Higher education, tertiary education Books
Harvard University Press The College Administrators Survival Guide
Book SynopsisSince its release in 2006, The College Administrator’s Survival Guide has been the bible of deans and department heads. This newly revised and updated edition guides rookies and veterans alike through today’s most pressing campus challenges, from difficult people to budget cuts, the hassles of social media, and the new demands of remote learning.Trade ReviewUniversity administrators have such hard jobs—lots of responsibility, limited power, and vexing people problems. If you have one of these crazy jobs, or are considering one, Tina Gunsalus is here to help. The College Administrator’s Survival Guide shows you how to avoid and get out of all kinds of common predicaments—it is useful, engaging, and, well, downright fun. -- Robert I. Sutton, Professor, Stanford University, and author of New York Times bestsellers The No Asshole Rule and Good Boss, Bad BossTina Gunsalus puts on a master class, skillfully weaving leadership theory, her significant administrative expertise, and a hefty serving of common sense in this practical guide. Drawing on a wealth of robust, familiar exemplars, Gunsalus offers tested tools and sound advice. Her writing is jargon-free, humorous, and conversational. Leading in higher education is not for the faint-hearted; this book is a must-read for anyone who hopes to survive the vagaries of academic administration. -- Ann Briggs Addo, former Chief of Staff and Assistant Vice Chancellor to the Executive Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs, University of California, San DiegoThe College Administrator’s Survival Guide has long been required reading for department chairs and university leaders at our university. By tackling issues raised by the pandemic and the recent political reckoning over racism and sexual violence on campus, the revised guide is now even more essential for all university administrators. -- Kavita Pandit, Professor and Senior Advisor to the Provost, Georgia State UniversityI highly recommend the book to academic leaders at all levels. The contents transcend cultural barriers and institutional experience and are practical, readable, and enormously helpful to faculty who have been thrown into the deep end of academic leadership. -- Angela Goh, Emeritus Professor and former Associate Provost for Academic Affairs, Nanyang Technological UniversityIndispensable…If you or someone you know is new to administration, or about to become new to administration, consider it required reading. -- Matt Reed * Inside Higher Ed *
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McGraw-Hill Education - Europe Great Applications for Business School Second
Book SynopsisGet into the elite professional school of your dreams with a college application that will capture the attention of admission boards!Business school essays and admissions interviews are perhaps the most challenging parts of being an MBA candidate. With competition to the nation's top business schools being so fierce, you must stand out. Great Applications for Business School helps you play up strengths and talents to distinguish yourself from the rest of the competition.Features: The 8 most common admissions essay topics--and how to answer them 22 actual essays by successful applicants to top schools Self-marketing strategies to highlight your talents Candid insights from admissions officers at top-ranked business schools Topics include:Getting Started, Scoring the Goals Essay, Getting to Know You: The Non-Goals Essays, The Required Optional Essay, Credible Enthusiasm: Letters of RecommendationTable of Contents1. Getting Started2. Scoring the Goals Essay3. Getting to Know You: The Non-Goals Essays4. The Required Optional Essay5. Credible Enthusiasm: Letters of Recommendation
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Emerald Publishing Limited Higher Education and the Nation State The
Book SynopsisContains cross-national analyses of policies and policy-processes regarding higher education. This work studies the design, dynamics and outcomes of a variety of policies both at the national and the institutional level. It also includes comparisons that are made within Europe, and between Europe, the United States and Australia.Table of ContentsList of contributors. Introduction. Europe the pioneer of the exception (J. Huisman et al.). The European dimension in Higher Education: an
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Vintage Publishing The Campus Trilogy
Book SynopsisDavid Lodge (CBE)'s novels include Changing Places, Small World and Nice Work (shortlisted for the Booker) and, most recently, A Man of Parts. He has also written plays and screenplays, and several books of literary criticism. His works have been translated into more than thirty languages. He is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Birmingham, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and is a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.Trade ReviewLodge's wit... like that of Wodehouse, froths around and out of characters.. hugely enjoyable * Spectator *Clever enough to confirm him as one of the leading comic writers of his generation * Guardian *All funny, clever and beautifully paced * Daily Mail *
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Oxford University Press The Mental Health of Medical Students
Book SynopsisMedical students are the medical workforce of the future, responsible for both individual and population health. With an ageing global population, changes brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, and the increased computerisation and roboticization of medicine, doctors will require ever more flexibility, foresight, and courage going forward. It is crucial that their training equips them for the challenges ahead. However, recent research has found worryingly high levels of stress and burnout amongst these individuals, leading to more students dropping out or leaving the profession early. This volume presents research findings on the rates of burnout in medical students from around the world and provides ideas for a model of care to help educators and individuals take steps towards better student wellbeing. The first section covers the development of medical teaching, likely future directions of healthcare and the role of doctors, the current global situation in high-, middle-, and low- iTable of ContentsPart 1 1: Dinesh Bhugra, Daniel Poulter, and Max Pemberton: Medical Education: History and Challenges 2: Nyapati Rao: Globalization and Medical Education in a Post Pandemic World: A Historical Review 3: Debbie Cohen and Thomas Kitchen: Future Perspectives in Medical Education 4: Thomas Hewson, Sridevi Sira Mahalingappa, Roshelle Ramkisson, and Santosh K. Chaturvedi: Healthcare Systems in Low- and Middle-income Countries, Future Directions, and Anticipated Medical Workforce Needs 5: Gemma Simons and Raymond Effah: Measuring Wellbeing: A Methodological Systematic Review of the Challenges and Controversies Part 2 6: Israel Kanaan Blaas and João Mauricio Castaldelli-Maia: Brazil: Mental Health of Brazilian Medical Students 7: Nancy Brager, Mike Paget, Johanna Holm, and T. Chris Wilkes: Canada: A Review of Canadian Medical Student Wellbeing 8: Jesper Nørgaard Kjær: Denmark: Medical Student Wellbeing in Denmark 9: Umakant Dave, Andrew Grant, Liz Forty, Chris Horn, and Sara Hunt: Wales: Initiatives to Support Medical Students' Mental Health in Wales 10: Tarek Okasha, Nermine Shaker, and Dina Aly El-Gabry: Egypt: Burnout, Mental Health, and Wellbeing among Egyptian Students 11: Ekaterine Berdzenishvili, Eteri Machavariani, and Eka Chkonia: Georgia: Mental Health and Wellbeing of Medical Students in Georgia 12: Julie Chen, Linda Chan, and Weng Chin: Hong Kong: Medical Student Wellbeing in Hong Kong 13: Avinash Shekhar, Sharad Philip, Santosh K. Chaturvedi, and Dinesh Bhugra: India: Stress and Burnout amongst Medical Students in India 14: Theresia Citraningtyas, Rossalina Lili, Darien Alfa Cipta, and Nabila Ananda Kloping: Indonesia: Supporting Indonesian Medical Student Wellbeing in Medical Education: A Call to Action to Address Burnout 15: Antonio Ventriglio, Gaia Sampogna, and Andrea Fiorillo: Italy: Mental Health and Wellbeing among Italian Medical Students 16: Rawan Masri and Almu'atasim Khamees: Jordan: Medical Student Wellbeing in Jordan 17: Maha Lemtiri Chelieh, Redouane Abouqal, and Jihane Belayachi: Morocco: Mental Health among Moroccan Medical Students 18: Bikram Kafle: Nepal: Medical Student Wellbeing in Nepal 19: Fiona Moir, Kristy Usher, and Hamish Wilson: New Zealand: The Power of Connection: Perspectives on Medical Student Wellbeing in New Zealand 20: Olatunde Ayinde and Oye Gureje: Nigeria: Mental Health of Medical students: Nigeria 21: Julio Torales and Israel González: Paraguay: The Mental Health of Medical Students: The Case of Paraguay 22: Telma Almeida: Portugal: The Mental Health of Medical Students in Portugal 23: Egor Chumakov, Nataliia Petrova, and Ivan Pchelin: Russia: The Mental Health of Medical Students in Russia 24: Dulangi Dahanayake and Anuprabha Wickramasinghe: Sri Lanka: The Mental Health of Medical Students: Supporting Wellbeing in Medical Education in Sri Lanka 25: Andrew Molodynski and Sarah Marie Farrell: Regional Themes Part 3 26: Sarah Marie Farrell, Amy Schranz, Sharad Philip, Hannah Koury, Harmani Daler, and Nabila Ananda Kloping: Medical Student Reflections 27: Sapna Agrawal: Considering the Needs of Those Studying Medicine Abroad 28: Hannah S. Barham-Brown: Supporting the Wellbeing of Medical Students with Disabilities and Long-Term Health Conditions 29: Kate Irvine, Christopher Mohan, Eimear O'Neill, and Mary Cannon: Substance Misuse amongst Medical Students 30: Evie Kemp: How Can Universities and Health Systems Look After Medical Students? 31: Anna Collini and Caroline Elton: How Can Medical Students Look After Themselves? 32: Grace W. Gengoux, Yamilka Alsina Martin, and Isheeta Zalpuri: Aiming for Fulfilment 33: Jay Kaplan: What is Being Done, and Does It Work? 34: Andrew Molodynski, Sarah Marie Farrell, and Dinesh Bhugra: Conclusions Appendix: Medical Student Wellbeing Charter
£42.74
Oxford University Press How to Do Research and How to Be a Researcher
Book SynopsisWritten in an accessible and engaging style, this book is for anyone embarking on a research project or beginning to think about a career involving research, and for those in need of refocusing on why they started research in the first place.Trade ReviewNew and Noteworthy! * The Lunar and Planetary Information Bulletin *Table of Contents1: Introduction 2: Origin stories 3: God or clockwork? The importance of ignorance 4: Careful observation 5: Ideas under pressure 6: Choosing a solution 7: The ideal and the reality 8: Consensus 9: Designing research - from description to theory-building 10: Designing research - experiments 11: Designing research - alternatives to experiments 12: Designing research - R&D 13: Communication 1 - getting published 14: Communication 2 - getting known 15: Money 16: Power and politics 17: How to be a researcher - some conclusions
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Oxford University Press Inc Cultivating Student Success A Multifaceted
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewReaders are provided with practical techniques to help them connect closely with this student population...readers will find original case studies and guided questions accompanying each chapter for further reflection on professional practice. * R. Wartalski, CHOICE *With its emphasis on using a positive and developmental lens to better understand the strengths and challenges of traditional-aged college students who are emerging adults, Cultivating Student Success provides an invaluable holistic perspective and much-needed resource for college educators. Its chapters on technological skills, communication styles, the role of family, and the mental health needs of emerging adults give readers a nuanced view of this diverse generation, as well as practical strategies for equipping students to succeed in college. * Laurie A. Schreiner, Professor and Chair of the Department of Higher Education, Azusa Pacific University *Cultivating Student Success provides postsecondary educators with helpful insights and advice for working with todays traditional-age students. This book covers key topics that have become increasingly important for offering effective support, including mental health, relationships with parents, use of technology, forms of communication, and identity development. * Nicholas A. Bowman, Mary Louise Petersen Chair in Higher Education, University of Iowa *Table of ContentsSeries Foreword Contributors Introduction: Not a Younger Version of You: How an Understanding of Emerging Adulthood Applies to Work with Today's College Students Tisha A. Duncan Allison A. Buskirk-Cohen Chapter 1: "I Am ____________": Self-Awareness, Self-Efficacy, and Self-Motivation in Emerging Adults Joel A. Lane Deanna N. Cor Chapter 2: "I Just Can't": Why are Emerging Adults Feeling More Anxious and Uncertain? Alan Meca Kelsie Allison Julie Rodil Kenneth Ayers Kyle Eichas Chapter 3: "We Got In!": The Influence and Role of Family on Relationships and Decision-Making Kayla Reed-Fitzke Elizabeth R. Watters Chapter 4: "I Took a Screenshot": Experiences with Technology In and Out of the Classroom Joan S. Swanson Allison A. Buskirk-Cohen Chapter 5: "^^ KWIM? BRB": How Do Emerging Adults Communicate Differently than Previous Generations? Heather T. Rowan-Kenyon Adam M. McCready Ana M. Martínez Alemán Allison Yarri Chapter 6: "You're My Person": Building Meaningful Relationships with Emerging Adults Thuha (Ha) Hoang Lindsey (Ellen) Caillouet Chapter 7: "I've Never Had to Do This on My Own": Support to Address Retention and Success for Emerging Adults Kevin Correa Sylvia Symonds Chapter 8: "Guiding My Success": Providing a Developmental Lens to Strengthen the Whole Person Larry J. Nelson
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Oxford University Press Inc Your Future on the Faculty
