基本説明
Contents: Student Learning in Higher Education/ Teaching Practices in Higher Education/ Organizing and Managing Higher Education.
Full Description
Qualitative research in broad terms confronts the question of the researcher's involvement in the production of knowledge. However, the method adopted even in highly positivist qualitative work has a history that bears on the research, and it is this aspect that provides the focus for this volume. The editors provide examples of engaging research work, outlining the key research process and examining the links between this and the final report. The collection is divided into three sections, each relating to one of three substantive higher education research areas - student learning, teaching, and management and organization. The contributors represent the core research methodologies (evaluative, interpretive, critical, action and historical) found in qualitative research generally and in the higher education field in particular, and report on critical research undertaken in Africa, Continental Europe, North America and Australia.
Contents
Student Learning in Higher Educationhistories and post-secondary credentialing, Jane McEldowney; Ways in which students gain access to university discourses; the intersection of the academic curriculum with student voices, Moragh Paxton; Pay as you learn - the effects of part-time paid employment on academic performance, Catherine Watts; University, employability and employment, Josep M. Masjuan and Helena Troiano. Teaching Practices in Higher Education: Expressive practices in the higher education classroom, Tom Phillips; The marriage analogy - personal and positional relationships in PhD supervision, Sara Delmont; Policy-driven curriculum restructuring - academic identities in transition, Rob Moore. Organizing and Managing Higher Education: Improving the quality of education - what makes it actually work?, Veerle Hulpiau and Kim Waeytens; Leading change - African conceptions of leadership and transformation in higher education in South Africa, David Bell; An integral part of the local community - politicians' perspectives on the local university, Tony Potts.
