EBOOK: Study, Power and the University - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook EBOOK: Study, Power and the University write by Sarah Mann. This book was released on 2008-11-16. EBOOK: Study, Power and the University available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book highlights the effects of power within the higher educational process, and argues that in order to understand the student experience we have to take seriously the institution as a context for learning. It considers key questions such as: Why is the student experience of higher education sometimes negative or restricted? How does power operate within the institution? What are the forces that limit or enable student agency? How can institutions of higher education create conditions which best support more enabling forces? Higher Education has its own particular culture, social relations and practices, governed by social and discursive norms. It is always implicated in relations of power through its function in society and its effects on individuals. This book considers how, for the student, these effects can be enabling and engaging, or limiting and diminishing. In exploring the effects of the institutionalization of learning and the workings of power implicated within this, it sets out to add to more cognitive and pedagogic ways of understanding student experience in higher education. Study, Power and the University provides key reading for educational researchers and developers, academics and higher education managers.
EBOOK: Quality And Power In Higher Education
EBOOK: Quality And Power In Higher Education - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook EBOOK: Quality And Power In Higher Education write by Louise Morley. This book was released on 2003-04-16. EBOOK: Quality And Power In Higher Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the power relationships that organize and facilitate quality assurance in higher education. It investigates power in terms of macro systems of accountability, surveillance and regulation, and uncovers the ways in which quality is experienced by academics and managers in higher education. Louise Morley reveals some of the hidden transcripts behind quality assurance and poses significant questions: * What signs of quality in higher education are being performed and valued? * What losses, gains, fears and anxieties are activated by the procedures? * Is the culture of excellence resulting in mediocrity? Quality and Power in Higher Education covers a wide range of issues including: the policy contexts, new managerialism, the costs of quality assurance, collegiality, peer review, gender and equity implications, occupational stress, commodification and consumer values in higher education, performance, league tables, benchmarking, increasing workloads and the long-term effects on the academy. It draws upon Morley's empirical work in the UK on international studies and on literature from sociology, higher education studies, organization studies and feminist theory. It is important reading for students and scholars of higher education policy and practice, and for university managers and policy-makers.
POWER Learning
POWER Learning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook POWER Learning write by Robert Stephen Feldman. This book was released on 2006. POWER Learning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Aims to maximize students' potential for success in college and in life. Using the class-tested principles of the POWER system (Prepare, Organize, Work, Evaluate, and Rethink), this book includes assessments, critical thinking questions, an emphasis on academic honesty and integrity, and also focuses on service learning.
EBOOK: Doing Early Childhood Research
EBOOK: Doing Early Childhood Research - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook EBOOK: Doing Early Childhood Research write by Glenda Mac Naughton. This book was released on 2010-06-16. EBOOK: Doing Early Childhood Research available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "It is rare for any research methodology book to cover so much ground, and contain so many different kinds of resources between two covers." Journal of Education for Teaching "As a guide for new and inexperienced researchers, it is second to none." British Journal of Educational Studies Doing Early Childhood Research demystifies the research process. An international team of experienced researchers shows how to select methods which are appropriate for working with young children in early childhood settings or at home. They provide a thorough introduction to the most common research methods used in the early childhood context. Reflecting the multidisciplinary nature of much early childhood research, they cover a wide range of conventional and newer methods including observation, small surveys, interviews with adults and children, action research, ethnography and quasi-experimental approaches. They explain clearly how to set up research projects which are theoretically grounded, well-designed, rigorously analysed, feasible and ethically based. Each chapter is illustrated with examples. Widely used by early childhood researchers in many countries, this second edition of Doing Early Childhood Research has been fully revised. It includes new chapters on beginning research, mixed methods research, interviewing children, and working with Indigenous children, and also new case study chapters. It is essential reading for novice, initial career and experienced researchers. Contributors Maria Assunção Folque, Sue Atkinson-Lopez, Mindy Blaise, Liane Brow, Margaret Coady, Audrey D’Souza Juma, Anne Edwards, Sue Emmett, Susan Grieshaber, Linda Harrison, Alan Hayes, Patrick Hughes, Glenda Mac Naughton, Karen Martin, Sharne A. Rolfe, Iram Siraj-Blatchford, John Siraj-Blatchford, Louise Taylor, Teresa Vasconcelos
POWER Learning
POWER Learning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook POWER Learning write by Robert S. Feldman. This book was released on 2006-03-01. POWER Learning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The only first-year experience text with a unifying system for critical thinking and problem solving,P.O.W.E.R. Learningmaximizes students’ potential for success in college and in life. Using the simple, class-tested principles of the P.O.W.E.R (Prepare, Organize, Work, Evaluate, and Rethink) system, students gain a sense of mastery and achievement as they move through the text, and with the growth of their confidence comes the increased intellectual enthusiasm and personal discipline needed for them to excel. The third edition ofP.O.W.E.R Learninghas been substantially revised to include new assessments, critical thinking questions, an emphasis on academic honesty and integrity, and the importance of service learning.
