Ihr Selbstverständnis als Studierender, aus der Schulzeit übernommene Lerngewohnheitenund Ihre (unbewusste) Einstellung zum Lernen entscheiden oft mehr über den Erfolg oder Misserfolg im Studium als alle mühsamen Anstrengungen. Die engagierte Hoch-schulprofessorin und zertifizie…
A provocative look at the troubled present state of American higher education and a passionately argued and learned manifesto for its future. Educator Mark C. Taylor expands on the ideas in his hugely controversial 2009 New York Times op-ed. His suggestions for the ivory tower a…
This book argues for renewed understandings of academic activism, understandings that conceive of the ideas, arguments and scholarship of the academe as embedded within the practices of what the academy does. It examines why and how a renewed notion of academic activism informs …
This title explores the development of the Labour Party's policy on higher education from 1945 to 2000. The book questions the place higher education has occupied within Labour ideology.
"Recent decades have seen unprecedented growth in the number of students travelling abroad for the purpose of short-term academic study. As such, attention is turning to the role that education abroad can have in enhancing student learning and producing global-ready graduates. T…
"Universities continue to expand bringing considerable debate about their purposes and relationship to the world. In The Ecological University, Ronald Barnett argues that universities fall short of their potential and responsibilities in an ever changing and challenging environm…
"Who gets into elite universities, how and why? What are places like Harvard in the United States or Cambridge in England looking for when they admit undergraduate students? What qualities do selectors value and how do they decide between many applicants with often stellar attai…
