1st Edition

The Routledge International Handbook of Higher Education

    544 Pages
    by Routledge

    558 Pages
    by Routledge

    This volume is a detailed and up-to-date reference work providing an authoritative overview of the main issues in higher education around the world today. Consisting of newly commissioned chapters and impressive journal articles, it surveys the state of the discipline and includes the examination and discussion of emerging, controversial and cutting edge areas.

    List of Contributors

    Section I: Introduction

    1. Editorial Introduction, Malcolm Tight

    Section II: Teaching and Learning

    Section Introduction

    2. Approaches to Learning, Jennifer M. Case and Delia Marshall

    3. Student Learning Research: A Broader View, Tamsin Haggis

    4. Conceptualising Teaching and Learning Interactions in Researching Higher Education, Paul Ashwin

    5. International Students from Asia, David Kember

    6. Study Success of Students from Ethnic Minority Backgrounds: an Overview of Explanations for Differences in Study Careers, Sabine Severiens and Rick Wolff

    Section III: Course Design

    Section Introduction

    7. Curriculum, Kelly Coate

    8. Problem-based Learning, Anna Kwan

    9. "An Alignment of the Planets": Mapping the Intersections Between Pedagogy, Technology and Management in Australian Universities, Ilana Snyder, Simon Marginson and Tania Lewis

    10. Diverse Student Groups: Teaching with a Goal of Inclusivity, Marybeth Gasman and Julie Vultaggio

    Section IV: The Student Experience

    Section Introduction

    11. Tertiary Education in the Noughties: the Student Perspective, Naomi White

    12. Tuition Fee Policies in a Comparative Perspective: Theoretical and Political Rationales, Pamela Marcucci and Bruce Johnstone

    13. From Senior Student to Novice Worker: Learning Trajectories in Political Science, Psychology and Mechanical Engineering, Madeleine Abrandt Dahlgren, Håkan Hult, Lars Owe Dahlgren, Helene Hård af Segerstad and Kristina Johansson

    14. Postgraduate Research Students’ Experience: It’s All About Balancing Living, Coralie McCormack

    Section V: Quality

    Section Introduction

    15. What Can Students’ Perceptions of Academic Quality tell us? Research Using the Course Experience Questionnaire, John T. E. Richardson

    16. Grading Student Achievement in Higher Education: Measuring or Judging? Mantz Yorke

    17. National Monitoring of Higher Education: Motives, Methods and Means, John Taylor

    18. Still Balancing Improvement and Accountability? Developments in External Quality Assurance in the Nordic countries 1996-2006, Trine Danø and Bjørn Stensaker 

    19. A Global Survey of University Ranking and League Tables, Alex Usher and Massimo Savino

    Section VI: System Policy

    Section Introduction

    20. Reflections on the Reform of Higher Education in Central and Eastern Europe, Peter Scott

    21. Globalisation and Higher Education Restructuring in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China, Ka-Ho Mok

    22. Performance-based Funding as an Instrument of Competition in German Higher Education, Dominic Orr, Michael Jaeger and Astrid Schwarzenberger

    23. Shifting Roles and Approaches: Government Coordination of Post-Secondary Education in Canada, 1995-2006, Theresa Shanahan and Glen Jones

    24. Bachelor Graduates on the Labour Market: a Cross-National Comparison of the Employers’ Viewpoint, Bettina Alesi

    Section VII: Institutional Management

    Section Introduction

    25. Institutional Structures: where Legitimacy and Efficiency Meet, Colin Pilbeam

    26. The Shaping of the Departmental Culture: Measuring the Relative Influences of the Institution and Discipline, Jenny J. Lee

    27. Economies of Scale and Mergers in Higher Education, Colin Green and Geraint Johnes

    28. University-based Economic Growth, Iryna Lendel, Phil Allen and Maryann Feldman

    29. Building Democracy’s University: University-Community Partnerships and the Emergent Civic Engagement Movement, Matthew Hartley and David Soo

    Section VIII: Academic Work

    Section Introduction

    30. Interpreting Changing Academic Roles and Identities in Higher Education, Kerri-Lee Krause

    31. Academic Development, Ranald Macdonald

    32. The Changing Nature of Academic Work, Jan Currie and Lesley Vidovich

    33. Understanding Academic Freedom: the Views of Social Scientists, Gerlese S. Åkerlind and Carole Kayrooz

    Section IX: Knowledge

    Section Introduction

    34. Academic Research in Contemporary Society, Angela Brew

    35. Disciplinarity, Ruth Neumann

    36. Out with Humboldt and in with the Knowledge Society: On the Consequences of the Redefinition of the Role of Higher Education and Research, Merle Jacob

    37. The University, Neoliberal Reform and the Liberal Educational Ideal, Tony Harland

    Index

    Biography

    Malcolm Tight, Ka Ho Mok, Jeroen Huisman, Christopher Morphew

    " . . .Four of the sections—teaching and learning, course design, the student experience, and quality—are exceptionally exhaustive and valuable compendia of what is currently known about approaches to learning; how to organize, deliver, and assesss curriculum; how to deal with increasing diversity of learners with diverse needs, and how to measure quality in higher education."—Review of Higher Education