Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Smart, John C. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Series: Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, 24
• Subjects: Education.; Curriculums (Courses of study).; Education > Curricula.; School management and organization.; School administration.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Educational sociology.; Higher education.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Higher Education.; Curriculum Studies.; Administration, Organization and Leadership.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Sociology of Education.

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:

• Why Financial Aid Matters (or Does Not) for College Success: Toward a New Interdisciplinary Perspective
• The Use of Matching Methods in Higher Education Research: Answering Whether Attendance at a 2-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: An Economy of Translations
• 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 College Students
• Globalization, Social Movements, and the American University: Implications for Research and Practice
• 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 Encouraging Persistence
• Enter the Dragon? China's Higher Education Returns to the World Community: The Case of the Peking University Personnel Reforms.