780415932967 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 economy, and severe state austerity since Perestroika. This book suggests a model of a university that utilizes its autonomous discretion to institute innovations that build on its potential so as to overcome adverse situations.
This study focuses on the national higher education policies and institutional strategies that foster or hinder individual Russian universities in app...
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749,23 zł |
Barely There, Powerfully Present: Years of Us Policy on International Higher Education
ISBN: 9780415933315 / Angielski / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Internationalizing higher education requires significant institutional and academic change. This text addresses how the US federal government affected the development, institutionalization and diffusion of this change process across the higher education system from 1958 to 1988.
Internationalizing higher education requires significant institutional and academic change. This text addresses how the US federal government affected...
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800,90 zł |
Queer Man on Campus : A History of Non-Heterosexual College Men, 1945-2000
ISBN: 9780415933360 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book reveals the inadequacy of a unified gay identity in studying the lives of queer college men. Instead, seven types of identities are discernible in the lives of non-heterosexual college males, as the author shows.
This book reveals the inadequacy of a unified gay identity in studying the lives of queer college men. Instead, seven types of identities are discerni...
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697,56 zł |
Philanthropists in Higher Education: Institutional, Biographical, and Religious Motivations for Giving
ISBN: 9780415933612 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Higher education relies on the philanthropy of many individuals to sustain and to expand its intellectual endeavors at home and abroad. Motivations for philanthropy to higher education coalesce around a myriad of factors and these motivations encompass the scope of this work. What is described in the following chapters should help both the academic researcher and casual reader understand the dynamics of philanthropic commitment and how history, biography, institutional elements and religion all play decidedly unique roles. How to interpret these roles to replicate individual generosity will...
Higher education relies on the philanthropy of many individuals to sustain and to expand its intellectual endeavors at home and abroad. Motivations fo...
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775,06 zł |
The Long March of French Universities
ISBN: 9780415934978 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The main point of this book is to argue that French universities experienced a quiet but important change during the last decade, which allowed them to become pertinent and more autonomous actors within the French university system.
The main point of this book is to argue that French universities experienced a quiet but important change during the last decade, which allowed them t...
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697,56 zł |
Power and Politics in University Governance: Organization and Change at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
ISBN: 9780415935159 / Angielski / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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697,56 zł |
Call to Purpose: Mission-Centered Change at Three Liberal Arts Colleges
ISBN: 9780415935661 / Angielski / Twarda / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Missions matter. In the 1990s, the majority of liberal arts colleges found themselves operating in a perilous environment with declining resources. Many drifted from their traditional missions and began offering programmes whose sole purpose was to appeal to prospective students. The result on many campuses was a fragmenting of purpose and a diminishing of institutional life. The study looks at three institutions - LeMoyne-Owen, Olivet and Tusculem Colleges. The research provides a window into this complex, fascinating and ultimately powerful process. The accounts suggest a clear mission is...
Missions matter. In the 1990s, the majority of liberal arts colleges found themselves operating in a perilous environment with declining resources. Ma...
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800,90 zł |
A Profile of the Community College Professorate, 1975-2000
ISBN: 9780415935678 / Angielski / Twarda / 233 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 275,000 community college instructors in the United States teach over 5,500,000 students, or over one-third of all college students in the US. However, community colleges and their instructors have received little attention in either the academic or popular press.
The 275,000 community college instructors in the United States teach over 5,500,000 students, or over one-third of all college students in the US. How...
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749,23 zł |