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.
List of Contributors
Section I : Introduction
Chapter 1 : Editorial Introduction
Section II : Teaching and Learning
Chapter 2 : Approaches to Learning
Chapter 3 : Student Learning Research : A Broader View
Chapter 4 : Conceptualising Teaching and Learning Interactions in Researching Higher Education
Chapter 5 : International Students from Asia
Chapter 6 : Study Success of Students from Ethnic Minority Backgrounds : an Overview of Explanations for Differences in Study Careers
Section III : Course Design
Chapter 7 : Curriculum
Chapter 8 : Problem-based Learning
Chapter 9 : "An Alignment of The Planets" : Mapping The Intersections Between Pedagogy, Technology and Management in Australian Universities
Chapter 10 : Diverse Student Groups : Teaching with a Goal of Inclusivity
Section IV : The Student Experience
Chapter 11 : Tertiary Education in The Noughties : The Student Perspective
Chapter 12 : Tuition Fee Policies in a Comparative Perspective : Theoretical and Political Rationales
Chapter 13 : From Senior Student to Novice Worker : Learning Trajectories in Political Science, Psychology and Mechanical Engineering, Madeleine Abrandt Dahlgren
Chapter 14 : Postgraduate Research Students’ Experience : It’s All About Balancing Living
Section V : Quality
Chapter 15 : What Can Students’ Perceptions of Academic Quality tell us? Research Using The Course Experience
Questionnaire
Chapter 16 : Grading Student Achievement in Higher Education : Measuring or Judging
Chapter 17 : National Monitoring of Higher Education : Motives, Methods and Means
Chapter 18 : Still Balancing Improvement and Accountability? Developments in External Quality Assurance in The Nordic countries 1996-2006
Chapter 19 : A Global Survey of University Ranking and League Tables
Section VI : System Policy
Chapter 20 : Reflections on The Reform of Higher Education in Central and Eastern Europe
Chapter 21 : Globalisation and Higher Education Restructuring in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China
Chapter 22 : Performance-based Funding as an Instrument of Competition in German Higher Education
Chapter 23 : Shifting Roles and Approaches : Government Coordination of Post-Secondary Education in Canada, 1995-2006
Chapter 24 : Bachelor Graduates on The Labour Market : a Cross-National Comparison of The Employers’ Viewpoint
Section VII : Institutional Management
Chapter 25 : Institutional Structures : where Legitimacy and Efficiency Meet
Chapter 26 : The Shaping of The Departmental Culture : Measuring The Relative Influences of The Institution and Discipline
Chapter 27 : Economies of Scale and Mergers in Higher Education
Chapter 28 : University-based Economic Growth, Iryna Lendel
Chapter 29 : Building Democracy’s University : University-Community Partnerships and The Emergent Civic Engagement Movement
Section VIII : Academic Work
Chapter 30 : Interpreting Changing Academic Roles and Identities in Higher Education
Chapter 31 : Academic Development
Chapter 32 : The Changing Nature of Academic Work
Chapter 33 : Understanding Academic Freedom : The Views of Social Scientists
Section IX : Knowledge
Chapter 34 : Academic Research in Contemporary Society
Chapter 35 : Disciplinarity
Chapter 36 : Out with Humboldt and in with The Knowledge Society : On The Consequences of The Redefinition of The Role of Higher Education and Research
Chapter 37 : The University, Neoliberal Reform and The Liberal Educational Ideal
Index
