Critical Approaches to the Study of Higher Education
A Practical Introduction
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Critical Approaches to the Study of Higher Education
A Practical Introduction
About this book
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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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Critical Discourse Analysis in Higher Education Policy Research
- 2 Sense and Sensibility: Considering the Dynamic between Scholarship and Lived Experiences
- 3 A Critical Approach to Power in Higher Education
- 4 A Critical Reframing of Human Capital Theory in US Higher Education
- 5 The Ideas and Craft of the Critical Historian of Education
- 6 The State and Contest in Higher Education in the Globalized Era: Critical Perspectives
- 7 Critical Policy Analysis, the Craft of Qualitative Research, and Analysis of Data on the Texas Top 10% Law
- 8 Critical Action Research on Race and Equity in Higher Education
- 9 Using Critical Race Theory to (Re)Interpret Widely Studied Topics Related to Students in US Higher Education
- 10 Whose Structure, Whose Function? (Feminist) Poststructural Approaches in Higher Education Policy Research
- 11 A Critical Examination of the College Completion Agenda: Advancing Equity in Higher Education
- 12 The New Stratification: Differentiating Opportunity by Race and Class at Community Colleges in the United States
- 13 The Transformative Paradigm: Principles and Challenges
- Afterword
- Contributors
- Index