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Provides a comprehensive review of the various concepts that illustrate how women understand the world around them, make meaning for themselves and their environment, and acknowledge the intersectionality of their identity. In addition, the book breaks new ground in the conversation about the roles of women and gender in higher education.

Analyses the insidious ways heteronormativity produces homophobia and heterosexism, including how this operates and is experienced by those who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered and queer.

Teachers' religious identities shape their classroom practices in varied ways. Their religious identities shape their sense of what is possible and impossible within classroom settings. This book examines these complex navigations through portraits of three early-career evangelical Christian teachers.

Offers faculty practical strategies to engage students that are grounded in research and endorsed by students themselves. Through student stories, a signature feature of this book, readers will discover why professor actions result in changed attitudes, stronger connections to others and the course material, and increased learning.

Provides instructors with a holistic way of thinking about learners, learning, and online course design. The distinctive strategies derived from an integrated framework for designing the online learning experience help create an experience that is more personalized, engaging, and meaningful for online learners.

Gathers contributions from scholars and young adult authors who consider how living in a city affects character identity and growth, and the ways authors world-build the urban setting. The book discusses what the urban landscape means, most especially to those who live in cities, and dispels preconceptions about city living.

Examines conservative philanthropies, the organisations and individuals within their networks, and the strategies they use to shape educational policy and practice. Each chapter examines a philanthropy, philanthropic network, or corporation focused on pushing an agenda of individualism, privatization, and conservative ideologies.

Among other commonly held beliefs about the drivers of postsecondary policy and financing, this book questions the current use of funding per student as the dominant indicator of the adequacy of state investment in higher education, and as a key driver of the costs of college.

"What does a new instructional designer need to know to find her or his feet when working with faculty to create online classes?"" This book offers key guiding principles, insights and advice on how to develop productive and collegial partnerships with faculty to deliver courses that engage students and promote enduring learning.

Offers a succinct but comprehensive introduction to the planning, design, and facilitation of social justice experiences, grounding readers in relevant theory, taking into account participants' prior understandings of issues of race and privilege, institutional environment and campus climate, and the facilitator's positionality.

Based on empirical research, organisational theory, and interviews, David Farris provides an examination of the dynamics of committee work, addresses the planning, conduct, roles, composition, and dispositions of members as well as the institutional context and structures in which they operate that are vital to organisational success.

This powerful, practical resource helps faculty create an inclusive dynamic in their classrooms, so that all students are set up to succeed. Grounded in research and theory, this book provides practical solutions to help faculty create an inclusive learning environment in which all students can thrive.

Program development is central to the work of student affairs professionals. This theory-to-practice, sequential guide to program development fills a gap in the literature. The authors describe the elements of program planning and delivery from the inception of the idea through the use of assessment to revise and improve the program for the future.

Provides readers with the tools they need to take a strong, values-based approach to leadership in the digital spaces vital to the world of higher education today. Filled with examples and tools to negotiate this ever changing landscape, the book fills an important niche in the literature: A user manual for your digital leadership journey

Given that students will be more successful in college (and in life) if they can integrate their learning, James Barber offers a guide on how to promote students' integration of learning, and help them connect knowledge and insights across contexts, whether in-class or out, in co-curricular activities, or across courses and disciplinary boundaries.

Offers guidance on course design and planning, developing outcomes and appropriate engaging activities, managing workload and assessment, and pays explicit attention throughout to the diverse needs of students and offers strategies to accommodate them in a comprehensive and inclusive way by using the principles of Universal Design for Learning.

Offers insight into the transformative possibilities of education when enacted as the art of being with. Driven by student voices and their experiences of marginalization, this text takes a clear ethical stance. It asserts that students are both capable and competent.

An education playbook applied to the vast mediated universe of Disney. Readers of all ages can critically apply media literacy principles while still conscientiously participating as consumer-citizens, media creators, and agents of change. Media literacy is defined throughout this book as an instructional method rather than a political movement.

Addresses the theory and practice of African-centred education. Contributors provide perspectives on the history, methods, successes and challenges of African-centred education, discussions of efforts counter the miseducation of Black children, and prescriptions for-and analyses of-the way forward for Black children and Black communities.

The term ""teacher leadership"" is not without its problems, since some interpret it to have both corporate and hierarchical implications. Stewardship as Teacher Leadership discusses the impact of changing that language to stewardship, a term that in more inclusive, more professional, and more morally-based.

Provides a comprehensive explanation about the field of improvement science to both novices and current practitioners. This Primer is specifically designed to introduce improvement science to educational audiences.

This book is intended to help practitioners in adult education become better informed about assessment, evaluation, and accountability as these are critical functions of administering and running adult education programs.

Provides a narrative and illustration about the purpose and features comprising the Dissertation in Practice and how this culminating experience is suited to using Improvement Science as a signature methodology for preparing professional practitioners.

Explores key philosophical topics in John Dewey's work, including epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics, and relates them to teacher practice and education policy. Each chapter begins with theory and ends with practical implications.

Examines the rapidly-growing esports phenomenon in higher education, bringing the perspectives of players, administrators, and scholars together in one volume to discuss the basics of esports, how to start and maintain successful esports programs, and issues and trends in the field.

Describes strategies that can help students recover bandwidth, including acknowledging the ""funds of knowledge"" of students and their families, promoting growth mindsets, using reflective practices to build a sense of belonging for all students, fostering peer collaboration, and implementing restorative practices.

Explains how to implement a curricular approach for educating students beyond the classroom. The book is based on more than a decade of implementing curricular approaches on multiple campuses, contributing to the scholarship on the curricular approach, and helping many campuses design, implement, and assess their student learning efforts.

For the past 35 years, Scott Mandel has been teaching students in an urban Los Angeles school district. In addition, he instructs teachers in professional development courses. In those classes, he's known for telling stories. Classrooms in the Real World is a collection of many of those stories, presented as a set of teachable moments.

Invites readers to rethink and re-examine the traditional paradigms in which religion, spirituality, and interfaith (RSI) have been studied within higher education and student affairs settings. This volume introduces new theoretical frameworks that enrich and enliven the study of RSI, making it more dynamic, inclusive, and innovative.