Present Successes And Future Challenges In Honors Education

Author : Robert Grover,Katherine O'Flaherty
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475818284

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Present Successes and Future Challenges in Honors Education by Robert Grover,Katherine O'Flaherty Pdf

Present Successes and Future Challenges in Honors Education is the first volume in an edited series examining the proliferation of honors programs and colleges in American higher education. While honors education has become ubiquitous in American higher education, this transformation has happened without systematic attempts to align what honors means across institutions, and absent a universally agreed upon definitions of what honors is and what it might aspire to be in the future. This generates possibility and flexibility, while also creating rather serious challenges. The contributors document the decades-long structural transformations that led to the rise of honors education while also providing perspective on the present and future challenges in honors education. The chapters address such issues as ensuring equity in honors, how we ought to think about student success and frame this for external stakeholders, and how the diffusion of honors-inspired pedagogies elsewhere in the university forces us to rethink our mission and our day-to-day practice. Throughout, their investigations are grounded in the present while turning a keen and perceptive eye to the future.

Author : Robert Grover,Katherine O'Flaherty
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475831481

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Structural Challenges and the Future of Honors Education by Robert Grover,Katherine O'Flaherty Pdf

Structural Challenges and the Future of Honors Education is the third volume in an edited series examining the proliferation of honors programs and colleges in American higher education. While honors education has become ubiquitous in American higher education, this transformation has happened without systematic attempts to align what honors means across institutions, and absent a universally agreed upon definitions of what honors is and what it might aspire to be in the future. This generates possibility and flexibility, while also creating rather serious challenges. Many such challenges are structural: perpetual budgetary constraints, changing expectations about the role of high education and the “return” it ought to provide to the student, and the changing technological landscape of higher education and society more generally. The contributors here examine the structural challenges honors education currently faces and those forces it is likely to confront in the future, offering insights about how honors might respond creatively to these present and future challenges.

Author : Robert Grover,Katherine O'Flaherty
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475829945

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Continuity and Innovation in Honors College Curricula by Robert Grover,Katherine O'Flaherty Pdf

Continuity and Innovation in Honors College Curricula is the second volume in the edited series Honors Education in Transition, which examines the proliferation of honors programs and colleges in American higher education. While honors education has become ubiquitous in American higher education, this transformation has happened without systematic attempts to align what honors means across institutions, and absent a universally agreed upon definitions of what honors is and what it might aspire to be in the future. This generates possibility and flexibility, while also creating rather serious challenges. This book examines dynamic attempts to think creatively about curriculum, a hallmark of honors in higher education. The authors document and discuss innovative attempts ranging from service-learning to international education to innovative ways to blend disciplinary models of pedagogy with honors teaching. Throughout, their investigations are grounded in the present while turning a keen and perceptive eye to the future.

Author : Mirosław Pawlak,Anna Mystkowska-Wiertelak
Publisher : Springer
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319669755

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Challenges of Second and Foreign Language Education in a Globalized World by Mirosław Pawlak,Anna Mystkowska-Wiertelak Pdf

This edited collection brings together papers by eminent scholars who attempt to demonstrate how challenges can most successfully be ameliorated with an eye to enhancing the effectiveness of the processes of language teaching and learning. In Part One, emphasis is placed on challenges that second language education has to face, both those more general, dealing with language policy issues, and those more specific, concerned with instructional options in the language classroom. Part Two focuses on challenges involved in researching the processes of teaching and learning in the second and foreign languages classroom, both with respect to research methodology and efforts to tap some variables impinging upon the effects of instruction. Finally, Part Three is devoted to challenges involved in second and foreign language teacher education, the quality of which to a large extent determines the outcomes of second language education in any educational context.

Author : J. Mantas,A. Hasman,R. Haux
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781643683416

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Achievements, Milestones and Challenges in Biomedical and Health Informatics by J. Mantas,A. Hasman,R. Haux Pdf

