Higher Education Exchange between America and the Middle East through the Twentieth Century reveals the inspirations behind post-war initiatives such as AMIDEAST and the Fulbright Program and their impacts on education exchange. Brawner discusses enrollments by country and the factors that influenced education exchange through the end of the twentieth century. Included throughout are stories of…
Following a brief review of the historical background, Higher Education Exchange between America and the Middle East in the Twenty-First Century continues the higher education story with the events of 9/11. It describes the changes in US immigration policy and the implementation of student tracking systems, and their subsequent impact on Middle Eastern enrollments in US colleges and universitie…
Higher Education and the Palestinian Minority in Israel examines perceptions concerning the characteristics of higher education acquisition in the indigenous Palestinian Arab minority in Israel. Arar and Haj-Yehia show that Palestinian Arabs in Israel clearly understand the benefit of an academic degree as a lever for social status and integration within the state of Israel. The authors discuss…
Introduction by B. Gloria Guzman Johannessen -- Part I Mentoring Politics, Policies, and Practices in Higher Education -- Mentoring in and Outside Institutional Politics, Policies, and Practices by B. Gloria Guzman Johannessen and Laurette Bristol -- A Website Analysis of Mentoring Programs for Latina Faculty at the 25 Top-Rank National Universities by Beverly J. Irby, Detra Johnson, Nahed Abde…
1. Dialogic Reflection: An Exploration of its Embodied, Imaginative, and Reflective Dynamic -- Section One: Arts-Based Approaches -- 2. Photography as Reflexive Practice: Containing Pedagogical Complexity in the Learning Encounter -- 3. Digital Storytelling in Nurse Practitioner Education: A Beginning of Reflective Clinical Practice -- 4. Promoting Professional conversations and Reflective Prac…
Chapter One How We Got Here -- Chapter Two Foundational Problems -- Chapter Three The Financial Sustainability Conundrum -- Chapter Four The Adult Learner: An Awakening -- Chapter Five A New College -- Chapter Six The Reimagined Undergraduate College -- Chapter Seven Strategic Thinking for Transformation -- Chapter Eight Transformational Leadership -- Chapter Nine Dropping Out: A Case Study -- …
Part 1 Fast-forwarding: the role of Educational Technology -- Chapter 1 Fast-tracking Technology Integration toward Global Education in Oman -- Chapter 2 Rich Text, Rich Teach expanding educational horizons with new technology -- Chapter 3 Open source pathways to educational development -- Chapter 4 Managing and evaluating ICTs in Higher Education: A reassurance measure for sustainable investme…
Chapter 1: The Culture of Reform -- Chapter 2: Getting Down to Business -- Chapter 3: The Product: Education -- Chapter 4: More than Competition, More than Information -- Chapter 5: Becoming Knowledgeable and the Search for Wisdom -- Chapter 6: Politics and Education -- Chapter 7: Education as the Practice of Freedom -- Appendix: They Skool: The Anti-Urban Bias in Urban Education.This book is a…
Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 The context of Teacher Education in China: A comprehensive review -- Chapter 3 Policy actions for world-class teachers -- Chapter 4 Why the policy? -- Chapter 5 The Multiperspectival Approach and the Operational Analytic Model -- Chapter 6 The Implementation case: Yangtze Normal University -- Chapter 7 The policy flow and institutional mission for the impleme…
Muslim Institutions of Higher Education in Postcolonial Africa examines the colonial discriminatory practices against Muslim education through control and dismissal and discusses the education reform movement of the post-colonial experience.