Higher Education

Master’s degree programmes are on the rise, attracting growing numbers of international students who speak English as a second or additional language This book explores the experiences of supervising and being supervised at Master’s level, charting the difficulties and joys of learning for second la..

Master’s degree programmes are on the rise, attracting growing numbers of international students who speak English as a second or additional language This book explores the experiences of supervising and being supervised at Master’s level, charting the difficulties and joys of learning for second la..

For more than 30 years, soil testing has been widely used as a basis for determining lime and fertilizer needs. Today, a number of procedures are used for determining everything from soil pH and lime requirement, to the level of extractable nutrient elements. And as the number of cropped fields bein..

Why do we see so little progress in diversifying faculty at America’s colleges, universities, and professional schools? This handbook answers that question and provides steps for hastening faculty diversity...

Why do we see so little progress in diversifying faculty at America’s colleges, universities, and professional schools? This handbook answers that question and provides steps for hastening faculty diversity...

This volume explores the critical role of family and community in the life and experiences of college students, showing how the the family experience may deepen higher education practice and analyzing the ways in which family and community are included, valued, or devalued in higher education...

This volume explores the critical role of family and community in the life and experiences of college students, showing how the the family experience may deepen higher education practice and analyzing the ways in which family and community are included, valued, or devalued in higher education...

_x000D_ Feedback in Higher and Professional Education explores what needs to be done to make feedback more effective. It examines the problem of feedback and suggests that there is a lack of clarity and shared meaning about what it is and what constitutes doing it well. It argues that new ways of th..

In Fostering Success of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in STEM, well-known contributors share salient institutional characteristics, unique aspects of climate, pedagogy, and programmatic initiatives at MSIs that are instrumental in enhancing the success of racial and ethnic minority students in STEM e..

In Fostering Success of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in STEM, well-known contributors share salient institutional characteristics, unique aspects of climate, pedagogy, and programmatic initiatives at MSIs that are instrumental in enhancing the success of racial and ethnic minority students in STEM e..

In liberal, democratic and capitalist societies today, we are increasingly invited to disclose our innermost thoughts to others. We are asked to turn our gaze inwards, scrutinizing ourselves, our behaviours and beliefs, while talking and writing about ourselves in these terms. This form of disclosur..

_x005F_x000D_ Freedom to Learn offers a radically new perspective on academic freedom from a student rights standpoint. It analyzes the effects of performative expectations on students drawing on the distinction between negative and positive rights to re-frame student academic freedom...