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Critical Approaches to the Study of Higher Education: A Practical Introduction
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Abstract: 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. (From the Publisher)
Table Of Content:
Acknowledgments
Introduction
ch. 1 Critical discourse analysis in higher education policy research (Ana M. Martinez-Aleman)
ch. 2 Sense and sensibility: considering the dynamic between scholarship and lived experiences (Mitchell J. Chang)
ch. 3 A critical approach to power in higher education (Brian Pusser)
ch. 4 A critical reframing of human capital theory in US higher education (Sheila Slaughter, Barrett J. Taylor, and Kelly O. Rosinger)
ch. 5 The ideas and craft of the critical historian of education (Derrick P. Alridge)
ch. 6 The state and contest in higher education in the globalized era: critical perspectives (Imanol Ordorika and Marion Lloyd)
ch. 7 Critical policy analysis, the craft of qualitative research, and analysis of data on the Texas top 10% law (Anna Neumann and Aaron M. Pallas)
ch. 8 Critical action research on race and equity in higher education (Alicia C. Dowd, and Robin M. Bishop, Estela Mara Bensimon)
ch. 9 Using critical race theory to (re) interpret widely-studied topics related to students in U.S Higher education (Lori Patton Davis, Shaun R. Harper, and Jessica Harris)
ch. 10 Whose structure, whose function? (feminist) post-structural approaches in higher education Policy research (Amy Scott Metcalfe)
ch. 11 A critical examination of the college completion agenda: advancing equity in higher education (Robert T. Teranishi and Annie W. Bezbatchenko)
ch. 12 The new stratification: differentiating opportunity by race and class at community colleges in the U.S. (Gregory M. Anderson, Ryan P. Barone, Jeffrey C. Sun, and Nicholas Bowlby)
ch. 13 The transformative paradigm: principles and challenges (Sylvia Hurtado)
Afterword
Contributors
Index
Click Here for Book Review
Abstract: 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. (From the Publisher)
Table Of Content:
Acknowledgments
Introduction
ch. 1 Critical discourse analysis in higher education policy research (Ana M. Martinez-Aleman)
ch. 2 Sense and sensibility: considering the dynamic between scholarship and lived experiences (Mitchell J. Chang)
ch. 3 A critical approach to power in higher education (Brian Pusser)
ch. 4 A critical reframing of human capital theory in US higher education (Sheila Slaughter, Barrett J. Taylor, and Kelly O. Rosinger)
ch. 5 The ideas and craft of the critical historian of education (Derrick P. Alridge)
ch. 6 The state and contest in higher education in the globalized era: critical perspectives (Imanol Ordorika and Marion Lloyd)
ch. 7 Critical policy analysis, the craft of qualitative research, and analysis of data on the Texas top 10% law (Anna Neumann and Aaron M. Pallas)
ch. 8 Critical action research on race and equity in higher education (Alicia C. Dowd, and Robin M. Bishop, Estela Mara Bensimon)
ch. 9 Using critical race theory to (re) interpret widely-studied topics related to students in U.S Higher education (Lori Patton Davis, Shaun R. Harper, and Jessica Harris)
ch. 10 Whose structure, whose function? (feminist) post-structural approaches in higher education Policy research (Amy Scott Metcalfe)
ch. 11 A critical examination of the college completion agenda: advancing equity in higher education (Robert T. Teranishi and Annie W. Bezbatchenko)
ch. 12 The new stratification: differentiating opportunity by race and class at community colleges in the U.S. (Gregory M. Anderson, Ryan P. Barone, Jeffrey C. Sun, and Nicholas Bowlby)
ch. 13 The transformative paradigm: principles and challenges (Sylvia Hurtado)
Afterword
Contributors
Index