Описание: Focuses on two questions. How can education abroad be embedded into undergraduate education so that students experience it as an integral component of their education? How can colleges and universities maximize the educational value of education abroad by forging stronger connections between it and other undergraduate experiences.
Описание: Focuses on two questions. How can education abroad be embedded into undergraduate education so that students experience it as an integral component of their education? How can colleges and universities maximize the educational value of education abroad by forging stronger connections between it and other undergraduate experiences.
Описание: This collection explores student mobility and study abroad programmes across Europe, presenting original research on personal, linguistic, and intercultural development during study abroad experiences.The volume synthesizes work from the 2016-2020 Cost Action 15130 ‘Study Abroad Research in European Perspective’ research network, offering a multidisciplinary account of the intersection of language learning and study abroad in Europe amidst the changing contemporary higher education landscape, as well as new directions for future research. The initial section comprises short survey chapters outlining key themes and literature, connecting traditional study abroad research with new multilingual and transnational realities. This is supported by a main section containing original empirical studies in a wide range of European contexts and a short afterword bringing together policy and pedagogical proposals. Taken together, the collection shines a light on the impact of the internationalisation of higher education on linguistic dimensions of student mobility while including a range of lesser studied settings and languages. New insights are offered on language learning, identity, interculturality, student agency and motivation, and transnational social networks in the study abroad context.This book will be of particular interest to students, researchers and institutions interested in the intersection of language learning and study abroad, including such areas as multilingualism, higher education, and applied linguistics.Chapter 8 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Описание: This is a riveting book that contains a compilation of powerful essays that cogently argue why multicultural education is important for educational leaders. Using a critical multicultural framework the contributors of this powerful book highlight the varying ways racism finds its way into schools.
Описание: Online education continues to permeate mainstream teaching techniques in higher education settings. Teaching upper-level classes in an online setting is having a major impact on education as a whole and is fundamentally altering global learning.Cases on Critical and Qualitative Perspectives in Online Higher Education offers a collection of informal, personalised articles that identify, describe and examine actual experiential domains of online programme and course production. Administrators, developers, instructors, staff, technical support and students in the field of online higher education will benefit from these case studies to reinforce and enhance their work.
Описание: Through innovative analysis of theory and practice, this book offers refreshing critical perspectives on service-learning in higher education. It constructs a theoretical paradigm for service-learning which extends to critical pedagogy, and investigates critical reflection and academic reflective writing, supported throughout by empirical evidence.
Описание: Now the largest and fastest-growing ethnic population in the U.S., Latino students face many challenges and complexities when it comes to college choice and access. This edited volume provides much needed theoretical and empirical data on how the schooling experiences of Latino students shape their educational aspirations and access to higher education. It explores how the individual and collective influence of the home, school and policy shape the college decision-making process. This unique collection of original scholarly articles offers critical insight on educational pathways that will help families, educators and policy makers intervene in ways that foster and sustain college access and participation for Latino students. It considers destination preferences and enrollment selections, elementary and secondary school experiences, and intervention programs that shed light on how practitioners can promote participation and retention. This multi-conceptual, multi-methodological volume offers directions for future research, programming and policy in Latino education.
College athletes are at the very center of emerging campus debates over their legal, financial, and academic role. Amid ongoing litigation and pressure from internal and external stakeholders, many policy makers and university leaders are scrambling to determine the nature of this role. This timely and comprehensive volume identifies and discusses bylaws and legal decisions that have impacted the college athlete's ability to pursue higher education. It also explains and critiques the formal policies of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and member institutions while examining critical issues relevant to the growing fields of sport management, athletic administration, and sports law.
Aimed at anyone seeking to enhance their understanding of the intercollegiate athletics landscape, College Athletes' Rights and Well-Being is divided into four sections. The first lays out the historical foundations that have shaped the intercollegiate athletic experience. Subsequent sections describe the principles, structures, and conditions that influence how athletes experience campus life, as well as the increasingly commercialized business enterprise of college sports.
Told from the perspective of athletes and written by leading scholars and researchers, the book's sixteen chapters are enhanced with useful lists of key terms and conversation-provoking discussion questions. Touching on everything from concussion protocols and collective bargaining to amateurism, Title IX's gender-separate allowance, and conference realignment, this important book is designed for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, scholars, educators, practitioners, policy makers, athletic administrators, and advocates of college athletes.
Автор: Rice Suzanne, Rud A. G. Название: Educational Dimensions of School Lunch: Critical Perspectives ISBN: 3319725165 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319725161 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 3492.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Contributing authors-drawing from a variety of disciplinary traditions, including philosophy, sociology, and anthropology-examine school lunch policies and practices, social and cultural aspects of food and eating, and the relation among school food, the environment, and human and non-human animal well-being.
Название: Critical Perspectives on Black Women and College Success ISBN: 1138819468 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138819467 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 26796.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Critical Perspectives on Black Women and College Success presents theoretically grounded scholarship and research that explores the experiences of black undergraduate women in college from a wide range of perspectives.
Описание: Using international case studies it explores the extent to which critical thinking on global challenges is employed by higher education leaders and the potential for an increase in the role of critical thinking and its creative potential to transform institutions and communities.
Описание: Critical Perspectives on Black Women and College Success presents theoretically grounded scholarship and research that explores the experiences of black undergraduate women in college from a wide range of perspectives.
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