Reconstructing Policy in Higher Education: Feminist Poststructural Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780415997775 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 272 str.

Elizabeth J. Allan;Susan Iverson;Rebecca Ropers-Huilman

Opis

Reconstructing Policy in Higher Education highlights the work of accomplished and award-winning scholars and provides concrete examples of how feminist poststructuralism effectively informs research methods and can serve as a vital tool for policy makers, analysts, and practitioners. The research examines a range of topics of interest to scholars and professionals including: purposes of Higher Education, administrative leadership, athletics, diversity, student activism, social class, the history of women in postsecondary institutions, and quality and science in the globalized university. Students enrolled in Higher Education and Educational Policy programs will find this book offers them tools for thinking differently about policy analysis and educational practice. Higher Education faculty, managers, deans, presidents, and policy makers will find this book contributes significantly to their own policy analysis, practice, and discourse. Elizabeth J. Allan is an Associate Professor of Higher Education at the University of Maine where she is also an affiliated faculty member with the Women's Studies program. Susan V. Iverson is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education Administration & Student Personnel at Kent State University where she is also an affiliated faculty member with the Women's Studies Program. Rebecca Ropers-Huilman is a Professor of Higher Education at the University of Minnesota.

Written for Higher Education Masters and PhD programs, this landmark textbook joins the theory of feminist post-structuralism with research methods for the purpose of policy analysis in Higher Education. It showcases the different methods that can be applied to a range of topics in Higher Education policy and policy development. Reconstructing Policy in Higher Education highlights the work of accomplished and award-winning scholars and provides an in-depth examination of theoretical frameworks and concrete examples of how feminist post-structuralism effectively informs research methods and can serve as a vital tool for policy makers and analysts.

A primary objective of this book is to provide readers with a comprehensible overview of how feminism and post-structural theories offer useful lenses for analyzing policy and policy development in the context of Higher Education. Each chapter addresses a range of diverse topics including: Purposes of Higher Education, Administration Leadership, Higher Education Athletics, Higher Education Diversity Policy, Sexual Assualt Policy, Student Activism and History of women in Postsecondary Institutions. Key Features included in each chapter of this textbook include: Chapter Openers, Key facts, Chapter summaries and Author reflections.

Primary Themes and objectives of this book are:

To clearly describe key tenets of feminist postsctructuralism and how this theoretical framework can support the analysis of policy and policy development processes

Promote understandings of how policy serves to both trasmit and produce realities affecting Higher Education

Highlight how hidden assumptions embedded in policy may serve to undermine intended goals of policy-makers

Showcase feminist post-structural methods applied to a range of policy issues in Higher Education in a easy and accessible manner

Inform effective development of policy and change strategies advanced by groups committed to promote more equitable experiences for disadvantage groups in postsecondary education.

Students enrolled in Higher Education Masters programs will find this book offers them a tool to think differently about policy anlysis and informs their future practice. Higher Education faculty, managers, Deans, Presidents and policy makers will find this book contributes significantly to their own policy analysis, practice and discourse.

 

O autorze

Elizabeth J. Allan is an Associate Professor of Higher Education at the University of Maine where she is also an affiliated faculty member with the Women’s Studies program.

Susan V. Iverson is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education Administration & Student Personnel at Kent State University where she is also an affiliated faculty member with the Women’s Studies Program.

Rebecca Ropers-Huilman is a Professor of Higher Education at the University of Minnesota.