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La práctica profesional es un lugar de encuentro entre el docente, en cuanto supervisor, y el estudiante, en el rol de practicante. Para el estudiante de psicología, quien se prepara a lo largo del pregrado para afrontar de manera integral distintas realidades y necesidades de su contexto, es además un espacio de autorreconocimiento, donde confluyen tensiones y experiencias nuevas.
Dilemas y confrontaciones del estudiante de último año frente...
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Put yourself in Palo Alto with this in-depth guide to the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Learn about the school's new curriculum, ties with the Silicon Valley, entrepreneurial focus, special programs, student clubs and strong alumni network. Whether you are just starting your research, already writing your application essays, preparing for an interview or deciding which offer of admission to accept, you will find the Clear Admit School Guides,...
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A brief introduction to the unique purpose and nature of a Christian college education for students, their parents, teachers, and others. The new edition expands the discussion of Christian worldview beyond intellectual analysis to include actions and attitudes. Sections on the Christian mind, redemption, and cultural engagement have been revised to incorporate the recent insights of Christian thinkers such as Andy Crouch, James Davison Hunter, Gabe...
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The author is current an adjunct professor in the United States, and has enjoyed years of teaching students from around the world. A number of students from Saudi Arabia in particular have passed through the author's courses. In conversations with both American and International students, it became clear that students need more information on colleges. Advertising is fine, but college is too expensive to select based on a radio or television advertisement....
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This book, edited by Kettering Foundation Vice President and Program Director John Dedrick along with Laura Grattan and Harris Dienstfrey, demonstrates how deliberation can help higher education renew its mission of preparing citizens to sustain democracy and stimulate civic involvement on college campuses around the country. It also describes how deliberative dialogue-in both the classroom and on campus-can promote learning and problem solving amidst...
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Higher education is in a state of crisis!
College budgets are becoming a challenge to balance. Expenses are continually increasing in an environment of declining enrollments, endowments, and government support. The stop-gap solution for decades was to increase tuition--this is no longer viable.
Students, parents, donors, and government agencies are scrutinizing the cost and return on investment of a college education. Colleges are under pressure...
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The education system provides a great way to peer into the potential of the human mind, but it's come up short in unleashing it. Marquis R. Nave, who has taught English at the college level for 10 years, has discovered that students minds are the center of education and that their ideas about their mental capabilities is crucial to developing a new education. Students who don't believe in the creative power of their minds end up being trained to do...
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La educación superior en Colombia está atravesando por un momento interesante: mientras las expectativas sociales en torno a su rol en la sociedad crecen y todavía se debate su financiamiento, la irrupción de la globalización en la educación superior trae nuevos y más complejos retos. Desde el reciente intento fallido de reformar la Ley 30 de 1992, el tema de la reforma educativa ha tomado un nuevo aire en el país. Por esta razón, el Center...
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Higher education is very important for the development of any country. Government also realized the same and giving more importance to it. The success of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) and Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) has laid a strong foundation for primary and secondary education in India. However, the sphere of higher education has still has not seen any concerted effort for improvement in access or quality. In the coming decades, India...
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Western Universities have been major contributors to our civilization and others through scientific discovery and humanistic scholarship. Knowledge both old and new has been expanded, enriched, and diffused. Universities have also been an important channel of upward social and economic mobility through academic achievement, thus reinforcing the vision of America as a land of opportunity. But since the 1980s, universities have increasingly turned away...
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As Canadian universities work to increase access to graduate education, many are adopting blended modes of delivery for courses and programs. Within this changing landscape of higher education, The Finest Blend answers the call for rigorous research into these methods to ensure quality learning and teaching experience and presents case studies of French and English universities across Canada that are experimenting with blended learning models in graduate...
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All the Advice You Need to Get In To the College You Want! Getting in to your dream college has never been more competitive. Swamped with applications, admissions officers spend 10-20 minutes on each, looking for reasons to say no. It's crucial that students make it easy for colleges to say yes. In his new book, Brand U, renowned college admissions adviser David Montesano shows you exactly how to position yourself as the kind of applicant colleges...
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Making the Most of Your College Education demonstrates that in order to be more competitive and marketable in the workplace, it is necessary to partake of the myriad opportunities the college/university environment holds. This invaluable guide, rich with anecdotes from students across the nation, presents the many overlooked and underutilized resources that college campuses offer. It illustrates how learning begins in, and extends far beyond, the...
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At last, a brief, readable introduction to the unique purpose and value of a Christian college education. This book draws on the insights of a wide range of Christian philosophers, historians, scientists, and theologians, but communicates key concepts in straightforward language and analogies that will connect with today's college students. Brief enough to be paired with other 'first-year' texts, it is an ideal introduction to the Christian college...
15) Welcome to College Your Career Starts Now!: A Practical Guide to Academic and Professional Success
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For every student, both a successful transition into college, and the subsequent transition from college to career, are critically important. Written by an author who has had long experience in both the corporate and academic worlds, "Welcome to College - Your Career Starts Now!" is the ideal book to help guide students through both transitions, while giving good advice on how to integrate the college years into the process of determining one's career....
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"Acing the Medical School Admission Process" is primarily an aid to assist any individual who is interested in becoming a physician gain an admission to the medical school of his or her dreams. Within this book you will find secretly held insights that can greatly increase the odds of gaining entrance into medical school. This book provides an easy to use seven- step process that, if followed can set you apart from your competition during the medical...
17) The Insiders Guide to a Free Ride: Learn How You Too Can Win $500,000 of Scholarships for College
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Winning scholarships is not an art, it's a science. And this book is the science of how to win. More than 50 winners / staff members working at the nation's most acclaimed scholarship agencies have contributed to this book, (Gates Millennium, Horatio Alger, Coca-Cola Scholar, and many more). It provides a holistic review of what it takes to win BIG! A fun read with specific strategies organized by grade level.
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La brecha entre la educación superior y el empleo puede haber existido desde hace mucho tiempo en el Perú, pues las universidades y los institutos no siempre se conectan con las empresas y organizaciones para captar sus demandas de personal y adecuar sus contenidos formativos. Sin embargo, a pesar del auge reciente experimentado en la oferta de educación superior como respuesta a la creciente demanda, la brecha persiste y hasta parece haberse ampliado....
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Are you ready to dazzle your College Interviewer?
If you are a high school student, the answer is "probably not." But you can be ready! This book will show you how to answer tough college interview questions. What This Book Will Do For You: • Lists the Most Common College Interview Questions • Describes an interviewer's motivation for certain questions • Teaches you the key to successfully answering any question • Offers insight into what...
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The cost of a college degree has increased by 1,125% since 1978-four times the rate of inflation. Total student debt has surpassed $1.3 trillion. Nearly two thirds of all college students must borrow to study, and the average student graduates with more than $30,000 in debt. Many college graduates under twenty-five years old are unemployed or underemployed. And professors-remember them?-rarely teach undergraduates at many major universities, instead...
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