TY - BOOK AU - Tight, Malcolm TI - The Routledge international handbook of higher education SN - 9780415432641 (hbk : alk. paper) U1 - 378 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - Education, Higher N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Section I: Introduction Chapter 1 Editorial Introduction. Malcolm Tight Section II: Teaching and Learning Section Introduction: Chapter 2 Approaches to Learning. Jennifer Case and Delia Marshall Chapter 3 Student Learning Research: a broader view. Tamsin Haggis Chapter 4 Conceptualising Teaching and Learning Interactions in Researching Higher Education. Paul Ashwin Chapter 5 International Students from Asia. David Kember Chapter 6 Study Success of Students from Ethnic Minority Backgrounds: an overview of explanations for difference in study careers. Sabine Severiens and Rick Wolff Section III: Course Design Section Introduction Chapter 7 Curriculum. Kelly Coate Chapter 8 Problem-based Learning. Anna Kwan Chapter 9 - An Alignment of the Planets?: mapping the intersections between pedagogy, technology and management in Australian universities. Ilana Snyder, Simon Marginson and Tania Lewis Chapter 10 Diverse Student Groups: teaching with a goal of inclusivity. Marybeth Gasman and Julie Vultaggio Section IV: The Student Experience Section Introduction Chapter 11 - Tertiary Education in the Noughties: the student perspective. Naomi White Chapter 12 - Tuition Fee Policies in a Comparative Perspective: theoretical and political rationales. Pamela Marcucci and Bruce Johnstone Chapter 13 - From Senior Student to Novice Worker: learning trajectories in political science, psychology and mechanical engineering. Madeleine Dahlgren, Hakan Hult, Lars Dahlgren, Helene Segerstad and Kristina Johansson Chapter 14 Postgraduate Research Students? Experience: it?s all about balancing living. Coralie McCormack Section V: Quality Section Introduction Chapter 15 What can Students? Perceptions of Academic Quality tell us? Research using the Course Experience Questionnaire. John Richardson Chapter 16 Grading Student Achievement in Higher Education: measuring or judging? Mantz Yorke Chapter 17 National Monitoring of Higher Education: motives. Methods and means. John Taylor Chapter 18 - Still Balancing Improvement and Accountability? Developments in external quality assurance in the Nordic countries 1996-2006. Trine Dano and Bjorn Stensaker Chapter 19 - A Global Survey of University Ranking and League Tables. Alex Usher and Massimo Savino Section VI: System Policy Section Introduction Chapter 20 - Reflections on the Reform of Higher Education in Central and Eastern Europe. Peter Scott Chapter 21 - Globalisation and Higher Education Restructuring in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China. Ka-Ho Mok Chapter 22 Performance-based Funding as an Instrument of Competition in German Higher Education. Dominic Orr, Michael Jaeger and Astrid Schwarzenberger Chapter 23 Shifting Roles and Approaches: government coordination of post-secondary education in Canada, 1995-2006. Theresa Shanahan and Glen Jones Chapter 24 Bachelor Graduates on the Labour Market: a cross-national comparison of the employers? viewpoint. Bettina Alesi Section VII: Institutional Management Section Introduction Chapter 25 Institutional Structures: where legitimacy and efficiency meet. Colin Pilbeam Chapter 26 - The Shaping of the Departmental Culture: measuring the relative influences of the institution and discipline. Jenny Lee Chapter 27 Economies of Scale and Mergers in Higher Education. Colin Green and Geraint Johnes Chapter 28 University-based Economic Growth. Iryna Lendel, Phil Allen and Maryann Feldman Chapter 29 Building Democracy?s University: university-community partnerships and the emergent civic engagement movement. Matthew Hartley and David Soo Section VIII: Academic Work Section Introduction Chapter 30 Interpreting Academic Roles and Identities in Higher Education. Kerri-Lee Krause Chapter 31 Academic Development. Ranald Macdonald Chapter 32 The Changing Nature of Academic Work. Jan Currie and Lesley Vidovich Chapter 33 - Understanding Academic Freedom: the views of social scientists. Gerlese Akerlind and Carole Kayrooz Section IX: Knowledge Section Introduction Chapter 34 Academic Research in Contemporary Society. Angela Brew Chapter 35 Disciplinarity. Ruth Neumann Chapter 36 Out with Humboldt and in with the Knowledge Society: on the consequences of the redefinition of the role of higher education and research. Merle Jacob Chapter 37 The University, Neoliberal Reform and the Liberal Educational Ideal. Tony Harland ER -