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Considers the ethical basis of fundamental university policies, with special emphasis on how issues of community and diversity influence education.

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Considers the ethical basis of fundamental university policies, with special emphasis on how issues of community and diversity influence education.

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Despite the small percentage of Asian scholars in U.S. academe (4.7%), they are the fastest growing academic group since the 1980s, particularly in the fields of science and engineering.

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Presents a monograph investigating the research, development, policy and practice of teaching and learning in Higher Education. This title offers readers an insight into the way in which teaching and learning in higher education have been researched and explained. It places these explanations in the broader context of social science research.

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An investigation of the research, development, policy and practice of teaching and learning in Higher Education. It examines the ways in which teaching-learning interactions are shaped by teaching-learning environments, student and academic identities, disciplinary knowledge practices and institutional cultures.

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An exploration of how universities in South Africa are struggling to transform themselves into more inclusive and equitable institutions. It includes case studies of South African tertiary institutions and the experiences of black South African students enrolled at them.

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This book views them more relationally as archetypes of various teaching presences on a flow-line ranging from teacher-dominated at one end to totally student-centered at the other.

After examining the relational aspects of teaching, Reinsmith then provides a chapter on each of the teaching forms on the continuum.

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This reference book surveys the state of higher education in Asia and thus provides a valuable perspective on changes in Eastern society.

An introductory essay discusses the current state of Asian higher education and provides a useful context for the rest of the work.

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Suitable reading for further education (FE) lecturers, this guide offers a general introduction to unravelling the maze of assessment in FE. It provides readers with hints and strategies for answering the key questions, including why, what, how and where to assess.

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With the national reform and research agendas occurring in teacher education, one of the most important areas needing theoretical analysis and empirical research is assessment and evaluation. New initiatives in the education of teachers and new roles in professional practice demand new means to assess both learning and performance.

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With the national reform and research agendas occurring in teacher education, one of the most important areas needing theoretical analysis and empirical research is assessment and evaluation. New initiatives in the education of teachers and new roles in professional practice demand new means to assess both learning and performance.

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The evolution of MIT, as seen in a series of crucial decisions over the years.

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This book tracks the dramatic outcomes of the federal government's growing involvement in higher education between World War I and the 1970s, and the conservative backlash against that involvement from the 1980s onward. Using cutting-edge analysis, Christopher Loss recovers higher education's central importance to the larger social and political hi

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Black colleges are central to the delivery of higher education. The policy and praxis challenges exhibited at black colleges serve as exemplars to how all colleges perform their respective functions in society.

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Presenting a concise history of British universities and their place in society over eight centuries, this book gives an analysis of the university problems and policies as seen in the light of that history. It explains how the modern university system has developed since the Victorian era, giving attention to changes in policy since the WWII.

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Teachers will use this book as a quick but intensive way to brush up on their grammar skills and a guide to hands-on ways to teach grammar concepts.

Brushing Up on Grammar: An Acts of Teaching Approach is grounded in a belief that grammar should be taught within the context of writing and reading.

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Since the early 1980s, the rapidly increasing cost of college, together with what many see as inadequate attention to teaching, has elicited a barrage of protest. Buying the Best looks at the realities behind these criticisms--at the economic factors that are in fact driving the institutions that have been described as machines without brakes. In d

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