Routledge Research in Higher Education
About the Book Series
Please send inquiries or proposals for this series to one of the following:
AnnaMary Goodall: [email protected]– Editor, UK, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East
Kirsty Hardwick: [email protected] – Editor, North & South America
Kanishka Jangir: [email protected] – Editor, Australia, New Zealand & Asia
Research Methods in English Medium Instruction
1st Edition
Edited
By Jack K.H. Pun, Samantha M. Curle
January 09, 2023
In this special edited volume, the editors and invited English Medium Instruction (EMI) researchers, from different parts of the world, outline the latest EMI research methods. Providing academic instruction using English is rapidly spreading in many countries where English is a second or foreign ...
The Impact of Higher Education Ranking Systems on Universities
1st Edition
By Kevin Downing, Petrus Johannes Loock, Sarah Gravett
January 09, 2023
This book, written by three generations of rankings academics with considerable experience from three very different regions of the globe, lifts the lid on the real impact of higher education ranking systems (HERS) on universities and their stakeholders. It critically analyses the criteria that ...
Internationalising Higher Education and the Role of Virtual Exchange
1st Edition
By Robert O'Dowd
December 30, 2022
This volume introduces Virtual Exchange (VE) as an innovative form of online intercultural learning and investigates the myriad of ways VE is being carried out across universities, ultimately arguing for its integration into university internationalisation policies and course curricula. Against the...
The Experience of Examining the PhD: An International Comparative Study of Processes and Standards of Doctoral Examination
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Byram, Maria Stoicheva
December 30, 2022
This book provides an authoritative overview of the criteria and standards of the doctorate across a wide range of international settings, with a particular focus on the practices of examining. Presenting case studies and research from 13 universities in 13 countries across Africa, Asia, North and...
Higher Education, State Repression, and Neoliberal Reform in Nicaragua: Reflections from a University under Fire
1st Edition
Edited
By Wendi Bellanger, Serena Cosgrove, Irina Carlota Silber
September 27, 2022
This innovative volume makes a key contribution to debates around the role of the university as a space of resistance by highlighting the liberatory practices undertaken to oppose dual pressures of state repression and neoliberal reform at the Universidad Centroamericana (UCA) in Nicaragua. Using ...
Community Engagement in Christian Higher Education: Enacting Institutional Mission for the Public Good
1st Edition
Edited
By P. Jesse Rine, Sandra Quiñones
August 29, 2022
Originally published as a special issue of Christian Higher Education, this volume showcases diverse forms of community engagement work carried out by faith-based colleges and universities throughout the US. Acknowledging the rise of community engagement as a contemporary expression of a ...
Management Behaviours in Higher Education: Lessons from Education, Business and Sport
1st Edition
By David Dunbar
August 29, 2022
Management Behaviours in Higher Education explores the traits and behaviours of higher education leaders that are associated with staff management. It sets out beneficial management qualities and techniques which can be applied and suggests the need for a behavioural standard for senior managers in...
A Comprehensive Critique of Student Evaluation of Teaching: Critical Perspectives on Validity, Reliability, and Impartiality
1st Edition
By Dennis E. Clayson
August 01, 2022
This thought-provoking volume offers comprehensive analysis of contemporary research and literature on student evaluation of teaching (SET) in Higher Education. In evaluating data from fields including education, psychology, engineering, science, and business, this volume critically engages with ...
Posthuman and Political Care Ethics for Reconfiguring Higher Education Pedagogies
1st Edition
Edited
By Vivienne Bozalek, Michalinos Zembylas, Joan Tronto
May 30, 2022
This book makes an important contribution to ongoing debates about the epistemological, ethical, ontological and political implications of relational ethics in higher education. By furthering theoretical developments on the ethics of care and critical posthumanism, it speaks to contemporary ...
Critical Religious Pluralism in Higher Education: A Social Justice Framework to Support Religious Diversity
1st Edition
By Jenny L. Small
December 13, 2021
This text presents a new critical theory addressing religious diversity, Christian religious privilege, and Christian hegemony in the United States. It meets a growing and urgent need in our society—the need to bring together religiously diverse ways of thinking and being in the world, and ...
Developing Transformative Spaces in Higher Education: Learning to Transgress
1st Edition
Edited
By Sue Jackson
March 31, 2021
Higher education has been presented as a solution to a host of local and global problems, despite the fact that learning and assessment can also be used as mechanisms for exclusion and social control. Developing Transformative Spaces in Higher Education: Learning to Transgress demonstrates that ...
Narrative, Identity, and Academic Community in Higher Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Brian Attebery, John Gribas, Mark K McBeth, Paul Sivitz, Kandi Turley-Ames
June 07, 2019
Grounded in narrative theory, this book offers a case study of a liberal arts college’s use of narrative to help build identity, community, and collaboration within the college faculty across a range of disciplines, including history, psychology, sociology, theatre and dance, literature, ...