Maori and Pasifika Higher Education Horizons
Title | Maori and Pasifika Higher Education Horizons PDF eBook |
Author | Clark Tuagalu |
Publisher | Emerald Group Publishing |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 2014-04-07 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1783507047 |
Rarely have Pasifika writers come together to share their experiences in this field. Focusing on the past, current and future status and success of Maori and Pasifika peoples in tertiary education within Aotearoa New Zealand, this volume covers diverse issues from the countries colonial history, to student engagement with new technology.
Inclusive Leadership in Higher Education
Title | Inclusive Leadership in Higher Education PDF eBook |
Author | Lorraine Stefani |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 275 |
Release | 2017-07-28 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1315466074 |
Inclusive Leadership in Higher Education examines leadership efforts that move beyond simple diversity programs in the journey towards the institutional transformation necessary to create inclusive educational environments. Chapter contributors from higher education institutions across the globe share how leadership is developed and implemented at all levels to create more inclusive organizational cultures. Diverse chapters address the forces and factors associated with organizational change while examining leadership theory, policy, and practices. This important volume provides a comparative perspective, highlighting common themes across a range of institutional and cultural contexts to help leaders promote an organizational mind-set and culture of inclusion and inclusiveness.
Higher Education, Social Class and Social Mobility
Title | Higher Education, Social Class and Social Mobility PDF eBook |
Author | Ann-Marie Bathmaker |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 205 |
Release | 2016-07-30 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1137534818 |
This book explores higher education, social class and social mobility from the point of view of those most intimately involved: the undergraduate students. It is based on a project which followed a cohort of young undergraduate students at Bristol's two universities in the UK through from their first year of study for the following three years, when most of them were about to enter the labour market or further study. The students were paired by university, by subject of study and by class background, so that the fortunes of middle-class and working-class students could be compared. Narrative data gathered over three years are located in the context of a hierarchical and stratified higher education system, in order to consider the potential of higher education as a vehicle of social mobility.
Educational Mobilities and Internationalised Higher Education
Title | Educational Mobilities and Internationalised Higher Education PDF eBook |
Author | Peter E. Kahn |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 149 |
Release | 2022-12-26 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 100082280X |
Higher education increasingly entails a crossing of national, linguistic and cultural boundaries. Recent years have seen significant expansion in the sector around transnational education and online learning, with students, academic staff, educational programmes and even institutions all ever-more mobile. This expansion is usually seen in unproblematic terms, with economic growth the main priority in view. The challenge that is entailed in pursuing social justice in the face of such global expansion, however, should not be underestimated. This book subjects to critical scrutiny the uncertainties that are associated with internationalised higher education. It explores how the agency of teachers, other members of staff and students is mediated by experiences of inclusion and exclusion. Physical or virtual movement around the globe may have become more straightforward in recent years, but the same cannot be said of intercultural relations in classrooms. Challenges can be expected where concerns, projects and practices of students are pursued in an unfamiliar cultural setting, or where agency crosses over more than one cultural system. Finally, mobility often throws up situations in which privileges are accompanied by distressing challenges. The book teases out the implications of all these issues for teaching in higher education. It will be of interest to researchers and advanced students of education, politics, sociology, human geography and social work. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal, Teaching in Higher Education.
Writing Centres in Higher Education
Title | Writing Centres in Higher Education PDF eBook |
Author | Laura Dison |
Publisher | AFRICAN SUN MeDIA |
Pages | 222 |
Release | 2017-01-01 |
Genre | Academic writing |
ISBN | 1928357547 |
Writing Centres in South Africa, and globally, are now well established academic support centres within many universities. Historically tasked with supporting students as they grapple with the demands of academic writing, many centres are now moving beyond their own walls to work with academic tutors, lecturers and departments to rethink the ways in which knowledge is transformed into different kinds of disciplinary writing. This move raises pertinent questions for writing centre directors, tutors/consultants, and for the universities that house them: how does a centre, tasked with supporting more general academic literacy development through writing pedagogies, initiate students into a range of particularised discourse communities? How do writing centre staff and disciplinary lecturers negotiate their shared, and separate, concerns for student learning through collaborative writing development projects? How do writing centres work with assignments and forms of literacy that challenge them to reconfigure their own pedagogical practices and expand their conceptions of writing support? How do writing centres maintain their core focus as they move flexibly beyond their own spaces to understand the nature of disciplinary writing? This collection of essays reflects on the ways in which writing centres in South Africa are working in and across disciplines. Institutional constraints and challenges that arise from these collaborations are addressed and opportunities for transforming teaching and learning spaces are explored. The chapters speak to the global move in higher education to reconsider how knowledge is made, who makes it, and how support and development opportunities for students and lecturers should be created and sustained across the disciplines. This volume contributes to the body of knowledge in the growing field of the scholarship of teaching and learning in higher education in South Africa. It builds on the work of the first collection of such essays: Changing Spaces: Writing Centres and Access to Higher Education (Eds. A. Archer and R. Richards, 2011, SUN PReSS) to understand why working within the disciplines is so critical for writing development in a South Africanÿcontext.
The Crisis of Race in Higher Education
Title | The Crisis of Race in Higher Education PDF eBook |
Author | William F. Tate IV |
Publisher | Emerald Group Publishing |
Pages | 415 |
Release | 2016-12-22 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1786357097 |
The compendium of writings in this edited volume sheds light on the event “Race & Ethnicity: A Day of Discovery and Dialogue” at Washington University in St. Louis and the work current students, faculty, and staff are doing to improve inclusivity on campus and in St. Louis.
The Coercive Community College
Title | The Coercive Community College PDF eBook |
Author | Leah P. Hollis |
Publisher | Emerald Group Publishing |
Pages | 193 |
Release | 2016-07-25 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1786355973 |
Few studies address workplace bullying in American higher education. Leah P.Hollis, EdD, author of Bully in the Ivory Tower addressed the issue of workplace bullying in four-year institutions. This volume, The Coercive Community College, replicates the study to reveal that 64% of community college respondents are affected by workplace bullying.