How Playing Games Can Solve Problems, Create Insight, and Make Change
Imagine if new knowledge and insights came not just from research centers, think tanks, and universities but also from games, of all things. Video games have been viewed as causing social problems, but what if they actually helped solve them? This question drives Karen Schrier's Knowledge Games, which seeks to uncover the potentials and ......
As one of the most successful educational enterprises in American history, the residential liberal arts college has long been emulated across all spectrums of undergraduate education in the United States and increasingly around the world. These schools are characterized by broad-based curricula, small class size, and interaction between ......
Today, nearly every aspect of higher education including student recruitment, classroom instruction, faculty research, administrative governance, and the control of intellectual property is embedded in a political economy with links to the market and the state. Academic capitalism offers a powerful framework for understanding this relationship. ......
How Delaying College Changes People in Ways the World Needs
With some of the most prestigious universities in America now urging students to defer admissions so they can experience the world, the idea of the gap year has taken hold in America. Since its development in Britain nearly fifty years ago, taking time off between secondary school and college has allowed students the opportunity to travel, develop ......
A faculty member publishes an article without offering coauthorship to a graduate assistant who has made a substantial conceptual or methodological contribution to the article. A faculty member does not permit graduate students to express viewpoints different from her own. A graduate student close to finishing his dissertation cannot reach his ......
The Sage Handbook of Interpreting Chinese History offers an in-depth exploration of the evolution of historical narratives in China over the past century. Bringing together some of the world's leading scholars, this handbook provides both depth and breadth to our understanding of how Chinese leaders, intellectuals, and the public conceive of their ......
This cutting-edge textbook takes a unique approach to digital transformation which aligns theory and practice and is supported by the authors own research with over 4,000 organisations.
This textbook provides a clear and concise introduction to business and management consultancy. It will help you understand practices and techniques to hire and to implement business and management consultancy, giving you the essentials for success in your studies and later industries when working with - and not just for - consultancy firms.
