Author: Richard M. Millard Publisher: Jossey-Bass ISBN: Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 352
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Taking a stand against popular criticisms of today's colleges and universities, Richard M. Millard rejects the view that higher education is currently failing to respond to new challenges and that it should revert to its past as a model for the future. In this book he exposes prevalent myths about higher education that inhibit administrators and faculty from realistically dealing with changing conditions and that reinforce an elitist conception of the function of higher education in society. Today's Myths and Tomorrow's Realities attempts to show how, through careful analysis and innovative programmes, these assumptions and beliefs can be reshaped to help higher education leaders and their institutions meet the challenges presented by an ageing population, ethnic and racial diversity, and demands for a more educated and skilled work force. Drawing on his extensive experience as a college educator, administrator, and state board member, Millard identifies and analyzes seven groups of myths that restrain critical areas of higher education today - and describes what higher education must do to free itself from these facilities.
Author: Quinton Douglass Crawford Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 059534030X Category : Languages : en Pages : 277
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Questions...... Why are there so many problems on our world? Are the children of the world going to be okay? What about the other holocausts! Why is everyone getting so sick? If there is so much money in the world, why are there poor people? Why are so many things called conspiracies? Was it always like this? Have today's musical arts benefited anyone? Who are the heroes of today, and what should we believe for life & death? What are some ways to fix our world? This book is designed to assist you in answering these and other questions. It is a compilation of a few months of research. Some questions have been left open for you to answer, or may be included in another book. Again, full praise is given to all the women, men, and children that inspired my research. Special appreciation is given to my family, friends, and those that have crossed over. Prof. Quinton D. Crawford Thanks for reading Knowledge for Tomorrow vol.1
Author: H.B. Slotnick Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 113572220X Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 166
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The opportunity for a "second chance" is a growing phenomenon. Some members of the Adult Learners Consulting Group, a dozen or so faculty and graduate students at the University of Dakota, who have a general interest in the related processes of learning and teaching, investigated the specific concern about the ways older-than-average students learn and the instructional methods most appropriate for them. They recognized that for both the older student and the teacher of the older student there are problems and issues that are different from the average student or student/teacher relationship. In addition to presenting an integrated picture of adult learners on campus, this book also provides some teaching techniques that can be used in the classroom tomorrow.; It is aimed at teachers in further and adult education, trainers in all disciplines, researchers in adult and continuing education.
Author: Kokila Roy Katyal Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317803361 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 200
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In recent years teacher leadership has undergone one major revolution and is in the process of undergoing another. The first came about as schools turned out to be far too complex for the responsibility of formulating and achieving their goals to be vested entirely in principals and head teachers. As a consequence, the rise of distributed leadership as an alternative model for understanding schools and their functioning is now commonplace. The second major revolution affecting teacher leadership is the rise of the Internet and ICT, and the way these give rise to greater and more flexible opportunities for students to become autonomous learners. Autonomous student learning now occurs in significant new ways and under parameters that are far more expansive than school-based learning. An effective model of teacher leadership thus needs to capture these changes in order to reflect the new realities of student learning and student engagement with their schools.
Author: Lloyd Geering Publisher: Bridget Williams Books ISBN: 1877242578 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 200
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The post-Christian era offers a mixed blessing, as people find greater personal freedom while facing a future without the certainty of traditional beliefs and practices. In Tomorrow’s God, renowned writer and commentator Lloyd Geering argues that the world we live in is largely a product of our own making. Thus ‘God’, a central symbol of meaning, is entirely a human creation. Geering urges us to consciously create new meaning for our lives in a work that is a distillation of a lifetime’s reading and reflection on religious and social questions.
Author: James U. McNeal Publisher: Paramount Market Publishing ISBN: 9780967143910 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 296
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"This book has three parts: (1) an overview; (2) myths and realities about children as a market (chapters 1-8); and (3) myths and realities about children's responses to marketing behavoiur (chapters 9-21). The first eight chapters describe myths and their realities regarding children as a market segment. I demonstrate the enormous market potential children hold todday is far beyond the penny-candy potential once attributed to them. I characterize children as not one but three markets - a current market spennding their own money on their own wants and needs; an influence market spending mom's and dad's money on their own wants and needs; and a future market for all goods and services. In the third part of the book - chapters 9 through 21 - I detail children's reactions to marketing, specifically, their responses to stores, products, including social products, brands, advertising, promotion, public relations, and packaging." -Preface.
Author: Marcel Leroux Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 3540281002 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 523
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This book seeks to separate fact from fiction in the global-warming debate. The author begins by describing the history of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and many other conferences, and their dire predictions on global temperatures, rainfall, weather and climate, while highlighting confusion and sensationalism media reports. He then lays out the "heretical" scientific case of the sizable skeptical scientific community who challenge the accepted wisdom.
Author: Seon M. Lewis Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1300430680 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 370
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The main thesis of this book is based on the Rastafarian Movement. This book presents information about this movement, in one place, that is largely not know by the many adherents of the faith. Moreover, this book presents a unique view of the Movement; a view embedded in a Grenadian Caribbean experience. This view, however, is not narrowly placed, but is argued within a wider world context, and, thus, explains whether the Rastafarian movement can be a force for good, both within the black community and the world at large. Editor and author Norm R. Allen Jr. said that "This well-researched book expertly demolishes the ridiculous notion among Rastafarians that Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia is God. Moreover, Lewis offers many excellent critiques of theism, the Bible, Rastafarianism, Afrocentric thought and religion in general." This book is informative to everyone.
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