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Acting Black: College, Identity and the Performance of Race
ISBN: 9780415944090 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sarah Willie asks: What's it like to be black on campus. For most Black students, attending predominantly white universities, it is a struggle. Do you try to blend in? Do you take a stand? Do you end up acting as the token representative for your whole race? And what about those students who attend predominantly black universities? How do their experiences differ?
In Acting Black, Sarah Willie interviews 55 African American alumnae of two universities, comparable except that one is predominantly white, Northwestern, and one is predominantly black, Howard. What she discovers... Sarah Willie asks: What's it like to be black on campus. For most Black students, attending predominantly white universities, it is a struggle. Do you...
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906,73 zł |
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The Call for Diversity: Pressure, Expectation, and Organizational Response in the Postsecondary Setting
ISBN: 9780415945035 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text explores the organizational reponses of professional schools and colleges to pressures, demands, requirements, expectations and incentives related to diversity. As such, it takes a view of post-secondary institutions (and their various academic and administrative units) as open systems engaged in complex interrelationships with other organizations, such that key commitments, priorities, interests, agendas and strategies are directed and shaped by an array of forces.
This text explores the organizational reponses of professional schools and colleges to pressures, demands, requirements, expectations and incentives r...
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780,79 zł |
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University-Industry Partnerships in MIT, Cambridge, and Tokyo : Storytelling Across Boundaries
ISBN: 9780415947039 / Angielski / Twarda / 273 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The purpose of this study is to identify the nature of change taking place in university-industry partnerships, to understand the underlying factors that influence that change, and to explore the underlying process of change.
The purpose of this study is to identify the nature of change taking place in university-industry partnerships, to understand the underlying factors t...
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680,04 zł |
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The Athens of West Africa: A History of International Education at Fourah Bay College, Freetown, Sierra Leone
ISBN: 9780415947954 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is about Fourah Bay College (FBC) and its role as an institution of higher learning in both its African and international context. The study traces the College's development through periods of missionary education (1816-1876), colonial education (1876-1938), and development education (1938-2001).
This book is about Fourah Bay College (FBC) and its role as an institution of higher learning in both its African and international context. The study...
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755,61 zł |
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The Rise and Fall of Fu Ren University, Beijing: Catholic Higher Education in China
ISBN: 9780415948166 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new book tells the story of the rise and fall of Fu Ren University (1925-1952) and provides an analysis of a key Catholic higher education institution in China.
This new book tells the story of the rise and fall of Fu Ren University (1925-1952) and provides an analysis of a key Catholic higher education instit...
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604,49 zł |
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The Transformation of the Student Career: University Study in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden
ISBN: 9780415948807 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study examines the transformation of the structural characteristics and ideological assumptions of university study in these three countries between the mid-1950s and the early 1990s.
This study examines the transformation of the structural characteristics and ideological assumptions of university study in these three countries betw...
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680,04 zł |
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Teaching and Learning in Diverse Classrooms: Faculty Reflections on their Experiences and Pedagogical Practices of Teaching Diverse Populations
ISBN: 9780415949262 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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.
This study describes how faculty who participated in the Teaching and Learning in Diverse Classroom Faculty and TA Partnership Project (1994-2000) at ...
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755,61 zł |
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Structure and Agency in the Neoliberal University
ISBN: 9780415956727 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume considers how current transitions in postsecondary education are impacting Higher Education (HE) institutions and subjects in a number of Northern nations, as well as how these transitions are indicative of the wider shift from the welfare to the market state. The university is now considered a key site for training and wealth generation in the so-called 'knowledge economy' that operates in a globalising, high tech world. Further, these transitions are underpinned by neo-liberal economic ideas that assume that the public sector is a drag on the economy unless it is subject to... This volume considers how current transitions in postsecondary education are impacting Higher Education (HE) institutions and subjects in a number ... |
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755,61 zł |
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Office Hours: Activism and Change in the Academy
ISBN: 9780415971850 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a series of stinging analyses, this book examines the current sorry state of higher education. The second half of the volume offers "alternative futures" for the academy, visions that involve academic organizations, public outreach through the internet, faculty unionization, and campus organizing. Office Hours is a roll-up-your-sleeves look at the avoidable disaster facing the modern university.
In a series of stinging analyses, this book examines the current sorry state of higher education. The second half of the volume offers "alternative fu...
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680,04 zł |
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Office Hours: Activism and Change in the Academy
ISBN: 9780415971867 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a series of stinging analyses, this book examines the current sorry state of higher education. The second half of the volume offers "alternative futures" for the academy, visions that involve academic organizations, public outreach through the internet, faculty unionization, and campus organizing. Office Hours is a roll-up-your-sleeves look at the avoidable disaster facing the modern university.
In a series of stinging analyses, this book examines the current sorry state of higher education. The second half of the volume offers "alternative fu...
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186,33 zł |
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Democratizing Higher Education Policy: Constraints of Reform in Post-Apartheid South Africa
ISBN: 9780415974455 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As South Africa moved into a new era of its history, there were major challenges facing the post-apartheid government with regard to the reform of higher education. This book analyzes these challenges, highlighting key constraints in the reform process including: the compromise pact agreed upon between the apartheid government and the ruling African National Congress; the rapidly globalizing environment underpinned by neo-liberal principles within which South Africa's transition took place; shifts in macro-economic policies of government towards neo-liberal policy; the inheritance of the...
