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The RoutledgeFalmer reader in higher education / edited by Malcolm Tight.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Readers in educationPublication details: London ; New York : RoutledgeFalmer, 2004.Description: ix, 318 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0415327644
  • 0415327652 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 378 TIG
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3 Day Loan LSAD Library Short Loan 378 TIG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 39002100311175

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The RoutledgeFalmer Reader in Higher Education provides a balanced selection of the last few years' writing on the topic, offering anyone with an interest in higher education an essential reference work.
The editor uses his experience to present a range of articles illustrating the variety of methodological approaches and theoretical frameworks that have been applied to the study of higher education. Journal articles from Europe, Australia and Asia cover the following key themes:

teaching and learning course design student experience quality system policy institutional management academic writing knowledge.

This ground-breaking Reader reflects the range of perspectives that contribute to higher education research. It aims to support the growth of higher education as an emerging field of study.

Includes bibliographical references.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • 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

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