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A Jungle Named Academia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 187

A Jungle Named Academia

Professional ethics require continuous self-improvement of professors, through writing, reading, and learning: no less than for students. Promoting excellence in scholarship, mentoring students in their research, and effectively teaching, are vital elements in our professional and personal growth. However, any one of these could be a full-time job in itself. To excel in each role, it is essential for faculty members to reflect daily on our work. What is the role of comparisons, in this reflection? Though our colleagues’ successes may suggest to us possibilities in our own work that we didn’t know existed, there is a danger that our neighbor’s “flowers” will always seem more beautif...

A Shawl of Mist
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 155

A Shawl of Mist

The concept of a universal human nature suggests that American scholars and American readers of Japanese literature may interpret the elements in Japanese tanka based on emotions — and on meanings attached to natural images — that are common to all of humanity. It is hoped that readers will experience this ancient style of Japanese poetry in such a way that they are inspired to write their own tanka poems. Such is one of the purposes of A Shawl of Mist. Another purpose of this book is to share essays written to accompany and complement the tanka poems. The short essays included here provide practical thoughts based on the author’s long years of personal and professional experiences — studying, reading, teaching, thinking, and especially, cherishing each day of living — in Japan, the United States, and Guam.

Optimizing Higher Education Learning Through Activities and Assessments
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 444

Optimizing Higher Education Learning Through Activities and Assessments

"This book discusses ways of optimizing learning in higher education through learning activities and assessment strategies"--

Teaching History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 171

Teaching History

A practical and engaging guide to the art of teaching history Well-grounded in scholarly literature and practical experience, Teaching History offers an instructors’ guide for developing and teaching classroom history. Written in the author’s engaging (and often humorous) style, the book discusses the challenges teachers encounter, explores effective teaching strategies, and offers insight for managing burgeoning technologies. William Caferro presents an assessment of the current debates on the study of history in a broad historical context and evaluates the changing role of the discipline in our increasingly globalized world. Teaching History reveals that the valuable skills of teaching...

Learning and Reconciliation Through Indigenous Education in Oceania
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 330

Learning and Reconciliation Through Indigenous Education in Oceania

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-12-10
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

The mission of higher education in the 21st century must address the reconciliation of student learning and experiences through the lens of indigenous education and frameworks. Higher learning institutions throughout the oceanic countries have established frameworks for addressing indigeneity through the infusion of an indigenous perspectives curriculum. The incorporation of island indigenous frameworks into their respective curriculums, colleges, and universities in the oceanic countries has seen positive impact results on student learning, leading to the creation of authentic experiences in higher education landscapes. Learning and Reconciliation Through Indigenous Education in Oceania dis...

The Emotional Self at Work in Higher Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 325

The Emotional Self at Work in Higher Education

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-10-23
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

The many and varied challenges facing higher education include a culture of publish or perish, increased course loads without more pay or benefits, increased pressure on institutions to compete for students, budget cuts, a political atmosphere targeting higher education, and continued systemic inequities. Those who work in higher ed are under more stress today than ever before. It has never been more important to understand and address the emotional self at work in higher education. The Emotional Self at Work in Higher Education is an essential research publication that generates conversations around the practical implementation of healthy emotional workspace practices in the sphere of higher education and investigates tools, frameworks, and case studies that can create a sustainable and healthy work environment. It moves beyond addressing emotional intelligence to addressing the awakening of a greater sense of the emotional self. Featuring a wide range of topics such as distance education, mindfulness, and artificial intelligence, this book is ideal for educators, researchers, academicians, administrators, and students.

Intergenerational Governance and Leadership in the Corporate World: Emerging Research and Opportunities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 254

Intergenerational Governance and Leadership in the Corporate World: Emerging Research and Opportunities

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-04-15
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

Intergenerational equity constraints herald a call for intergenerational equity – the fairness to provide an at least as favorable standard of living as enjoyed today. While grounded in evolution, intergenerational fairness has not been attributed as a natural behavioral law – a human-imbued drive bound by human fallibility. A rounded ethical decision-making anomalies frame to test the applicability of the bounded ethicality paradigm in intergenerational concerns is missing. Behavioral socio-economics shows potential to improve human intergenerational conscientiousness on financial social responsibility and environmental ethicality is underexplored. Intergenerational Governance and Leade...

Leveraging Technology to Improve School Safety and Student Wellbeing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 355

Leveraging Technology to Improve School Safety and Student Wellbeing

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-10-25
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

From implementation in the classroom to building security, technology has permeated all aspects of education throughout the United States. Though hardware has been developed to identify and prevent weaponry from entering a school, including video cameras, entry control devices, and weapon detectors, school safety remains a fundamental concern with the recent increase of school violence and emergence of cyberbullying. Professionals need answers on how to use this technology to protect the physical, emotional, and social wellbeing of all children. Leveraging Technology to Improve School Safety and Student Wellbeing is a pivotal reference source that provides vital research on the application o...

Advancing Online Course Design and Pedagogy for the 21st Century Learning Environment
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 402

Advancing Online Course Design and Pedagogy for the 21st Century Learning Environment

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-01-08
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

The current learning environment is substantially different than what existed for most of the 20th century. Learners and teachers today must navigate in perpetually changing contexts where education is influenced by technological advancement and obsolescence, economic barriers, a changing employment landscape, and even international politics. Studies indicate that employers seek to hire graduates with strong skills in areas coalescing around international awareness, creativity, communication, leadership, and teamwork. Skills and experiences in these areas are necessary preparation for the current economy and to pursue jobs that do not exist yet, while providing some insulation against the ob...

Women's Influence on Inclusion, Equity, and Diversity in STEM Fields
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 358

Women's Influence on Inclusion, Equity, and Diversity in STEM Fields

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-05-31
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

Women are typically not well represented in STEM fields. These same women experience difficulties in advocacy and leadership, as well as hiring and promotion. Women of color, regardless of discipline, face this narrative daily and often throughout their entire careers. Women's Influence on Inclusion, Equity, and Diversity in STEM Fields seeks to critically examine the strategies that women across class and cultural groups use and the struggles they face in order to become successful in professional fields that include business, politics, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. While highlighting topics that include higher education, workplace perceptions, and information literacy, this publication is ideal for public administrators, human resources professionals, sociologists, academicians, researchers, and students interested in gender studies, public administration, the biological sciences, psychology, computer science, and the STEM fields.