Book SynopsisHow are the human and institutional systems fundamental to succeeding in academia?In graduate school we are trained how to be scholars, and maybe how to be effective teachers. But there is much more to being a college or university faculty member--and most of it is left to figure out on one''s own. This job isn''t hard because the core scholarship is hard, but because of the complex mix of activities that scholars must figure out how to juggle. These are dominated by human and institutional structures within departments, universities, societies, and professional communities. Succeeding and thriving as an academic calls for developing wider, non-academic insights and skills into how these operate and how to operate effectively with, and within, them. Functioning as an academic is about the relationships we develop with our communities of students, campus colleagues, professional peers, and our university administrative and support staff--the people who enable faculty members to functionTable of ContentsTitle Page Dedication Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: The Nature of Academe Section 1 Intro: Your Individual Path as an Academic 1 Postdoc: A Postdoc's Job Is to Get a Job 2 Assistant Professor: Making It to Tenure 3 Success: Tenure 4 Thriving in Academe When You Are Not a White, Heterosexual Man 5 Non-tenure Track Teaching Faculty Section 2 Intro: University Operations 6 University Administrative Systems 7 Working with the Staff Section 3 Intro: The Next Generation 8 Mentoring 1: Vision and Philosophy 9 Mentoring 2: Specific Challenges 10 Teaching: Being Good While Surviving Section 4 Intro: Professional Communities 11 Publishing Ecosystems 12 Who Put the Peer in Peer Review--Being Part of the System 13 Professional Communities 14 Conclusion: Thriving in Academe Appendix 1: Useful Resources Appendix 2: Mottoes for Memorable Mentoring Literature Cited
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Oxford University Press Inc Developing Scholars Race Politics and the Pursuit
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewDeveloping Scholars makes an important intervention in scholarship on college access policies by centering the social movements which produced college access for Black and Brown students, while also shining a light on the many ways these programs have been restrained and stripped of their power through the implementation of secondary admissions criteria and defunding. Importantly, this book illustrates that for many Black and Brown students, higher education is not an individual pursuit, but rather a collective undertaking made possible by social movements and continually sustained by community members. This book should be read by scholars of higher education and social movements. * Amaka Okechukwu, author of To Fulfill These Rights: Political Struggle Over Affirmative Action and Open Admissions *Higher education has long been considered a trusted pathway to equal opportunity and upward socioeconomic mobility; yet in this extraordinary book, Domingo Morel offers a bold and rigorous intervention demonstrating that this pathway is neither simple nor certain. Morel's rich analysis of Rhode Island's Talent Development program and its innovative approach to affirmative action expands our understanding of the complex set of institutional, programmatic, and political forces that can determine the effectiveness and fate of policy interventions. A must-read for anyone interested in the role that race and politics have played in the history of educational opportunity, and those looking to develop clear-eyed strategies for expanding equal opportunity through social policy. * Deondra Rose, author of Citizens By Degree: Higher Education Policy and the Changing Gender Dynamics of American Citizenship *Recommended. Faculty and professionals. * Choice *Table of ContentsList of Tables Introduction: Graduation Day Part I Social Movements for College Access Chapter 1: Rebellion and College for All: Community-Centered Affirmative Action and the Role of Violent Protest in Policy Formation and Policy Maintenance Chapter 2: Creating TD Nation: Community Action, Protest, and a Program for "Disadvantaged" Youth Chapter 3: Resisting Retrenchment Chapter 4: The Work of Developing Scholars Part II Reproducing Restriction to College Access Chapter 5: Emergence of Hidden Forms of Restriction: The Myth of "Major of Choice" Chapter 6: Shifting the Politics of College Access from the Public to Private Sphere Chapter 7: A Developing Scholars Approach Epilogue: Protest as Policy Feedback Acknowledgments Appendix A (Special College Access Programs 1966-1972) Appendix B (Data Sources for GPA Statistical Analysis) References Index
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Oxford University Press Oxford
Book SynopsisMartin Parr, one of Britain''s best-known contemporary photographers, and President of Magnum, the world-famous photographic agency has undertaken a photo-documentary book project. Oxford is a collection of around 100 photographs documenting an academic year in the life of the university. They capture the day-to-day life of the colleges and University at work and play, and the colourful and arcane rituals that make it so distinctive. His photographs are accompanied by an extended afterword that draws on, and enriches, the photographic material and penned by Simon Winchester, OBE, the British writer, journalist and broadcaster. The very first photo-documentary of Oxford was created by William Henry Fox Talbot. A century and a half later, Martin Parr''s new project pays tribute to the great the pioneer of photography, and coincides with the Bodleian Library''s bid to secure his personal archive.Trade ReviewThere are more than 100 photographs which together evoke a strong sense of place and the ordinariness of the people inhabiting it. * Katie Law, Evening Standard *In Oxford the celebrated photographer Martin Parr has gathered a set of 118 plates of Oxford scenes and characters, accompanied by a reminiscence of student life in the 1960s by Simon Winchester, and beautifully published by Oxford University Press... eye-catching and stimulating. * Revd. Dr. Martin Wellings, Methodist Recorder Vol.17 *Martin Parr's star has never been higher. * Geoff Harris, Amateur Photographer *Parr is often accused of mocking his subject matter, but while containing the occasional quirk, this is a largely straight documentation of a subject that already happily embraces moments of absurdity with great seriousness. * Eliza Williams, Creative Review *
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Oxford University Press Universities and Colleges
Book SynopsisWhat is a university? What is the University? How have universities evolved over the centuries? How might they change over the coming decades as the physical and organisational entity most identified with ''higher education'' being delivered to over 250 million students? What will be the impact of digital- and distance-learning, of commercial for-profit new entrants to the higher education market, of government austerity, of globalization, of student consumerism? Exploring the origins and the concept, the idea and the ideal, of the university, this Very Short Introduction discusses one of the world''s oldest, most resilient, and most adaptable institutions. David Palfreyman and Paul Temple consider the links between universities and the economy, and the role of universities within society. Highlighting some of the key questions surrounding the position of universities, they ask how the university can be politically accountable for its taxpayer funding, if it needs to be autonomous to function effectively as a public good. Are professors professional enough in their teaching practices at a time that increasing tuition fees transform students more and more into consumers? And just what does ''academic freedom'' for university faculties really entail? ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.Trade ReviewThe book provides a rich and nuanced picture of a very varied scene. * Matthew Reisz, Times Higher Education *Table of ContentsPREFACE; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; REFERENCES; FURTHER READING; INDEX
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Oxford University Press The Pocket Guide for Students Navigating Your
Book SynopsisGet the most out of your time at university with this essential guide to preparing for the experience you want.This practically-focused text will support your transition to higher education, whatever your background, and however you plan to steer your journey. Packed full of advice, tips, and guidance, this is the only book to cover in one place the full range of issues you need to consider. It will help you understand how a degree programme works, know when and where to seek help, recognize the importance of mental wellbeing, stay safe online, and know how to negotiate the non-academic aspects of your degree. The author''s lively, friendly, and reassuring writing style has been widely praised and is complemented by light-hearted yet valuable advice from current and former students. Look no further for a supportive, inclusive, and insightful guide to university life.Digital Formats and ResourcesThe Pocket Guide for Students is available for students and institutions to purchase in a vaTable of Contents1: Introduction 2: The difference between university and pre-university 3: Finance 4: How a degree actually works 5: The first week: induction/freshers' week 6: Study 7: Accessing university support and looking after your mental health 8: Juggling the personal and professional sides of your life 9: Housing and housemates 10: Relationships and boundaries 11: Socialising and staying safe 12: Social media, safety, and digital security 13: Accessing support: an overview of support when you need it most
£11.92
Oxford University Press FamilyRun Universities in Japan Sources of
Book SynopsisGlobally, private universities enrol one in three of all higher education students. In Japan, which has the second largest higher education system in the world in terms of overall expenditure, almost 80% of all university students attend private institutions. According to some estimates up to 40% of these institutions are family businesses in the sense that members of a single family have substantive ownership or control over their operation. This updated edition of Family-Run Universities in Japan offers a detailed historical, sociological, and ethnographic analysis of this important, but largely under-studied, category of private universities as family business. It examines how such universities in Japan have negotiated a period of major demographic decline since the 1990s: their experiments in restructuring and reform, the diverse experiences of those who worked and studied within them and, above all, their unexpected resilience. It argues that this resilience derives from a number of ''inbuilt'' strengths of family business which are often overlooked in conventional descriptions of higher education systems and in predictions regarding the capacity of universities to cope with dramatic changes in their operating environment. This book offers a new perspective on recent changes in the Japanese higher education sector and contributes to an emerging literature on private higher education and family business across the world.Trade ReviewThe authors give a thorough historical overview of Japanese private university management and use statistical data to get to the heart of the problem. * Hirochika Nakamaki, National Museum of Ethnology, Japan, Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute *This book is much more than its rather prosaic title. It is a comprehensive and illuminating analysis of private higher education in Japan and worldwide, a focus on the understudied phenomenon of family-owned universities in Japan, a case study of Japanese family-owned university, and a discussion of the likely future of Japanese private higher education. All of this is cogently argued, engagingly written, and packaged into a 223 page volume. * Philip Altbach, Boston College, USA, Japanese Studies *The authors' main argument that the resilience of family-run universities plays a significant role especially in the face of the many challenges may meet the demand of family-run universities in Asia-Pacific region because the authors have successfully integrated comparative perspectives of family business both in Japan and other regions, and thus made generalization of the core concept of the strength of family-run universities, stemmed from the inbuilt resilience... Even though the book is about family-run universities in Japan, their findings and conclusion give courage, confidence, and hope to those who are involved in governance, management, and administration of those in Asia-Pacific region. * Kazuhito Obara, Asia Pacific Journal of Education *Overall, Family-Run Universities in Japan is well-written, exceptionally researched, and provides much food for thought. It offers a wealth of data, insights, and micro-level theorizations that will provide numerous jumping off points for further study in a range of different fields. * Christopher D. Hammond, Higher Education *An enormously profound picture of the Japanese higher education system ... An enormous wealth of information on higher education and society in a single country -- discussed as well as being not just typical for a single country -- is well collected and convincingly presented with a lesson: a specific social phenomenon can be understood well, if one is ready for the adventure of getting to know in detail the enormous complexity of conditions. * Ulrich Teichler, Contemporary Japan *It provides perhaps the most succinct depiction of contemporary Japanese higher education available in English, and it illuminates the little-known phenomenon of family-run educational enterprises. The unique dynamics described by the authors illuminate facets of higher education in Japan and in private sectors worldwide. * Roger L. Geiger, Higher Education Quarterly *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The 'Puzzle' of Japan's Resilient Private Universities 1: The Predicted Implosion of Japan's Private Higher Education System 2: Japanese Private Universities in Comparative Perspective 3: A University under Fire: A Short Ethnography of MGU 1992-2007 4: MGU 2008-2018: The Law School and Other Reforms 5: The Resilience of Japan's Private Universities 6: Private Universities as Family Business
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Oxford University Press How to Study for a Mathematics Degree
