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Author : Paul G. Friedman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015011199257
Author : Anne L. Corn,Lynnette M. Henderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135064976
Highlighting the work of 17 distinguished national authors, this special issue suggests a new course for the field of gifted education -- one that emphasizes the individual and suggests that the focus of gifted education be dynamic and contextual. From legal perspectives to changing concepts of giftedness, talent, and assessement; from using new technologies to identify differences in brain structures to using new research paradigms to reveal the nature of giftedness; from compelling reasons for early intervention to tailoring opportunities for college-ready gifed persons, this two-part issues of PJE exposes new dimensions along which paths between previously held beliefs and practices and new courses for thought and action can be forged. A parental perspective is also included.
Author : James J. F. Forest,Kevin Kinser
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2002-06-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781576078969
Surveys the changing landscape of American higher education, from academic freedom to virtual universities, from campus crime to Pell Grants, from the Student Privacy Act to student diversity. In the years following World War II, college and university enrollment doubled, students revolted, faculty unionized, and community colleges evolved. Tuition and technology soared, as did the number of first-generation, minority, and women students. These changes radically transformed the American system of postsecondary education. Today, that system is in trouble. Its aging professoriate prepares for retirement, but low academic salaries can no longer attract the best minds to replace them. A flood of corporate dollars funds commercial research, but money for basic research—the seedbed of American scientific preeminence—has dried up. Colleges and universities also face heated competition with for-profit education providers for students, faculty, and external financial support, along with the costs of providing remedial education to growing numbers of students who are unprepared for postsecondary education. Higher Education in the United States provides a comprehensive analysis of these issues and others that scholars and practitioners of higher education study, discuss, and grapple with on a daily basis.
Author : Marca V.C. Wolfensberger
Publisher : Waxmann Verlag
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783830978237
What exactly are the characteristics of honors pedagogy? What are the teaching strategies that are particularly relevant and successful for academically gifted and motivated students? In spite of the substantial body of literature about the practice of honors education, largely referring to the United States, very little systematic and empirical research has been done about honors pedagogy. This study contributes to a better understanding of honors pedagogies, focusing not just on what might distinguish honors teaching and learning from standard expectations and methodologies but also on how honors pedagogy offers both instructors and students an opportunity to fundamentally rethink their philosophy of education. The present study points out the similar and different approaches and dispositions in American and Dutch honors teaching. Cultural differences, distinctive educational systems, and diverse priorities play a role in defining both the shared and unique perspectives on honors education in both countries. Therefore, a baseline comparison is made between American and Dutch honors teachers with respect to their teaching strategies.
Author : Marca V.C. Wolfensberger,Lyndsay Drayer,Judith J.M. Volker
Publisher : Waxmann Verlag
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783830981589
Pursuit of Excellence in a Networked Society gives an overview of research and practice, describing and exploring efforts toward continuous improvement in programming to promote excellence. The talent development of students and teachers is a hot topic in today's knowledge-based society which increasingly demands innovative, reflective, and globally-aware citizens. Educational programmes especially designed to prepare academically motivated students for their future role now wrap around the globe. Therefore, in order to support continuous growth and opportunities for challenging our advanced learners, we have opened up new ways for sharing knowledge and to encourage the building up of partnerships and conversations between researchers and teachers. The Research Centre for Talent Development in Higher Education and Society, headed by Marca Wolfensberger and based at Hanze University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands, organised the first international conference 'Evoking Excellence in Higher Education and Beyond'. As Joseph Renzullli says in the foreword, this conference brought together scholars and educators from around the world to share their work in promoting high-level learning experiences. Presenters discussed their research and practical efforts in honours programmes, gifted programmes, and other contexts aimed at evoking excellence. This book offers a selection of the work of those presenting at this conference. Across six chapters, the following topics are discussed: teaching strategies, culture of excellence, students' perspectives, professional excellence, ethics and intercultural perspectives, and giftedness across educational sectors. The book offers readers a comprehensive view of the field of excellence in education as well as an overview for readers interested in setting-up initiatives to foster excellence among their own students and employees.
Author : Joseph L. Murray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317432265
There is growing interest in undergraduate research, given its benefits to students, faculty members, and the institution. For higher education scholars, faculty, and administrators, this book logically synthesizes the literature to demonstrate its impact on facilitation of learning and engagement and to chart a course for expanding and improving these opportunities. This book provides a comprehensive overview of undergraduate research as a "high-impact practice" in postsecondary education, from its theoretical underpinnings and research-base, to student participation and faculty incentives. This important resource offers analysis of the current state of undergraduate research, explores challenges and unresolved questions affecting undergraduate research, and provides implications for research and practice.
Author : Phoebe A. Dauz-Williams,Arthur R. Williams
Publisher : Goodwill Trading Co., Inc.
