Critical Approaches to the Study of Higher Education

A Practical Introduction
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4214-1665-6
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

An essential guide to incorporating critical research into higher education scholarship.

Winner of the Outstanding Publication Award of the Post-secondary Education Division of the American Educational Research Association

Critical theory has much to teach us about higher education. By linking critical models, methods, and research tools with an advocacy-driven vision of the central challenges facing postsecondary researchers and staff, Critical Approaches to the Study of Higher Education makes a significant—and long overdue—contribution to the development of the field.

The contributors argue that, far from being overly abstract, critical tools and methods are central to contemporary scholarship and can have practical policy implications when brought to the study of higher education. They argue that critical research design and critical theories help scholars see beyond the normative models and frameworks that have long limited our understanding of students, faculty, institutions, the organization and governance of higher education, and the policies that shape the postsecondary arena.

A rigorous and invaluable guide for researchers seeking innovative approaches to higher education and the morass of traditionally functionalist, rational, and neoliberal thinking that mars the field, this book is also essential for instructors who wish to incorporate the lessons of critical scholarship into their course development, curriculum, and pedagogy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Martínez-Alemán, Ana M

Pusser, Brian

Bensimon, Estela Mara

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Forschungsmethodik, Wissenschaftliche Ausstattung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1. Critical Discourse Analysis in Higher Education Policy Research
2. Sense and Sensibility: Considering the Dynamic between Scholarship andLived Experiences
3. A Critical Approach to Power in Higher Education
4. A Critical Reframing of Human Capital Theory in US Higher Education
5. The Ideas and Craft of the Critical Historian of Education
6. The State and Contest in Higher Education in the Globalized Era: CriticalPerspectives
7. Critical Policy Analysis, the Craft of Qualitative Research, and Analysis ofData on the Texas Top 10% Law
8. Critical Action Research on Race and Equity in Higher Education
9. Using Critical Race Theory to (Re)Interpret Widely Studied Topics Relatedto Students in US Higher Education
10. Whose Structure, Whose Function? (Feminist) Poststructural Approaches inHigher Education Policy Research 0
11. A Critical Examination of the College Completion Agenda: AdvancingEquity in Higher Education
12. The New Stratification: Differentiating Opportunity by Race and Class atCommunity Colleges in the United States
13. The Transformative Paradigm: Principles and Challenges

Über Autor(innen)

Bensimon, Estela Mara
Estela Mara Bensimon teaches at the Center for the Study of Higehr Education at Pennsylvania State University. She is co-director of the Organizational Structures and Policies Project for the National center for Postecondary Teaching, Learning, and Assessment.

Pusser, Brian
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.

Martínez-Alemán, Ana M
Ana M. Martínez Alemán, EdD (ARLINGTON, MA), is a professor and associate dean for faculty and academics at the Lynch School of Education and Human Development at Boston College. She is a coeditor of Critical Approaches to the Study of Higher Education: A Practical Introduction and a coauthor of Technology and Engagement: Making Technology Work for First Generation College Students.

Ana M. Martínez-Alemán 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.