Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Smart, John C. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Series: Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, 24
• Subjects: Education.; Curriculum planning.; Education, Higher.; Higher Education.; Curriculum Studies.; Administration, Organization and Leadership.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Sociology of Education.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9628-0

Published annually since 1985, the Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities. Each chapter provides a comprehensive review of research findings on a selected t...

Table of Contents:

• Contributors
• Why Financial Aid Matters (or Doesnt) for College Success: Toward a New Interdisciplinary Perspective
• The Use of Matching Methods in Higher Education Research: Answering Whether Attendance at a Two-Year Institution Results in Differences in Educational Attainment
• Othering Research, Researching the Other: De/colonizing Approaches to Qualitative Inquiry
• The Cultural Capital of Cultural and Social Capital
• The Rise and Fall of Need-Based Grants: A Critical Review of Presidential Discourses on Higher Education, 1964-1984
• A Review of Attributional Retraining Treatments: Fostering Engagement and Persistence in Vulnerable Students
• Globalization, Social Movements, and the American University
• Hispanics and Higher Education: An Overview of Research, Theory and Practice
• Turning from Time to Space: Conceptualizing Faculty Work
• Student Aid and Its Role in Educational Persistence
• Enter the Dragon?: Chinas Higher Education Returns to the World Community
• Name Index
• Subject Index
• Contents of Previous Volumes.