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Elsa Justino, Editor; Ines Casquilho-Martins, Editor – IntechOpen, 2025
"Scholarship Models Around the Globe -- Embracing Diversity, New Trends and Opportunities" offers a comprehensive exploration of global higher education funding systems and their impact on students' academic journeys and career trajectories. With a focus on equity, inclusion, and the challenges faced by historically marginalized groups,…
Descriptors: Diversity, Higher Education, Access to Education, Financial Support
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Yamamoto Baldin, Yuriko, Ed.; Malaspina, Uldarico, Ed. – SpringerBriefs in Education, 2018
This Open Access book is an excellent synthesis of the initial and continuing preparation for Mathematics Teaching in Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay and Peru, from which comparative analyses can be made that show similarities and differences, and highlight various perspectives. In February 2016, the 5th Capacity and Networking Project (CANP) workshop…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education Programs, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Teachers
Schneider, Mark, Ed.; Deane, K. C., Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2015
The challenges public comprehensive universities face today are expanding--they have been challenged to enroll and graduate more students, adopt new technologies that lower cost without sacrificing quality, and align program and curricular offerings with the skills that employers require. While these universities have a long history of adapting to…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, College Enrollment, Technology Integration, Educational Finance
Maclachlan, John C., Ed.; Waraksa, Elizabeth A., Ed.; Williford, Christa, Ed. – Council on Library and Information Resources, 2015
This volume celebrates the first decade of Council on Library and Information Resources' (CLIR) Postdoctoral Fellowship Program by bringing together 20 past and present CLIR postdoctoral fellows to share their thoughts on their experiences, and more broadly, on the direction of academia. Each essay is a look into the working conditions associated…
Descriptors: Postdoctoral Education, Fellowships, Library Education, Futures (of Society)
Palmer, Robert T., Ed.; Hilton, Adriel A., Ed.; Fountaine, Tiffany Patrice, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2012
This book provides context about the experiences of Black graduate and professional students attending HBCUs. Indeed, such research is important, particularly since HBCUs play a significant role in the number of Blacks who receive doctorates and professional degrees (i.e. M.D., D.D.S., J.D. etc.), especially in science and engineering. In fact,…
Descriptors: Professional Education, African American Students, Black Colleges, Social Capital
US Department of Education, 2014
This compilation includes materials celebrating the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Department of Education's Federal TRIO programs. The Federal TRIO programs were named such in 1968 after a trio of programs designed to foster increased educational opportunity and attainment: Upward Bound, Talent Search, and Student Support Services. Since 1968, the…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Educational Opportunities, Educational Attainment, Educational History
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
Jean-Marie, Gaetane, Ed.; Normore, Anthony H., Ed. – Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
This book explores the efficacy of innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to educational leadership preparation implemented at universities across the United States that serve K-12 populations in urban, rural, and suburban contexts. This collection of chapters draws from seminal and contemporary literature on preparation programs, the…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Private Colleges, Interdisciplinary Approach, Doctoral Programs
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Esbjorn-Hargens, Sean, Ed.; Reams, Jonathan, Ed.; Gunnlaugson, Olen, Ed. – SUNY Press, 2010
The educational challenges faced today are driving us toward a new step in the evolution of educational theory and practice. Educators are called to go beyond simply presenting alternatives, to integrating the best of mainstream and alternative approaches and taking them to the next level. "Integral Education" accomplishes this by…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Music, Action Research, Research Methodology
Smart, John C., Ed. – 1990
Eleven papers on theory and research in higher education have the following titles and authors: "A Paradigm for Research on Higher Education" (William F. Massy); "Minority Student Access to, and Persistence and Performance in College: A Review of the Trends and Research Literature" (Shirley L. Mow and Michael T. Nettles);…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Access to Education, Adult Development, College Students
Swoboda, Marian J., Ed.; Roberts, Audrey J., Ed. – 1980
This volume of essays examines the role of women in the development of public higher education at the University of Wisconsin and Wisconsin State Universities. Part 1, "Turn of the Century Beginnings," contains an essay by Jean Droste titled "Vocational Aspirations and Job Realities." Part 2 focuses on women in the professional…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Educational History, Females, Feminism
Kaufman, Polly Welts, Ed. – 1991
This collection of essays describes women's ongoing search for equity at Brown University, Rhode Island, since their first entrance there in 1891. After a preface by Joan W. Scott and an introduction by Polly Welts Kaufman, the volume contains the following 10 essays: "The Woman's Club Movement Creates and Defines the Women's College" by…
Descriptors: Alumni, Careers, Coeducation, Cultural Context
Martin, G. Eugene, Ed. – 1979
Nineteen chapters of information, organized into five units, are provided in this 28th yearbook of the American Council on Industrial Arts Teacher Education. Unit I, entitled "A Historical and Philosophical Orientation to Industrial Arts" contains five chapters that examine these topics: the movements that led to contemporary industrial…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational History, Educational Philosophy, Educational Trends
Conrad, Clifton F., Ed.; Serlin, Ronald C., Ed. – SAGE Publications (CA), 2005
This guide is designed to encourage students, faculty, and policymakers to become more self-reflective in their inquiry. Placing the pursuit of ideas at the epicenter of research, K-12 and higher education scholars advance ideas for enhancing educational inquiry, relying extensively on narratives, vignettes, and examples of key episodes in…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Research Problems, Higher Education, Research Design
Klausmeier, Herbert J.; And Others – 1990
The mission of the Wisconsin Research and Development Center, established at the University of Wisconsin in 1964, was to improve education by conducting basic and applied research and carrying out development ideas, and through dissemination and demonstration. This book presents an historical overview of the center's activities. Chapter 1 traces…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Development, Educational History, Educational Research
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