From the Mills College strike of 1990 to the Chicano Studies movement at UCLA, from African-American student unrest at Rutgers University in 1995 to student protest in California against the passage of propositions 187 and 209, issues of cultural diversity have rocked college campuses for much of this decade. Indeed, Robert Rhoads locates the key ......
''This book is about getting out of the box. It is about rethinking fundamental assumptions of higher education. To survive and thrive in the next century, colleges and universities will have to be responsive in the eyes of those being served.''Future Survey In The Responsive University, William G. Tierney brings together a distinguished group ......
Politics, Policies, and the Entrepreneurial University
''Research has become an indispensable commodity for modern society, and academic researchers are the new superstars and entrepreneurs--with incomes to match. Not since Clark Kerr's landmark Uses of the University has any book beamed such an exposing light on this dark, neglected development, which is transforming campus teaching and ......
`The book has a wide appeal to existing heads, aspiring heads, lecturers and writers about headship. The contributors to this book have lifted the curtain on the realities of headships and, in the process, have added to our understanding of what school leadership is all about these days' - Managing Schools Today Practitioners and trainers ......
A Practical Workbook for Selecting Candidates and to Developing Their Skills Once They're On Board
Covers a variety of real-life problems faced by practising secondary school administrators in facilitating the training and evaluation of staff. Readership - .
This book contains a wealth of strategies for new and experienced teachers. Specific examples and advice are provided for negotiating the school culture, planning lessons, teaching strategies, multicultural classrooms, and classroom management and discipline.
In Shattering the Myths, Judith Glazer-Raymo uses a critical feminist perspective to examine women's progress in higher education since 1970. She contrasts the activism of the 1970s, the passivity of the 1980s, and the ambivalence and antipathy demonstrated toward feminism in the 1990s. These waves of change, she explains, were brought about by ......
In Collaborative Learning, Kenneth Bruffee advocates a far-reaching change in the relations we assume between college and university professors and their students, between the learned and the learning. He argues that the nature and source of the authority of college and university professors is the central issue in college and university education ......
