Transformations in Research, Higher Education and the Academic Market: The Breakdown of Scientific Thought By Ylva Hasselberg, Sharon Rider (auth.), Sharon Rider, Ylva Hasselberg, Alexandra Waluszewski (eds.)
2013 | 222 Pages | ISBN: 9400752482 | PDF | 2 MB
This volume tackles head-on the controversy regarding the tensions between the principles underlying Academe on the one hand, and the free market on the other. Its outspoken thesis posits that seemingly irresistible institutional pressures are betraying a core principle of the Enlightenment: that the free pursuit of knowledge is of the highest value in its own right. As 'market principles' are forced on universities, inducing a neoteric culture of 'managerialism', many worry that the very characteristics that made European higher education in particular such a success are being eroded and replaced by ideological opportunism and economic expediency.Richly interdisciplinary, the anthology explores a wealth of issues such as the phenomenon of bibliometrics (linking an institution's success to the volume and visibility of publications produced). Many argue that the use of such indicators to measure scientific value is inimical to the time-consuming complexities of genuine truth-seeking. A number of the greatest discoveries and innovations in the history of science, such as Newton's laws of mechanics or the Mendelian laws of inheritance, might never have seen the light of day if today's system of determining and defining the form and content of science had dominated. With analytical perspectives from political science, economics, philosophy and media studies, the collection interrogates, for example, the doctrine of graduate employability that exerts such a powerful influence on course type and structure, especially on technical and professional training. In contrast, the liberal arts must choose between adaptation to the dictates of employability strategies or wither away as enrollments dwindle and resources evaporate. Research projects and aims have also become an area of controversy, with many governments now assessing the value of proposals in terms of assumed commercial benefits. The contributors argue that these changes, as well as 'reforms' in the managerial and administrative structures in tertiary education, constitute a radical break with the previous ontology of science and scholarship: a change in its very character, and not merely its form. It shows that the 'scientific thinking' students, researchers, and scholars are encouraged to adopt is undergoing a rapid shift in conceptual content, with significant consequences not only for science, but also for the society of which it is a part.

Mathias Hulgård Kristiansen, "Students' Experiences of Psychosocial Problems in Higher Education: Battling and Belonging"
English | ISBN: 1032116838 | 2022 | 166 pages | PDF | 1396 KB
Around the world, students in higher education suffer from and deal with psychosocial problems. This phenomenon is universal and seems to be increasing. A vast number of students enter higher education with problems like stress, anxiety or depression, or develop them during their student lives, due to, for example, loneliness, family crisis, mental health or study environment issues.

Rethinking Higher Education and the Crisis of Legitimation in Europe
by Ourania Filippakou
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032281340 | 175 Pages | True PDF | 12.5 MB

Dianne Ramdeholl, "Confronting Institutionalized Racism in Higher Education: Counternarratives for Racial Justice"
English | ISBN: 0367699826 | 2022 | 134 pages | PDF | 13 MB
This book chronicles the experiences of faculty at predominantly white higher education institutions (PWI) by centering voices of racialized faculty across North America. Drawing on Critical Race Theory and critical, feminist, and auto-ethnographic approaches, the text analyzes those narratives, situating people's words in a landscape of institutionalized racism within higher education. In order to support newer under-represented faculty, administrators committed to supporting faculty, and doctoral students interested in a future in higher education, the book offers strategies and implications for institutional reform and anti-racist faculty organizing/survival in academia. Despite claims by university administrations about commitments to diversity, this book demonstrates otherwise, offering counter-narratives from racialized faculty members who share their struggles.

Reflections on Valuing Wellbeing in Higher Education : Reforming our Acts of Self-care
by Narelle Lemon
English | 2023 | ISBN: 103208149X | 205 Pages | True PDF | 5.28 MB

A Generalization of Bohr-Mollerup's Theorem for Higher Order Convex Functions
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030950875 | 341 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 18 MB
In 1922, Harald Bohr and Johannes Mollerup established a remarkable characterization of the Euler gamma function using its log-convexity property. A decade later, Emil Artin investigated this result and used it to derive the basic properties of the gamma function using elementary methods of the calculus. Bohr-Mollerup's theorem was then adopted by Nicolas Bourbaki as the starting point for his exposition of the gamma function.

Higher Education and Job Employability by Betsy Ng
English | EPUB | 2022 | 296 Pages | ISBN : 3031057155 | 2.3 MB
This book presents the most comprehensive discussion of emerging trends in higher education in the Asia Pacific, ranging from graduate attributes to integrated workplace learning, with an in-depth focus on work readiness, employability and career development.

Creative Expression and Wellbeing in Higher Education:
Making and Movement as Mindful Moments of Self-care
English | 2023 | ISBN: 103207602X | 252 Pages | PDF (True) | 17 MB

Mathematics Higher Level Core By Fabio Cirrito
2007 | 1068 Pages | ISBN: 1876659114 | PDF | 16 MB
The text has been written in a conversational style so that students will find that they are not simply making reference to an encyclopedia filled with mathematical facts, but rather find that they are is some way participating in or listening in on a discussion of the subject matter.

Marie-Pierre Moreau, "Student Carers in Higher Education: Navigating, Resisting, and Re-inventing Academic Cultures "
English | ISBN: 1032010940 | 2022 | 180 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This timely volume explores the ways that university institutions affect the experiences of student carers and how student carers negotiate the (often conflicting) demands of care and academic work.