Free Download Kevin Gray, "Western Higher Education in Asia and the Middle East: Politics, Economics, and Pedagogy"
English | ISBN: 1498526004 | 2016 | 296 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
This multidisciplinary volume highlights the transformed nature of the relationship between higher education and society in the 21st century. In particular, it argues that the development of the global university, especially in the non-western world, has transformed the traditional understanding of the relationship between higher education and society. This has important implications for the relations of state, as education has not only become an object of national development policy but for many states an important export.

Free Download Devesh Kapur, "The Oxford Handbook of Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific Region "
English | ISBN: 0192845985 | 2023 | 976 pages | EPUB, PDF | 10 MB + 45 MB
Since the turn of the millennium it has become clear that the Asia-Pacific Region is, economically, the fastest growing continent in the world, and is likely to remain so for some time despite the setbacks of the COVID-19 pandemic. Asia-Pacific's share of the world's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) doubled from 15 per cent to 30 per cent between 1970 and 2017 and is projected to account for half of global GDP by 2050. With South East and South Asia also growing rapidly, with over half the world's population and three of the world's five largest economies, Asia is soon poised to home half of the world's middle class - a class that is both the driver and the product of higher education.

Free Download Michelle D. Byng, "Teaching and Confronting Racial Neoliberalism in Higher Education: Autoethnographic Explorations of the Race Studies Cla"
English | ISBN: 1032559233 | 2023 | 116 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book examines the way in which professors must confront the social implications of racial neoliberalism. Drawing on autoethnographic research from the authors' combined 100 years of teaching experience, it recognizes the need for faculty to negotiate their own experiences with race, as well as those of their students. It focuses on the experiential nature of teaching, supplementing the fields' focus on pedagogy, and recognizes that professors must, in fact, highlight, rather than downplay, the realities of racial inequalities of the past and present. It explores the ability of instructors to make students who are not of color feel that they are not racists, as well as their ability to make students of color feel that they can present their experiences of racism as legitimate. A unique sociological analysis of the racial studies classroom, this book will be of value to researchers, scholars and faculty with interests in race and ethnicity in education; diversity studies; equity; pedagogy; and the sociology of education, teaching, and learning.

Free Download Elena G. Popkova, "Social Mobility, Social Inequality, and the Role of Higher Education "
English | ISBN: 9004539980 | 2023 | 388 pages | PDF | 21 MB
The book explains the role of higher education in increasing social mobility at the deepest ???? of social institutions and offers an institutional approach to overcoming social inequalities in the knowledge society.

Free Download M. Gail Hickey, "Reflecting on Service-Learning in Higher Education: Contemporary Issues and Perspectives"
English | ISBN: 1498523706 | 2016 | 230 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Reflecting on Service-Learning in Higher Education: Contemporary Issues and Perspectives examines forms of pedagogy such as service-learning, experiential learning, and problem-based learning in order to determine how students make connections between and among abstract academic concepts and real-life issues. This edited collection is divided into three sections-"Reflecting on Community Partnerships," "Reflecting on Classroom Practice," and "Reflecting on Diversity"-so as to represent interdisciplinary subjects, diverse student populations, and differing instructional perspectives about service-learning in higher education. Contributors provide service-learning programs and plans that can be replicated or adapted at other institutions of higher education. This book is recommended for scholars and practitioners of education.

Free Download Improving Inclusivity in Higher Education: Addressing the Digital Divide in the COVID Pandemic by Bhakti More, Seena Biju, Vinod Pallath
English | EPUB (True) | 2023 | 241 Pages | ISBN : 9819950759 | 15.9 MB
This book addresses issues of access that COVID-19 brought forth in higher education, with a primary focus on Asian countries. In looking to address SDG4 to promote "inclusive and equitable quality education for all", the volume explores the challenges relating to educational exclusion by considering how specially-abled students have been impacted by the digital divide in the context of the pandemic. It puts a spotlight on the approaches, experiences, and case analyses from various geographies in the region to study transitions in inclusivity.

Free Download Higher Education as Politics in Post-Rose Revolution Georgia by Brian Lanahan
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 130 Pages | ISBN : 3031451937 | 2.4 MB
This book summarises the evolution of the higher education system in post-Soviet Georgia, amidst democratisation, economic liberalisation and European integration. The author gives an overview of the recent political history in Georgia, paying particular attention to both the collapse of the Soviet Union as well as the Rose Revolution, and their roles in transforming the education system. The book seeks out national and international perspectives to understand how higher education in Georgia can be further developed to meet the needs of all Georgians, while also further advancing Euro-Atlantic integration. It will be of interest to students and scholars of comparative education, as well as the related fields of international development, political science and history.

Free Download Lucie Viakinnou-Brinson, "Environment and Pedagogy in Higher Education "
English | ISBN: 1498531075 | 2018 | 186 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
The commitment to participate in ecological protection has grown considerably and, in the academic world, it has been tackled primarily by the Social Sciences. The Humanities has followed suit and several books have dealt with the reasons why such commitment is essential and morally imperative. What has been crucially lacking, however, are books that propose concrete pedagogical approaches to the study of environmental issues and aim at inspiring and motivating both educators and students to become actively engaged in the pursuit of ecological preservation.

Free Download Angela M. Locks, "Debunking the Grit Narrative in Higher Education: Drawing on the Strengths of African American, Asian American, Pacific "
English | ISBN: 1032358157 | 2023 | 262 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Debunking the Grit Narrative in Higher Education examines pressing structural issues currently impacting African American, Asian American, Pacific Islander, Latinx, and Native American students accessing college and succeeding in U.S. postsecondary environments. Drawing from asset-based work of critical race education scholars such as Yosso, Ladson-Billings, and contributing author Solórzano, the authors interrogate how systems and structures shape definitions of academic merit and grit, how these systems constrain opportunities to attain access and equitable educational outcomes, and challenge widely held beliefs that Students of Color need grit to succeed in college. Dominant narratives of educational success and failure tend to focus mostly on individual student effort. Contributing authors explore the myriad ways that institutional structures can support Students of Color utilizing their strengths through critical perspectives, asset-based, anti-deficit perspectives to access postsecondary environments and experience success. Scholars, scholar-practitioners, students affairs professionals, and educational leaders will benefit from this timely edited book as they work to transform postsecondary institutions into entities that meet the needs of Students and Communities of Color.

Free Download Constitution of Organs of the Higher Plants: The multiple secondary axis theory by Chi Yen
English | EPUB | 2022 | 167 Pages | ISBN : 9811916845 | 127.8 MB
This book written by Professor Chi Yen of Sichuan Agricultural University in Chinese was published by China Agriculture Press (ISBN 978-7-109-22791-0). It describes a new theory on the constitution of organs of the higher plants based on experimental evidence, the multiple secondary axis theory.