As South Africa moved into a new era of its history, there were major challenges facing the post-apartheid government with regard to the reform of hig...
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654,86 zł |
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Dominant Beliefs and Alternative Voices : Discourse, Belief, and Gender in American Study
ISBN: 9780415974578 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the development of American undergraduate study abroad to the present day, investigating how powerful derogatory beliefs about international exchange have constrained its growth and examining the policy designed to increase participation in overseas education.
In the early twentieth century, Americans came to perceive U.S. higher education as superior to the European institutions they previously admired. Whereas American men once sought European educations to pursue the professions, they now stayed home. After World War I, study abroad became the domain of undergraduate... This book examines the development of American undergraduate study abroad to the present day, investigating how powerful derogatory beliefs about inte...
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604,49 zł |
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Coming of Age: Women's Colleges in the Philippines During the Post-Marcos Era
ISBN: 9780415975711 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In view of the increasing number of Third World countries considering the establishment of women's colleges to meet the demand for the higher education of women, presenting a case study of two key women's colleges in the Philippines. Within the context of global, national and local changes since the fall of Ferdinand Marcos in 1986, academic and administrative leaders at two prestigious women's colleges candidly discuss how their respective institutions adapted to their environments and how the colleges will fare in the future. Preferences for large, coeducational institutions; the... In view of the increasing number of Third World countries considering the establishment of women's colleges to meet the demand for the higher educa... |
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730,42 zł |
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The Changing Landscape of the Academic Profession: The Culture of Faculty at For-Profit Colleges and Universities
ISBN: 9780415976992 / Angielski / Twarda / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The rapid success of for-profit colleges and universities (FPCUs) only recently has caught the attention of scholars in academe. The continuing expansion of the proprietary higher education sector has lead to fundamental questions regarding the purpose and function of FPCUs. As new technologies continue to emerge, education is becoming of increasing import to employees seeking to upgrade their skills and employers in search of individuals who possess the necessary expertise and training to help their organizations succeed. For-profit institutions challenge traditional notions of the...
The rapid success of for-profit colleges and universities (FPCUs) only recently has caught the attention of scholars in academe. The continuing expans...
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730,42 zł |
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The WTO and the University : Globalization, GATS, and American Higher Education
ISBN: 9780415978330 / Angielski / Twarda / 211 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By and large, the debate about the merits of including higher education services within free trade policies has occurred outside of the United States, even though the U.S. Office of the Trade Representative has specifically included higher education services in its March 2003 negotiating offer to the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). This book emerged from research and conversations on the potential implications of free trade on American higher education, implications which have yet to lead to any real conversation or debate within the broad higher education community in the... By and large, the debate about the merits of including higher education services within free trade policies has occurred outside of the United Stat... |
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478,50 zł |
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University Inc.: The Corporate Corruption of Higher Education
ISBN: 9780465090525 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jennifer Washburn, a scholar and journalist, reveals how the growing influence of corporations over universities compromises the future of all those whose careers depend on a university education, and all those who will be employed, governed, or taught by the products of American universities.
Jennifer Washburn, a scholar and journalist, reveals how the growing influence of corporations over universities compromises the future of all those w...
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187,05 zł |
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What's College For?
ISBN: 9780465091522 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. President Clinton declares that a two-year education should be the right of all Americans. Congress passes a 40 billion package of tax breaks and scholarships aimed at making a degree accessible to everyone. Almost two-thirds of high school graduates now go on to some form of higher education, and yet at the same time, those colleges and universities, inundated with a new kind of student, have been slow to respond to this revolutionary change.Zachary Karabell spent over a year traveling the country interviewing students, graduate students, faculty, and adjunct teachers, and the result is a...
President Clinton declares that a two-year education should be the right of all Americans. Congress passes a 40 billion package of tax breaks and scho...
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94,67 zł |
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Binge: What Your College Student Won't Tell You
ISBN: 9780470049181 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Binge, Barrett Seaman reveals what every parent, student, and educator needs to know about the college experience. Seaman spent time with students at twelve highly regarded and diverse colleges and universities across North America-. During his two years of research, he immersed himself in the lives of the students, often living in their dorms, dining with them, speaking with them on their own terms, and listening to them express their thoughts and feelings. Portraying a campus culture in which today's best and brightest students grapple with far more than academic challenges,...
In Binge, Barrett Seaman reveals what every parent, student, and educator needs to know about the college experience. Seaman spent time with st...
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64,37 zł |
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Reinventing the University: Managing and Financing Institutions of Higher Education
ISBN: 9780471104520 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Change has dramatically confronted higher education in the last decade, challenging it to its very roots. Colleges and universities have been rocked by a volatile economy, changing demographic trends, weakening public opinion, lagging state and federal support, and other forces. Leaders from the most highly respected institutions in the country have examined the important issues facing higher education today and this book offers their insights on restructuring administrative operations, new revenue opportunities, debt management, capital renewal, endowment management, and more.
Change has dramatically confronted higher education in the last decade, challenging it to its very roots. Colleges and universities have been rocked b...
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1352,14 zł |
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How to Earn a College Degree Without Going to College
ISBN: 9780471307884 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An updated, detailed guide which shows adults how to obtain an external degree through life experience, independent study, examinations and correspondence courses. Includes a directory of over 600 external degree programs in 271 fields of study. All institutions are fully accredited state, local and private colleges and universities.
An updated, detailed guide which shows adults how to obtain an external degree through life experience, independent study, examinations and correspond...
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90,20 zł |
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