The History of U.S. Higher Education - Methods for Understanding the Past (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Gasman, Marybeth

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The first volume in the Core Concepts of Higher Education series, this book is a unique research methods textbook that provides students with an understanding of the processes that historians use when conducting their own research.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136976537
• Artikelnr.: 39704114

Autorenporträt

Marybeth Gasman is an Associate Professor of Higher Education in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Marybeth Gasman
Section I. Methodological Approaches
1. "Within These Walls": Reading and Writing Institutional Histories,
Darryl L. Peterkin
2. Oral History ... As Scholarship, Katherine Chaddock
3. Autobiography and Biographical Research in Higher Education, Wayne Urban
4. "No Food, No Drinks, Pencil Only": Conducting and Interpreting Archival
Research, Jordan R. Humphrey
5. The Literature Review as Scholarship: Using Critical Reviews and
Historiography, Linda Eisenmann
Section II. Using a New Historical Lens
6. Horizontal History and Higher Education, John R. Thelin
7. Photographs as Primary Sources, Michael Bieze
8. Quantification and Cognitive History: Applying Social Science Theory and
Method to Historical Data, Jane Robbins
9. Life History and Voice: On Standpoints and Reflexivity, William G.
Tierney
Section III. Critical Examinations of Special Issues
10. "Poor" Research: Historiographical Challenges When Socio-Economic
Status is the Unit of Analysis, Jana Nidiffer
11. Where is Your "Home"? Writing the History of Asian Americans in Higher
Education, Sharon S. Lee
12. Beyond Black & White: Researching the History of Latinos in American
Higher Education, Christopher Tudico
13. Writing through the Past: Federal Higher Education Policy, Philo
Hutcheson
14. The Challenge of Writing the South, Amy E. Wells-Dolan
Epilogue. A Note about Footnotes, Jane Robbins