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An essential guide to incorporating critical research into higher education scholarship.
Winner of the Outstanding Publication Award of the Post-secondary Education Division of the American Educational Research Association
Critical theory has much to teach us about higher education. By linking critical models, methods, and research tools with an advocacy-driven vision of the central challenges facing postsecondary researchers and staff, Critical Approaches to the Study of Higher Education makes a significant—and long overdue—contribution to the development of the field.
The contributors argue that, far from being overly abstract, critical tools and methods are central to contemporary scholarship and can have practical policy implications when brought to the study of higher education. They argue that critical research design and critical theories help scholars see beyond the normative models and frameworks that have long limited our understanding of students, faculty, institutions, the organization and governance of higher education, and the policies that shape the postsecondary arena.
A rigorous and invaluable guide for researchers seeking innovative approaches to higher education and the morass of traditionally functionalist, rational, and neoliberal thinking that mars the field, this book is also essential for instructors who wish to incorporate the lessons of critical scholarship into their course development, curriculum, and pedagogy.
Editions of Critical Approaches to the Study of Higher Education
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9781421416649
- Paperback
- ISBN 9781421416656
- EBook
- ISBN 9781421416663
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An essential guide to incorporating critical research into higher education scholarship.
Winner of the Outstanding Publication Award of the Post-secondary Education Division of the American Educational Research Association
Critical theory has much to teach us about higher education. By linking critical models, methods, and research tools with an advocacy-driven vision of the central challenges facing postsecondary researchers and staff, Critical Approaches to the Study of Higher Education makes a significant—and long overdue—contribution to the development of the field.
The contributors argue that, far from being overly abstract, critical tools and methods are central to contemporary scholarship and can have practical policy implications when brought to the study of higher education. They argue that critical research design and critical theories help scholars see beyond the normative models and frameworks that have long limited our understanding of students, faculty, institutions, the organization and governance of higher education, and the policies that shape the postsecondary arena.
A rigorous and invaluable guide for researchers seeking innovative approaches to higher education and the morass of traditionally functionalist, rational, and neoliberal thinking that mars the field, this book is also essential for instructors who wish to incorporate the lessons of critical scholarship into their course development, curriculum, and pedagogy.
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An essential guide to incorporating critical research into higher education scholarship.
Winner of the Outstanding Publication Award of the Post-secondary Education Division of the American Educational Research Association
Critical theory has much to teach us about higher education. By linking critical models, methods, and research tools with an advocacy-driven vision of the central challenges facing postsecondary researchers and staff, Critical Approaches to the Study of Higher Education makes a significant—and long overdue—contribution to the development of the field.
The contributors argue that, far from being overly abstract, critical tools and methods are central to contemporary scholarship and can have practical policy implications when brought to the study of higher education. They argue that critical research design and critical theories help scholars see beyond the normative models and frameworks that have long limited our understanding of students, faculty, institutions, the organization and governance of higher education, and the policies that shape the postsecondary arena.
A rigorous and invaluable guide for researchers seeking innovative approaches to higher education and the morass of traditionally functionalist, rational, and neoliberal thinking that mars the field, this book is also essential for instructors who wish to incorporate the lessons of critical scholarship into their course development, curriculum, and pedagogy.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Critical Approaches to the Study of Higher Education?
Society and Social Sciences > Education / Educational sciences / Pedagogy > Higher education, tertiary education
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Who is/are the Author/s of the book Critical Approaches to the Study of Higher Education?
Ana M. Martínez-Alemán
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Critical Approaches to the Study of Higher Education is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781421416649) and paperback(ISBN 9781421416656) and ebook(ISBN 9781421416663)
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