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Jason C. Schneider – Palgrave Macmillan, 2025
This book offers an in-depth look at the experiences of international students as they pursued undergraduate degrees in the US. Drawing on recurring interviews with the students and other qualitative data collected over four years, the book investigates how the students' academic development intersected with other life factors, including their…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Undergraduate Students, Student Mobility, Case Studies
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Maria Zackariasson; Jenny Magnusson – Palgrave Macmillan, 2024
This open access book examines the supervision of undergraduate degree projects, with a particular focus on how supervision may contribute to developing student independence and academic literacies. Based on an extensive research project, it uses examples from focus group interviews as well as actual supervision situations, taken from different…
Descriptors: Supervision, Undergraduate Students, Student Projects, Independent Study
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Reimer, Bennett – SUNY Press, 2022
Bennett Reimer's "A Philosophy of Music Education" asserts that the nature and value of music education are determined primarily by the nature and value of music. Originally published in 1970 (with the third edition originally published in 2003), this text relates findings in the field of aesthetics to their implications for the practice…
Descriptors: Music Education, Teaching Methods, Music, Case Studies
Mieg, Harald A., Ed.; Ambos, Elizabeth, Ed.; Brew, Angela, Ed.; Galli, Dominique, Ed.; Lehmann, Judith, Ed. – Cambridge University Press & Assessment, 2022
Undergraduate Research (UR) can be defined as an investigation into a specific topic within a discipline by an undergraduate student that makes an original contribution to the field. It has become a major consideration among research universities around the world, in order to advance both academic teaching and research productivity. Edited by an…
Descriptors: Student Research, Undergraduate Students, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries
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Melanie Beckett – Palgrave Macmillan, 2024
This book presents the life stories and lived experiences of 12 individuals who transitioned from the sixth form of a further education college in a traditionally working-class area of the UK, to higher education. The author employs narrative inquiry in order to explore the participants' unique perspectives. Theoretically, Bourdieu's concepts of…
Descriptors: Student Promotion, Adult Education, Universities, Foreign Countries
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Jinqi Xu – Palgrave Studies in Global Higher Education, 2025
This book provides a unique perspective on internationalization in higher education, focusing on the experiences of Chinese business students in Australia. It challenges conventional views by investigating the nuances of Chinese students' learning, rather than just addressing learning style differences and language barriers. The author's personal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Business Education, Undergraduate Students
Frederick W. Gooding Jr. – Teachers College Press, 2024
Talking about race does not have to be incredibly awkward. In this book, Gooding offers twelve clear, cogent, and concise racial rubrics to help users of mainstream media more readily discern patterns hidden in plain sight. The text primarily leverages popular movies as the medium of analysis--since they are unparalleled in their cultural…
Descriptors: Race, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Films, Popular Culture
Coleman, Jennifer C., Ed.; Hensel, Nancy H., Ed.; Campbell, William E., Ed. – American Association of Colleges and Universities, 2022
With the growing interest in undergraduate research as a high-impact practice, and the recognition that college education is increasingly moving online, this book -- the first to do so -- provides a framework, guidance from pioneering practitioners, and a range of examples across disciplines on how to engage remote students in research. Two…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Online Courses, Virtual Classrooms
Anthony Abraham Jack – Princeton University Press, 2024
Elite colleges are boasting unprecedented numbers with respect to diversity, with some schools admitting their first majority-minority classes. But when the twin pandemics of COVID-19 and racial unrest gripped the world, schools scrambled to figure out what to do with the diversity they so fervently recruited. And disadvantaged students suffered.…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Minority Group Students, COVID-19, Pandemics
Corwin, Lisa A., Ed.; Charkoudian, Louise K., Ed. – Online Submission, 2022
In this open-access book, authors from a range of disciplines--from geosciences to drama--capture how failure manifests and can be productively supported in a range of undergraduate research experiences. Whether the learning environment is a STEM research lab, a course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE), a humanities summer…
Descriptors: Student Research, Researchers, Undergraduate Students, Self Esteem
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Keith Weber, Editor; Miloš Savic, Editor – Research in Mathematics Education, 2025
This book summarizes new directions in mathematics education research on proving at the university level, thereby providing contemporary extensions of the sub-fields of proof that Annie and John Selden introduced to the field. The chapters each describe an emerging new area of proof research, review the relevant findings in this area, present open…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Mathematical Logic
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Archie Holmes, Editor; Kerry Brenner, Editor; Janet Gao, Editor; Committee on Equitable and Effective Teaching in Undergraduate STEM Education: A Framework for Institutions Educators and Disciplines, Contributor; Board on Science Education, Contributor; Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Contributor – National Academies Press, 2025
Society will not fully benefit from development and use of future discoveries and innovations if we do not provide full access and opportunity to engage in effective STEM education -- and we may lack the information, tools, and resources needed to address future challenges facing our planet. Commonly used methods of teaching undergraduate STEM…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, STEM Education, Teaching Methods, STEM Careers
Conrad, Clifton; Lundberg, Todd – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022
Most American colleges and universities assimilate students into highly competitive undergraduate experiences. By placing achievement for personal and material gain as the bedrock of a college education, these institutions fail to educate students to become collaborative learners: people who are committed and prepared to join with others in…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Minority Serving Institutions, Cooperative Learning, Problem Solving
Simmons, Ajai Cribbs – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2022
"Developmental Education Preparation" suggests faculty development that can be used for teaching developmental education and corequisites courses, specifically in mathematics. Providing a look into the needs of students that may not be prepared for college level courses, the premise of the book is to prepare the faculty as much as…
Descriptors: Remedial Instruction, Faculty Development, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction
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Ellison, Aaron M.; Patel, Manisha V. – SpringerBriefs in Education, 2022
This book is a complete guide for students on how to make the most of intensive, experiential research outside a college classroom. Engaging in research as an undergraduate can lead to successful and rewarding careers in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM). Being successful in an undergraduate research experience…
Descriptors: Student Research, Undergraduate Students, STEM Education, Medical Education
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