Description
This latest volume presents a truly international approach with contributions from Argentina, Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Norway, Portugal, the U.K. and the U.S. to provide an important contribution to international debates regarding the application and development of theory and methodology in researching higher education that will be relevant to researchers globally.
About the Author
Jeroen Huisman is Professor of Higher Education at Centre for Higher Education Governance Ghent (CHEGG), Department of Sociology, Ghent University. He is also a member and past chair of the Executive Committee of the European Higher Education Society (EAIR), a European society for linking policy, research and practice in higher education.
Malcolm Tight is Professor at Lancaster University's Centre for Higher Education Research and Evaluation. He has a broad range of research interests in the fields of higher and post-compulsory education. He has previously worked at the University of Warwick, the Open University and Birkbeck College London, and is Editor of the leading international journal Studies in Higher Education, and of the book series International Perspectives on Higher Education Research.
Reviews
Researchers from Europe, North America, and Argentina offer 14 articles on theories and methods in higher education research. They address complex systems theory, organizational identity, curriculum theory, a knowledge management framework, evaluation-based decision making, the market-university, mixed methods, virtual ethnography, the network paradigm, disability identity, New Public Management and alternative theories, the sociology of professions, wise organizing, and informal learning in the workplace. -- Annotation (c)2017 * (protoview.com) *
Book Information
ISBN 9781787432239
Author Jeroen Huisman
Format Hardback
Page Count 288
Imprint Emerald Publishing Limited
Publisher Emerald Publishing Limited