International Studies in Higher Education
Series Editors
There are three series editors:
David Palfreyman, Bursar and Fellow of New College, Oxford and Director of the Oxford Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies (OxCHEPS)
Scott Thomas, Associate Professor, Institute of Higher Education, University of Georgia
Ted Tapper, Emeritus Professor of Politics, University of Sussex and Visiting Professor University of Southampton and OxCHEPS.
Aims
This series has been conceived in response to two critical developments in higher education. Firstly, there is the almost universal expansion of national systems of higher education: the age of universal mass higher education has arrived. Secondly, higher education institutions are increasingly subject to pressures that transcend national boundaries: the influence of a global marketplace, the input of international organizations, regional political pressures and cross-national institutional agreements.
Within this context the series will examine how higher education within different nations and/or regions is responding to the new environment. Each volume will be organized around a central theme or concept and analyse how different national and/or regional systems, as well individual institutions of higher education, have responded to the new environment. Although there may be a process of convergence under way, the series is not based on this assumption but rather the purpose is to explore how the traditional dimensions of higher education are being reshaped as national systems have to cope with the pressures of mass higher education, international competition and comparison – even ‘globalization’.
Style
Although this is a series with an international focus it is not expected that each individual volume should cover every national system of higher education. Whilst aiming for a broad range of case studies, the focus of each volume will be upon analysing the most important and interesting examples of responses to the pressures for change. It is inevitable that most of the individual volumes will bring together a range of comparative quantitative and qualitative information. But the primary focus of each volume in the series will be to present differing interpretations of critical developments in key aspects of the experience of higher education. The dominant overarching theme is that of policy analysis and the conflict of ideas that inevitably surrounds any significant policy development in higher education.
Whilst it can be expected that authors will adopt their own interpretations to explain patterns of development in response to the pressures for change (thus there will be conflicting theoretical positions), each editor will impose a framework upon her/his own volumes inasmuch as authors will be required to address common issues and concerns. Editors will also be required to write introductory and concluding chapters that set out the major themes to be addressed and which draw the arguments together comparatively. The series editors will also provide a short introductory preface to each volume showing how it fits into the overall framework of the series. This is not a series that will bring under one label a number of what are essentially ‘stand alone’ texts. There is a clear framework designed to aid continuity and comparison.
The style of writing will be balanced and authoritative, avoiding jargon or parochial language. The intention is to create a series that will appeal to as wide an audience as possible ranging from undergraduates reading specialized upper-division courses (for example in ‘the politics of international organizations’ or in ‘educational management’) to public policy specialists in national and international organization).
The closest model to the volumes that will appear in the International Studies in Higher Education series (Routledge/Taylor & Francis) is Tapper, T. and D. Palfreyman (eds.) Understanding Mass Higher Education (RoutledgeFalmer, London and New York, 2005)
Structure
The intention is to produce 3 books a year with the first to be in production by early 2008. The series will consist of between 12 to 15 volumes. The final volume, edited by the three series editors, will bring the series to a conclusion by presenting comparative overviews of all the major themes examined within the individual texts.
Each book will be some 110,000 words in length and will have from 15 to 20 chapters. Volume editors will be selected internationally with the only requirement being expertise in the field of investigation and a thorough command of the English language. Individual chapters will be written by leading authorities drawn from the national/regional systems under observation.
Topics to covered
- The idea of the university in the age of mass higher education*
- Structural change as a response to mass higher education*
- The growing influence of international organizations*
- System governance: the changing role of the state*
- Institutional governance: managing internal and external pressures*
- Funding/finance: the changing balance of public and private inputs
- Higher education and civil society*
- The accountable university: regulation, markets and professional control
- The student experience: continuity, change and differentiation
- Defining academic and professional roles*
- Defining the academic role
- Controlling student access channels
- Understanding the relationship between higher education and economic performance*
- The research mission of higher education*
- The delivery of teaching in the context of mass higher education
*Editors for these volumes have been identified. Editors have not been identified for the other volumes and if you want to be considered as an editor please send an exploratory email to Ted Tapper (KMTapper@aol.com). We also welcome any comments about the series that you may wish to make.
Progress to-date
Volumes published
David Palfreyman and Ted Tapper (eds.) Structuring Mass Higher: The Role of Elite Institutions (2008)
Jeroen Huisman (ed.) International Perspectives on the Governance of Higher Education: Alternative Frameworks for Coordination (2009)
Roberta Malee Bassett and Alma Maldonado-Maldonado (eds.) International Organizations and Higher Education Policy: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally? (2009)
Celia Whitchurch and George Gordon (eds.) Academic and Professional Identities in Higher Education (2009)
Bjørn Stensaker and Lee Harvey (eds.) Accountability in Higher Education (volume has appeared in both hardback and paperback, dated 2011)
Robin Sakamoto and David Chapman (eds.) Cross-Border Collaborations in Higher Education (volume has appeared but publication date listed as 2011)
Melissa S. Anderson and Nicholas H. Steneck (eds.) International Research Collaborations (volume has appeared but publication date listed as 2011)
Volumes in preparation
David Watson, Susan Stroud and Robert Hollister (eds.) The Engaged University
Ken Kempner, Simon Marginson, Imanol Ordorika, and Brian Pusser (eds.) Universities and the Public Sphere
P. Trowler, P. Saunders and V. Bameber (eds.) Tribes and Territories in the Twenty-first Century
Ron Barnett (ed.) The Idea of the University in the Twenty-first Century
P. Temple (ed.) Universities in the Knowledge Economy
B.W.A Jongbloed and J.J.Vossensteyn (eds.) Access and Expansion after Massification in Higher Education
Proposals under review
R.Pinheiro, G.Jones and P.Benneworth (eds.) Universities and Regional Development
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