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
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...
Higher Education and the Student: From welfare state to neoliberalism
1st Edition
By Robert Troschitz
September 27, 2018
As one of the pioneers and leading advocates of neoliberalism, Britain, and in particular England, has radically transformed its higher education system over the last decades. Universities have increasingly been required to act like businesses, and students are frequently referred to as customers ...
The Politics of Widening Participation and University Access for Young People: Making educational futures
1st Edition
By Valerie Harwood, Anna Hickey-Moody, Samantha McMahon, Sarah O'Shea
June 01, 2018
Young people with tenuous relationships to schooling and education are an enduring challenge when it comes to addressing social inclusion, yet their experiences remain overlooked in efforts to widen participation in higher education. The Politics of Widening Participation and University Access for ...
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
Edited
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
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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 ...