U.S. Power in International Higher Education
Title | U.S. Power in International Higher Education PDF eBook |
Author | Jenny J. Lee |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2021-07-16 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1978820798 |
2021 ASHE/CIHE Award for Significant Research on International Higher Education U.S. Power in International Higher Education explores how internationalization in higher education is not just an educational endeavor, but also a geopolitical one. By centering and making explicit the role of power, the book demonstrates the United States’s advantage in international education as well as the changing geopolitical realities that will shape the field in the future. The chapter authors are leading critical scholars of international higher education, with diverse scholarly ties and professional experiences within the country and abroad. Taken together, the chapters provide broad trends as well as in-depth accounts about how power is evident across a range of key international activities. This book is intended for higher education scholars and practitioners with the aim of raising greater awareness on the unequal power dynamics in internationalization activities and for the purposes of promoting more just practices in higher education globally.
The Inception of Modern Professional Education
Title | The Inception of Modern Professional Education PDF eBook |
Author | Bruce A. Kimball |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 2009-06-15 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0807889962 |
Christopher C. Langdell (1826-1906) is one of the most influential figures in the history of American professional education. As dean of Harvard Law School from 1870 to 1895, he conceived, designed, and built the educational model that leading professional schools in virtually all fields subsequently emulated. In this first full-length biography of the educator and jurist, Bruce Kimball explores Langdell's controversial role in modern professional education and in jurisprudence. Langdell founded his model on the idea of academic meritocracy. According to this principle, scholastic achievement should determine one's merit in professional life. Despite fierce opposition from students, faculty, alumni, and legal professionals, he designed and instituted a formal system of innovative policies based on meritocracy. This system's components included the admission requirement of a bachelor's degree, the sequenced curriculum and its extension to three years, the hurdle of annual examinations for continuation and graduation, the independent career track for professional faculty, the transformation of the professional library into a scholarly resource, the inductive pedagogy of teaching from cases, the organization of alumni to support the school, and a new, highly successful financial strategy. Langdell's model was subsequently adopted by leading law schools, medical schools, business schools, and the schools of other professions. By the time of his retirement as dean at Harvard, Langdell's reforms had shaped the future model for professional education throughout the United States.
Professional Education in the United States
Title | Professional Education in the United States PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Lewis Taylor |
Publisher | |
Pages | 620 |
Release | 1900 |
Genre | Professional education |
ISBN |
Ed School
Title | Ed School PDF eBook |
Author | Geraldine Jonçich Clifford |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 430 |
Release | 1990-07-02 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780226110165 |
Although schools of law, medicine, and business are now highly respected, schools of education and the professionals they produce continue to be held in low regard. In Ed School, Geraldine Jonçich Clifford and James W. Guthrie attribute this phenomenon to issues of academic politics and gender bias as they trace the origins and development of the school of education in the United States. Drawing on case studies of leading schools of education, the authors offer a bold, controversial agenda for reform: ed schools must reorient themselves toward teachers and away from the quest for prestige in academe; they must also adhere to national professional standards, abandon the undergraduate education major, and reject the Ph.D. in education in favor of the Ed.D.
Professional Education in the United States
Title | Professional Education in the United States PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Lewis Taylor |
Publisher | |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 1905 |
Genre | Teachers |
ISBN |
Professional Education in the United States
Title | Professional Education in the United States PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Lewis Taylor |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1899 |
Genre | Professional education |
ISBN |
Redesigning Continuing Education in the Health Professions
Title | Redesigning Continuing Education in the Health Professions PDF eBook |
Author | Institute of Medicine |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2010-03-12 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 0309140781 |
Today in the United States, the professional health workforce is not consistently prepared to provide high quality health care and assure patient safety, even as the nation spends more per capita on health care than any other country. The absence of a comprehensive and well-integrated system of continuing education (CE) in the health professions is an important contributing factor to knowledge and performance deficiencies at the individual and system levels. To be most effective, health professionals at every stage of their careers must continue learning about advances in research and treatment in their fields (and related fields) in order to obtain and maintain up-to-date knowledge and skills in caring for their patients. Many health professionals regularly undertake a variety of efforts to stay up to date, but on a larger scale, the nation's approach to CE for health professionals fails to support the professions in their efforts to achieve and maintain proficiency. Redesigning Continuing Education in the Health Professions illustrates a vision for a better system through a comprehensive approach of continuing professional development, and posits a framework upon which to develop a new, more effective system. The book also offers principles to guide the creation of a national continuing education institute.