Book SynopsisThis no-nonsense book translates mathematics education research-based insights into practical advice for a student audience. It covers every aspect of studying for a mathematics degree, from the most abstract intellectual challenges to the everyday business of interacting with lecturers and making good use of study time.Trade Reviewone of the best books that a budding mathematician could read before going to university ... they will have a distinct advantage over those who don't bother to read it ... it is a very good and enjoyable read * Graham Storr, The Mathematical Gazette *Alcock's work will definitely join my list of recommended books for maths undergraduates during their first year. * Noel-Ann Bradshaw, Times Higher Education *I would recommend this book to all students who are starting their studies of Mathematics as a major, but also those who are still in school and thinking about their choice of university subjects. It is a small, useful book. * Zuzana Hucki, London Mathematical Society *I do recommend this book - it is an excellent source of information and advice for new and existing students about what to expect from a typical mathematics degree, and how and why they should be prepared. * Ken P. O'Neill AMIMA, Mathematics Today *I suspect anyone reviewing this book will say they wished it had been available back in their day (indeed, the two quotes on the cover of my copy do exactly that). I, however, will go slightly further and say that not only do I wish this book had been available ten years ago, I also wish I would have had the sense to read it. The time between finishing school and starting university is short, and in all the excitement of buying your own kettle and secretly thinking how much you'll miss your old bedroom, it's easy to forget the main reason you're going. Reading one maths book won't ruin your whole summer (I hope!), and How to Study for a Mathematics Degree is a fairly short and rather enjoyable read which could give you a head-start in university life that pays off for years to come. * Michael Wallace, Significance *I wish I had a book like this 20 years ago. It would have helped me manage my time and learn a lot more than I did at that age! * Dr Magdalena D. Toda, Director of Undergraduate Studies Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, Texas Tech University, USA *This is an excellent book, which will be of great value to any sixth-former intending to embark on a mathematics-related university course, as well as to undergraduates already doing so. I cannot imagine a better book than this one for helping students to bridge the school-university gap. It would make an excellent gift for anyone thinking of studying mathematics at university and it belongs on every university reading list and in every school and university library. * Colin Foster, July Mathematical Gazette *Making the transition from school-level to University-level mathematics is hard, in terms of the complexity of the subject matter, the rigour of thought, and the need to be able to study much more independently. This excellent and wide-ranging book engages with all these issues and more, giving a very helpful insight into what is coming for beginning undergraduates in mathematics or mathematics-related disciplines. I just wish this book had been available in my day! * Dr Geoff Tennant, Senior Lecturer in Mathematics Education, Institute of Education, University of Reading, UK *Great advice for students who want to study math. Actually, good advice for all students. And, good advice for adults and professionals too. Alcock's straightforward writing style and practical tips make the tallest mountains seem climbable with small steps. * Matthew Leingang, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University *Table of ContentsPART 1: MATHEMATICS; PART 2: STUDY SKILLS
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Oxford University Press A Dictionary of Education
Book SynopsisEducation is of relevance to everyone, but it involves specialized terminology which may be unfamiliar or opaque. The second edition of this UK-focused dictionary - with around 1,100 authoritative entries - provides clear and accessible definitions of the terms, organizations, qualifications, statutes, and much more, involved in education today.Table of ContentsPreface ; Notes on the Contributors ; Abbreviations ; The Dictionary ; Appendix 1: Time Line ; Appendix 2: Educational Provision in Some Other English-Speaking Countries ; Appendix 3: International Comparisons of Qualifications
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The University of Chicago Press How the Financial Crisis and Great Recession
Book SynopsisThe recent financial crisis had a profound effect on both public and private universities. Universities responded to these stresses in different ways. This volume presents new evidence on the nature of these responses and how the incentives and constraints facing different institutions affected their behavior.
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The University of Chicago Press The Channels of Student Activism How the Left and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"What drives student politics at the American university? And why do so many students-on both sides of the political aisle-seem to shout past each other? Amy Binder and Jeff Kidder have produced a fresh set of answers. Whether you sit on the left or the right-or somewhere in between-you should read this smart book. It might change where you stand." -- Jonathan Zimmerman, author of The Amateur Hour: A History of College Teaching in AmericaTable of Contents1 The Channels of Student Activism 2 Generation Z and Campus Politics (with Ellen Stolzenberg) 3 Doing Campus Politics 4 The Conservative Channel—Pulled Outside from the Right (with Zosia Sztykowski) 5 The Progressive Channel—Pushed Inside from the Left 6 The Politics of Speech on Campus 7 Genuine Openness in Polarizing Times and a Look toward the Future Acknowledgments Notes References Index
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The University of Chicago Press Completing College
Book SynopsisEven as the number of students attending college has more than doubled in the past forty years, it is still the case that nearly half of all college students in the United States will not complete their degree within six years. This work offers administrators a coherent framework with which to develop and implement programs to promote completion.Trade Review"The best compendium of information on organizational development related to colleges and universities and their students around. It is thoughtful, thorough, and focused on a limited number of areas where a huge number of factors are involved." -John Bean, Indiana University "A valuable, useful guide for institutional dialogue and planning around student retention. Completing College will be welcomed by countless retention committees struggling with the magnitude of their charge and wondering where to start." -David Kalsbeek, DePaul University"
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The University of Chicago Press A Problem of Fit How the Complexity of College
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Providing detailed economic analysis of the effects of sticker price, tuition discounts, merit and need-based financial aid, and institutional competition, Levine contends that the overall impact from these multiple factors is to limit access to higher education for lower-income students. He takes specific aim at the problem of opaque financial aid and how it serves to heighten inequities in higher education. And he offers an excellent discussion of the pros and cons of two major policies for improving access to college—the various versions of 'free college' and a significant increase (read: doubling) of Pell Grants." * Forbes *"A Problem of Fit [examines] the pricing system in American higher education, exploring the market factors that contribute to its problems....Levine [addresses] barriers to higher education beyond those directly related to pricing, such as excessive levels of student loans, the complexity of the college application process, and difficulties in understanding financial aid award letters." * Journal of Economic Literature *"Levine’s text is a quick and engaging read that we highly recommend. In each chapter, he does a fantastic job of identifying what matters for an audience’s understanding of these complex, interrelated issues and communicates them in a way that is approachable and allows readers to connect the pieces of this big puzzle. Levine’s text captures a high level of nuance that escapes most of the public and many policymakers. As such, this should be a required reading for higher education finance courses and new legislator orientations alike." * Teachers College Record *"A Problem of Fit is an interesting book that offers several reasonable policy fixes for the college pricing system. The author makes his case with enough technical data to satisfy any policy wonk and presents cogent analyses accessible to the lay reader." * Monthly Labor Review (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics) *"A Problem of Fit is an interesting book that offers several reasonable policy fixes for the college pricing system. The author makes his case with enough technical data to satisfy any policy wonk and presents cogent analyses accessible to the lay reader. I would recommend the book to anyone concerned with college pricing, as well as to people interested in learning more about the higher education market." * Monthly Labor Review *"If you want to understand the nuances of college affordability, pricing, and finance, this book is for you. Levine has taken an issue that impacts the majority of families going through the college search process and deconstructed its complexity. Whether you are a student, policy maker, or higher education practitioner, this is an important read." -- Angel B. Pérez, CEO, National Association for College Admission Counseling"Levine combines accessible economic explanations with cogent policy recommendations to frame the challenges facing students and families navigating the complex world of college financing. His forceful critique focuses on analysis and solutions rather than anger and blame, forwarding ideas about targeted new funding and improved communication with the potential to help students enroll at the institutions that will be the best fit for them." -- Sandy Baum, Center on Education Data and Policy at the Urban InstituteTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Chapter 1: The Institution of Financial Aid Chapter 2: An Econ 101 View of College Pricing and Financial Aid Chapter 3: The Real Cost of College and Its Worth Chapter 4: Pricing Transparency Chapter 5: Addressing Affordability Chapter 6: Fixing the Pricing System in Higher Education Chapter 7: Other Barriers to College Access Conclusion Acknowledgments References Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Channels of Student Activism How the Left
Book SynopsisTrade Review"What drives student politics at the American university? And why do so many students-on both sides of the political aisle-seem to shout past each other? Amy Binder and Jeff Kidder have produced a fresh set of answers. Whether you sit on the left or the right-or somewhere in between-you should read this smart book. It might change where you stand." -- Jonathan Zimmerman, author of The Amateur Hour: A History of College Teaching in AmericaTable of Contents1 The Channels of Student Activism 2 Generation Z and Campus Politics (with Ellen Stolzenberg) 3 Doing Campus Politics 4 The Conservative Channel—Pulled Outside from the Right (with Zosia Sztykowski) 5 The Progressive Channel—Pushed Inside from the Left 6 The Politics of Speech on Campus 7 Genuine Openness in Polarizing Times and a Look toward the Future Acknowledgments Notes References Index
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The University of Chicago Press Other Peoples Colleges
Book SynopsisAn illuminating history of the reform agenda in higher education. For well over one hundred years, people have been attempting to make American colleges anduniversities more efficient and more accountable.Indeed, Ethan Ris argues in Other People's Colleges, the reform impulse is baked into American higher education, the result of generations of elite reformers who have called for sweeping changes in the sector and raised existential questions about its sustainability. When that reform is beneficial, offering major rewards for minor changes, colleges and universities know how to assimilate it. When it is hostile, attacking autonomy or values, they know how to resist it. The result is a sector that has learned to accept top-down reform as part of its existence. In the early twentieth century, the academic engineers, a cadre of elite, external reformers from foundations, businesses, and government, worked to reshape and reorganize the vast base of the higher education pyramid. TheiTrade Review“Other People's Colleges provides critical insights for understanding contemporary calls for reform. The book provides a careful tracing of the lasting impact that came not only from the efforts of these philanthropists and their foundations to create reform, but also the coalitions that emerged to resist them. An important and timely read for those interested in higher education history, philanthropy, governance, and policy.” -- Laura Perna, author of "Taking It to the Streets: The Role of Scholarship in Advocacy and Advocacy in Scholarship"“For too long, historians have tended to treat the massification and differentiation of higher education, as well as the systems and structures that emerged during that period, as products of inevitable forces that reshaped higher education as institutional reformers sought to keep pace with the invisible hand of growth. This book, however, is poised to deepen our understanding of the philanthropists, reformers, and bureaucrats that worked to control and guide these changes by employing the logic of industrial production to universities during this critical time of transformation in higher education.” -- Nathan Sorber, author of "Change and Continuity in American Higher Education: Lessons from Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Innovations"“This book makes important and useful contributions to the field. Through its considerations of how academic outsiders worked to structure and restructure higher education, it provides insight into a crucial era that has relatively few book-length works devoted to it. It is well researched, compellingly written, and will have wide appeal to scholars interested in higher education, reform, and philanthropy.” -- Timothy Cain, author of "Establishing Academic Freedom: Politics, Principles, and the Development of Core Values""Remarkably researched and well-written. . . Ris’s book should be required reading for anyone interested in today’s discussions about the past and future of higher education." * Choice *"The achievements of Ethan Ris’s first book, Other People’s Colleges: The Origins of Higher Education Reform, are numerous . . . he not only offers snapshots of interesting moments in higher education that have transcended their time and place, but also presents an original theory of institutional change." * History of Education Quarterly *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part One: The Ethos of Reform 1 The Academic Engineers 2 Toward System Part Two: The Program of Reform 3 The Higher Education Pyramid 4 “The Practical Life” 5 Separate and Unequal Part Three: The Decline of Reform 6 The Counter-Reformation 7 Organized Resistance 8 A New Consensus and a New Ethos Conclusion: Four Legacies Acknowledgments Appendix Notes Index
