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Direct linkMcIlrath, Lorraine, Ed.; Lyons, Ann, Ed.; Munck, Ronaldo, Ed. – Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
Higher Education and Civic Engagement provides an original and challenging contribution to contemporary debates on the civic purpose of higher education. It explores teaching and learning, research, and service in a range of international contexts. This book is essential reading for higher education leaders, faculty, administrators, and members of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Citizenship, Organizational Culture, Service Learning
Altbach, Philip, Ed.; Reisberg, Liz, Ed.; Yudkevich, Maria, Ed.; Androushchak, Gregory, Ed.; Pacheco, Ivan, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
How are professors paid? Can the "best and brightest" be attracted to the academic profession? With universities facing international competition, which countries compensate their academics best, and which ones lag behind? "Paying the Professoriate" examines these questions and provides key insights and recommendations into the current state of…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Compensation (Remuneration), Higher Education, Research Universities
Bhandari, Rajika, Ed.; Blumenthal, Peggy, Ed. – Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
Global student mobility is one of the fastest growing phenomena in higher education in the twenty-first century. Over three million students are currently mobile, crossing geographic, cultural, digital, and educational borders in the pursuit of an international education--a movement that has significant consequences for higher education…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Higher Education, Labor Market, Foreign Countries
Altbach, Philip G., Ed.; Kelly, Gail P., Ed. – 1986
Perspectives on research in comparative education are presented in 17 articles originally published in the "Comparative Education Review." The objective is to present an array of new viewpoints, orientations, and approaches. Titles and authors are: "Introduction: Perspectives on Comparative Education" (Philip G. Altbach, Gail P. Kelly); "Critical…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Developed Nations
Studerus, Lenard, Ed. – 1987
Four papers address trends and issues in Hispanic linguistics. "Recent Trends in Hispanic Linguistics" (Frank Nuessel) gives an overview of benchmarks in research on diachronic, sociolinguistic, and applied aspects of Spanish phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. "African Influence on Hispanic Dialects" (John Lipski)…
Descriptors: African Languages, Applied Linguistics, Comparative Analysis, Diachronic Linguistics
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This document contains three papers from a symposium on research methods in human resource development (HRD) that was conducted as part of a conference on HRD. "Utilizing Electronic Mail To Survey Human Resource Development Practitioners: A Comparison between Electronic Mail and the U.S. Postal Service for the Purpose of Data Collection:…
Descriptors: Action Research, Comparative Analysis, Data Collection, Educational Research
Lie, Suzanne Stiver, Ed.; And Others – 1994
This book presents 19 essays that examine the relative position of men and women in higher education in 17 countries. The focus is on women, particularly their changing position in higher education as students, faculty, and administrators. The book also provides a comparison of countries in an attempt to arrive at a low-level theoretical…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Faculty, College Students, Comparative Analysis
Smelser, Neil J., Ed.; Gerstein, Dean R., Ed. – 1986
This commemorative book contains 10 papers that provide a selective sample of behavioral and social science research accomplishments and trends over a 50-year period, and comparisons are made with research presented in the 1933 report, "Recent Social Trends in the United States" (The Ogburn Report). Four chapters in part 1,…
Descriptors: Behavior, Behavioral Science Research, Behavioral Sciences, Cognitive Processes
Shavit, Yossi, Ed.; Blossfeld, Hans-Peter, Ed. – 1993
This book encompasses a systematic, comparative study of change in educational stratification in 13 industrialized countries, exploring which societal conditions help reduce existing inequalities in educational opportunity. The contributors show that in most industrialized countries inequalities in educational opportunity among students from…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Comparative Analysis, Developed Nations
Barker, Ballard M., Ed. – 1994
This document contains four papers on aviation education. The first paper, "Why Aren't We Teaching Aeronautical Decision Making?" (Richard J. Adams), reviews 15 years of aviation research into the causes of human performance errors in aviation and provides guidelines for designing the next generation of aeronautical decision-making materials.…
Descriptors: Aircraft Pilots, Aviation Education, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis
Davies, Pat, Ed. – 1995
This book presents international perspectives on access and participation of adults in higher education in selected European countries. The book begins with an introduction by Pat Davies and includes papers detailing and providing examples of practices and policies of higher educational institutions regarding adult students in the following…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission Criteria, Adult Students, College Admission
2001
This document contains three papers on action learning. "Action Learning: Case Studies of Most Valued Learning and Application" (Suzanne D. Butterfield) reports on a qualitative study in which longitudinal data was collected from document analysis and first-line consulting managers who had participated in action learning. The study…
Descriptors: Administrators, Adult Learning, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis
Born, Sigrid, Ed. – 2000
This document contains eight articles from German newspapers that feature women who have achieved career success in very diverse economic sectors, while simultaneously highlighting the discrimination and other problems (including lower income, fewer promotions to executive positions, and smaller pensions) that many other German women continue to…
Descriptors: Building Trades, Comparative Analysis, Education Work Relationship, Employed Women
2001
This document contains three papers on human resource development (HRD) in Asia. "The Experiences of HRD Professionals Participating in Continuing Professional Development in Taiwan" (Yu-Shu [Jason] Chen) reports on a study that was based on the method of hermeneutic phenomenology and conducted to describe and interpret the experiences…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Corporations, Education Work Relationship, Educational Attitudes
Anivan, Sarinee, Ed. – 1991
The selection of papers on language testing includes: "Language Testing in the 1990s: How Far Have We Come? How Much Further Have We To Go?" (J. Charles Alderson); "Current Research/Development in Language Testing" (John W. Oller, Jr.); "The Difficulties of Difficulty: Prompts in Writing Assessment" (Liz Hamp-Lyons,…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Testing, Cues
