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  • Lowering Higher Education

    The Rise of Corporate Universities and the Fall of Liberal Education

    What happens to the liberal arts and science education when universities attempt to sell it as a form of job training? In Lowering Higher Education, a follow-up to their provocative 2007 book Ivory Tower Blues, James E. Côté and Anton L. Allahar explore the subverted 'idea of the university' and the forces that have set adrift the mission of these institutions. Côté and Allahar connect the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Ethnicity, Class, and Nationalism

    Caribbean and Extra-Caribbean Dimensions

    Series series Caribbean Studies
    Celebrants of an ever-emerging "globalization" fly the banner of free trade, the mass marketization of once faltering economies, and rising economic and social standards for all. Many opponents to globalization rightfully point out that borders still exist largely for the purposes of keeping one "commodity" in its place: the labor commodity or, the more familiar, immigrant. Arguments of this type ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Ivory Tower Blues

    A University System in Crisis

    The present state of the university is a difficult issue to comprehend for anyone outside of the education system. If we are to believe common government reports that changes in policy are somehow making life easier for university graduates, we cannot help but believe that things are going right and are getting better in our universities. Ivory Tower Blues gives a decidedly different picture, ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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  • The New Lawyer

    How Settlement Is Transforming the Practice of Law

    Series series Law and Society Series
    Today’s justice system and the legal profession have rendered the “lawyer-warrior” notion outdated, shifting toward conflict resolution rather than protracted litigation. The new lawyer’s skills go beyond court battles to encompass negotiation, mediation, collaborative practice, and restorative justice. In The New Lawyer, Julie Macfarlane explores the evolving role of practitioners, articulating ... Read more

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  • Mediating Interpersonal and Small Group Conflict

    This is a guide to the theory and practice of mediation. It sets out a systematic approach to the use of mediation and to assuming the role of mediator. This book will be one of value to individuals interested in becoming mediators, to parties in conflict considering recourse to mediation to resolve issues, to students studying mediation as a dispute resolution alternative, to professionals who ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Achieving Student Success

    In today's colleges and universities whether students succeed depends in large part on access to effective services that can support and guide them in pursuit of their educational goals. Policy and practice in the field of student services has been largely based on professional literature from US sources. Donna Hardy Cox and Carney Strange offer the first comprehensive description of professional ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Key Concepts in Corporate Social Responsibility

    Series series SAGE Key Concepts series
    Introducing the key concepts in corporate social responsibility, the authors bring together the essential issues relevant to the responsible management of businesses, not-for-profit organizations and government.With detailed coverage and cross-referencing for each concept and over 50 concepts introduced, this guide to both the theory and implementation of CSR and sustainability, provides an ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Social Media in the Classroom

    Why Ontario Students Are Failing in the Real World

    by Jason Beaudry ...
    We have all heard that our students are losing the ability to think for themselves, but what can we do to change that? Written by an educator on the front lines, Social Media in the Classroom: Why Ontario Students Are Failing in the Real World takes a strong stand on issues such as standardized testing, class sizes, and individual education plans (IEPs), to name but a few of the important ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Business Ethics

    An Ethical Decision-Making Approach

    Series series Foundations of Business Ethics
    Business Ethics: An Ethical Decision-Making Approach presents a practical decision-making framework to aid in the identification, understanding, and resolution of complex ethical dilemmas in the workplace.Focuses exclusively on three basic aspects of ethical decision making and behavior—how it actually takes place, how it should take place, and how it can be improvedUses real-life examples of ... Read more

    $47.00 USD

  • Women Who Opt Out

    The Debate over Working Mothers and Work-Family Balance

    Edited by Bernie D. Jones ...
    In a much-publicized and much-maligned 2003 New York Times article, “The Opt-Out Revolution,” the journalist Lisa Belkin made the controversial argument that highly educated women who enter the workplace tend to leave upon marrying and having children. Women Who Opt Out is a collection of original essays by the leading scholars in the field of work and family research, which takes a multi ... Read more

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  • Why Public Higher Education Should Be Free

    How to Decrease Cost and Increase Quality at American Universities

    Universities tend to be judged by the test scores of their incoming students and not on what students actually learn once they attend these institutions. While shared tests and surveys have been developed, most schools refuse to publish the results. Instead, they allow such publications as U.S. News & World Report to define educational quality. In order to raise their status in these rankings, ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • The Academic Profession

    The Professoriate in Crisis

    Series series Contemporary Higher Education
    The purpose of this series is to bring together the main currents in today's higher education and examine such crucial issues as the changing nature of education in the U.S., the considerable adjustment demanded of institutions, administrators, the faculty; the role of Catholic education; the remarkable growth of higher education in Latin America, contemporary educational concerns in Europe, and ... Read more

    $47.99 USD