The RoutledgeFalmer reader in higher education / edited by Malcolm Tight.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Higher education as a field of research / Malcolm Tight -- "Classification" and "judgement": social class and the "cognitive structures of choice in higher education / Stephen Ball [and others] -- Misconceptions about the learning approaches, motivation and study practices of Asian students / David Kember -- Student, critic and literary text: a discussion of "critical thinking" in a student essay / Mary Scott -- The pressures of assessment in undergraduate courses and their effect on student behaviours / Lin Norton [and others] -- Assessment for learning: the differing perceptions of tutors and students / Effie Maclellan -- The validity of student evaluation of teaching in higher education: love me, love my lectures? / Mark Shevlin [and others] -- Graduate employment and work in selected European countries / Ulrich Teichler -- The PhD and the autonomous self: gender, rationality and postgraduate pedagogy / Lesley Johnson, Alison Lee and Bill Green -- Conceptualising curriculum change / Ronald Barnett, Gareth Parry and Kelly Coate -- Coming to know in higher education: theorising faculty entry to new work contexts / Paul Trowler and Peter Knight -- Agency, context and change in academic development / Ray Land -- Moving with the times: an oral history of a geography department / Alan Jenkins and Andrew Ward -- Conceptions of research: a phenomenographic study / Angela Brew -- Flights of imagination: academic women be(coming) writers / Barbara Grant and Sally Knowles -- Keeping up performances: an international survey of performance-based funding in higher education / Ben Jongbloed and Hans Vossensteyn -- The regulation of transnational higher education in Southeast Asia: case studies of Hong Kong, Malaysia and Australia / Grant McBurnie and Christopher Ziguras -- Globalisation, new managerialism, academic capitalism and entrepreneurialism in universities: is the local dimension still important? / Rosemary Deem -- Innovation and isomorphism: a case-study of university identity struggle 1969-1999 / Bj�rn Stensaker and Jorunn Dahl Norg�ard.

A comprehensive collection of the past two decades most influential readings on the topics of educational philosophy, policy and development. The editor presents a broad range of articles illustrating the variety of methodological approaches and theoretical frameworks that have been applied to the study of higher education. Journal articles from Europe, Australia and Asia cover the following key themes: teaching and learning, course design, student experience, quality, system policy, institutional management and academic writing. This book aims to support the growth of higher education as an emerging field of study.