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Palgrave Macmillan Graduate Study for the TwentyFirst Century How to
Book SynopsisMany graduate students continue to be regarded as apprentices despite the fact that they are expected to design and teach their own classes, serve on university committees, and conference and publish regularly. The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the attrition rate for American Ph.D. programs is at an all-time high, between 40% and 50% (higher for women and minorities). Of those who finish, only one in three will secure tenure-track jobs. These statistics highlight waste: of millions of dollars by universities and of time and energy by students. Rather than teaching graduate students how to be graduate students, then, the guide prepares them for what they really seek: a successful academic career.Trade Review'Gregory Semenza's Graduate Study for the Twenty-first Century is a tough-minded, witty, generous discussion of how to enter the profession of scholarship and teaching. The appendices alone are worth the price of the book; Semenza provides samples of everything from course syllabi and job letters to materials on the teaching portfolio, book prospectus, conference participation everything a serious graduate student needs to succeed. The book should be required reading for graduate students and their professors.' - Barry V. Qualls, Dean of Humanities, Rutgers University, USATable of ContentsForeword by Michael Bérubé Introduction The Culture of a Graduate Program The Structure of a Graduate Career Organization and Time Management The Graduate Seminar The Seminar Paper Teaching Exams The Dissertation Attending Conferences Publishing Service and Participation The Job Market Appendix A: Sample CVs Appendix B: Sample Syllabi Appendix C: Sample Teaching Portfolios Appendix D: Examination Materials Appendix E: Sample Dissertation Prospectus Appendix F: Conference Materials Appendix G: Book Prospectus Materials Appendix H: Job Market Materials Index
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H J Cowling The Word Wasp For Teachers and Parents
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Sage Publications Ltd Principles and Practices of Teaching and Training
Book SynopsisWritten by bestselling author Ann Gravells, this is the complete go-to guide for anyone wanting to be (or working as) a teacher or trainer in the further education and skills sector, in the UK and beyond. It has all the information you need to work towards a qualification such as the Award, Certificate or Diploma in Education and Training. It is also relevant to anyone taking a Train the Trainer course, or an international teaching qualification.The book takes you through all the information you need to know, opening up the topic for learning in an easily accessible way. Interactive activities are included throughout, along with real examples of teaching and training in practice. The book also includes examples of completed teaching documents.This is a comprehensive text, covering: The role of a teacher/trainer Factors contributing to learning Planning and facilitating learning for groups and individuals Using technoTable of ContentsIntroduction The role of a teacher/trainer Factors contributing to learning Identifying needs Planning and designing learning programmes Teaching and learning approaches Communication Using resources Improving skills Promoting equality and valuing diversity Assessing learning Quality assurance Evaluating and improving practice Delivering a micro teach session Teaching practice
£31.34
ISC Medical Medical School Interviews: a Practical Guide to
Book SynopsisThis 2nd edition of the UK's best selling book on medical school interviews contains up to date information on NHS current issues and extensive advice on how to handle MMI-style interviews. This book presents an in-depth look at over 150 medical school interview questions. The book provides you with techniques to address the various types of questions, analyses good and bad examples of answers, teaches you how to add depth to your answers and how to answer those difficult ethical scenarios and lateral thinking questions. If someone asked you: Why medicine? or What are the qualities of a good doctor? Would you crumble or would you respond with the same old cliche as the next candidate? How about: What makes a good team player? Are you a leader or a follower? Should alcoholics receive liver transplants? Was it a good idea to send a man to the moon?
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ISC Medical Get into Medical School - 700 BMAT Practice
Book SynopsisWith over 700 BMAT practice questions and explanations, this book constitutes an ideal preparation tool for the BMAT in 2021 (2022 entry), helping candidates save time, retain focus and optimise their score. The book offers a substantial amount of material to practice all three sections of the BMAT and helps candidates familiarise themselves with the various styles of questions they may encounter at the exam and all the potential traps that can be laid by the examiners. The overwhelming range of exercises that it contains will enable all BMAT candidates to refine and optimise their technique to answer questions under strict time constraints. This book replicates the breadth and depth of the different types of questions that can be asked in the live BMAT test and the spectrum of difficulties that it covers (from normal to stretching), which makes it an ideal preparation tool for all those who want to achieve a high score and maximise their chances of getting into the medical school or veterinary school of their choice.
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ISC Medical Get into Medical School - 1300 UCAT Practice Questions. Includes Full Mock Exam: (Previously UKCAT)
With 1300 UCAT practice questions (including a full mock exam), in-depth explanations, and comprehensive tips and techniques spanning over 800 pages, this book constitutes an ideal preparation tool for the UCAT exam, helping candidates save time, retain focus and optimise their score. Fully compliant with the new-style UCAT exam, the book shows how to approach each type of question (abstract, verbal and quantitative reasoning, decision making and situational judgement) and helps candidates familiarise themselves with all the potential traps that can be laid by the examiners. The overwhelming range of exercises that it contains will enable all UCAT candidates to refine and optimise their technique to answer questions under strict time constraints. This book replicates the breadth and depth of the different types of questions that can be asked in the live UCAT test and the spectrum of difficulties that it covers (from normal to stretching), which makes it an ideal preparation tool for all those who want to achieve a high score and maximise their chances of getting into the medical school of their choice. (Previously UKCAT)
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UniAdmissions The Ultimate UCAT Collection: New Edition with
Book SynopsisBrand new for 2022, the top-rated UCAT book on the web is back, providing the very best UCAT study and practice tools available in a single mammoth volume. Practice with over 2000 UCAT questions in a single book or eBook! The Ultimate UCAT Guide - 2023 Edition with 1250 standalone practice questions. A full breakdown of the specification with hints, tips, and a complete revision guide. UCAT Practice Papers - Six full-length mocks with fully worked solutions by UCAT examiners. The Ultimate UCAT Collection is the only book which contains all the practice questions, revision information, and detailed UCAT guides in a one, and has been proven year on year to drastically boost your score in the UCAT.Fully updated with a new layout, content, and format for the 2023 admissions cycle, The Ultimate UCAT Collection includes:THREE of our best selling UCAT books in ONE volume Written by UCAT Specialists and top medical tutors who have scored in the top 10% of the UCAT providing time-saving tips and strategies. The Ultimate UCAT Guide - contains comprehensive information about the University Clinical Aptitude Test (UCAT), including tips, techniques and strategies to save you time and maximise your scores. Covers each of the five sections in details and prepares you for all question types that you''ll face in the exam, and how to approach them successfully. Also includes 1250 questions and fully worked solutions and model essays so you can practice your skills and understand how to improve. UCAT Practice Papers Volume 1 - contains 700 questions, mock papers updated every year with fully worked solutions to help you improve your scores. UCAT Practice Papers Volume 2 - contains 700 questions, mock papers updated every year with fully worked solutions to help you improve your scores.The latest specification break-down, including topics and types of questions to expect. Tips on how to prepare, essential tips and strategies. About Us From UniAdmissions, the publishing division of the UK''s leading Oxbridge and Medical Admissions company, The Ultimate UCAT Collection gives you the best and most fully comprehensive support for your University Clinical Aptitude Test success. Hungry for more? Visit the Uni Admissions website for more application resources, admissions test strategies, and application support.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Hidden Ivies 3rd Edition
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Greenes' Guides have always been a source of great information and timely advice, and these new editions are no exception." -- Tina Segalla Grant, Director of College Counseling, Choate Rosemary Hall School
£15.39
The University of Chicago Press Bankers in the Ivory Tower
Book SynopsisExposes the intimate relationship between big finance and higher education inequality in America.Trade Review"The book is a vivid reminder of how rich, exclusive and small the US Ivy League universities are. . . . But the book shows, too, the importance of universities. They can be a means of entrenching privilege or of spreading opportunity. A well-designed system for funding universities can be a crucial driver of social mobility. But in the US it is not working well." * Financial World *"This thoroughly researched, scholarly case study systemically examines the present higher education system. Eaton identifies the disparate players involved and examines their interactions . . . Eaton also offers a way to reimagine the current system that would realign it with its traditional values. He has provided a valuable public service in developing and presenting this thoughtful, well-researched analysis. Highly recommended." * Choice *"A timely book. . . [that] analyzes the decades-long, intricate relationship between higher education leaders and financiers." * Journal of Urban Affairs *"Eaton offers an empirically sound and rigorous analysis of how higher education relates to high finance." * Social Forces *"Bankers in the Ivory Tower offers a fascinating and data-driven investigation on how finance is transforming higher education in America for the worse. Instead of an engine of opportunity, it is becoming fuel for inequality with snowballing endowments for the top, student debt replacing public funding for the middle, and for-profit predation for the bottom. A must read." -- Emmanuel Saez, University of California, Berkeley, Chancellor's Professor of Tax Policy and Public Finance"Until now, no one has connected the dots between ever-more-rarified Ivy walls, the expansion of predatory for-profit institutions, and the financialization of the US economy. With impeccable research, Eaton brilliantly shows that what happens at the top and what happens at the bottom (not to mention in the middle) are more closely connected than you think—and that the common thread is high finance." -- Elizabeth Popp Berman, University of Michigan, associate professor of organizational studies“Many have criticized spending choices at colleges and universities and blamed them for both the rising cost of higher education and the corresponding, corrosive spread of student debt. But Eaton identifies the complex relationships that tie financial elites to these highly selective schools, which they and other wealthy families disproportionately attend. Financiers both advise and often help govern universities, guiding them to operate more like profit-seeking businesses, and financiers also function as intermediaries in the provision of student debt. The argument of the book makes the overrepresentation of socioeconomically privileged students on the nation’s most selective campuses look unsurprising and indeed, almost inevitable.” -- Jonathan Glater, University of California, Berkeley, professor of law“As elite colleges marvel at how sharply their multibillion-dollar endowments have risen from year to year, they fail to make the connection with the rise in for-profit colleges sinking students into high debt and low salaries. By following the investors, the hedge funds, the college governing boards, and the students whose lives they trample, Eaton shows how the financial oligarchy that descends from and upholds the Ivory Tower has taken the public out of our public goods. A sobering and fact-filled account with an unexpected glimpse into the possible.” -- Frederick F Wherry, The Townsend Martin, Class of 1917 Professor of Sociology at Princeton University"A sobering look at how a generation of bankers transformed higher education, generating massive endowments for elite schools—and leaving a legacy of scarcity and debt for everyone else. Carefully researched and forcefully argued, Bankers in the Ivory Tower is essential reading for anyone who cares about higher education, school loans, or the social life of finance." -- Sarah Quinn, University of Wisconsin, associate professor of sociologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Universities and the Social Circuitry of Finance 2. Our New Financial Oligarchy 3. Bankers to the Rescue: The Political Turn to Student Debt 4. The Top: How Universities Became Hedge Funds 5. The Bottom: A Wall Street Takeover of For-Profit Colleges 6. The Middle: A Hidden Squeeze on Public Universities 7. Reimagining (Higher Education) Finance from Below Methodological Appendix: A Comparative, Qualitative, and Quantitative Study of Elites Notes References Index
