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
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
Edited
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 ...
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 ...