Rethinking Faculty Work

Rethinking Faculty Work
Author: Judith M. Gappa
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2007
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Shows how changes in higher education are transforming the careers of faculty, and provides a model that makes it possible for all faculty to be in a position to do their best.

Rethinking Teaching in Higher Education

Rethinking Teaching in Higher Education
Author: Alenoush Saroyan
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2023-07-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000978036

This book is intended for faculty and faculty developers, as well as for deans, chairs, and directors responsible for promoting teaching and learning in higher education. Intentionally non-technical, it engages readers reflectively with a process for developing teaching and details the planning necessary to apply this process to teaching within disciplines.The book centers on McGill University’s week-long Course Design and Teaching Workshop that the contributors have offered together for more than ten years. It follows the five day format of the workshop–covering the analysis of course content, conceptions of learning, the selection of appropriate teaching strategies, the evaluation of student learning, and evaluation of teaching–in a way that reflects the spontaneity of the debates it has engendered and the workshop’s evolutionary changes. The structure shows faculty members conceptualizing new courses or re-examining their teaching of existing courses, and translating the insights gained from the workshop to specific disciplinary content and learning outcomes. In addition four previous participants of the workshop write about its influence on their personal thinking about the practice of teaching.The final two chapters describe the structure and evolving role of McGill’s Centre for University Teaching and Learning. The authors describe its objectives in fostering an evidence-based teaching culture and providing a practical support structure with limited resources. They highlight achievements in disseminating teaching expertise across their campus, and their vision for the future role of faculty development.This book provides faculty developers and administrators with valuable non-prescriptive models and challenging ideas that promote faculty development in general and university teaching in particular. It engages faculty members in the process of course design in a way that is learning centered and can lead to deep student learning.

The Knowledge Factory

The Knowledge Factory
Author: Stanley Aronowitz
Publisher: Beacon Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2001-03-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780807031230

Americans can't get a good education for love or money, argues Stanley Aronowitz in this groundbreaking look at the structure and curriculum of higher education. Moving beyond the canon wars begun in Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind, Aronowitz offers a vision for true higher learning that places a well-rounded education back at the center of the university's mission.

Completing College

Completing College
Author: Vincent Tinto
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2012-03-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0226804542

Even as the number of students attending college has more than doubled in the past forty years, it is still the case that nearly half of all college students in the United States will not complete their degree within six years. It is clear that much remains to be done toward improving student success. For more than twenty years, Vincent Tinto’s pathbreaking book Leaving College has been recognized as the definitive resource on student retention in higher education. Now, with Completing College, Tinto offers administrators a coherent framework with which to develop and implement programs to promote completion. Deftly distilling an enormous amount of research, Tinto identifies the essential conditions enabling students to succeed and continue on within institutions. Especially during the early years, he shows that students thrive in settings that pair high expectations for success with structured academic, social, and financial support, provide frequent feedback and assessments of their performance, and promote their active involvement with other students and faculty. And while these conditions may be worked on and met at different institutional levels, Tinto points to the classroom as the center of student education and life, and therefore the primary target for institutional action. Improving retention rates continues to be among the most widely studied fields in higher education, and Completing College carefully synthesizes the latest research and, most importantly, translates it into practical steps that administrators can take to enhance student success.

Rethinking the MBA

Rethinking the MBA
Author: Srikant M. Datar
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2010
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1422131645

The authors give the most comprehensive, authoritative and compelling account yet of the troubled state of business education today and go well beyond this to provide a blueprint for the future.

Rethinking Early Childhood Education

Rethinking Early Childhood Education
Author: Ann Pelo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2008
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Rethinking Early Childhood Education is alive with the conviction that teaching young children involves values and vision. This anthology collects inspiring stories about social justice teaching with young children. Included here is outstanding writing from childcare teachers, early-grade public school teachers, scholars, and parents.Early childhood is when we develop our core dispositions -- the habits of thinking that shape how we live. This book shows how educators can nurture empathy, an ecological consciousness, curiosity, collaboration, and activism in young children. It invites readers to rethink early childhood education, reminding them that it is inseparable from social justice and ecological education.An outstanding resource for childcare providers, early-grade teachers, as well as teacher education and staff development programs.

We’re Losing Our Minds

We’re Losing Our Minds
Author: R. Keeling
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2011-12-19
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1137001763

America is being held back by the quality and quantity of learning in college. Many graduates cannot think critically, write effectively, solve problems, understand complex issues, or meet employers' expectations. The only solution - making learning the highest priority in college - demands fundamental change throughout higher education.

Meaningful Work

Meaningful Work
Author: Mike W. Martin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2000-03-16
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 019535091X

As commonly understood, professional ethics consists of shared duties and episodic dilemmas--the responsibilities incumbent on all members of specific professions joined together with the dilemmas that arise when these responsibilities conflict. Martin challenges this "consensus paradigm" as he rethinks professional ethics to include personal commitments and ideals, of which many are not mandatory. Using specific examples from a wide range of professions, including medicine, law, high school teaching, journalism, engineering, and ministry, he explores how personal commitments motivate, guide, and give meaning to work.

Rethinking High School

Rethinking High School
Author: Harvey Daniels
Publisher: Boynton/Cook
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2001
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Organized around eleven fundamental choices that all secondary schools must make, this book serves as a checklist, an agenda, and a study guide for high school reform.

Rethinking Teacher Education for the 21st Century

Rethinking Teacher Education for the 21st Century
Author: Wioleta Danilewicz
Publisher: Verlag Barbara Budrich
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2019-09-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3847412574

This book focuses on current trends, potential challenges and further developments of teacher education and professional development from a theoretical, empirical and practical point of view. It intends to provide valuable and fresh insights from research studies and examples of best practices from Europe and all over the world. The authors deal with the strengths and limitations of different models, strategies, approaches and policies related to teacher education and professional development in and for changing times (digitization, multiculturalism, pressure to perform).