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Columbia University Press The Elements of Academic Style
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewPart of the pleasure of reading this lively, friendly, and truly unique book on academic writing is getting a sense of the pleasure with which the author obviously wrote it. With intelligence, generosity, and dare I say love, Eric Hayot makes us pay attention to that which we tend most to overlook or to give short shrift in scholarly practice-the act of style and its integral relation to critical thought-and moreover shows us how to enjoy the act of reclaiming it. Academic writers at all stages of experience will return to these pages again and again. -- Sianne Ngai, author of Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting My only criticism of The Elements of Academic Style is that it wasn't around thirty years ago, when I needed to learn everything, micro and macro, that this book teaches in its inimitable ways about the nature of scholarly writing. But I need it today just as much for its provocative suggestion that we unlearn what we believe we already know about seminar papers, chapters, dissertations, and books as kinds of writing. Challenging us to rethink what we ask our students to do (and why), Hayot links the demands of academic style to the possibilities of institutional reform. How long are seminar papers, and why do we need them anyway? Thanks to The Elements of Academic Style, we'll be debating these and many other questions for years to come. -- Andrew Parker, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Rutgers University The Elements of Academic Style is an utter tour de force, a guide to scholarly writing in the humanities that manages to be at once lively, funny, absorbing, rigorous, and immensely insightful. It offers a wealth of advice from the minute and grammatical to the disciplinary and career-changing, even as it probes deeply into the humanities as they are actually practiced, in the nitty gritty of our writing. Intended for graduate students, who will benefit in untold ways from its wisdom, it is a boon for faculty as well, so acute are its observations and so intelligent its maxims. Like its progenitor, Elements of Academic Style has sweep, lucidity, and pitch-perfect style. But what most distinguishes this remarkable book are more unexpected qualities: its intimacy, and especially its generosity. Eric Hayot has given us all a gift. -- Sarah Cole, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University For literary critical postgraduates and their teachers this is a useful book. Times Literary Supplement [The Elements of Academic Style] has the potential to transform how we teach and practice academic writing, and it invites the kind of reading and engagement that makes such a transformation possible... A book well worth reading and rereading. -- Carla Nappi New Books Network Seminar A needed contribution to the literature on academic writing, Hayot's book will be invaluable to any writer in the humanities. CHOICE Excellent... The book is a comprehensive, incisive, and staggeringly overdue guide to writing humanistic scholarship... Written in assured, engaging prose, possessed of personality but not overbearing, The Elements should be required reading for everybody-students, faculty, even administrators-in the orbit of a humanities Ph.D. program. -- Louis Bury HyperallergicTable of Contents1. Why Read This Book? Part I. Writing as Practice 2. Unlearning What You (Probably) Know 3. Eight Strategies for Getting Writing Done 4. Institutional Contexts 5. Dissertations and Books 6. A Materialist Theory of Writing 7. How Do Readers Work? Part II. Strategy 8. The Uneven U 9. Structure and Subordination 10. Structural Rhythm 11. Introductions 12. Don't Say It All Early 13. Paragraphing 14. Three Types of Transitions 15. Showing Your Iceberg 16. Metalanguage 17. Ending Well 18. Titles and Subtitles Part III. Tactics 19. Citational Practice 20. Conference Talks 21. Examples 22. Figural Language 23. Footnotes and Endnotes 24. Jargon 25. Parentheticals 26. Pronouns 27. Repetition 28. Rhetorical Questions and Clauses 29. Sentence Rhythm 30. Ventilation 31. Weight Part IV. Becoming 32. Work as Process 33. Becoming a Writer 34. From the Workshop to the World (as Workshop [as World]) 35. Acknowledgments Appendix: A Writer's Workbook Works Cited Bibliography
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Columbia University Press The Credential Society
Book SynopsisThe Credential Society by Randall Collins is a classic on higher education and its role in American society. Forty years later, its controversial claim that the expansion of American education has not increased social mobility, but created a cycle of credential inflation, has proven remarkably prescient.Trade ReviewRandall Collins's The Credential Society is a theoretical and empirical tour de force, a brilliant study of the expansion of schooling in twentieth-century America that goes well beyond its central topic to illuminate connections between educational change and the world of work, the nature of status, and the role of knowledge and technology in modern life. Discovering it in graduate school was a transformative experience, and I'm delighted that it is available once again to inspire new generations of students and scholars as it inspired me. -- Paul DiMaggio, New York UniversityForty years after its original release, The Credential Society remains a powerful tool to renew our understanding of crucial topics as diverse as cultural reproduction, opportunity hoarding, professional monopoly and meritocracy. At a time when analyses of the knowledge society are proliferating, Collins’ analysis remains as fresh and penetrating as ever. This visionary classic will keep its place on syllabi for years to come. -- Michèle Lamont, former president of the American Sociological AssociationRandall Collins is widely seen as one of the best sociologists of the last 50 years, and The Credential Society is filled with gems and wonderful insights. It is a classic book on a pressing topic that remains deeply relevant today. -- Annette Lareau, University of PennsylvaniaThis important book is an antidote to atheoretical work in contemporary studies of higher education and is a critical complement to the study of stratification. Technology has changed much about how we work. It has also changed a great deal about how our higher education institutions are organized. This book speaks to why those two domains are interrelated. Moreover, it provides a roadmap for the systematic study of higher education and inequality. -- From the foreword by Tressie McMillan CottomCollins’s insights are especially prescient, as the scholar Tressie McMillan Cottom notes in the new edition’s foreword, when considering how for-profit colleges have essentially preyed on the insecurities—and leeched off the loans and subsidies—of poor and working-class students. -- Hua Hsu * The New Yorker *Table of ContentsPreface to the Legacy EditionForeword, by Tressie M. Cottom Foreword, by Mitchell L. Stevens 1. The Myth of Technocracy 2. Organizational Careers 3. The Political Economy of Culture 4. The United States in Historical Time 5. The Rise of the Credential System 6. The Politics of Professions 7. The Politics of a Sinecure Society References Index
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MIT Press Ltd The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall
Book SynopsisA critical examination of the complex legacies of early Californian anthropology and linguistics for twenty-first-century communities.In January 2021, at a time when many institutions were reevaluating fraught histories, the University of California removed anthropologist and linguist Alfred Kroeber’s name from a building on its Berkeley campus. Critics accused Kroeber of racist and dehumanizing practices that harmed Indigenous people; university leaders repudiated his values. In The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall, Andrew Garrett examines Kroeber’s work in the early twentieth century and his legacy today, asking how a vigorous opponent of racism and advocate for Indigenous rights in his own era became a symbol of his university’s failed relationships with Native communities. Garrett argues that Kroeber’s most important work has been overlooked: his collaborations with Indigenous people throughout California to record their languages and stories.The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall offers new perspectives on the early practice of anthropology and linguistics and on its significance today and in the future. Kroeber’s documentation was broader and more collaborative and multifaceted than is usually recognized. As a result, the records Indigenous people created while working with him are relevant throughout California as communities revive languages, names, songs, and stories. Garrett asks readers to consider these legacies, arguing that the University of California chose to reject critical self-examination when it unnamed Kroeber Hall.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Transformative Learning in Practice
Book SynopsisThe leading authorities in the field produced this comprehensive resource, which provides strategies and methods for fostering Transformative Learning (TL) practice in a wide variety of higher and adult education settings. The book answers relevant questions such as: What are effective practices for promoting TL in the classroom? What is it about TL that is most helpful in informing practice? How does the teaching setting shape the practice of TL? What are the successes, strengths, and outcomes of fostering TL? What are the risks and challenges when practicing TL in the classroom?Table of ContentsPreface xi About the Authors xv PART ONE: INTRODUCTION 1 1 Fostering Transformative Learning 3Edward W. Taylor 2 Transformative Learning Theory 18Jack Mezirow PART TWO: TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING AS HIGHER EDUCATION 33 3 Creating Alternative Realities: Arts-Based Approaches to Transformative Learning 35Shauna Butterwick, Randee Lipson Lawrence 4 Constructive Teaching and Learning: Collaboration in a Sociology Classroom 46Debra Langan, Ron Sheese, Deborah Davidson 5 Facilitating Transformative Learning: Engaging Emotions in an Online Context 57John M. Dirkx, Regina O. Smith 6 Fostering Transformative Learning in Leadership Development 67Joe F. Donaldson 7 Mentoring: When Learners Make the Learning 78Alan Mandell, Lee Herman 8 Transformative Approaches to Culturally Responsive Teaching: Engaging Cultural Imagination 89Elizabeth J. Tisdell, Derise E. Tolliver 9 Promoting Dialogic Teaching Among Higher Education Faculty in South Africa 100Sarah Gravett, Nadine Petersen 10 Transformative Palliative Care Education 111Rod MacLeod, Tony Egan PART THREE: TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING AS WORKPLACE EDUCATION 123 11 Engaging Critical Reflection in Corporate America 125Stephen Brookfield 12 Charting the Course: How Storytelling Can Foster Communicative Learning in the Workplace 136Jo A. Tyler 13 Coaching to Transform Perspective 148Beth Fisher-Yoshida 14 The Transformative Potential of Action Learning Conversations: Developing Critically Reflective Practice Skills 160Victoria J. Marsick, Terrence E. Maltbia 15 Transformative Learning in Adult Basic Education 172Kathleen P. King, Barbara P. Heuer 16 From Tradesperson to Teacher: A Transformative Transition 182Patricia Cranton PART FOUR: TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING AS COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL CHANGE 191 17 Fostering a Learning Sanctuary for Transformation in Sustainability Education 193Elizabeth A. Lange 18 Popular Education, Women’s Work, and Transforming Lives in Bolivia 205Catherine A. Hansman, Judith Kollins Wright 19 Promoting Personal Empowerment with Women in East Harlem Through Journaling and Coaching 216Susan R. Meyer 20 Breaking Out of the Egg: Methods of Transformative Learning in Rural West Africa 227Peter Easton, Karen Monkman, Rebecca Miles 21 Farmer Field Schools: A Platform for Transformative Learning in Rural Africa 240Deborah Duveskog, Esbern Friis-Hansen 22 Collaborative Inquiry in Action: Transformative Learning Through Co-Inquiry 251Lucia Alc ´ antara, Sandra Hayes, Lyle Yorks 23 Challenging Racism in Self and Others: Transformative Learning as a Living Practice 262European-American Collaborative Challenging Whiteness PART FIVE: REFLECTIONS 273 24 Looking Forward by Looking Back: Reflections on the Practice of Transformative Learning 275Edward W. Taylor, Jodi Jarecke Index 291
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Harvard University Press Empires of Ideas
