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DeVitis, Joseph L., Ed. – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2013
Mark Van Doren, the noted literary scholar, once remarked, "The college is meaningless without a curriculum, but it is more so when it has one that is meaningless." Many current critics of undergraduate curricula in America assent to the crucial need for programmatic renewal in our colleges and universities. They bemoan the cookie-cutter…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Higher Education, Liberal Arts, General Education
Arrison, Tom, Ed.; Olson, Steve, Ed. – National Academies Press, 2012
In October 2005, the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine released a policy report that served as a call to action. The report, "Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future" observed that "the scientific and technological building blocks…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Innovation, Science Education, Engineering
National Academies Press, 2011
"The Future of Nursing" explores how nurses' roles, responsibilities, and education should change significantly to meet the increased demand for care that will be created by health care reform and to advance improvements in America's increasingly complex health system. At more than 3 million in number, nurses make up the single…
Descriptors: Nursing, Role, Responsibility, Nursing Education
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Velliaris, Donna M., Ed.; Coleman-George, Deb, Ed. – IGI Global, 2016
Millions of students seek short- and long-term study abroad options every year, and this trend is a key illustration of the internationalization of higher education. Because a global perspective has become mandatory in the largely globalized workforce, many institutions look to study abroad programs to prepare their students. This outbound…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Higher Education, Global Approach, Student Mobility
Landrum, R. Eric, Ed.; McCarthy, Maureen A., Ed. – APA Books, 2012
Educators work within a fluid academic and social landscape that requires frequent examination and re-examination of what constitutes ethical practice. In this book, editors R. Eric Landrum and Maureen McCarthy identify four broad areas of concern in the ethical teaching of undergraduate psychology: pedagogy, student behavior, faculty behavior…
Descriptors: Grading, Academic Freedom, College Faculty, Evidence
Nielsen, Natalie – National Academies Press, 2011
Numerous teaching, learning, assessment, and institutional innovations in undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education have emerged in the past decade. Because virtually all of these innovations have been developed independently of one another, their goals and purposes vary widely. Some focus on making science…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Evidence, Engineering, Undergraduate Study
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Simmer-Brown, Judith, Ed.; Grace, Fran, Ed. – SUNY Press, 2011
"Meditation and the Classroom" inventively articulates how educators can use meditation to educate the whole student. Notably, a number of universities have initiated contemplative studies options and others have opened contemplative spaces. This represents an attempt to address the inner life. It is also a sign of a new era, one in…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Instruction, Higher Education, Religion Studies
Darrow, Alice Ann, Ed. – American Music Therapy Association, 2008
The second edition of "Introduction to Approaches in Music Therapy" includes a new introductory chapter that addresses historical perspectives on the approaches, a rationale for the categorization of approaches, and discussion on professional issues related to the use of these approaches. Each of the chapters addressing approaches includes updated…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Music Education, Music, Music Therapy
Totten, Samuel, Ed.; Pedersen, Jon, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2012
Educating About Social Issues in the 20th and 21st Centuries: A Critical Annotated Bibliography, is comprised of critical essays accompanied by annotated bibliographies on a host of programs, models, strategies and concerns vis-a-vis teaching and learning about social issues facing society. The primary goal of the book is to provide undergraduate…
Descriptors: Integrated Curriculum, Social Problems, Critical Theory, Propaganda
Stewart, Trae, Ed.; Webster, Nicole, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2010
Interest in and research on civic engagement and service-learning have increased exponentially. In this rapid growth, efforts have been made to institutionalize pedagogies of engagement across both K-12 and higher education. As a result, increased positive attention has been complemented equally by well-founded critiques complicating experiential…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Critical Theory, Evaluators, Elementary Secondary Education
Morrison, Timothy, Ed.; Martin, Linda, Ed.; Boggs, Merry, Ed.; Szabo, Susan, Ed.; Haas, Leslie, Ed. – Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers, 2011
For its 54th annual meeting, the Association of Educators and Researchers met in Omaha, Nebraska at the Hilton Omaha. This year's conference theme was "Literacy Promises", which was also used as the title for this year's Yearbook, Volume 33. This organization has long been the home of some of the nation's most notable literacy experts. At the…
Descriptors: Expertise, Conferences (Gatherings), Undergraduate Study, Reading Comprehension
Neubauer, Deane E., Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
The nature of higher education is by no means fixed: it has evolved over time; different models of higher education co-exist alongside each other at present; and, worldwide, there are demands for higher education to change to better help support economic growth and to better fit changing social and economic circumstances. This book examines, from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Asians, Educational Policy
Bartels, Kirsten Allen, Ed.; Parker, Kelly A., Ed. – Stylus Publishing, LLC, 2011
Over the coming decades, every academic discipline will have to respond to the paradigm of more sustainable life practices because students will be living in a world challenged by competition for resources and climate change, and will demand that every academic discipline demonstrate substantial and corresponding relevance. This book takes as its…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Administrator Education, Undergraduate Study, Writing (Composition)
Miller, Thomas; Kuh, George D.; Paine, Dorie – NASPA - Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, 2006
Students' expectations for college form the foundation for the nature of the relationship they have with their college or university. "Taking Expectations Seriously: A Guide for Campus Applications" is the companion guide to "Promoting Reasonable Expectations: Aligning Student and Institutional Views of the College Experience" (Jossey-Bass, 2005).…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Faculty, Student Attitudes, College Students
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Orleans, Myron, Ed. – IGI Global, 2014
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…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Electronic Learning, Case Studies, Instruction
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