The Routledgefalmer Reader in Higher Education

ISBN-13: 9780415327657 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 332 str.

Malcolm Tight

Opis

All those with an interest in higher education and higher education research will find this comprehensive collection of the past two decades' most influential readings on the topic an absolutely essential companion.

Recenzje

'A really useful and comprehensive volume on key issues surrounding higher education and which reflects many recent changes in the field such as the effect of pressures of assessment in undergraduate courses, the validity of student evaluation of teaching and performance-based funding.' - The Scientific and Medical Network Review

Spis treści

1. Higher Education as a Field of Research  2. 'Classification' and 'Judgement': Social Class and the 'Cognitive Structures' of Choice in Higher Education  3. Misconception about the Learning Approaches, Motivations and Study Practices of Asian Students  4. Student, Critic and Literary Text: A Discussion of 'Critical Thinking' in a Student Essay  5. The Pressures of Assessment in Undergraduate Courses and their Effect on Student Behaviours  6. Assessment for Learning: The Differing Perceptions of Tutors and Students  7. The Validity of Student Evaluation of Teaching in Higher Education: Love Me, Love My Lectures?  8. Graduate Employment and Work in Selected European Countries   9. The PhD and the Autonomous Self: Gender, Rationaliety and Postgraduate Pedagogy   10. Conceptualising Curriculum Change  11. Coming to Know in Higher Education: Theorising Faculty Entry to New Work Contexts  12. Agency, Context and Change in Academic Development  13. Moving With the Times: An Oral History of a Geography Department  14. Conceptions of Research: A Phenomenographic Study  15. Flights of Imagination: Academic Women Be(com)ing Writers  16. Keeping Up Performances: An International Survey of Performance-Based Funding in Higher Education  17. The Regulation of Transnational Higher Education in Southeast Asia: Case Studies of Hong Kong, Malaysia and Australia  18. Globalisation, New Managerialism, Academic Capitalism and Entrepreneurialism in Universities: Is the Local Dimension Still Important?  19. Innovation and Isomorphism: A Case Study of University Identity Struggle 1969-1999

O autorze

Malcolm Tight