Book SynopsisThe United States is the global leader in higher education, but this was not always the case and may not remain so. William Kirby examines sources ofand threats toUS higher education supremacy and charts the rise of Chinese competitors. Yet Chinese institutions also face problems, including a state that challenges the commitment to free inquiry.Trade ReviewTimely…he makes a powerful argument about what it takes to be a leading university dedicated to the creation of new knowledge…Kirby’s book shows how catalytic is the combination of strong nations and universities that advance knowledge and foster critical and creative thinking. Now more, perhaps, than ever. -- Michael S. Roth * Wall Street Journal *Substantive on virtually every page, the author actually understands how universities work…An impressive performance. -- Tyler Cowen * Marginal Revolution *Although Empires of Ideas is nominally about the rise of the research university from its origins in 19th-century Germany though America’s global leadership in the 20th, it will probably be what Kirby has to say about China in the 21st that will generate the most interest…Rigorous in its arguments, Empires of Ideas is also well-written. -- Peter Gordon * Asian Review of Books *What factors make research universities great—and, conversely, what variables threaten these institutions’ eminence? [Kirby’s] case studies are highly revealing…[A] fascinating book. -- Steven Mintz * Inside Higher Ed *Rather than offering an overview of the university landscape, Kirby adopts the case-based approach employed in the curricula of the Harvard Business School. He traces the history of eight institutions whose trajectories he views as exemplary…There are advantages to Kirby’s case study approach. Tracing the history of an individual institution offers the reader a vivid sense of the interplay of historical contingency, policy mandates, and individual actors. -- Robert Frodeman * Issues in Science and Technology *A masterful account of higher education in Germany, the United States, and China. -- Lee Trapanier * University Bookman *Kirby weaves together traditional historical analysis with personal narratives and experiences with German, American, and Chinese higher education systems…Offers a genuine insider’s glimpse into the inner workings of these universities. -- Ryan M. Allen * Hansa Review of Books *William Kirby’s new book is unique. I know of nothing else on higher education that resembles it in breadth, scope, and sheer comparative information and analysis. He has plotted the rise and evolution of the modern university in three major societies—Germany, the United States, and China—in a way that illuminates the strengths and weaknesses of each model. Anyone interested in the nature of universities during the past two centuries will want to read this volume. -- Neil L. Rudenstine, President Emeritus, Harvard UniversityKirby is in a unique position to tell this story, since nobody else can equal his extensive knowledge of the subject. His insights take us behind the scenes and beyond the university rankings. Fascinating and compelling. -- Yingyi Qian, Professor and Dean Emeritus, Tsinghua UniversityThis superb and compelling book is both a vast scholarly achievement and an essential guide to the future of universities under conditions of increasing global competitiveness. It places contemporary trends in their historical context and draws on Kirby’s unique personal experiences of engagement with some leading universities in three countries. It is essential reading for everyone interested in the future of higher education and research as a global phenomenon. -- Sir Malcolm Grant, Chancellor, University of YorkThis timely and important book by one of the world’s leading historians on global higher education makes the compelling case that the center of innovation and creativity is and always has been moving within the highly competitive global landscape of universities. Kirby cogently argues that in recent decades we witness a shift of the dynamics to China. Government backing and incentives have greatly enhanced China’s innovation potential in higher education. The growing success of Chinese universities discredits the idea that only the West is amenable to innovation. A must-read! -- Klaus Mühlhahn, President, Zeppelin UniversityThis book takes off from the simple if little explored idea that no country has emerged as a great power without also developing great universities. But what feature of universities have allowed them to play this role, and how might the answer change over space and time? To answer this question, Kirby sets off on a comparative history of emerging models of higher education ranging from Germany in the early nineteenth century through twentieth-century United States to the China of this very day. With his extraordinary breadth of curiosity and equal ease in the histories and cultures of these countries, only Bill Kirby could have written this book. It is must-reading for everyone who cares about universities, a thought-provoking lesson in the strange mix of durability and vulnerability that defines this key modern institution. -- Richard Brodhead, President Emeritus, Duke UniversityEmpires of Ideas offers deep insights on the practical achievement of institutional excellence, as well as the relationship between power and learning. The book raises profound questions about the outlook for America’s public universities as state governments continue to cut educational budgets, and the country’s ability to compete globally with other institutions in Europe and China. This learned work is a tour de force in the art of academic governance. -- Wen-hsin Yeh, University of California, BerkeleyA lively and insightful analysis of modern research universities in three key countries. Kirby is the perfect author—he brings personal experience of each country, academic expertise, and an analytic framework. Empires of Ideas provides an unparalleled perspective on the origins and contemporary challenges of research universities. -- Philip G. Altbach, Center for International Higher Education, Boston College
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Princeton University Press The Dean of Shandong
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Financial Times Best Summer Book""A Financial Times Best Book of the Year- Politics""Bell places the minutiae of academic administration in the context of China’s post-Cultural Revolution attempt to reinstate a ‘complex bureaucratic system informed by the ideal of political meritocracy.’ His depiction of this goal’s uneven achievement is enriched by anecdotes about censorship, corruption, the importance of seemingly frivolous aesthetic matters, Shandong’s drinking culture, and the occasionally comic failures of Chinese institutions to convey their aims abroad." * New Yorker *"Fascinating insight into life in China from the perspective of a non-Chinese academic. Bell offers a frank assessment of the realities of being a scholar in China. . . . Highly recommended for anyone interested in academia in present-day China." * Library Journal *"The Dean of Shandong wonderfully weaves together Bell’s deep knowledge of Chinese thought, political institutions, and everyday life in an extremely accessible style."---Paul J. D’Ambrosio, Los Angeles Review of Books"An insightful memoir of the author’s time as an administrator at a Chinese university. . . .at times frank, perceptive and wryly amusing. . . .those like Bell who write about [China] with wit and insight, deserve to be listened to."---James Crabtree, Financial Times"[A] terrific book. . . . [The Dean of Shandong] is a very entertaining and insightful short memoir of what it’s like to run part of a university, being neither a Chinese citizen nor a member of the Party, and having to deal with issues that are the kind of issues that administrators all over the world deal with — drinking, for example, not just by students, but mostly by administrators, and other issues as well. . . Dean of Shandong is a cool book."---William Kirby, The Sinica Podcast"[Bell] wants to encourage “understanding and sympathy” for a people who have made extraordinary economic and social gains in only a few decades, who are mainly extremely hard working, and who share similar hopes for their families and futures as we do. We must certainly be vigilant. But, as Bell suggests, our vigilance should be tempered by humanity and the desire for engagement, not ostracism."---Richard Horton, The Lancet"Perceptive and often funny."---Gideon Rachman, Financial Times"An enjoyable read. . . . [The Dean of Shandong] gives the reader a firsthand account of living in a country/civilization that is impossible to find in the Western media."---Saralee Turner, iAffairs"[Confucianism], little understood in the West, is the focus of Daniel Bell’s illuminating analysis of the Chinese political system today in The Dean of Shandong: Confessions of a Minor Bureaucrat at a Chinese University."---Mal Warwick, Mal Warwick on Books"Bell gives nuanced and sophisticated details about the logic of the daily functioning of the Chinese political meritocracy. . . . Bell also shares his experience of daily collective leadership at Shandong University and offers perceptive insider viewpoints. . . . Overall, this is a very readable book written from a ’progressive conservative perspective.’"---Haimo Li, Dao"Daniel A. Bell was the first foreign dean of a politics faculty in a mainstream, mainland Chinese university; he therefore has a unique story to tell. It is a revealing story, combining Bell’s recollections with his analysis of what went on under the surface in a specific Chinese organisation, together with other topics that are part of the life of a dean in any university. . . .Overall, this book brings to life many aspects of organisational life in China as well giving an insight into the personal career of a leading scholar of China when faced with a unique opportunity and challenge."---Martin Lockett, Asian Affairs"[A] riveting, unapologetically humorous read . . . . Bell takes a remarkably nuanced approach in his social commentary - which is neither bombastic nor patronising. . . . On topics such as corruption and accountability mechanisms, Bell offers more sophisticated musings than can be found across much of the reductionist, existing discourse."---Brian Wong, China-US Focus"A new memoir from a Westerner living as a bureaucrat in China's education system has important lessons for America. . . . [Bell] gives Western readers a unique vision into the new China."---Jesse Russell, American Conservative"Daniel A. Bell’s The Dean of Shandong. . . is a unique contribution to our understanding of China’s higher education system and to the field of Chinese studies more generally."---Terry Bodenhorn, The China Quarterly"Informative, enlightening. . . . Highly recommended. General readers through faculty." * Choice Reviews *"Fair and honest in its judgments, [The Dean of Shandong] offers readers a sympathetic but objective view of academic and social life in China and is a welcome corrective to the unhinged narratives about China that pass for the norm today."---Shuchen Xiang, Philosophy East and West"Bell’s account is amusing and enjoyable, from his description of the use of emojis in messages between colleagues, to his decision to dye his hair in order to fit in. Bell offers useful insights into ideology, politics and how China might be better understood. . . .Highly readable and informative."---Tim Summers, International Affairs "A perceptive and often funny account of operating inside the [Chinese political] system."---Gideon Rachman, Financial Times
£19.80
Penguin Putnam Inc The Coddling of the American Mind
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Discussion as a Way of Teaching
Book SynopsisThoroughly revised and updated, the second edition of the landmark book Discussion as a Way of Teaching shows how to plan, conduct, and assess classroom discussions. Stephen D. Brookfield and Stephen Preskill suggest exercises for starting discussions, strategies for maintaining their momentum, and ways to elicit diverse views and voices.Table of ContentsPreface to Second Edition. Preface to the First Edition. Gratitudes. The Authors. 1. Discussion in a Democratic Society. 2. How Discussion Helps Learning and Enlivens Classrooms. 3. Preparing for Discussion. 4. Getting Discussion Started. 5. Keeping Discussion Going Through Questioning, Listening, and Responding. 6. Keeping Discussion Going Through Creative Grouping. 7. Discussion in Culturally Diverse Classrooms. 8. Discussing Across Gender Differences (Written with Eleni Roulis). 9. Keeping Students’ Voices in Balance. 10. Keeping Teachers’ Voices in Balance. 11. Understanding the Dynamics of Online Discussion. 12. Creating the Conditions for Online Discussion. 13. How Theory Can Inform Discussion Practice. 14. Discussion Groups as Democratic Learning Laboratories. 15. Evaluating Discussion. References. Index.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Contemplative Practices in Higher Education
Book SynopsisThis book presents the background information and ideas for the practical application of contemplative practices across academic curriculum from the physical sciences to the humanities and arts. Contemplative pedagogy is more than a new, trendy technique to change the landscape of learning.Table of ContentsForeword vii Parker J. Palmer Preface xi Acknowledgments xvii The Authors xxi Part One Theoretical and Practical Background 1 1 Transformation and Renewal in Higher Education 3 2 Current Research on Contemplative Practice 21 3 Contemplative Pedagogy in Practice: Two Experiences 39 4 Teacher Preparation and Classroom Challenges 67 Part Two A Guide to Contemplative Practices 87 Introduction to the Practices 89 5 Mindfulness 95 6 Contemplative Approaches to Reading and Writing 110 7 Contemplative Senses: Deep Listening and Beholding 137 8 Contemplative Movement 159 9 Compassion and Loving Kindness 174 10 Guest Speakers, Field Trips, and Retreats 189 11 Conclusion 198 Afterword by Arthur Zajonc 205 References 207 Index 217
£31.35
Johns Hopkins University Press Why They Cant Write
Book SynopsisAn important challenge to what currently masquerades as conventional wisdom regarding the teaching of writing. There seems to be widespread agreement thatwhen it comes to the writing skills of college studentswe are in the midst of a crisis. In Why They Can't Write, John Warner, who taught writing at the college level for two decades, argues that the problem isn't caused by a lack of rigor, or smartphones, or some generational character defect. Instead, he asserts, we're teaching writing wrong. Warner blames this on decades of educational reform rooted in standardization, assessments, and accountability. We have done no more, Warner argues, than conditioned students to perform writing-related simulations, which pass temporary muster but do little to help students develop their writing abilities. This style of teaching has made students passive and disengaged. Worse yet, it hasn't prepared them for writing in the college classroom. Rather than making choices and thinking critically, aTrade ReviewThat title sounds as if it will be a grumpy polemic, but it's actually an inspiring exploration of what learning to write could be, framed by an analysis of why it so often is soul-destroying for both students and their teachers.—Barbara Fister, Inside Higher EdArticulates a set of humanist values that could generate rich new classroom practices and, one hopes, encourage teachers, parents, and policymakers to rethink the whole idea of School and why it matters to a society. Warner is pragmatic, not programmatic, and hopeful without being naïve . . . I hope teachers, parents, and administrators across the United States read his trenchant book. We are the reformers we have been waiting for.—Ryan Boyd, University of Southern California, LA Review of BooksWhy They Can't Write dissects the underlying causes of why so much writing instruction fails in the American system and it provides tested, practical solutions for doing better. The book is more than a how-to-teach guide, however. It diagnoses several important structural problems in American education, including standardized testing, the allure of educational fads, the abuses of technology-driven solutions, and cruel working conditions for teachers.—Danny Anderson, Sectarian ReviewI wanted direction on how to better teach writing, and I got it—sample assignments that I can tweak to fit my classroom and discipline in marvelous ways. But I got so much more. I closed the book feeling energized and motivated to go back to the classroom and make changes. In fact my first reaction, as I finished, was 'I have to go write about this!' Which so perfectly encapsulates so much of what John would like to see us do as learners that I couldn't help but laugh.—Cate Denial, Director, Bright Institute, Knox CollegeWhat is to blame for students' bad writing? According to Warner, the entire context in which it is taught. He rails against school systems that privilege shallow "achievement" over curiosity and learning, a culture of "surveillance and compliance" (including apps that track students' behaviour and report it to parents in real time), an obsession with standardized testing that is fundamentally inimical to thoughtful reading and writing, and a love of faddish psychological theories and worthless digital learning projects.—Irina Dumitrescu, University of Bonn, Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsPart I: IntroductionOur Writing "Crisis"Johnny Could Never WriteThe Writer's PracticeThe Five-Paragraph EssayPart II: The Other NecessitiesThe Problem of AtmosphereThe Problem of SurveillanceThe Problem of Assessment and StandardizationThe Problem of Educational FadsThe Problem of Technology HypeThe Problem of FolkloreThe Problem of PrecarityPart III: A New FrameworkWhy School?Increasing RigorThe Writer's PracticeMaking Writing Meaningful by Making Meaningful WritingWriting ExperiencesIncreasing ChallengesPart IV: Unanswered QuestionsWhat about Academics?What about Grammar?What about Grades?What about the Children?What about the Teachers?In ConclusionAcknowledgmentsAppendixNotesIndexAbout the Author
