Undergraduate Student Engagement, Zhe Zhang; Olwen McNamara

Автор: Zhe Zhang; Olwen McNamara
Название: Undergraduate Student Engagement
ISBN: 9811317208 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789811317200
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This book focuses on undergraduate student engagement in China and the UK. It offers an innovative perspective on this aspect, which, although pervasive, is not always acknowledged by its users to be complex and multidimensional in nature, firmly rooted in cultural, social and disciplinary norms, and difficult to measure. Competition within the global higher education market has become increasingly intense amongst universities; and the higher education sector in China, currently the largest source of international students, is beginning to compete strongly for its home market. Against this consumerist background, student engagement, with its close relation to positive learning outcomes, is increasingly receiving attention from higher education managers and researchers who seek to improve the quality of their ‘products’.The research study on which the book is based draws on three courses, two in China and one in the UK. It offers a binary perspective across two very different cultures (Western and Confucian) and two very different subject areas (Chinese language and mathematics). The study employs a mixed-methods design and develops a conceptual framework derived from statistical and thematic analysis. An original theoretical lens, combining a bioecological perspective (Bronfenbrenner) and a sociocultural one (Holland et al.’s Figured Worlds), adds further interpretive power to help understand the construct of student engagement.

Автор: Scott D. Carpenter, Helena Kaufman, Malene Torp
Название: Integrating Worlds: How Off-Campus Study Can Transform Undergraduate Education
ISBN: 1620360012 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781620360019
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book takes as its premise that the powerful potential to de-center and dislocate students` preconceptions that off-campus study can stimulate and the urgent need for students to gain a broad understanding of the interconnectedness of our world, requires us to question and rethink how we deliver undergraduate education.

Автор: Monica McLean, Andrea Abbas, Paul Ashwin
Название: How Powerful Knowledge Disrupts Inequality: Reconceptualising Quality in Undergraduate Education
ISBN: 1350116777 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350116771
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Globally, the appetite for higher education is great, but what do students and societies gain? Quality in Undergraduate Education foregrounds the importance of knowledge acquisition at university. Many argue that university education is no longer a public good due to the costs incurred by students who are then motivated by the promise of lucrative employment rather than by studying a discipline for its own sake. McLean, Abbas and Ashwin, however, reveal a more complex picture and offer a way of thinking about good quality university education for all. Drawing on a study which focused on four sociology-related social science UK university departments of different reputation, the book shows that students value sociological knowledge because it gives them a framework to think about and act on understanding how individuals and society interact. Further, the authors discuss how what was learned from the study about how policy, curriculum and pedagogy might preserve and strengthen the personal and social gains of social science undergraduate education.

Автор: Shabana Mir
Название: Muslim American Women on Campus: Undergraduate Social Life and Identity
ISBN: 1469629968 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469629964
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Shabana Mir's powerful ethnographic study of women on Washington, D.C., college campuses reveals that being a young female Muslim in post-9/11 America means experiencing double scrutiny - scrutiny from the Muslim community as well as from the dominant non-Muslim community. Muslim American Women on Campus illuminates the processes by which a group of ethnically diverse American college women, all identifying as Muslim and all raised in the United States, construct their identities during one of the most formative times in their lives. Mir, an anthropologist of education, focuses on key leisure practices - drinking, dating, and fashion - to probe how Muslim American students adapt to campus life and build social networks that are seamlessly American, Muslim, and youthful. In this lively and highly accessible book, we hear the women's own often poignant voices as they articulate how they find spaces within campus culture as well as their Muslim student communities to grow and assert themselves as individuals, women, and Americans. Mir concludes, however, that institutions of higher learning continue to have much to learn about fostering religious diversity on campus.

Автор: Ng Xian Wen
Название: Engineering Problems for Undergraduate Students
ISBN: 3030138550 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030138554
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This textbook supplement deconstructs some of the most commonly-encountered and challenging problems arising within engineering domains such as thermodynamics, separation processes, chemical kinetics, fluid dynamics, and engineering mathematics that are foundational to most engineering programs, as well as many courses in STEM disciplines.

Автор: Elizabeth Brewer, Anthony C. Ogden
Название: Education Abroad and the Undergraduate Experience: Critical Perspectives and Approaches to Integration With Student Learning and Development
ISBN: 1620368269 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781620368268
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Focuses on two questions. How can education abroad be embedded into undergraduate education so that students experience it as an integral component of their education? How can colleges and universities maximize the educational value of education abroad by forging stronger connections between it and other undergraduate experiences.

Автор: Elizabeth Brewer, Anthony C. Ogden
Название: Education Abroad and the Undergraduate Experience: Critical Perspectives and Approaches to Integration With Student Learning and Development
ISBN: 1620368277 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781620368275
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Focuses on two questions. How can education abroad be embedded into undergraduate education so that students experience it as an integral component of their education? How can colleges and universities maximize the educational value of education abroad by forging stronger connections between it and other undergraduate experiences.

Автор: Rogers Satu, Galle Jeffrey, Galle Jeffery
Название: How to Be a "Hip " College Campus: Maximizing Learning in Undergraduate Education
ISBN: 1475819013 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781475819014
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Описание: This book is for current and future instructors of college courses, especially those wanting to use more active learning pedagogies. It makes the case for a campus-wide adoption of high-impact practices, across disciplines and in both academic and co-curricular life.

Автор: Della-Piana, Della-Piana & Gardn
Название: Evaluating The Undergraduate Research Experience
ISBN: 162396542X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781623965426
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: The current movement toward more and better research experiences for undergraduates has spread across disciplines in the arts, humanities, science, mathematics, and engineering beyond the “research university” to the full range of post-secondary institutions of higher education. Along with this spread of practice is the need to take stock of the programs and make use of evaluation to inform program improvement and to communicate an understanding of the worth of the program to funders, institutional administrators, faculty/mentors, and students.The main aim of the book is to provide a practical guide for planning an evaluation of an undergraduate experience program. The intent is to enable a program director to plan with a team consisting of an internal evaluator and program staff, a systematic and rigorous study of the program (processes, products, organizational dynamics, etc.) including the gathering and analysis of information that is context-sensitive, and connected to an argument and justification for descriptive, causal, and practice-useful claims. It is useful for a program director to contract with an evaluator. It is specific to the field of undergraduate research experience while being useful for other fields. It places strong emphasis on how to find and specify evaluation questions that yield information that has high leverage for program improvement and demonstrating the effectiveness and worth of the program. A measure of attitude toward evaluation allows you to reflect on your leanings evaluation orientations such as formative/summative, process/product, preordinate goals/emergent goals, and other characteristics of approaches to and confidence in evaluation.The main readership is targeted to directors and developers of undergraduate research experience programs. While the examples are mainly in the undergraduate research experience, it will be found useful for instructors of courses in project evaluation and beginning level evaluators. The usefulness of the book is enhanced by a checklist in the final chapter that integrates the approaches from throughout the book referencing the earlier discussions.