Spirituality, Community, and Race Consciousness in Adult Higher Education, Westbrook, Timothy

Автор: Timothy Paul Westbrook
Название: Spirituality, Community, and Race Consciousness in Adult Higher Education: Breaking the Cycle of Racialization
ISBN: 1138655368 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138655362
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Drawing on the lived experiences of Black students in adult degree completion programs at predominantly White, Christian institutions in the southern United States, this book presents a model for reimagining adult higher education.

Автор: Clifford P. Harbour
Название: John Dewey and the Future of Community College Education
ISBN: 1441122753 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781441122759
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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'Honorable Mention' 2016 PROSE Award - Education Theory

Today, community colleges enroll 40% of all undergraduates in the United States. In the years ahead, these institutions are expected to serve an even larger share of this student population. However, faced with increasing government pressure to significantly improve student completion rates, many community colleges will be forced to reconsider their traditional commitment to expand educational opportunity. Community colleges, therefore, are at a crossroads. Should they focus on improving student completion rates and divert resources from student recruitment programs? Should they improve completion rates by closing developmental studies programs and limiting enrollment to college-ready students? Or, can community colleges simultaneously expand educational opportunity and improve student completion?

In John Dewey and the Future of Community College Education, Cliff Harbour argues that before these questions can be answered, community colleges must articulate the values and priorities that will guide them in the future. Harbour proposes that leaders across the institution come together and adopt a new democracy-based normative vision grounded in the writings of John Dewey, which would call upon colleges to do much more than improve completion rates and expand educational opportunity. It would look beyond the national economic measures that dominate higher education policy debates today and would prioritize individual student growth and the development of democratic communities. Harbour argues that this, in turn, would help community colleges contribute to the vital work of reconstructing American democracy.

John Dewey and the Future of Community College Education is essential reading for all community college advocates interested in taking a more active role in developing the community college of the future.

Название: Higher education and community-based research
ISBN: 1349481203 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349481200
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: A unique, comparative survey of community-based research within a higher education context, featuring some of the top scholars in the field, this book brings together a global range of experiences with community-based research and engages the leaders in the field worldwide to set out visions for future directions, practices, and developments.

Автор: Bryan & Wang
Название: Technology Use And Research Approaches For Community Education And Profess
ISBN: 146662955X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781466629554
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: As the areas of community education and professional development continue to expand, the technologies that are utilised in these programmes are also progressively advancing. However, it can sometimes be difficult to pin-point the best system in such a vast, ever-changing world of technology. <br><br><em>Technology Use and Research Approaches for Community Education and Professional Development</em> investigates how the role of information technology is impacting the academic and workplace environments. This publication will explore areas such as unique learning styles, various methods of disseminating information, and technology’s role and impact within these settings. Researchers, practitioners, and instructors in the areas of adult, continued, and higher education will benefit from this text’s innovative way of addressing efficient methods of utilising technology.

Название: Narrative, identity, and academic community in higher education
ISBN: 1138647365 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138647367
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Grounded in narrative theory, this book offers a case study of a liberal arts college’s use of narrative to help build identity, community, and collaboration within the college faculty across a range of disciplines, including history, psychology, sociology, theatre and dance, literature, anthropology, and communication. Exploring issues of methodology and their practical application, this narrative project speaks to the construction of identity for the liberal arts in today’s higher education climate. Narrative, Identity, and Academic Community focuses on the ways a cross-disciplinary emphasis on narrative can impact institutions in North America and contribute to the discussion of strategies to foster bottom-up, faculty-driven collaboration and innovation.

Название: Community Colleges and STEM
ISBN: 1138291595 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138291591
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This edited volume is the first to discuss the intersection between minority STEM students and the role community colleges play in access and retention.

Название: Family, Community, and Higher Education
ISBN: 1138108146 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138108141
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This volume explores the critical role of family and community in the life and experiences of college students, showing how the the family experience may deepen higher education practice and analyzing the ways in which family and community are included, valued, or devalued in higher education.