£16.65
Johns Hopkins University Press Connections Are Everything
Book SynopsisA practical guide to building the connections students need to thrive in and after college from the authors of the best-selling Relationship-Rich Education. Decades of research demonstrate how important the relationships with peers and professors are for students academically, personally, and professionally. Yet many students lack the strategies to develop educationally purposeful relationships in college. Connections Are Everything shows students the simple steps they can take to make their own college experience meaningful and transformational. In short, practical chapters, this guide helps readers learn how to build relationships through various strategies, including using relationship accelerators like internships and mentorships, undergraduate research, and campus employment. Undergraduate demographics have changed dramatically as students of color and first-generation students become the new majority at colleges and universities across the United States. Connections are particuTrade ReviewWhile steeped in research, Connections Are Everything is accessible. It's a quick read, and its tone is friendly and practical....The pandemic has frayed students' connections to campus in ways that colleges are still struggling to understand, much less repair. After reading the book, I'm confident it could be enormously helpful to just about any student who reads it.—Beckie Supiano, Chronicle of Higher EducationTable of ContentsIntroduction: Read This First!Section 1: Relationships and You1. Start with One2. College Comes with Challenges3. You Have What It TakesSection 2: You Never Know Who Will Change You (or How)4. Connecting with Peers: Find Your People5. Connecting with Professors: In and Out of Class6. Connecting with Staff: Allies EverywhereSection 3: You Can Do It7. Relationship Accelerators8. Make the Most of Mentoring Conversations9. Building Your Relationship ConstellationConclusion: Take These Ideas with YouAfterword, by Mohamed A. Farge and Timothy K. EatmanAcknowledgementsWords to Know (Glossary)NotesIndex
£14.85
Simon & Schuster The Closing of the American Mind How Higher
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Duke University Press Complaint
Book SynopsisIn Complaint! Sara Ahmed examines what we can learn about power from those who complain about abuses of power. Drawing on oral and written testimonies from academics and students who have made complaints about harassment, bullying, and unequal working conditions at universities, Ahmed explores the gap between what is supposed to happen when complaints are made and what actually happens. To make complaints within institutions is to learn how they work and for whom they work: complaint as feminist pedagogy. Ahmed explores how complaints are made behind closed doors and how doors are often closed on those who complain. To open these doors---to get complaints through, keep them going, or keep them alive---Ahmed emphasizes, requires forming new kinds of collectives. This book offers a systematic analysis of the methods used to stop complaints and a powerful and poetic meditation on what complaints can be used to do. Following a long lineage of Black feminist and feminist of color criTrade Review“Sara Ahmed always has her finger on the pulse of the times as she assists us to explore the deeper meanings and philosophical nuances of quotidian concepts and practices. Beautifully written and thoroughly engaging, Complaint! is precisely the text we need at this moment as we seek to understand and transform the institutional structures promoting racism and heteropatriarchy.” -- Angela Y. Davis“In her latest contribution to our knowledge, Sara Ahmed gifts us with a book about the phenomenology of complaint and the layered, entangled complexity of how power works institutionally. She foregrounds that to complain is to transgress. To transgress is to become a site of negation. To negate is to trigger an institution into protecting the status quo through risk-adverse processes that are experienced as violent and exhaustive. Ahmed’s intellectually expansive book achieves two things: it exposes the meaning, experiences, and perceptions of complaint and provides testimony to the courage of those who complain, who fight, who believe justice should not just appear to be done; it must be done.” -- Aileen Moreton-Robinson, author of * Talkin’ Up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism *"[Ahmed] presents a strong argument that power in higher education tends to protect itself, that diversity initiatives are often nothing more than window dressing, and that those who file complaints about a hostile work environment often face accusations of disloyalty or troublemaking. . . . Most of the charges here are broad and general, but anyone who has worked in higher education will recognize much of what Ahmed brings to light. Sharp criticism of an overlooked systemic problem in higher education." * Kirkus Reviews *"In her powerful new book . . . Sara Ahmed builds on a series of oral and written testimonies from students and employees who have complained to higher education universities about harassment and inequality. Here, she asks readers to think about some inescapable questions: What happens when complaints are pushed under the rug? How is complaint radical feminism? And, how can we learn about power from those who choose to fight against the powerful?" -- Rebecca Schneid * Indy Week *"This is audacious but persuasive critique, which accrues its power by stealth. Complaint! is dense with insight, but admirably lucid." -- Zora Simic * Australian Book Review *"Inspired by the students she worked with, Ahmed’s new book examines the act—indeed, the feminist pedagogy—of complaining within an organization. With the help of testimonials from individuals who filed complaints of harassment, bullying, and abuse at Goldsmiths and other universities, Ahmed explores the cracks within these formal systems and illustrates the painful processes that survivors experience too often." -- Yvette Dionne and Rosa Cartagena * Bitch *"An absolutely brilliant endeavor. . . . The real nuance and sophistication of this book, written with such emotional and intellectual insight, the means by which Ahmed identifies strategies of institutional power in relation to power in relation to harassment and abuse is revelatory, thorny, painful, and very, very necessary." -- Linda M. Morra * Getting Lit with Linda *"Sara Ahmed’s Complaint! is an antidote to apathy. . . . The potent reminder that Ahmed offers is that we are not the ones with the problem, that a number of voices raised up in complaint can help identify that the problem lies elsewhere." -- Eda Gunaydin * Sydney Review of Books *"It’s feminism that isn’t out to win friends but should certainly influence people. It’s angry because anger is required. And it’s collective and inclusive. . . . ever quick to pick up on ironies and contradictions, she nails it time after time. 'Making a complaint is often necessary because of a crisis or trauma,' she writes, but 'the complaint often becomes part of the crisis or trauma.' Such phrases characterise Ahmed’s Möbius band idiolect; they hit home because of the writer’s extraordinary skill." -- Emma Rees * Times Higher Education *"Ahmed brings great authority and gravity to Complaint!, from her own experiences (she resigned from an institution after they mishandled a series of complaints), her engagement with a “complaint collective” in the UK, and her decades-long scholarship in feminist, queer, and race studies. Black feminism and women of color feminism anchor the book. The author does not flinch at the difficult intersections where one underrepresented or traditionally marginalized group seems at odds with another; instead, she examines the effects of complaint in each area of these intersections, retaining her sharp focus on an analysis of power dynamics." -- Ellen Mayock * Public Books *"This is another insightful book in Ahmed’s well-regarded series of considerations of what acting as a feminist in non-feminist institutions means. . . . Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals." * Choice *"Ahmed illuminates how institutions like the university are designed for precisely the people who can and continue to flourish while miming theoretical righteousness and perpetuating violent norms." -- Anna Nguyen * LSE Review of Books *“Complaint! offers catharsis, collectivity, and care. It is an archive of complaint, it is a radical call to action, and it is a feminist record. It is also beautifully written, deeply painful, and absolutely necessary at this very moment.” -- Catherine Oliver * Gender, Place & Culture *"This book is inspiring and a source of solidarity. It provides encouragement to protest and fight for change. And whilst no doubt a difficult read for university leaders, they should read it to help them reflect on what is happening in their institutions and learn how they can truly implement those policies and practice to bring about fair and just equality of opportunity." -- Gill Crozier * British Journal of Sociology of Education *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction: Hearing Complaint 1 Part I. Institutional Mechanics 27 1. Mind the Gap! Policies, Procedures, and Other Nonperformatives 29 2. On Being Stopped 69 Part II. The Immanence of Complaint 101 3. In the Thick of It 103 4. Occupied 137 Part III. If These Doors Could Talk? 175 5. Behind Closed Doors: Complaints and Institutional Violence 179 6. Holding the Door: Power, Promotion, Progression 220 Part IV. Conclusions 257 7. Collective Conclusions by Leila Whitley, Tiffany Page, and Alice Corble, with Heidi Hasbrouck, Chryssa Sdrolia and others 261 8. Complaint Collectives 274 Notes 311 References 343 Index 353
£21.59
Bristol University Press The Soul of a University: Why Excellence is not
Book SynopsisWhat is the role of a university in society? In this innovative book, Chris Brink offers the timely reminder that it should have social purpose, as well as achieve academic excellence. He book shows how universities can – and should - respond to societal challenges and promote positive social change.Trade Review"This is a profoundly original and inspirational book, written with erudition, wit and uncompromising integrity. It is a joy to read." Nicola Dandridge Chief Executive, Office for Students"A mathematician explains what is wrong with ranking universities. One day the leagues tables will be no more. Chris Brink takes us much nearer to that promised day." Danny Dorling, Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford"With deft clarity and deep humanity Professor Brink casts a logician's baleful eye over the current state of higher education. He demonstrates how misguided attempts to improve accountability have led to the unmeasurable being measured and the valuable being devalued. This is a modern morality tale which deserves the widest readership." Professor Sir Howard Newby, former Vice-Chancellor of Liverpool and former Chief Executive of HEFCE"Good books about universities are, alas, rare. This helps to fill something of a void. It is full of practical good sense and wisdom, all done with clarity and intellectual rigour." Lord Patten of Barnes (Chris Patten), Chancellor of the University of Oxford, and the last Governor of Hong Kong"Chris Brink has a very special record of service to higher education and its social relevance. His scholarship and vision speak for themselves. His devastating demolition of the current preoccupation with league tables is brave and timely." Frank Judd, former Labour Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs"This wide-ranging and erudite book manages to combine the ingredients of stories and insights, philosophy and practice, into a rich literary and intellectual dish. Chris Brink has brought his experience and his intellect to bear on a vital question of what universities are for in the modern world." Matt Ridley, author of The Evolution of Everything and The Rational Optimist"A brutal and honest analysis of the crisis facing universities and the reputation of British and global academia and a stark warning that universities must address their purpose as well as their aspiration" Dianne Nelmes, Newcastle University, Fellow of the Royal Television Society & Broadcast ConsultantTable of ContentsPrologue; 1.The Standard Model University; 2. Rankings and League Tables; 3. Quality in Higher Education; 4. Tales of Quality, Equality and Diversity; 5. Rank Order of Worth; 6. Linear Thinking; 7. Another Dimension; 8. Ideas of a World-class Civic University.
