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
Graduate Education at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs): A Student Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert Palmer, Larry J. Walker, Ramon B. Goings, Charmaine Troy, Chaz T. Gipson, Felecia Commodore
April 27, 2018
Highlighting the voices and experiences of Black graduate students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), this book features the perspectives of students from a variety of academic backgrounds and institutional settings. Contributors discuss their motivation to attend an HBCU for ...
Experiencing Master’s Supervision: Perspectives of international students and their supervisors
1st Edition
By Nigel Harwood, Bojana Petrić
March 12, 2018
Master’s degree programmes are on the rise, attracting growing numbers of international students who speak English as a second or additional language. Experiencing Master’s Supervision: Perspectives of International Students and their Supervisors explores the experiences of supervising and being ...
Art and Design Pedagogy in Higher Education: Knowledge, Values and Ambiguity in the Creative Curriculum
1st Edition
By Susan Orr, Alison Shreeve
January 08, 2018
Art and Design Pedagogy in Higher Education provides a contemporary volume that offers a scholarly perspective on tertiary level art and design education. Providing a theoretical lens to examine studio education, the authors suggest a student-centred model of curriculum that supports the ...
Working with Underachieving Students in Higher Education: Fostering inclusion through narration and reflexivity
1st Edition
Edited
By Maria Francesca Freda, José González-Monteagudo, Giovanna Esposito
January 03, 2018
Working with Underachieving Students in Higher Education: Fostering Inclusion through Narration and Reflexivity presents an international and interdisciplinary approach to the study of the relationships between narrative devices and reflexivity in higher education. Stemming from a collaborative ...
Cosmopolitan Learning for a Global Era: Higher education in an interconnected world
1st Edition
By Sarah Richardson
December 21, 2017
Ensuring that higher education students are fully prepared for lives as global citizens is a pressing concern in the contemporary world. This book draws on insights from cosmopolitan thought to identify how people from different backgrounds can find common ground. By applying cosmopolitan insights ...
Narratives of Doctoral Studies in Science Education: Making the transition from educational practitioner to researcher
1st Edition
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By Shirley Simon, Christina Ottander, Ilka Parchmann
December 21, 2017
This book explores the ways in which small scale research studies arise from issues of practice, and how they are conceptualised, theorised and implemented using a variety of methodological approaches and frameworks. The narratives written by thirteen doctoral students tell real stories of projects...
Sustaining Mobile Learning: Theory, research and practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Wan Ng, Therese M. Cumming
December 21, 2017
Mobile technologies are one of the fastest growing areas of technology in education. For learners, they offer an appealing opportunity to transcend teacher-defined knowledge and approaches by being able to access multiple, alternative sources of information anytime and anywhere. While the pace of ...
The Experiences of Black and Minority Ethnic Academics: A comparative study of the unequal academy
1st Edition
By Kalwant Bhopal
December 21, 2017
Recent research suggests that Black and minority ethnic (BME) academics remain underrepresented, particularly at senior levels in higher education, and tend to be concentrated in new, post-1992 universities. This book provides an original comparative study of BME academics in both the UK and the ...
Experiences of Immigrant Professors: Challenges, Cross-Cultural Differences, and Lessons for Success
1st Edition
By Charles B. Hutchison
May 18, 2017
Educational institutions all over the world continue to attract the services of foreign-born scholars. In addition to the culture shock that immigrants experience in unfamiliar countries, these scholars often undergo "pedagogical shock." Through autobiographical accounts of foreign-born professors ...
Globally Networked Teaching in the Humanities: Theories and Practices
1st Edition
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By Alexandra Schultheis Moore, Sunka Simon
May 18, 2017
As colleges and universities in North America increasingly identify "internationalization" as a key component of the institution’s mission and strategic plans, faculty and administrators are charged with finding innovative and cost-effective approaches to meet those goals. This volume provides an ...
Higher Education Access and Choice for Latino Students: Critical Findings and Theoretical Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Patricia Perez, Miguel Ceja
May 18, 2017
Now the largest and fastest-growing ethnic population in the U.S., Latino students face many challenges and complexities when it comes to college choice and access. This edited volume provides much needed theoretical and empirical data on how the schooling experiences of Latino students shape their...
The Working Classes and Higher Education: Inequality of Access, Opportunity and Outcome
1st Edition
Edited
By Amy E. Stich, Carrie Freie
May 18, 2017
Within the broader context of the global knowledge economy, wherein the "college-for-all" discourse grows more and more pervasive and systems of higher education become increasingly stratified by social class, important and timely questions emerge regarding the future social location and mobility ...