Автор: Ted N. Ingram, James Coaxum
Название: Engaging African American Males in Community Colleges
ISBN: 1641132272 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781641132275
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: This volume dedicated to the engagement of African American males in community colleges furthers the research agenda focused on improving the educational outcomes of African American males. The theme engagement also supports the anti-deficit approach to research on African American males developed by renowned research scholars. The true success of African American males in community colleges rests on how well these institutions engage young men into their institutions. This will require community colleges to examine policies, pedagogical strategies, and institutional practices that alienate African American males and fosters a culture of underachievement. The authors who have contributed to this volume all speak from the same script which proves than when African American males are properly engaged in an education that is culturally relevant, they will succeed. Therefore, this book will benefit ALL who support the education of African American males. It is our intent that this book will contribute to the growing body of knowledge that exists in this area as well as foster more inquiry into the achievement of African American males. The book offers three approaches to understanding the engagement of African American males in community college, which includes empirical research, policy perspectives and programmatic initiatives.

Автор: Ted N. Ingram, James Coaxum
Название: Engaging African American Males in Community Colleges
ISBN: 1641132280 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781641132282
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: This volume dedicated to the engagement of African American males in community colleges furthers the research agenda focused on improving the educational outcomes of African American males. The theme engagement also supports the anti-deficit approach to research on African American males developed by renowned research scholars. The true success of African American males in community colleges rests on how well these institutions engage young men into their institutions. This will require community colleges to examine policies, pedagogical strategies, and institutional practices that alienate African American males and fosters a culture of underachievement. The authors who have contributed to this volume all speak from the same script which proves than when African American males are properly engaged in an education that is culturally relevant, they will succeed. Therefore, this book will benefit ALL who support the education of African American males. It is our intent that this book will contribute to the growing body of knowledge that exists in this area as well as foster more inquiry into the achievement of African American males. The book offers three approaches to understanding the engagement of African American males in community college, which includes empirical research, policy perspectives and programmatic initiatives.

Автор: Roscoe A. Johnson
Название: Understanding Dual Credit Education: Theory, Philosophy, and Psychology – The Community College Perspective
ISBN: 168053078X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781680530780
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Presents an incisive look at the increasingly popular academic programme known as dual credit, and lays out a thorough introduction to the scientific, psychological, and philosophical approaches to understanding human/student learning within the larger context of dual credit education.

Автор: A. Hoy; M. Johnson
Название: Deepening Community Engagement in Higher Education
ISBN: 1349457531 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349457533
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This volume argues for reexamination of the field of community engagement, suggests that the most effective way forward requires rethinking the structures of traditional higher education, and points to the growing emergence of evidence-based best practices that can catalyze a renaissance in community engagement and in higher education.

Название: Community Engagement in Higher Education: Policy Reforms and Practice
ISBN: 9463000054 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789463000055
Издательство: Brill
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Описание: There seems to be renewed interest in having universities and other higher education institutions engage with their communities at the local, national, and international levels. But what is community engagement? Even if this interest is genuine and widespread, there are many different concepts of community service, outreach, and engagement. The wide range of activity encompassed by community engagement suggests that a precise definition of the “community mission” is difficult and organizing and coordinating such activities is a complex task. This edited volume includes 18 chapters that explore conceptual understandings of community engagement and higher education reforms and initiatives intended to foster it. Contributors provide empirical research findings, including several case study examples that respond to the following higher education community engagement issues. What is “the community” and what does it need and expect from higher education institutions? Is community engagement a mission of all types of higher education institutions or should it be the mission of specific institutions such as regional or metropolitan universities, technical universities, community colleges, or indigenous institutions while other institutions such as major research universities should concentrate on national and global research agendas and on educating internationally-competent researchers and professionals? How can a university be global and at the same time locally relevant? Is it, or should it be, left to the institutions to determine the scope and mode of their community engagement, or is a state mandate preferable and feasible? If community engagement or “community service” are mandatory, what are the consequences of not complying with the mandate? How effective are policy mandates and university engagement for regional and local economic development? What are the principal features and relationships of regionally-engaged universities? Is community engagement to be left to faculty members and students who are particularly socially engaged and locally embedded or is it, or should it be, made mandatory for both faculty and students? How can community engagement be (better) integrated with the (other) two traditional missions of the university—research and teaching? Cover design: The Towering Four-fold Mission of Higher Education, by Natalie Jacob