£14.24
Bodleian Library University of Oxford: A Brief History, The
Book SynopsisThe University of Oxford is the third oldest university in Europe and remains one of the greatest universities in the world. How did such an ancient institution flourish through the ages? This book offers a succinct illustrated account of its colourful and controversial 800-year history, from medieval times through the Reformation and on to the nineteenth century, in which the foundations of the modern tutorial system were laid. It describes the extraordinary and influential people who shaped the development of the institution and helped to create today’s world-class research university. Institutions have waxed and waned over the centuries but Oxford has always succeeded in reinventing itself to meet the demands of a new age. Richly illustrated with archival material, prints and portraits, this book explores how a university in a small provincial town rose to become one of the top universities in the world at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
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Temple Lodge Publishing Awakening the Will: Principles and Processes in
Book SynopsisHow do adults learn? What is the task of the adult educator in adult education? What can adults do to take charge of their learning process? Learning means change and transformation. But in order to learn, argues Coenraad van Houten, we must first awaken our will. True adult education, he says, enables our spiritual ego to accomplish this. He describes the forms in which learning can be meaningfully structured, and offers advice and ideas to help overcome specific learning blockages. The book regards the business of adult education as a full profession, and it provides a theoretical and practical basis for its true task: an awakening of the will.
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Critical Publishing Ltd Developing Your Expertise as a SENCo: Leading
Book SynopsisThis book equips SENCOs and aspiring SENCOs to engage in high level continuing professional development activity associated with studying for mandatory qualifications, and supports critical and innovative practice and career progression. Written by a multi-disciplinary team, it embraces sociological, medical and post-modern perspectives. It will be of interest to researchers and practitioners as it also critiques current theory, legislation, policy and research and how these can be transferred into settings. The book considers issues that SENCo's will experience both in their role and as part of this professional development, identifying the complexity of issues they have to consider and priorities in their role. A range of pedagogic and interactive features are used to support the development of study skills when working at postgraduate level such as: research and literature searching; knowledge building and skills development in SENCo; the ability to galvanise change in their context including difficult and respectful conversations about SEN provision and the development of leadership skills. This book is unique in its link between the academic and professional dimensions of the mandatory qualification - a bridge between engaging in CPD and practice of the SENCo role.Trade Review"...a book that is relevant to all SENCOs. The authors and editors have deftly drawn together expertise spanning research, policy and practice in a way that is both relatable and accessible for SENCOs at all stages of their career. SENCOs often have significant demands on their time, but applying the wisdom shared in this book will undoubtedly save them time as they become more effective in the role. Throughout, the authors emphasise the agency of SENCOs and the critical leadership role they play, not just for those with SEND for inclusion across the entire setting. Above all, this book acts as a North Star for SENCOs, with its ethical golden thread guiding them to do what is right rather than what is easy. If you are a SENCO, this book should be at the top of your reading list." -- Professor Adam Boddison, OBE"The editors/authors of Developing you Expertise as a SENCO have clearly made a great effort to produce an up-to-date text that can be read cover-to-cover or dipped into when a specific aspect of SEN coordination is being evaluated in depth. This has paid off - short, well-designed chapters with case studies, resource information and good quality references allow readers to examine key issues in a manageable way. Well done to everyone involved, editors, chapter authors, and the many SENCo case study contributors." -- Christopher Robertson * Chair, the SENCo-Forum Advisory Group *"This is a useful book for SENCOs new to post and those with experience in the role. The chapters cover key aspects of being a SENCO, linking theory and practice throughout. The thread of inclusion runs through each, reminding the reader of how this ongoing journey should underpin all of the work they do. Chapters cover a range of relevant topics, offering a balanced critique on current thinking about SEN and inclusion. Topics are diverse and encourage critical reflection and the development of useful knowledge and skills to enable them to be a successful SENCO, supporting staff and pupils. An informative text which will be an essential resource for SENCOs." -- Jo Winwood * Programme Lead: Education, Serco UK&E Local Regional Government *Table of ContentsPart One: Examining the SENCo role Chapter 1 – Examining the SENCo role Chapter 2 – SENCo professional identity and development Chapter 3 - SENCos and inclusive pedagogy Chapter 4 – The SENCo as leader: speaking up and speaking out Chapter 5 – SENCos engaging with theory Part Two: The SENCo at work Chapter 6 - The SENCo role across age phases Chapter 7 – Working with children and young people experiencing additional challenges Chapter 8 – Working with parents Chapter 9 – Working with other professionals Chapter 10 – Working with critical reflection on professional practice Chapter 11 – SENCos using data Chapter 12 - Evidence based practice to promote advocacy for learners with SEND
£18.99
Simon & Schuster Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College
Book SynopsisFrom award-winning higher education journalist and New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Selingo comes a revealing look from inside the admissions office—one that identifies surprising strategies that will aid in the college search. Getting into a top-ranked college has never seemed more impossible, with acceptance rates at some elite universities dipping into the single digits. In Who Gets In and Why, journalist and higher education expert Jeffrey Selingo dispels entrenched notions of how to compete and win at the admissions game, and reveals that teenagers and parents have much to gain by broadening their notion of what qualifies as a “good college.” Hint: it’s not all about the sticker on the car window. Selingo, who was embedded in three different admissions offices—a selective private university, a leading liberal arts college, and a flagship public campus—closely observed gatekeepers as they made their often agonizing and sometimes life-changing decisions. He also followed select students and their parents, and he traveled around the country meeting with high school counselors, marketers, behind-the-scenes consultants, and college rankers. While many have long believed that admissions is merit-based, rewarding the best students, Who Gets In and Why presents a more complicated truth, showing that “who gets in” is frequently more about the college’s agenda than the applicant. In a world where thousands of equally qualified students vie for a fixed number of spots at elite institutions, admissions officers often make split-second decisions based on a variety of factors—like diversity, money, and, ultimately, whether a student will enroll if accepted. One of the most insightful books ever about “getting in” and what higher education has become, Who Gets In and Why not only provides an unusually intimate look at how admissions decisions get made, but guides prospective students on how to honestly assess their strengths and match with the schools that will best serve their interests.Trade ReviewA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and a New York Times Notable Book “A rare inside look… It’s amazing.” —CBS This Morning“[A] widely anticipated new book…Selingo was given extraordinary access to the selection process and the selectors at Emory University, Davidson College and the University of Washington. He uses it in his book to present one of the most nuanced, coolheaded examinations of the admission process that I’ve read. He explodes certain myths — for example, that SAT and ACT scores are absolutely pivotal — and confirms other suspicions, such as the ridiculous advantage conferred on middling students who play arcane sports.” —Frank Bruni, New York Times“In this meticulously researched and evenhanded book, the author provides a unique mix of in-depth reporting, insight, and advice that may save readers needless frustration and thousands of dollars. One of the best books on college admissions in recent memory.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred)“This absorbing book delves into the sometimes enigmatic world of college admissions…an invaluable tool for college-bound students and their families, guidance counselors, and college admissions personnel.” —Library Journal (starred review) “An illuminating and multisided view of admissions work…eye-opening and insightful.” —Booklist“Comprehensive and ultimately reassuring…Anxious parents and students will be buoyed by this richly detailed and lucidly written guide.” —Publishers Weekly“The college admissions process can seem like a locked vault, but Jeff Selingo has found the key. He unleashes the full force of his reporting and storytelling skills to demystify—and humanize—the journey from high school applicant to college freshman. Whether you’re a student, parent, or educator, this book is an illuminating and essential read.” —Daniel H. Pink, New York Times bestselling author of When, Drive, and A Whole New Mind“A fascinating, useful, and important book—fascinating because of its wealth of vividly reported detail on how the college-admission system works (for instance, why little Amherst College admits more athletes than mighty University of Alabama), useful because of its clear-eyed view of how students and families can calmly get through the winnowing process, and important because higher education has become so central to American opportunity and mobility.” —James Fallows, National Correspondent for The Atlantic“For nearly twenty years, Jeff Selingo has been one of America's most trusted voices on higher education. This is his finest work. He pulls back the curtain on all the code words, awkward secrets, and noble hopes associated with college admissions today. Each chapter can help college-bound families turn confusion into clarity.” —George Anders, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of You Can Do Anything and The Rare Find“In his fascinating and timely book Who Gets in and Why Jeff Selingo breaks the seal on college admissions to reveal what really goes on, who gets a special look and why, what the colleges have at stake, and how a student can put their best foot forward. Frank and reassuring, Selingo presents a thoughtful critique of an outmoded system along with sound advice for students and parents who have little choice but to play by these rules.” —Julie Lythcott-Haims, author of How to Raise an Adult“Jeff Selingo has done it again. Amid increasingly loud calls for transparency in college admissions, and a growing suspicion among the public that the process is unfair, Selingo has managed to lift the veil from the ‘inner sanctum,’ showing how admission officers deal with the challenges presented by talented and diverse applicants. From the committee rooms that Selingo has penetrated come stories of compassion for students balanced by institutional priorities and mandates. Who Gets In and Why offers a great insider’s view, making a complex process much easier to understand.” —Robert Massa, former Dean of Enrollment, Johns Hopkins University“A valuable outsider-as-insider’s eye view of the college admission process, spotlighting what applicants will never see. Pushing past the fairy tale of how a student's application is reviewed, Selingo finds more. For the dedicated professionals who do this tireless work, the students and parents trying to understand it, and anyone in between, there are great lessons to be learned here.” —Emmi Harward, Executive Director of the Association of College Counselors in Independent Schools“In Who Gets in and Why, Jeff Selingo addresses the tyranny of selective admissions and its inordinate social and emotional impact on the more than 90% of students who enroll in non-selective schools. He depicts the agony and the ecstasy of the selective admissions process, questions why we’re all hostage to it, and offers insightful ways to avoid getting caught in the madness. Bravo!” —Deborah Quazzo, Managing Partner of GSV Advisors“An important book that shines a clarifying light into the mystifying corners of the college admissions process. Jeff Selingo gives students and their families much-needed perspective on how things really work behind the scenes.” —Jill Madenberg, author of Love the Journey to College“Very accessible and quite accurate…Selingo’s backstage view of the process at Emory is particularly strong. He adeptly pinpoints how an institution's priorities, goals, and needs cause equally deserving applicants to frequently meet with different outcomes. This book will be a great resource for parents.” —Rick Hazelton, Director of College Advising, The Hotchkiss School
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