Patrick Blessinger

John M. Carfora

This volume covers the many issues and concepts of how inquiry-based learning (IBL) can be applied to faculty and institutional development. This volume serves as a conceptual and practical resource and guide for educators and offers practical examples of IBL in action and diverse strategies for how to implement IBL in different contexts.

A Conceptual and Practical Resource for Educators

Inquiry-Based Learning for Faculty and Institutional Development

Jaimie Hoffman

Mandla Makhanya

This volume provides educators with a global understanding of the challenges associated with equity and inclusion in higher education, and it provides evidence-based strategies for addressing the challenges associated with implementing equity and inclusion at higher education institutions around the world.

International Perspectives on Equity and Inclusion

Contexts for Diversity and Gender Identities in Higher Education

Enakshi Sengupta

Nasiruddin Nezaami

Autonomy in governance and management in education has become the prerogative of higher education institutions, whilst optimum allocation and use of resources have become the aim of all higher education institutions. This volume explores the creation of knowledge and its dissemination in a way that creates a significant impact in society.

Governance and Management in Higher Education

Linda S. Watts

This book provides higher education faculty and administrators a scholarly resource on the most salient aspects and emerging trends in creative learning in higher education today. International contributors explore ways to foster creativity in any student, regardless of academic discipline or demographic characteristics and demonstrate that creativity is a skill all students can and should learn. Chapters analyzes how different countries and cultures implement creative learning, exploring issues of instruction, assessment, and ultimately how these practices are transforming learning. This important book helps higher education professionals understand and cultivate creative learning across disciplines in any college and university setting.

International Perspectives and Approaches

Creative Learning in Higher Education

This book highlights case studies and innovative teaching methods used by academics across the globe. It talks about how teaching staff should stimulate students’ active engagement in their own learning processes, and discusses the approach of implementing a project-based learning activity that integrates learning in an authentic manner.

Innovative Approaches in Pedagogy for Higher Education Classrooms

Educational pedagogy refers to student-centered learning that provides meaningful engagement to directly enhance critical thinking and creativity. This edited collection equips readers to understand and implement impactful creative teaching and learning methods designed to act as a catalyst to improve the learning experiences of students.

International Perspectives on Humanizing Higher Education

Improving Classroom Engagement and International Development Programs

ICT and Innovation in Teaching Learning Methods in Higher Education is a collection of interventions and collaborative practices from across the world that showcase the multifaceted ways of how various institutions have been engaged in supporting teaching and learning with the use of technology.

ICT and Innovation in Teaching Learning Methods in Higher Education

Barbara Cozza

This volume examines the diverse ways in which universities and colleges around the world are partnering and collaborating with other institutions to fulfill their missions and visions.

University Partnerships for Pre-service and Teacher Development

Lorraine Stefani

An Inclusive Transformation Charter -- Inclusivity -- Inclusive Change: Young Academics Program, Signature Courses and Decoloniality School -- Concluding Thoughts -- Notes -- References -- 11. Understanding the Grit and Gravitas Underlying Culturally Sustaining Inclusive Leadership in Academe -- Introduction -- Unpacking Inclusion, Diversity, Grit, and Gravitas -- Inclusion and Diversity -- Grit and Gravitas -- Scholarly Approach Taken -- Data Sources -- Mode of Inquiry and Analysis -- Salient Culturally Sustaining and Inclusive Educational Leadership Practices -- Teaching -- Exemplars of Grit or Gravitas in the Inclusive Tertiary Classroom -- Research -- Service -- Further Evidence of Inclusive Culturally Sustainable Leadership -- Final Thoughts Moving into the Future of Educational Leadership in Higher Education -- Note -- References -- 12. Inclusive Institutional Leadership through Community Engagement -- Introduction -- The Idea of Community -- The Model University -- Note -- References -- 13. A Multi-lens View of Inclusive Leadership in Higher Education -- Introduction -- Looking at Leadership in Higher Education Through Different Lenses -- Diversity and Inclusion are Easy Words to Say -- Reaching for Inclusive Leadership in Higher Education -- Inclusive Leadership, Social Forces, Cultural Context -- The University as Role Model for Society? -- Where To From Here? -- References -- List of Contributors -- Appendix 1 -- Index

Inclusive Leadership in Higher Education

Taisir Subhi Yamin

This volume explores various facets of the Sustainable Development Goals and how well universities have been able to integrate those goals into their curriculum, and institutionalize those goals into their strategic plans and institutional culture.

University Partnerships for Sustainable Development

Inclusive Leadership in Higher Education examines leadership efforts that move beyond simple diversity programs in the journey towards the institutional transformation necessary to create inclusive educational environments. Chapter contributors from higher education institutions across the globe share how leadership is developed and implemented at all levels to create more inclusive organizational cultures. Diverse chapters address the forces and factors associated with organizational change while examining leadership theory, policy, and practices. This important volume provides a comparative perspective, highlighting common themes across a range of institutional and cultural contexts to help leaders promote an organizational mind-set and culture of inclusion and inclusiveness.

Charles Wankel

Classroom mediated discourse technologies are reshaping and reframing the practice of teaching and learning in higher education. This volume critically examines new research on how classroom mediation technologies like Learning Catalytics are being used in higher education to increase learner engagement and social leaning in the classroom.

Classroom Response Systems and Mediated Discourse Technologies

Increasing Student Engagement and Retention Using Classroom Technologies

This volume provides educators with a global understanding of the challenges associated with the growing diversity of student identities in higher education, and it provides evidence-based strategies for addressing the challenges associated with implementing equity and inclusion at different higher education institutions around the world.

Perspectives on Diverse Student Identities in Higher Education

This volume examines how universities and colleges are working towards implementing various interventions to integrate refugees along with non-governmental organizations and local governments to achieve an optimal level of integration with host communities.

Integration and Acceptance of Refugees in Mainstream Society

Refugee Education

TJ Bliss

This insightful collection of essays explores the ways in which open education can democratise access to education for all. It is a rich resource that offers both research and case studies to relate the application of open technologies and approaches in education settings around the world. A must-read for practitioners, policy-makers, scholars and students in the field of education.

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