Enhancing Quality in Higher Education

International Perspectives
Herausgeber: Gordon, George; Land, Ray

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book focuses on recent developments in higher education, provides snapshots of changing practices around the world and analyses the varied theoretical perspectives of quality enhancement. It draws on a wide range of international case studies, examined by a host of contributing experts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780415809252
• ISBN-10: 0415809258
• Artikelnr.: 44637017

Autorenporträt

Professor George Gordon is Research Professor, Centre for Academic Practice & Learning Enhancement, University of Strathclyde Professor Ray Land is Professor of Higher Education and Head of Learning Enhancement, University of Strathclyde.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Theorising Enhancement 1. Meanings of Enhancement 2. Quality
Culture at What Cost? Pursuing Educational Excellence in Straitened Times
3. Achieving the Focus on Enhancement? 4. Using Research Findings to Inform
Quality Enhancement Mantz Yorke Part II: Enhancement in Context:
International Perspectives 5. Quality Enhancement in England: From Funded
Projects to Student-Led Demand 6. 'To See Ourselves as Others See Us': The
Scottish Approach to Quality Enhancement 7. Quality Enhancement in American
Higher Education 8. Enhancing Quality: A Finnish Perspective 9.
Contributions of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning to Quality
Enhancement in Canada 10. Quality Enhancement: The Australian Scene 11. The
Portuguese Case: Can Institutions Move to Quality Enhancement? 12.
Enhancing the Quality of Higher Education in the Czech Republic: Past,
Present and Future Challenges 13. Enhancement or Transformation? The
Significance and Dimensions of Quality Enhancement in Higher Education in
South Africa 14. Obstacles to Improvement in Higher Education in Bosnia and
Herzegovina 15. Quality Enhancement in Turkish Higher Education 16. The
Four-Year Degree in Hong Kong: An Opportunity for Quality Enhancement 17.
The Present Situation of Quality Enhancement in Japan 18. How a Nationwide
Student Uprising Brought About Transformative Quality Enhancement in Sri
Lankan Higher Education 19. Enhancing the Quality of Higher Education in
Vietnam 20. The Impact of Quality Improvement on University Work: An
Overview in Seven Ibero-American Countries Part III: Conclusion 21.
Enhancing the Future: Context and Fidelity