Syllabus/achievement requirements

Unit 1: History and Philosophy of Education UPDATED MAY 2013

1. Higher Education in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Rüegg, Walter: ‘Themes’ in H. de Ridder-Symoens (ed): A History of the University in Europe, vol. 1, 1992. Cambridge University Press. pp. 3-34.

Frijhoff, William: ’Patterns’ in H. de Ridder-Symoens (ed): A History of the University in Europe, vol. 2, 1996. Cambridge University Press. . pp. 43-80.

Porter, Roy: ‘The Scientific Revolution and Universities’ in H. de Ridder-Symoens (ed): A History of the University in Europe, vol. 2, 1996. Cambridge University Press. pp. 531-562.

2. The History of Modern Professional Education

Ben-David, Joseph: Education for the Professions’ in Centers of Learning, 1992. Transaction Publishers. pp. 29-70.

Labaree, David F: Mutual Subversion: A Short History of the Liberal and the Professional in American Higher Education, 2006. History of Education Quarterly Vol. 46 No. 1 Spring. ISBN: pp. 1-15. http://www.stanford.edu/~dlabaree/publications/Mutual_Subversion.pdf.

3. The History of Liberal Education

Newman, John Henry: Discourse V: Knowledge: Its Own End’ in The Idea of a University, 1999. Regnery Publishing . pp. 91-112. http://books.google.no/books?id=kadoNcxRXyQC&pg=PA91&hl=no&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false.

Rothblatt, Sheldon: The limbs of Osiris: liberal education in the English-speaking world’ in S.Rothblatt and B. Wittrock (eds): The European and American University Since 1800, 1993. Cambridge University Press. pp. 19-73. .

4. Humboldt and the 19th Century German Research University

[Anon.]: University Reform in Germany, 1970, Minerva vol 8 no 2. pp. 242-250. http://www.springerlink.com/content/r2l315x804607m1r/fulltext.pdf.

Ben-David, Joseph: German Scientific Hegemony and the Emergence of Organized Science’ in The Scientist’s Role in Society, 1984. University of Chicago Press. Press. pp.108-138.

Anderson, R.D: ‘Germany and the Humboldtian model,’ in R. D. Anderson: European Universities from the Enlightenment to 1914, 2004. Oxford University Press. pp. 51-65.

5. Higher Education in the U.S. (1860 to 1960)

Ben-David, Joseph: ‘The Professionalization of Research in the United States’ in The Scientist’s Role in Society, 1984. University of Chicago Press. pp. 108-138.

Turner, R. Steven: Humboldt in North America? Reflections on the Research University and its Historians’ in R. C. Schwinges (ed): Humboldt International. Der Export des deutschen Universitätsmodells im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, 2001. Basel: Schwabe & Co.. pp. 289-312.

6. Mass Higher Education

Kerr, Clark: The idea of multiversity in Clark Kerr, The Uses of the University, 1995. Havard University Press. pp.1-34. http://www.ses.unam.mx/docencia/2007I/Lecturas/Mod3_Kerr.pdf.

Habermas, Jürgen: The Idea of the University: Learning Processes’ , 1987. New German Critique, No. 41. pp. 3-22. http://www.jstor.org/stable/488273.

Gibbons, Michael, et al: The New Production of Knowledge, 1994. London: Sage. pp. 70-89.

Unit 2: Students and Staff in Higher Education

Ashwin, P: Accounting for structure and agency in ‘close-up’ research on teaching, learning and assessment in higher education, 2008. International Journal of Educational Research, 47. 151–158 (8 pages). http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0883035508000347.

Benson, Robyn & Brack, C: Developing the scholarship of teaching: what is the role of e-teaching and learning? , 2009. Teaching in Higher Education, Vol. 14, No. 1. ISBN: pp. 71-80 (10 pages). http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13562510802602590.

Brew, A: Conceptions of Research: a phenomenografic study, 2001. Studies in Higher Education vol 26, no 3. pp. 272-285. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03075070120076255.

