Full Description
Higher education research is a developing field internationally, which is attracting more and more researchers from a great variety of disciplinary backgrounds within and beyond higher education institutions. As such, it is an arena within which a wide range of theories, methods and methodologies are being applied.
This volume of Theory and Method in Higher Education Research explores theories such as the use of the "landscape" metaphor, a holistic framework for analysing student behaviour, gendered career choices in STEM, and Bourdieu and posthumanist theorizing. Methodological contributions cover measuring student departure, the use and pitfalls of replication studies, and reflections on autoethnography in higher education research. Combining both strands, the relevance of the rhizome perspective in higher education research is explored in depth.
The international authorship stemming from the UK, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria, Norway and Italy provide rich and varied forum for higher education discussions around issues of theory and method.
Contents
Chapter 1. Autoethnography: Postgraduate teaching assistant professional development in the academy; Kristyna Campbell
Chapter 2. Studying student behaviour: Towards an integrated conceptual framework; Victoria A. Bauer
Chapter 3. Becoming rhizome: Deleuze and Guattari's rhizome as theory and method; Louise Drumm
Chapter 4. Extending the understanding of gendered career choices in STEM: A culture-rooted theoretical model; Irina V. Gewinner, Victoria A. Bauer, and Mara Osterburg
Chapter 5. Habitus (con)figuration in higher education: Diffracting Bourdieu through posthumanism; Nathalie Ann Köbli
Chapter 6. Discontinuing, fading out or just simply leaving? The importance of measuring student departure behaviour in different ways; Elisabeth Hovdhaugen and Monia Anzivino
Chapter 7. Beyond the original: Exploring replication research in higher education; Karlijn Soppe and Jeroen Huisman
Chapter 8. Autoethnography in higher education research: A marginal methodology for the marginalized?; Malcolm Tight
Chapter 9. Ubiquity without clarity? What do we mean by the 'Higher Education Landscape'? A systematic review; Richard Budd
