Routledge Research in Higher Education
About the Book Series
Please send inquiries or proposals for this series to one of the following:
Manon Berset: [email protected] – Editor, UK, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East
Kirsty Murray: [email protected] – Editor, North & South America
Kanishka Jangir: [email protected] – Editor, Australia, New Zealand & Asia
Developing Transformative Spaces in Higher Education: Learning to Transgress
1st Edition
Edited
By Sue Jackson
March 31, 2021
Higher education has been presented as a solution to a host of local and global problems, despite the fact that learning and assessment can also be used as mechanisms for exclusion and social control. Developing Transformative Spaces in Higher Education: Learning to Transgress demonstrates that ...
Narrative, Identity, and Academic Community in Higher Education
1st Edition
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By Brian Attebery, John Gribas, Mark K McBeth, Paul Sivitz, Kandi Turley-Ames
June 07, 2019
Grounded in narrative theory, this book offers a case study of a liberal arts college’s use of narrative to help build identity, community, and collaboration within the college faculty across a range of disciplines, including history, psychology, sociology, theatre and dance, literature, ...
Revolutionizing Global Higher Education Policy: Innovation and the Bologna Process
1st Edition
By Joseph Piro
June 07, 2019
The ‘traditional’ university model has been transformed globally, fueled by disruptive technologies, new learning platforms, increasing fiscal austerity, and the rise of knowledge economies. The Bologna Process, a European initiative intended to streamline higher education standards and ...
The Design of the University: German, American, and “World Class”
1st Edition
By Heinz-Dieter Meyer
May 23, 2019
What is the reason for the American university’s global preeminence? How did the American university succeed where the development of the German university, from which it took so much, stalled? In this closely-argued book, Meyer suggests that the key to the American university’s success is its ...
Academics Engaging with Student Writing: Working at the Higher Education Textface
1st Edition
By Jackie Tuck
January 17, 2019
Student writing has long been viewed as a problem in higher education in the UK. Moreover, the sector has consistently performed poorly in the National Student Survey with regard to assessment and feedback. Academics Engaging with Student Writing tackles these major issues from a new and unique ...
The Minoritisation of Higher Education Students: An Examination of Contemporary Policies and Practice
1st Edition
By Ruth Mieschbuehler
January 03, 2019
Research into ethnic attainment differences in British higher education and elsewhere tends to depict students from minority ethnic backgrounds as disadvantaged, marginalised, discriminated against and excluded. In The Minoritisation of Higher Education, Mieschbuehler demonstrates that this idea is...
Higher Education and the Student: From welfare state to neoliberalism
1st Edition
By Robert Troschitz
September 27, 2018
As one of the pioneers and leading advocates of neoliberalism, Britain, and in particular England, has radically transformed its higher education system over the last decades. Universities have increasingly been required to act like businesses, and students are frequently referred to as customers ...
The Politics of Widening Participation and University Access for Young People: Making educational futures
1st Edition
By Valerie Harwood, Anna Hickey-Moody, Samantha McMahon, Sarah O'Shea
June 01, 2018
Young people with tenuous relationships to schooling and education are an enduring challenge when it comes to addressing social inclusion, yet their experiences remain overlooked in efforts to widen participation in higher education. The Politics of Widening Participation and University Access for ...
Graduate Education at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs): A Student Perspective
1st Edition
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By Robert Palmer, Larry J. Walker, Ramon B. Goings, Charmaine Troy, Chaz T. Gipson, Felecia Commodore
April 27, 2018
Highlighting the voices and experiences of Black graduate students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), this book features the perspectives of students from a variety of academic backgrounds and institutional settings. Contributors discuss their motivation to attend an HBCU for ...
Experiencing Master’s Supervision: Perspectives of international students and their supervisors
1st Edition
By Nigel Harwood, Bojana Petrić
March 12, 2018
Master’s degree programmes are on the rise, attracting growing numbers of international students who speak English as a second or additional language. Experiencing Master’s Supervision: Perspectives of International Students and their Supervisors explores the experiences of supervising and being ...
Art and Design Pedagogy in Higher Education: Knowledge, Values and Ambiguity in the Creative Curriculum
1st Edition
By Susan Orr, Alison Shreeve
January 08, 2018
Art and Design Pedagogy in Higher Education provides a contemporary volume that offers a scholarly perspective on tertiary level art and design education. Providing a theoretical lens to examine studio education, the authors suggest a student-centred model of curriculum that supports the ...
Working with Underachieving Students in Higher Education: Fostering inclusion through narration and reflexivity
1st Edition
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By Maria Francesca Freda, José González-Monteagudo, Giovanna Esposito
January 03, 2018
Working with Underachieving Students in Higher Education: Fostering Inclusion through Narration and Reflexivity presents an international and interdisciplinary approach to the study of the relationships between narrative devices and reflexivity in higher education. Stemming from a collaborative ...