Brint, S., Cantwell, A., and Hanneman, R. (2008). Two Cultures of Undergraduate Academic Engagement. Research in Higher Education, 49, 383–402.  

Enders, J: The Academic Profession, 2007. In Forest, J. & Altbach, P., Eds, International . pp. 5-21. http://www.springerlink.com/content/p221j402716g0t9v/fulltext.pdf.

Ensor, P: Contesting Discourses in Higher Education Curriculum Restructuring in South Africa, 2004. Higher Education, vol 48, number 3. pp. 339-359. http://www.springerlink.com/content/m440879742061181/.

Havnes, A: Peer-mediated learning beyond the curriculum, 2008. Studies in Higher Education, vol 33, number 2. pp. 193-204. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03075070801916344.

Healy, Mick : Linking Research and Teaching: Exploring Disciplinary Spaces and the Role of Inquiry-based Learning , 2005. In. R Barnett (ed) Reshaping the University. Maidenhead: SRHE/ Open University Press. pp. 67-78. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/oslo/docDetail.action?docID=10161275.

Helle, L., Tynjälä, P., Vesterinen, P: Work-related project as a learning environment, 2006. In Tynjälä, P., Välimaa, J., Boulton-Lewis, G., Eds, Higher education and working life – collaborations, confrontations and challenges Amsterdam: Elsevier . pp. 195-208.

Henkel, M : Academic Identity and autonomy in a changing policy environment, 2005. Higher Education vol. 49, number 1-2. pp. 155-176. http://www.springerlink.com/content/m236433766t6206t/.

Jawitz, J: Academic identities and communities of practice in a professional discipline, 2009. Teaching in Higher Education, vol. 14, number 3. pp. 241-251. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13562510902898817.

Jones, A: Redisciplining generic attributes: the disciplinary context in focus, 2009. Studies in Higher EducationVol. 34, No. 1. pp. 85-100. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03075070802602018.

Karseth, B. : Curriculum Restructuring in Higher Education after the Bologna , 2006. Revista Española de Educación Comparada, vol 12. pp. 255-284. http://www.sc.ehu.es/sfwseec/reec/reec12/reec1209.pdf.

Leathwood, C : Assessment policy and practice in higher education: purpose, standards , 2005. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education. pp. 307-324.

Mann, S: Alternative perspectives on the student experience: alienation and engagement , 2001. Studies in Higher Education, vol. 26, number 1. pp. 7-19. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03075070020030689.

Mastekaasa, A and Smeby, J-C: Educational choice and persistence in male- and female –dominated fields, 2008. Higher education vol 55 number 2. pp. 189-202 . http://www.springerlink.com/content/x7564321626q8416/.

Nerland, M. & Jensen, K: The construction of a new professional self: a critical reading of the curricula for nurses and computer engineers in Norway, 2007. In A. Brown, S. Kirpal & F. Rauner, Eds: Identities at Work, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. . pp. 339-360. http://www.springerlink.com/content/n4k604250449562u/fulltext.pdf.

Robertson, J and Bond C : The Research/ Teaching Relation: A View from the Edge, 2005. Higher Education vol 50, no 3. pp. 509-535. http://www.springerlink.com/content/h11lh75818k5w46u/.

Simons, M. & Elen, J: The ‘research–teaching nexus’ and ‘education through research’: an exploration of ambivalences, 2007. Studies in Higher Education vol 32 no 5. pp. 617-631. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03075070701573781.

Slaughter, S : The Political Economy of Curriculum-Making in American Universities, 2002. In Brint, S (ed) The Future of the city of intellect : the changing American university . Stanford: Stanford University Press. pp. 260-289.

Tight, M : Researching Higher Education, 2012. Maidenhead: SRHE/ Open University Press. Chapter 10-11.

Trowler, P: Beyond epistemological essentialism: academic tribes in the twenty-first century, 2009. In Kreber, C. (Ed),The University and its Disciplines. Teaching and Learning Within and Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries London: Routledge. pp. 181-195.

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