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Theory and method in higher education research / edited by Jeroen Huisman, Malcolm Tight.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: International perspectives on higher education research ; volume 9.Publisher: Bingley, UK : Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2015Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (xiv, 331 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781785602863
  • 1785602861
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Theory and method in higher education researchDDC classification:
  • 378.0072 23
LOC classification:
  • LB2326.3
Online resources:
Contents:
The use of institutional theory in higher education research / Yuzhuo Cai, Yohannes Mehari -- The role of political and policy studies in higher education policy research / Andrew Gunn -- Evaluative research in higher education policy analysis / Murray Saunders, Cristina Sin, Steven Dempster -- Event history analysis : a primer for higher education researchers / Austin Lacy -- Efficiency in higher education : requirements, theory, methods and decision areas / Matthias Klumpp -- Three methods, four different outcomes! How to test the reliability and validity of a graduate survey competence scale / Mareike Landmann [and others] -- The change laboratory in higher education : research-intervention using activity theory / Brett Bligh, Michelle Flood -- What works? A critique of appreciative inquiry as a research method/ology / Lynn Clouder, Virginia King -- Images in research on teaching and learning in higher education / Erika Lo<U+0308>fstro<U+0308>m [and others] -- Exploring doctoral examiner judgements through the lenses of Habermas and epistemic cognition / Neville Clement [and others] -- Theorising academic development as an academic discipline? Exploring academic developers' ways of knowing, theorising and use of methods / Megan Y.C.A. Kek, Sara Hammer -- Theorising inequality : two-dimensional participatory justice and higher education research / Andrew Morrison -- A normative framework or an emerging theory? The capability approach in higher education research / Ana Sofia Ribeiro -- Engineering phenomenography / Peter Gibbings, John Lidstone, Christine Bruce -- The narrative approach in higher education research / Anto<U+0301>nio Magalha<U+0303>es, Ame<U+0301>lia Veiga.
Summary: 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 is being applied. Theory and method in higher education research I contains contemporary contributions to international debates regarding the application and development of theory and methodology in researching higher education.
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The use of institutional theory in higher education research / Yuzhuo Cai, Yohannes Mehari -- The role of political and policy studies in higher education policy research / Andrew Gunn -- Evaluative research in higher education policy analysis / Murray Saunders, Cristina Sin, Steven Dempster -- Event history analysis : a primer for higher education researchers / Austin Lacy -- Efficiency in higher education : requirements, theory, methods and decision areas / Matthias Klumpp -- Three methods, four different outcomes! How to test the reliability and validity of a graduate survey competence scale / Mareike Landmann [and others] -- The change laboratory in higher education : research-intervention using activity theory / Brett Bligh, Michelle Flood -- What works? A critique of appreciative inquiry as a research method/ology / Lynn Clouder, Virginia King -- Images in research on teaching and learning in higher education / Erika Lo<U+0308>fstro<U+0308>m [and others] -- Exploring doctoral examiner judgements through the lenses of Habermas and epistemic cognition / Neville Clement [and others] -- Theorising academic development as an academic discipline? Exploring academic developers' ways of knowing, theorising and use of methods / Megan Y.C.A. Kek, Sara Hammer -- Theorising inequality : two-dimensional participatory justice and higher education research / Andrew Morrison -- A normative framework or an emerging theory? The capability approach in higher education research / Ana Sofia Ribeiro -- Engineering phenomenography / Peter Gibbings, John Lidstone, Christine Bruce -- The narrative approach in higher education research / Anto<U+0301>nio Magalha<U+0303>es, Ame<U+0301>lia Veiga.

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 is being applied. Theory and method in higher education research I contains contemporary contributions to international debates regarding the application and development of theory and methodology in researching higher education.

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