The technological advances in Biomedical and Health Informatics (BMHI) in the last 4 decades could barely have been imagined when the field was in its infancy. At the time, computers were large and unwieldy, memory was measured in kilobytes, and the Internet was accessible only to people in the technology professions. How the world has changed. The skills of BMHI are now essential for everyone who participates in healthcare, from practitioners and researchers to administrators and patients. This book presents the 17 accepted papers of the International Symposium on Achievements, Milestones, and Challenges in Biomedical and Health Informatics (BMHI), held in Athens, Greece, on 29 October 2022. This event marks the retirement of Professor John Mantas, whose career in BMHI spans over 40 years, and a number of eminent colleagues from around the world were invited to present original review papers in their respective domains, not only to celebrate the work of Professor Mantas, but to review the achievements, milestones, and challenges of BMHI. Most of those presenting papers have worked in the field for decades, and their collective experience and wisdom highlights the accomplishments and limitations of the field. Each paper was peer reviewed by 3 independent reviewers before being thoroughly revised ensuring the high quality of the accepted papers. The book is dedicated to the entire BMHI community. It covers the achievements attained, the milestones reached, and the challenges which have been overcome or which have not been conquered, and provides knowledge and perspective for both learners and practitioners in the field.

Author : Vicki Phelps,Karah Lewis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000771718

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Strength-Based Goal Setting in Gifted Education by Vicki Phelps,Karah Lewis Pdf

This must-have resource provides you with the tools needed to implement a strength-based approach for leading gifted and high-potential learners to Purposeful Empowerment in Goal Setting (PEGS). Expertly developed from Gagné’s (2021) DMGT Talent Development Model, PEGS incorporates self-regulation, self-reflection, and self-advocacy strategies into the goal-setting process for gifted and high-potential learners. Whether setting goals to address underachievement, twice-exceptional needs, or current or future aspirations, this book provides the guidelines and resources necessary to empower gifted learners to develop student agency and gain key insights into how their own social-emotional awareness impacts effective goal-setting. Gifted specialists, school counselors, classroom teachers, and academic coaches will find the ready-to-use forms, resources, tools, and strategies provided in this text an invaluable contribution toward their mission to guide and empower gifted and high-potential learners in the goal-setting and goal-achieving process.

Author : Rakich, Sladjana S.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781668475577

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Cases on Current Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities in School Counseling by Rakich, Sladjana S. Pdf

The counseling profession has greatly evolved from its vocational roots in the early 20th century. New professional demands resulting from dynamic student needs are once again reshaping the field of educational counseling. Contemporary issues facing students and schools often require a multi-disciplinary problem-solving approach. Cases on Current Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities in School Counseling showcases the interdisciplinary work done at the intersection of teaching and learning to support holistic student development in a PK-12 educational setting. The book presents current cases that illustrate common challenges and provide solutions or examples of approaches to guide educational practitioners in their development and work. Covering topics such as cultural proficiency, parental empowerment, and professional identity formulation, this casebook is an essential resource for educational counselors, school counselors-in-training, educators, administrators, pre-service teachers, teacher educators, researchers, and academicians.

Author : R. Bruce Williams
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-03-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781412961127

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Twelve Roles of Facilitators for School Change by R. Bruce Williams Pdf

This updated edition shows school leaders how to become powerful agents of school change. The author provides 55 tools to aid in the transformation and reform process, allowing all participants to develop skills that foster communication, consensus, and schoolwide support. This valuable resource outlines twelve roles based on the four main functions of effective facilitators: leading the collaboration and change process, providing skills training, acting as a resource consultant, and motivating and energizing the group.

Author : Watfa, Mohamed K.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781613501245

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E-Healthcare Systems and Wireless Communications: Current and Future Challenges by Watfa, Mohamed K. Pdf

There has been a dramatic increase in the utilization of wireless technologies in healthcare systems as a consequence of the wireless ubiquitous and pervasive communications revolution. Emerging information and wireless communication technologies in health and healthcare have led to the creation of e-health systems, also known as e-healthcare, which have been drawing increasing attention in the public and have gained strong support from government agencies and various organizations. E-Healthcare Systems and Wireless Communications: Current and Future Challenges explores the developments and challenges associated with the successful deployment of e-healthcare systems. The book combines research efforts in different disciplines including pervasive wireless communications, wearable computing, context-awareness, sensor data fusion, artificial intelligence, neural networks, expert systems, databases, and security. This work serves as a comprehensive reference for graduate students in bioengineering and also provides solutions for medical researchers who are faced with the challenge of designing and implementing a cost-effective pervasive and ubiquitous wireless communication system.

