Routledge Research in Higher Education
About the Book Series
Please send inquiries or proposals for this series to one of the following:
Manon Berset: [email protected] – Editor, UK, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East
Kirsty Murray: [email protected] – Editor, North & South America
Kanishka Jangir: [email protected] – Editor, Australia, New Zealand & Asia
University Access and Success: Capabilities, diversity and social justice
1st Edition
By Merridy Wilson-Strydom
March 29, 2017
The challenge of widening access and participation in higher education in a manner that ensures students are successful in their studies is a major issue globally and a significant research-focus within higher education studies and higher education policy. Similarly, the challenge of ...
Activity Theory, Authentic Learning and Emerging Technologies: Towards a transformative higher education pedagogy
1st Edition
Edited
By Vivienne Bozalek, Dick Ng’ambi, Denise Wood, Jan Herrington, Joanne Hardman, Alan Amory
January 19, 2017
Although emerging technologies are becoming popularised for teaching, learning and research, the relationship between their use and transformative effects on higher education remain largely unexplored. This edited collection seeks to fill this gap by providing a nuanced view, locating higher ...
Integrative Learning: International research and practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Daniel Blackshields, James Cronin, Bettie Higgs, Shane Kilcommins, Marian McCarthy, Anthony Ryan
December 05, 2016
Current teaching, learning and assessment practices can lead students to believe that courses within a programme are self-sufficient and separate. Integrative Learning explores this issue, and considers how intentional learning helps students become integrative thinkers who can see connections in ...
Academic Bildung in Net-based Higher Education: Moving beyond learning
1st Edition
Edited
By Trine Fossland, Helle Mathiasen, Mariann Solberg
December 02, 2016
The explosive emergence of net-based learning in higher education brings with it new possibilities and constraints in teaching and learning environments.This edited collection considers how the concept of Academic Bildung - a term suggesting a personal educational process beyond actual educational ...
Refocusing the Self in Higher Education: A Phenomenological Perspective
1st Edition
By Glen Sherman
November 18, 2016
In higher education literature, theories of learning and development have largely been adapted from psychology to the exclusion of basic insights from philosophy. This volume addresses the gaps in higher education’s theoretical base created by this inattention to philosophy and reflects ...
Understanding HIV and STI Prevention for College Students
1st Edition
Edited
By Leo Wilton, Robert T. Palmer, Dina C. Maramba
November 18, 2016
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, young people aged 18 to 25 are at a significant risk for acquiring and transmitting HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) and other STIs (sexually transmitted infections). Primary developmental processes that place college students ...
From Vocational to Professional Education: Educating for social welfare
1st Edition
Edited
By Jens-Christian Smeby, Molly Sutphen
November 03, 2016
One of the most important routes to employment within the social welfare sector worldwide is higher education, which equips students not only with the knowledge for employment, but with the tools to use and build on this knowledge. During the last few decades there has been an academic drift in ...
Developing Creativities in Higher Music Education: International Perspectives and Practices
1st Edition
Edited
By Pamela Burnard
May 06, 2016
This is the first book to critically address the issue of how we can enhance and develop creativities in higher music education. It features new international, richly diverse perspectives on the nature and practice of creativities in different cultural and institutional contexts, in varying roles ...
Academic Governance: Disciplines and Policy
1st Edition
By Jenny Lewis
September 29, 2015
Academia is an important site for producing knowledge, which is crucial in driving economies and societies around the globe at the beginning of the 21st century. Yet surprisingly little is known about how contemporary universities are shaped by the formal and multiple demands they face from ...