Researching Higher Education : International Perspectives on Theory, Policy and Practice (Paperback)

Preface Jennifer M. Case & Jeroen Huisman Chapter 1: Higher education research in the United Kingdom since 1945 Malcolm Tight Part 1: Higher education and society Chapter 2: Internationalisation of higher education Sheila Trahar, Wendy Green, Hans de Wit & Craig Whitsed Chapter 3: Public engagement in higher education: The state of the art Richard Watermeyer & Jamie Lewis Chapter 4: Creativity and innovation in the twenty-first century university William G. Tierney and Michael Lanford Chapter 5: Whose Academy? Gender and higher education Sarah J. Aiston Chapter 6: Working class students in Western higher education Carli Rowell Chapter 7: Reassessing the outcomes of higher education Heike Behle, Gabriel Atfield, Peter Elias, Lynn Gambin, Anne Green, Terence Hogarth, Kate Purcell, Charikleia Tzanakou & Christopher Warhurst Chapter 8: Policy-making in higher education: Is a ‘theory of everything’ possible? Theresa Shanahan, Paul Axelrod, Roopa Desai Trilokekar, & Richard Wellen Part 2: Curriculum, teaching and learning Chapter 9: The professional development of academics as teachers: Reconsiderations Brenda Leibowitz Chapter 10: Curriculum in higher education research Johanna Annala, Jyri Linden & Marita Makinen Chapter 11: Research into student learning and university teaching: Changing perspectives Noel Entwistle, Evangelia Karagiannopoulou, Anna Olafsdottir & Paul Walker Chapter 12: ‘Student experience’ surveys: political, theoretical and empirical dimensions Mantz Yorke Chapter 13: Mind the gap: the chasm between research and practice in teaching and learning with technology Linda Price, Adrian Kirkwood and John T. E. Richardson Chapter 14: More than the sum of its parts: higher education research explored Sue Clegg