Community College Finance
This book explores resource development at Mississippi’s Community and Junior Colleges, determining if fundraising adequately serves their needs. Fundraising in a recession is necessary, and colleges that survive will learn invaluable lessons.
Sustainable Development in Mechanical Engineering
Engineers have a responsibility to safeguard public health and safety. This book presents fifteen practical mechanical engineering cases that integrate design principles with environment, health, and safety risk management to prepare future engineers.
Resolving Classroom Management and School Leadership Issues in ELT
Experienced teachers use action research to examine problems in leadership and management. This volume features work by UAE researchers on classroom issues and broader leadership matters, concluding with a rare retrospective on their empowering investigations.
The Supportive School
With young people’s wellbeing in decline, how do schools affect them? This book uses over 300 studies to identify the key factors, from peer relationships to academic pressure, and shows how a strong culture of support can make a profound difference.
This book raises key questions about schooling in a globalized world. What does lifelong learning mean for knowledge transmission? Are competences the new form of qualification? How do teachers deal with these new professional dilemmas?
This volume explores the prospects and challenges of using technology in education. It addresses how students and academics can benefit from e-tools like blogs and wikis, and how technology is causing a paradigm shift from traditional teaching methods.
Dalit Women and Dropout Rates in Collegiate Education
Caste remains a hurdle in Indian education, particularly for Dalit women. This book throws light on the social stigma they face, leading to high dropout rates from college in the Warangal District of Andhra Pradesh.
This book explores major cases of HateSpeak in contemporary Arabic discourse, from Arabs vs. Israel and Sunnis vs. Shi’ites to the Arab Spring. The ultimate goal is to diagnose hate and provide remedies that may help convert HateSpeak into HeartSpeak.
Gender, along with race and class, has long been a vital part of public discourse about social reform. These essays address the overt and subtle ways gender influenced Victorian social movements, from suffrage and marriage law to beauty and religion.
This collection offers innovative strategies and practical advice for teaching eighteenth-century texts. Authors share a wealth of experience and best practices for engaging students with Western and non-Western literature from this important period.
Higher Education in the Asia Pacific
The Asia Pacific is the fastest growing region on the globe, and its universities are experiencing a dramatic surge. This insightful collection explores the key dilemmas for higher education, from international markets to the university’s role in nation-building.
Speech Act Theory and Communication
This study investigates the pragmatic value and meaning-creation strategies of second-language students at the University of Venda. The analyses demonstrate the multi-dimensional thought processes involved and the nature of linguistic interaction.
This book balances theories with interactive learning activities. Believing that one learns research by conducting it, the activities provide opportunities for students to develop and sharpen the research skills useful for conducting their own research.
These essays explore visual imagery as a medium for the Catholic Church’s spiritual and ideological concerns in the Spanish Habsburg Empire. New sources reveal how art was used to ‘Delight, Move and Instruct’ spectators in cities from Cuzco to Madrid.
This collection of studies on languages for specific purposes (LSP) analyses discourse across academic and professional areas. It offers valuable insights into communicative strategies and methodological approaches for teaching specialised communication skills.
This book uses the social sciences to discuss emergent educational processes in late modernity, providing an overview of schooling’s contribution to its construction.
From Hip-Hop to Hyperlinks
This text invigorates composition classrooms with strategies for teaching American culture. Contributors share approaches on topics like food, music, and technology, tracing course structures with student samples. Ideal for instructors at any career stage.
For readers certain there were diverse, socially relevant voices in early Canadian women’s writing—and for sceptics—this collection offers proof. These essays explore the literary voices women created to work for diversity and social change in Canada.
Universalisation of Elementary Education
This study evaluates the District Primary Education Programme (DPEP) in South India, questioning its success in achieving access, retention, quality, and equality. The DPEP enhanced access and gender equality but saw only moderate success in retention and quality.
Has technology’s ease of manipulation created distrust in photography? Or have we always desired to manipulate the image to satisfy the demand for the “idealised”? This book explores how artists stage reality to help us look more closely at the world.