Описание: Among other commonly held beliefs about the drivers of postsecondary policy and financing, this book questions the current use of funding per student as the dominant indicator of the adequacy of state investment in higher education, and as a key driver of the costs of college.
State legislators balance the competing needs of education, health, transportation, and public safety budgets, and increasingly ask what return (ROI) they get for the funding they provide, including from higher education. This question means the forty-year era of advocating for higher education by comparing funding per student to a national average or last year’s result is no longer an effective gauge of funding adequacy for state policymakers.
The Science of Higher Education is an introduction to a new paradigm that explores state higher education funding, enrollment, completion, and supply (the number and type of institutions in a state) through the lens of what are commonly known as power laws. Power laws explain patterns in biological systems and characteristics of cities. Like cities, state higher education systems are complex adaptive systems, so it is little surprise that power laws also explain funding, enrollment, completion and supply.
The scale relationships uncovered in The Science of Higher Education suggest the potential benefits state policymakers could derive by emphasizing enrollment, completion or capacity policies, based on economies of scale, marginal benefits, and the return state’s get on enrollment and completion for the funding they provide.
The various features of state higher education systems that conform to scale patterns do not alone provide definitive answers for appropriate funding levels, however. As this book addresses, policy makers need to take into account the macro forces, from demography to geography and the economy, that situate the system, as well the interactions between government and market actors that are at the core of every state higher education system and influence the outcomes it achieves.
Описание: Higher education is a central institution in U.S. democracy. In the 2010s, however, many states that spent previous decades building up their higher education systems began to tear them down. Growing hostility toward higher education reflected changing social forces that remade the politics of U.S. higher education. The political Right became increasingly reliant on angry white voters as higher education became more racially diverse. The Republican party became more closely connected to extremely wealthy donors as higher education became more costly. In Wrecked, Barrett J. Taylor shows how these social changes set a collision course for the Right and higher education. These attacks fed a policy agenda of deinstitutionalization, which encompassed stark divestment from higher education but was primarily characterized by an attack on the institution's social foundation of public trust. In response to these attacks, higher education officials have offered a series of partial defenses that helped higher education to cope in the short-term but did nothing to defend the institution itself against the long-term threat of declining public trust. The failure to address underlying issues of mistrust allowed conflict to escalate to the point at which many states are now wrecking their public higher education systems. Wrecked offers a unique and compelling perspective linking higher education policymaking to broader social and political forces acting in the twenty-first century.
Описание: Higher education is a central institution in U.S. democracy. In the 2010s, however, many states that spent previous decades building up their higher education systems began to tear them down. Growing hostility toward higher education reflected changing social forces that remade the politics of U.S. higher education. The political Right became increasingly reliant on angry white voters as higher education became more racially diverse. The Republican party became more closely connected to extremely wealthy donors as higher education became more costly. In Wrecked, Barrett J. Taylor shows how these social changes set a collision course for the Right and higher education. These attacks fed a policy agenda of deinstitutionalization, which encompassed stark divestment from higher education but was primarily characterized by an attack on the institution's social foundation of public trust. In response to these attacks, higher education officials have offered a series of partial defenses that helped higher education to cope in the short-term but did nothing to defend the institution itself against the long-term threat of declining public trust. The failure to address underlying issues of mistrust allowed conflict to escalate to the point at which many states are now wrecking their public higher education systems. Wrecked offers a unique and compelling perspective linking higher education policymaking to broader social and political forces acting in the twenty-first century.
Автор: Brown, Roger, Название: Everything for sale? : ISBN: 0415809797 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415809795 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: As well as helping to explain the evolution of British higher education over the past thirty years, this book contains some important messages about the consequences of introducing or extending market competition in universities` core activities of teaching and research.
Автор: Ryoko Tsuneyoshi Название: Globalization and Japanese "exceptionalism " in education : ISBN: 1138915351 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138915350 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book provides an insider`s account of how the Japanese educational system is trying to meet that challenge while placing the developments in a larger international context.
Part I: English-Medium Instruction (EMI) Policy at the Macro Level in Context.- Chapter 1. Academic English Language Policies and Practices of English-Medium Instruction Universities in Turkey from Policy Actors' Eyes.- Chapter 2. English-Medium Instruction in Northern Cyprus: Problems, Possibilities, and Prospects.- Chapter 3. Reflections on English-Medium Instruction in Turkish Higher Education Institutions, Educational Quality and Insights from International Experience.- Chapter 4. Internationalization, Mobility and English-Medium Instruction in the Context of Turkish Higher Education.- Chapter 5. Stakeholder Perspectives on the Use of English-Medium Instruction (EMI) in Turkish Universities.- Part II: Focus on Teaching Through English Medium Instruction (EMI).- Chapter 6. Multi-level EMI Policy Implementation in Turkey's Higher Education: Navigating Ideological Tensions.- Chapter 7. Turkish Undergraduates' Perspectives on EMI: A Framework Induced Analysis of Policies and Processes.- Chapter 8. Content and Language in EMI Assessment Practices: Challenges and Beliefs at an Engineering Faculty in Turkey.- Chapter 9. A Closer Look at the Doctoral Writing Practices in an English-Medium Instruction University in Turkey.- Chapter 10. Training Language Teachers for English-Medium Instruction (EMI) Contexts Through the Use of Augmented Reality.- Part III Focus on Learning Through English Medium Instruction.- Chapter 11. Questioning the Metacognitive Reading Strategies in an English-Medium Instruction (EMI) Setting.- Chapter 12. Exploring the Functions of Okay as a Discourse Marker in an English-Medium Instruction Class.- Chapter 13. Why Student Retention Matters for Turkish EMI Universities?.- Part IV Directions for English-Medium Instruction in Turkey.- Chapter 14. The EMI Quality Management Program: A Novel Solution Model.- Chapter 15. Review and Final Thoughts: The Future of English-Medium Instruction in Turkey.
Описание: The contributors examine the latest research on pressing challenges, explore how states are coping with these challenges, and consider what the future holds for public postsecondary education in the United States.
Автор: Blackmore Paul Название: Strategic Curriculum Change ISBN: 0415809347 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415809344 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 5664.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The curriculum is a live issue in universities across the world. Many stakeholders - governments, employers, professional and disciplinary groups and parents - express strong and often conflicting views about what higher education should achieve for its students.
Many universities are reviewing their curricula at an institutional level, aware that they are in a competitive climate in which league tables encourage students to see themselves as consumers and the university as a product, or even a 'brand'. The move has prompted renewed concern for some central educational questions, about both what is learnt and how.
Strategic Curriculum Change explores the ways in which major universities across the world are reviewing their approaches to teaching and learning. It unites institution-level strategy with the underlying educational issues. The book is grounded in a major study of curriculum change in over twenty internationally-focused, research-intensive universities in the UK, US, Australia, The Netherlands, South Africa and Hong Kong. Chapters include:
Achieving curriculum coherence: Curriculum design and delivery as social practice
Assessment in curriculum change
The whole-of-institution curriculum renewal undertaken by the University of Melbourne, 2005-2011
The physical and virtual environment for learning
People and change: Academic work and leadership
This book presents a theorised and contextualised approach to the study of the curriculum, and carries on much-needed research on the curriculum in higher education. It is an essential for the collection of all academics at university level, and those involved in policy making, quality assurance and enhancement.
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