Theory and method in higher education research

• Other Authors: Huisman, Jeroen (Editor), Tight, Malcolm (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018.
• Series: Theory and method in higher education research ; v. 4.
• Subjects: Education, Higher > Research.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781787692770; 9781787692794
• ISSN: 2056-3752 ;
• DOI: 10.1108/S2056-375220184
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 247 pages).

Higher education research is a developing field internationally, which is attracting more and more researchers from a greatvariety of disciplinary backgrounds within and beyond higher education institutions. As such, it is an arena within which a wide range of theories,methods and methodologies are...

Table of Contents:

• Prelims
• Using the sociology of Basil Bernstein in higher education research
• A probabilistic approach to studies in higher education
• Refocusing threshold concepts: surfacing and attending to student misconceptions as a necessary (and safer) form of liminal learning
• Creativity and playfulness in higher education research
• Capturing hybrid institutional logics in higher education: qualitative document analysis as methodological approach
• Globalisation and differentiation in higher education systems
• Exploring the complex social spaces of higher education: on the uses and challenges of geometric data analysis and topological approaches
• Methodological tracks to study research collaboration networks in higher education
• Longitudinal peer network data in higher education
• Casting the 'net' in autonetnography: exploring the potential for analytic autonetnography as an emerging e-research methodology
• Practice-focused, constructivist grounded theory methodology in higher education leadership research
• Human and social capital and their application in higher education research
• The state of the art of higher education research on Flanders
• Index.