Author : Jesse Perez Mendez,Fred A. Bonner II,Josephine Méndez-Negrete,Robert T. Palmer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000976991

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Hispanic-Serving Institutions in American Higher Education by Jesse Perez Mendez,Fred A. Bonner II,Josephine Méndez-Negrete,Robert T. Palmer Pdf

This is the first book to exclusively address Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs), filling a major gap in both the research on these institutions and in our understanding of their approaches to learning and their role in supporting all students while focusing on Hispanic students. Born out of the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act of 1992 and are classified as such if their enrollment of Latino students account for a quarter of their undergraduate enrollment, the number of HSIs and their impact in higher education is growing. Today there are approximately 370 HSIs, 277 emerging HSIs, and their numbers are steadily increasing. Given the projected growth of the Latino population, and HSIs’ record of advancing the success for Hispanic students in STEM fields, as well as of graduating nearly a third of all Hispanic bachelor’s degree recipients, their work has important implications for higher education at large.Written by leading and rising scholars on HSIs, this book offers insight into the complexity of these institutions. It not only addresses historic policy origins, but also describes the experiences of various student populations served, faculty issues (i.e., governance, diversity, work/life experience, etc.), the impact of student affairs in advancing student development, and considers funding and philanthropy efforts. The book also critically examines challenges that many of these institutions face – disjointed mission statements regarding support of their Latino/a student populations, governance structures that support the status quo, and the financial incentive to achieve HSI designation that may not correlate with enhancing the climate for Latinos. This book touches on the many facets of HSIs, painting an organic mosaic of institutions in position to advance Latino postsecondary progress, both chronicling the contemporary challenges that these institutions face while also looking to their future.

Author : Dennis M McInerney
Publisher : Pearson Higher Education AU
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781486007073

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Educational Psychology: Constructing Learning by Dennis M McInerney Pdf

Educational Psychology: Constructing Learning 6e sets the standard for educational psychology texts in Australia and New Zealand, with its comprehensive, authoritative and research-based coverage of the subject. This edition includes completely updated content to reflect recent advances in the discipline, including revised theory into practice features from 39 international developmental psychologists. The author has retained the constructivist approach that made previous editions so engaging and relevant to student teachers, and content has been constructed around the new Australian Profession Standards for Teachers.

Author : Tsediso Michael Makoelle,Thabo Makhalemele.,Pierre du Plessis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000413892

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School Leadership for Democratic Education in South Africa by Tsediso Michael Makoelle,Thabo Makhalemele.,Pierre du Plessis Pdf

School Leadership for Democratic Education in South Africa explores the democratization and modernization of education in South Africa, analyzing the state of school leadership in South African schools from the time of the new democratic education dispensation in 1994 to the present day. The book maps out what the future of education in South Africa could look like and explores the most conducive educational environments for change in South African schools. It adopts a critical approach to analyzing leadership and management in the context of school governance, school effectiveness, teacher development, multiculturalism and equity in education. Contributions explore the democratization and modernization of education in South Africa through examining different perspectives, achievements and challenges, and also consider issues around access to technology, language policy and the curriculum along with new literature on selected aspects of leadership. This book will be of great interest for researchers, scholars, and students in the fields of educational leadership, sociology of education, and teacher education.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : MINN:30000010540262

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Resources in Education by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anthony F. Rotatori,Jeffrey P. Bakken,Festus E. Obiakor
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781783507429

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Gifted Education by Anthony F. Rotatori,Jeffrey P. Bakken,Festus E. Obiakor Pdf

This volume addresses the most current perspectives and issues related to giftedness and is written by leaders in the field. An excellent resource for special educators, administrators, mental health clinicians, school counselors, and psychologists, this volume addresses the different educational issues that impact this population.

Author : Catherine Compton-Lilly
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317279310

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Reading Students’ Lives by Catherine Compton-Lilly Pdf

Reading Students’ Lives documents literacy practices across time as children move through school, with a focus on issues of schooling, identity construction, and how students and their parents make sense of students’ lives across time. The final book in a series of four that track a group of low-income African American students and their parents across a decade, it follows the same children into high school, bringing to the forefront issues and insights that are invisible in shorter-term projects. This is a free-standing volume that breaks new ground both theoretically and methodologically and has important implications for children, schools, and educational research. Its significant contributions include the unique longitudinal nature of the study, the lens it casts on family literacy practices during high school years, the close and situated look at the experiences of children from communities that have been historically underserved by schools, and the factors that alltoooften cause many of these children to move further and further away from school, eventually dropping out or failing to graduate.