Critical Approaches to the Study of Higher Education

Ana M. Martinez-Aleman is a professor of education and the chair of the Department of Educational Leadership and Higher Education at Boston College. She is the author of Accountability, Pragmatic Aims, and the American University and the coauthor of Online Social Networking on Campus: Understanding What Matters in Student Culture. Brian Pusser is an associate professor of education at the University of Virginia and an affiliate of the Center for Urban Education. He is the coeditor of Universities and the Public Sphere: Knowledge Creation and State Building in the Era of Globalization. Estela Mara Bensimon is a professor of higher education and the co-director of the Center for Urban Education. She is the coeditor of Confronting Equity Issues on Campus: Implementing the Equity Scorecard in Theory and Practice and the coauthor of Promotion and Tenure: Community and Socialization in Academe and Redesigning Collegiate Leadership: Teams and Teamwork in Higher Education.

• Introduction1. Critical Discourse Analysis in Higher Education Policy Research2. Sense and Sensibility: Considering the Dynamic between Scholarship andLived Experiences3. A Critical Approach to Power in Higher Education4. A Critical Reframing of Human Capital Theory in US Higher Education5. The Ideas and Craft of the Critical Historian of Education6. The State and Contest in Higher Education in the Globalized Era: CriticalPerspectives7. Critical Policy Analysis, the Craft of Qualitative Research, and Analysis ofData on the Texas Top 10% Law8. Critical Action Research on Race and Equity in Higher Education9. Using Critical Race Theory to (Re)Interpret Widely Studied Topics Relatedto Students in US Higher Education10. Whose Structure, Whose Function? (Feminist) Poststructural Approaches inHigher Education Policy Research 011. A Critical Examination of the College Completion Agenda: AdvancingEquity in Higher Education12. The New Stratification: Differentiating Opportunity by Race and Class atCommunity Colleges in the United States13. The Transformative Paradigm: Principles and Challenges

Studies authored by a solid array of seasoned scholars, newly minted doctorates, and doctoral students in the field from major institutions across the country... Most useful to institutions that host graduate programs in education to maintain research-level collections in the field. Choice At the heart of the book is the idea that linking critical theories, models, and methodologies with a self-aware critical version is essential to social action in higher education. Canadian Journal of Higher Education This book is a gem with a delicate vision to motivate scholars and teachers alike to engage in the noble--yet difficult--task of effecting change, especially the kind of transformation that advocates justice and nutures equity in higher education. Reflective Teaching