The Routledge International Handbook of Higher Education

Contents
Section I: Introduction
Chapter 1-? Editorial Introduction. Malcolm Tight
Section II: Teaching and Learning
Section Introduction:
Chapter 2 - Approaches to Learning. Jennifer Case and Delia Marshall
Chapter 3 - Student Learning Research: a broader view. Tamsin Haggis
Chapter 4 - Conceptualising Teaching and Learning Interactions in Researching Higher Education. Paul Ashwin
Chapter 5 - International Students from Asia. David Kember
Chapter 6 - Study Success of Students from Ethnic Minority Backgrounds: an overview of explanations for difference in study careers. Sabine Severiens and Rick Wolff

Section III: Course Design
Section Introduction
Chapter 7 - Curriculum. Kelly Coate
Chapter 8 - Problem-based Learning. Anna Kwan
Chapter 9 - ?An Alignment of the Planets?: mapping the intersections between pedagogy, technology and management in Australian universities. Ilana Snyder, Simon Marginson and Tania Lewis
Chapter 10 - Diverse Student Groups: teaching with a goal of inclusivity. Marybeth Gasman and Julie Vultaggio

Section IV: The Student Experience
Chapter 11 - Tertiary Education in the Noughties: the student perspective. Naomi White
Chapter 12 - Tuition Fee Policies in a Comparative Perspective: theoretical and political rationales. Pamela Marcucci and Bruce Johnstone
Chapter 13 - From Senior Student to Novice Worker: learning trajectories in political science, psychology and mechanical engineering. Madeleine Dahlgren, Hakan Hult, Lars Dahlgren, Helene Segerstad and Kristina Johansson
Chapter 14 - Postgraduate Research Students? Experience: it?s all about balancing living. Coralie McCormack

Section V: Quality
Chapter 15 - What can Students? Perceptions of Academic Quality tell us? Research using the Course Experience Questionnaire. John Richardson
Chapter 16 - Grading Student Achievement in Higher Education: measuring or judging? Mantz Yorke
Chapter 17 - National Monitoring of Higher Education: motives. Methods and means. John Taylor
Chapter 18 - Still Balancing Improvement and Accountability? Developments in external quality assurance in the Nordic countries 1996-2006. Trine Dano and Bjorn Stensaker
Chapter 19 - A Global Survey of University Ranking and League Tables. Alex Usher and Massimo Savino

Section VI: System Policy
Chapter 20 - Reflections on the Reform of Higher Education in Central and Eastern Europe. Peter Scott
Chapter 21 - Globalisation and Higher Education Restructuring in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China. Ka-Ho Mok
Chapter 22 - Performance-based Funding as an Instrument of Competition in German Higher Education. Dominic Orr, Michael Jaeger and Astrid Schwarzenberger
Chapter 23 - Shifting Roles and Approaches: government coordination of post-secondary education in Canada, 1995-2006. Theresa Shanahan and Glen Jones
Chapter 24 - Bachelor Graduates on the Labour Market: a cross-national comparison of the employers? viewpoint. Bettina Alesi

Section VII: Institutional Management
Chapter 25 - Institutional Structures: where legitimacy and efficiency meet. Colin Pilbeam
Chapter 26 - The Shaping of the Departmental Culture: measuring the relative influences of the institution and discipline. Jenny Lee
Chapter 27 - Economies of Scale and Mergers in Higher Education. Colin Green and Geraint Johnes
Chapter 28 - University-based Economic Growth. Iryna Lendel, Phil Allen and Maryann Feldman
Chapter 29 - Building Democracy?s University: university-community partnerships and the emergent civic engagement movement. Matthew Hartley and David Soo

Section VIII: Academic Work
Chapter 30 - Interpreting Academic Roles and Identities in Higher Education. Kerri-Lee Krause
Chapter 31 - Academic Development. Ranald Macdonald
Chapter 32 - The Changing Nature of Academic Work. Jan Currie and Lesley Vidovich
Chapter 33 - Understanding Academic Freedom: the views of social scientists. Gerlese Akerlind and Carole Kayrooz

Section IX: Knowledge
Chapter 34 - Academic Research in Contemporary Society. Angela Brew
Chapter 35 - Disciplinarity. Ruth Neumann
Chapter 36 - Out with Humboldt and in with the Knowledge Society: on the consequences of the redefinition of the role of higher education and research. Merle Jacob
Chapter 37 - The University, Neoliberal Reform and the Liberal Educational Ideal. Tony Harland