Education and leadership / / edited by Tom Claes, Frank McMahon & David Seth Preston.

• Superior document: At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 48
• TeilnehmendeR: Claes, Tom.; McMahon, Frank.; Preston, David Seth.
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: At the interface/probing the boundaries. Idea of education.; At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 48.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (367 pages) :; illustrations
• Notes: "The origin of this book lies in the series of conferences organised by Inter-Disciplinary.net under the titles Idea of Education and Leadership and Education"--P. [1].

This truly international book brings together authors from different regions of the world including North America, South Africa, Europe, Iran and Russia all of whom are concerned with aspects of the challenges involved in the expansion of higher education, both in student numbers and areas of study....

Table of Contents

• Conflicting Models of the University: Traditionalist and Innovative Views and the Semantic Horizon of ‘The University’ / Tom Claes
• Problematizing Pedagogy in the New Scene of Teaching / Jayne R. Beilke and Laurie Mullen
• Can Staff Development Efforts Sustain the Changing Landscape of Higher Education? / Linda A. du Plessis
• The Changing Landscapes of Education: The Integration of Pre-Registration Nursing Education within Higher Education / Anne Grant
• Knowledge, Perceptions and Attitudes to Mergers at the University of the North / Kirti Menon
• The Relation Between Research and Education in the Self-Understanding of Universities: an Exploration of Ambiguity in the Case of ‘Guided Independent Learning’ / Maarten Simons , Antoon Braeckman , Jan Elen and Mariette Hellemans
• Working with the Teachers to Promote an Effective Learning/Teaching Environment / Zühal Okan
• A Comparative Study of Secondary School Teachers’ Job Satisfaction in Relation to School Organizational Climate in Iran and India / Abbas Madandar Arani and Parvin Abbasi
• Foreign Language Student Empowerment through Affective Coaching / Jülide İnözü , Seden Tuyan and Emine Çakır Sürmeli
• The Cultural Dimension of Leadership / Thomas Herdin
• The Impact of the Bologna Process on the Design of Higher Education Programmes in Europe / Frank McMahon
• Regional Development Through Tertiary Education / Theodoros Papaelias , Gregory Gikas and Pericles Tangas
• Authority, Recognition, and Dialogue / Amy Swiffen
• Reviewing Access to Higher Education in South Africa / Kirti Menon and Nhlanhla Cele
• Doorkeepers-In-Training? Kafka, the Law Faculty and Access to Justice / Aisha Topsakal
• An Inquiry into the Nature of Higher Education in a Developing Country: The Case of Greece / Theodoros Papaelias and Eleftheria Dogoriti
• Professional Careers of Young Scholars in Russian Regions: Institutional Conditions and Personal Strategies / Natalia Forrat and Artyom Kosmarski.