The Routledge International Handbook of Higher Education / Edition 1

The Routledge International Handbook of Higher Education / Edition 1

ISBN-10:
0415432642
ISBN-13:
9780415432641
Pub. Date:
04/13/2009
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
ISBN-10:
0415432642
ISBN-13:
9780415432641
Pub. Date:
04/13/2009
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
The Routledge International Handbook of Higher Education / Edition 1

The Routledge International Handbook of Higher Education / Edition 1

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Overview

This volume is a detailed and up-to-date reference work providing an authoritative overview of the main issues in higher education around the world today. Consisting of newly commissioned chapters and impressive journal articles, it surveys the state of the discipline and includes the examination and discussion of emerging, controversial and cutting edge areas.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780415432641
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 04/13/2009
Series: Routledge International Handbooks of Education
Pages: 558
Product dimensions: 7.20(w) x 10.10(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Malcolm Tight, Ka Ho Mok, Jeroen Huisman, Christopher Morphew

Table of Contents

Part 1 Introduction; Chapter 1 Editorial Introduction, Malcolm Tight; Part 2 Teaching and Learning; Chapter 2 Approaches to Learning, Jennifer M. Case, Delia Marshall; Chapter 3 Student Learning Research, Tamsin Haggis; Chapter 4 Conceptualising Teaching and Learning Interactions in Researching Higher Education, Paul Ashwin; Chapter 5 International Students from Asia, David Kember; Chapter 6 Study Success of Students from Ethnic Minority Backgrounds, Sabine Severiens, Rick Wolff; Part 3 Course Design; Chapter 7 Curriculum, Kelly Coate; Chapter 8 Problem-based Learning, Anna Kwan; Chapter 9 An Alignment of the Planets, Ilana Snyder, Simon Marginson, Tania Lewis; Chapter 10 Diverse Student Groups, Marybeth Gasman, Julie Vultaggio; Part 4 The Student Experience; Chapter 11 Tertiary Education in the Noughties, Naomi Rosh White; Chapter 12 Tuition Fee Policies in a Comparative Perspective, Pamela N. Marcucci, D. Bruce Johnstone; Chapter 13 From Senior Student to Novice Worker, Madeleine Abrandt Dahlgren, Håkan Hult, Lars Owe Dahlgren, Helene Hård af Segerstad, Kristina Johansson; Chapter 14 Postgraduate Research Students' Experience, Coralie McCormack; Part 5 Quality; Chapter 15 What Can Students' Perceptions of Academic Quality Tell Us?, John T. E. Richardson; Chapter 16 Grading Student Achievement in Higher Education, Mantz Yorke; Chapter 17 National Monitoring of Higher Education, John Taylor; Chapter 18 Still Balancing Improvement and Accountability?, Trine Danø, Bjørn Stensaker; Chapter 19 A Global Survey of University Ranking and League Tables, Alex Usher, Massimo Savino; Part 6 System Policy; Chapter 20 Reflections on the Reform of Higher Education in Central and Eastern Europe, Peter Scott; Chapter 21 Globalisation and Higher Education Restructuring in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China, Ka Ho Mok; Chapter 22 Performance-based Funding as an Instrument of Competition in German Higher Education, Dominic Orr, Michael Jaeger, Astrid Schwarzenberger; Chapter 23 Shif
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