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Informationen zum Autor Jennifer M. Case is Professor of Academic Development in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Jeroen Huisman is Professor of Higher Education at the Centre for Higher Education Governance Ghent, Ghent University, Belgium. Klappentext Research on higher education has yielded many insights that have improved our theoretical and practical understanding but there are still many themes that continue to appear on research agendas, provoking renewed focus on these complex questions and problems. Researching Higher Education explores these issues, examining topics such as equity in access and participation, the relationship between higher education and society, how and what students learn and the professional development of academics.In this volume, contributors from Europe, Australia, Africa and the US critically address ongoing issues with a set of key questions to guide their analysis: What do we know? What are the missing links and gaps in past research? What are the implications for further research? Key themes include:The nature of higher educationHigher education and societyStaff and students in higher educationTeaching and learningCurriculum and assessment Critical, engaging and international in scope, Researching Higher Education will be a valuable guide for academics, researchers, postgraduate students and policy makers in the higher education community. Zusammenfassung Research on higher education has yielded many insights that have improved our theoretical and practical understanding but there are still many themes that continue to appear on research agendas! provoking renewed focus on these complex questions and problems. Researching Higher Education explores these issues! examining topics such as equity in access and participation! the relationship between higher education and society! how and what students learn and the professional development of academics.In this volume! contributors from Europe! Australia! Africa and the US critically address ongoing issues with a set of key questions to guide their analysis: What do we know? What are the missing links and gaps in past research? What are the implications for further research? Key themes include:The nature of higher educationHigher education and societyStaff and students in higher educationTeaching and learningCurriculum and assessment Critical! engaging and international in scope! Researching Higher Education will be a valuable guide for academics! researchers! postgraduate students and policy makers in the higher education community. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Jennifer M. Case & Jeroen Huisman Chapter 1: Higher education research in the United Kingdom since 1945 Malcolm Tight Part 1: Higher education and society Chapter 2: Internationalisation of higher education Sheila Trahar, Wendy Green, Hans de Wit & Craig Whitsed Chapter 3: Public engagement in higher education: The state of the art Richard Watermeyer & Jamie Lewis Chapter 4: Creativity and innovation in the twenty-first century university William G. Tierney and Michael Lanford Chapter 5: Whose Academy? Gender and higher education Sarah J. Aiston Chapter 6: Working class students in Western higher education Carli Rowell Chapter 7: Reassessing the outcomes of higher education Heike Behle, Gabriel Atfield, Peter Elias, Lynn Gambin, Anne Green, Terence Hogarth, Kate Purcell, Charikleia Tzanakou & Christopher Warhurst Chapter 8: Policy-making in higher education: Is a ‘theory of everything’ possible? Theresa Shanahan, Paul Axelrod, Roopa Desai Trilokekar, & Richard Wellen Part 2: Curriculum, teaching and learning Chapter 9: The professional development of academics as teachers: Reconsiderations Brenda Leibowitz Chapter 10: Curriculum in higher educatio...
