Researching Higher Education

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.

• Preface Jennifer M. Case & Jeroen HuismanChapter 1: Higher education research in the United Kingdom since 1945 Malcolm TightPart 1: Higher education and society Chapter 2: Internationalisation of higher education Sheila Trahar, Wendy Green, Hans de Wit & Craig WhitsedChapter 3: Public engagement in higher education: The state of the art Richard Watermeyer & Jamie LewisChapter 4: Creativity and innovation in the twenty-first century university William G. Tierney and Michael LanfordChapter 5: Whose Academy? Gender and higher education Sarah J. AistonChapter 6: Working class students in Western higher education Carli RowellChapter 7: Reassessing the outcomes of higher education Heike Behle, Gabriel Atfield, Peter Elias, Lynn Gambin, Anne Green, Terence Hogarth, Kate Purcell, Charikleia Tzanakou & Christopher WarhurstChapter 8: Policy-making in higher education: Is a ‘theory of everything’ possible? Theresa Shanahan, Paul Axelrod, Roopa Desai Trilokekar, & Richard WellenPart 2: Curriculum, teaching and learning Chapter 9: The professional development of academics as teachers: Reconsiderations Brenda LeibowitzChapter 10: Curriculum in higher education research Johanna Annala, Jyri Lindén & Marita MäkinenChapter 11: Research into student learning and university teaching: Changing perspectives Noel Entwistle, Evangelia Karagiannopoulou, Anna Ólafsdóttir & Paul WalkerChapter 12: ‘Student experience’ surveys: political, theoretical and empirical dimensions Mantz YorkeChapter 13: Mind the gap: the chasm between research and practice in teaching and learning with technology Linda Price, Adrian Kirkwood and John T. E. RichardsonChapter 14: More than the sum of its parts: higher education research explored Sue Clegg