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Community health services
ISBN : 9711110954
Author : Roger L. Geiger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351500081
The early twentieth century witnessed the rise of middle-class mass periodicals that, while offering readers congenial material, also conveyed new depictions of manliness, liberal education, and the image of business leaders. "Should Your Boy Go to College?" asked one magazine story; and for over two decades these middle-class magazines answered, in numerous permutations, with a collective "yes!" In the course of interpreting these themes they reshaped the vision of a college education, and created the ideal of a college-educated businessman.Volume 24 of the Perspectives on the History of Higher Education: 2005 provides historical studies touching on contemporary concerns--gender, high-ability students, academic freedom, and, in the case of the Barnes Foundation, the authority of donor intent. Daniel Clark discusses the nuanced changes that occurred to the image of college at the turn of the century. Michael David Cohen offers an important corrective to stereotypes about gender relations in nineteenth-century coeducational colleges. Jane Robbins traces how the young National Research Council embraced the cause of how to identify and encourage superior students as a vehicle for incorporating wartime advances in psychological testing. Susan R. Richardson considers the long Texas tradition of political interference in university affairs. Finally, Edward Epstein and Marybeth Gasman shed historical light on the recent controversy surrounding the Barnes Foundation.The volume also contains brief descriptions of twenty recent doctoral dissertations in the history of higher education. This serial publication will be of interest to historians, sociologists, and of course, educational policymakers.
Author : Shelley H. Billig,Melody A. Bowdon,Barbara A. Holland
Publisher : IAP
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781607529576
This eighth volume in the Advances in Service-Learning Research series includes eight essays selected from manuscripts submitted by participants in the seventh annual conference of the International Association of Research in Service-Learning and Community Engagement, held in Tampa, Florida, in October, 2007. The volume builds upon the theme of that conference: "Sustainability and Scholarship: Research and the K-20 Continuum," bringing together the work of scholars from K-12 and higher education to argue for the connection between rigorous and purposeful research and sustainable service-learning and civic engagement. Articles range from models for program-level assessment to examples of significant field-based research projects to approaches to advance discipline-based sustainable impacts to connections between civic education and sustainable communities. Voices of community partners, students, faculty members, administrators, and discipline-based organizations are part of the conversation, and each of the essays raises important challenges for future research that can help to shape, document, and sustain the important impacts of work in this field.
Author : Virginia N. Gordon
Publisher : Charles C Thomas Publisher
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780398077068
This book focuses on the unique needs of college students who are undecided regarding a field of study and/or career path, and the various approaches that advisors and counselors may take. The text draws on extensive research, both recent and historical, and explores what is most effective in successful universities today. The text explores the many and varied reasons that lead college students to be undecided, and the different solutions that will assist the student in coping with their circumstances and reaching a successful resolution. This updated version includes many ways in which the Internet serves as a useful tool for assisting gathering resources for the undecided college student. Advisors, counselors, and faculty will all glean useful theoretical and practical information from this text that can be applied in individual counseling, group settings, and workshops.
Author : Arthur Sandeen
Publisher : Charles C Thomas Publisher
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Case method
ISBN : 9780398086022
In view of the serious challenges facing college and university administrators, it is encouraging to note the increased interest in improving leadership knowledge and skills. This book presents an additional option to college and university administrators in their efforts to enhance their leadership skills. The case study approach to improving insights and skills in leadership is predicated on the belief that leadership is learned, and that it often requires courage to act and to live with the consequences of one's actions. The book includes 18 cases on a variety of issues being faced by college and university leaders. Its purpose is to encourage administrators to enhance their ability to make decisions by focusing on the decision-making process and by thinking about the consequences of the various options available to them. The options presented in each case can be expanded by those studying and discussing them or revised to meet their personal preferences. Questions to encourage further discussion are presented at the end of each case, including a list of suggested readings that are related to the case. The cases are organized into four sections: (1) Raising Money and Funding of Services, (2) Athletics and Facilities, (3) Academic Policies and Issues, and (4) Student Service Issues. The cases represent realistic but fictitious issues at a variety of colleges and universities. The issues, the names of the institutions are fictitious, any resemblance to any actual institution or person is entirely coincidental.
Author : Hayward Derrick Horton,Lori Latrice Martin,Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781498549004
Race, Population Studies, and America's Public Schools: A Critical Demography Perspective explores the paradigm of critical demography—established in the late 1990s which articulates the manner in which the social structure differentiates dominant and subordinate populations. Moreover, critical demography necessitates explicit discussions and examinations of the nature of power and how it perpetuates the existing social order. Hence, in the case of race in education, it is imperative that racism is central to the analysis. Racism elucidates that which often goes ignored or unexplained by conventional scholars. Consequently, the critical demography paradigm fills an important void in the study of public education in American schools.
Author : Gilad James, PhD
Publisher : Gilad James Mystery School
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781984213655
Fairleigh Dickinson University (FDU) is a private university in New Jersey with two main campuses: one in Madison and the other in Teaneck. Founded in 1942 by Dr. Peter Sammartino and his wife, the university began as a two-year junior college with a mission to provide education to veterans returning from World War II. Over the years, FDU has grown into a comprehensive university that offers undergraduate and graduate programs in various fields, including business, humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, engineering, nursing, and more. FDU is known for its commitment to global education and diversity. The university offers study abroad programs and has campuses in Canada, England, and France. It also has a diverse student body with international students from over 75 different countries. FDU is a member of the NCAA Division III and offers a range of sports programs for men and women, including basketball, soccer, volleyball, and track and field. The university has a strong commitment to community service and hosts various events to promote social responsibility and volunteerism. Overall, FDU remains committed to its mission of providing quality education to all students in a diverse and inclusive environment.
Author : John McLeod,A. J. Cropley
Publisher : Pergamon
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0080364608
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1110 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015021467835
