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The Truths of Business and the Lies of Academia: The Order of Discourse on Higher Education in Poland
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Ostrowicka, Helena; Stankiewicz, Lukasz – Higher Education Research and Development, 2019
This article presents the results of an analysis of hierarchization strategies in public debate over unemployment among university graduates. The aim of the investigation was to grasp the way that discourse controls interact with one another to produce and reinforce a particular 'truth' about the university. The objects of our analysis were the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Unemployment, College Graduates
A Higher Education--A Polemic (For a Change)
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Peters, Lloyd – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2015
The BBC Radio 4 comedy-drama "A Higher Education" was written in 1999 to present a satire of a dysfunctional and cash-strapped university (Northfield) led by the egotistical and amoral Head of Drama, Don Crookfield (played by Rik Mayall). For those of us passionately engaged in the provision of higher education today, the satire also…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Educational Practices, Satire
The Cambridge Handbook of Service Learning and Community Engagement. Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
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Dolgon, Corey, Ed.; Mitchell, Tania D., Ed.; Eatman, Timothy K., Ed. – Cambridge University Press, 2017
With contributions from leading experts across disciplinary fields, this book explores best practices from the field's most notable researchers, as well as important historically based and politically focused challenges to a field whose impact has reached an important crossroads. The comprehensive and powerfully critical analysis considers the…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Best Practices, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices
Commentary on "Research in Secondary English, 1912-2011: Historical Continuities and Discontinuities in the NCTE Imprint"
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Hillocks, George, Jr. – Research in the Teaching of English, 2011
Jory Brass and Leslie David Burns provide a useful and informative review of research appearing in the "English Journal" ("EJ") and "Research in the Teaching of English" ("RTE") over the past 100 years. It is a bit unfortunate, if understandable, to exclude books and articles in other journals, because such a restriction excludes many pieces of…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Literacy, Educational Research, Academic Discourse
Theater Education and Hirsch's Contextualism: How Do We Get There, and Do We Want to Go?
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Gillespie, Patti P. – Journal of Aesthetic Education, 1990
Discusses theater education in the areas of curriculum, production, and criticism, as proposals in E. D. Hirsch's, "Cultural Literacy" might affect it. Explains context, cultural literacy, and contextual criticism in theater education. Traces interwoven history of education and theater. Explores how embracing Hirsch's proposal would…
Descriptors: Criticism, Cultural Activities, Cultural Education, Curriculum Design
Review [Book Reviews].
Hanke, Robert – Journal of Urban and Cultural Studies, 1992
These books are, in many ways, companion volumes addressed to educators working on curricular issues and educational reform. Both consider how postmodernism, feminism, and cultural studies contribute to contemporary educational theory and social criticism. The authors make a convincing case for critical "border pedagogy" that examines…
Descriptors: Criticism, Cultural Differences, Curriculum Development, Educational Change