Researching Learning in Higher Education: An Introduction to contemporary methods and approaches

by Cousin; Glynis

• ISBN13: 9780415991650
• ISBN10: 041599165X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2008-12-17
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Across the world universities are transforming their teaching and learning practices to meet the challenges facing Higher Education in the 21st century. The best of this work is based on high-quality research and excellent scholarship. This much-needed book provides a basic and comprehensive approach into the research methods which are now significantly improving teaching and learning practices in many countries.

Author Biography

Glynis Cousin is Professor of Higher Education and Director of the Institute for Learning Enhancement at the University of Wolverhampton

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. IX
Foreword	p. XI
Framing Higher Education Research	p. 1
Generating an Ethical Framework	p. 17
Qualitative Data Analysis	p. 31
Focus Group Research	p. 51
Semi-structured Interviews	p. 71
Narrative Inquiry	p. 93
Ethnographic Approaches	p. 109
Case Study Research	p. 131
Action Research	p. 149
Appreciative Inquiry	p. 167
Phenomenographic Approaches	p. 183
Transactional Curriculum Inquiry: Researching Threshold Concepts	p. 201
Visual Research	p. 213
Evaluation Research	p. 227
References	p. 241
Index	p. 253
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