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
Higher Education, State Repression, and Neoliberal Reform in Nicaragua: Reflections from a University under Fire
1st Edition
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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, ...
Revolutionizing Global Higher Education Policy: Innovation and the Bologna Process
1st Edition
By Joseph Piro
June 07, 2019
The ‘traditional’ university model has been transformed globally, fueled by disruptive technologies, new learning platforms, increasing fiscal austerity, and the rise of knowledge economies. The Bologna Process, a European initiative intended to streamline higher education standards and ...
The Design of the University: German, American, and “World Class”
1st Edition
By Heinz-Dieter Meyer
May 23, 2019
What is the reason for the American university’s global preeminence? How did the American university succeed where the development of the German university, from which it took so much, stalled? In this closely-argued book, Meyer suggests that the key to the American university’s success is its ...
Academics Engaging with Student Writing: Working at the Higher Education Textface
1st Edition
By Jackie Tuck
January 17, 2019
Student writing has long been viewed as a problem in higher education in the UK. Moreover, the sector has consistently performed poorly in the National Student Survey with regard to assessment and feedback. Academics Engaging with Student Writing tackles these major issues from a new and unique ...
The Minoritisation of Higher Education Students: An Examination of Contemporary Policies and Practice
1st Edition
By Ruth Mieschbuehler
January 03, 2019
Research into ethnic attainment differences in British higher education and elsewhere tends to depict students from minority ethnic backgrounds as disadvantaged, marginalised, discriminated against and excluded. In The Minoritisation of Higher Education, Mieschbuehler demonstrates that this idea is...