Higher education, tertiary education

Business is the largest undergraduate major in the United States and still growing. This reality, along with the immense power of the business sector and its significance for national and global well-being, makes quality education critical not only for the students themselves but also for the public good. Business education for undergraduates, however, is too often narrow, failing to challenge students to question assumptions, think creatively, or understand the place

Fr. Prof. Dr. Beate Schuster ist Professorin für Pädagogische Psychologie an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Schwerpunkt ihrer Lehre sind Auffälligkeiten im Verhalten und Erleben von Schülern und Schülerinnen. Aktueller Schwerpunkt in der Forschung ist Klassenführung und Mobbing.

Donald J. Gray is Culbertson Professor of English Emeritus at Indiana University. He has served as editor of College English and Victorian Studies. At Indiana University, Professor Gray received the university's Distinguished Teaching Award, its Distinguished Service Award, the President's Medal of Excellence, and the Bicentennial Medal for his distinguished service to the university.

It is not easy to teach well. Stephen Brookfield describes teaching as resembling a kind of “muddling through” that involves us negotiating moments of surprise as we learn our own truth about the realities of the classroom or online experience. But that doesn’t mean that great teaching can’t be achieved. Four core assumptions inform this book: that skillful teaching boils down to whatever helps students learn, that the best teachers adopt a critically reflective stance towards their pra

Contents include:

Part 1: Where are you now?

Part 2: What are your job options?

Section 1: Job options based around teaching skills

Section 2: Job options for recent graduates

Section 3: Job options for school leaders

Part 3: Job profiles

Explores activist movements in higher education from around the world, and their connections to broader anti-capitalist and anti-colonial struggles.

L. Dee Fink has been an instructional consultant for more than thirty years. A former president of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD), he consults on the topics of faculty development and integrated course design at two- and four-year colleges and accrediting associations around the world.