Updated May 2014
Unit 1 General introduction: History/ Philosophy of higher education
Clark, Burton: The higher education system:academic organization in cross-national perspectives, 1983. University of California Press, Berkeley, California. 315 pp.
Castells, Manuel: Universities as dynamic systems of contradictory functions, 2001. In: Muller, J., Cloete, N. and Badat, S. (eds.) Challenges of Globalisation. South African debates with Manuel Castells. Maskew Miller Longman, Cape Town. pp 206-224.
Maassen, Peter: Higher Education Research: The Hourglass Structure and Its Implications, 2000. In: Teichler et al (eds) Higher Education Research. Its Relationship to Policy and Practice. Pergamon pp. 59-67
Teichler, Ulrich: The Relationship between Higher Education Research and Higher Education Policy and Practice: The Researchers’ Perspective, 2000 In: Teichler et al (eds) Higher Education Research. Its Relationship to Policy and Practice. Pergamon pp. 3-34.
http://www.uni-kassel.de/wz1/mahe/course/module1_1/10_teichler00.pdf
Trow, Martin: Reflections on the transition from mass to universal higher education, 1970. Daedalus vol 99. Winter 1970: The Embattled University. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20023931.
Wittrock, Bjõrn: The Modern University: Its three transformations, 1993. In: Sheldon, Rothblatt & Wittrock (eds.) The European and American University since 1800, Cambridge. pp 303-362.
Unit 2 Changes in higher education's primary processes
Barnett, R., G. Parry, & K. Coate: Conceptualising Curriculum Change, 2001. Teaching in Higher Education, Vol 6 Issue 4. pp. 435-449. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13562510120078009.
Becher, Tony: The Significance of Disciplinary Differences, 1994. Studies in Higher Education, Vol 19, no 2. pp. 151-161. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03075079412331382007.
Brew, A. Towards a New Model of the Relationship, 2006. In: Brew, A. Research and Teaching. Beyond the Divide. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.17-37.
Fry, H., Ketteridge, S., Marshall, S: Understanding student learning, 2009. In Fry, H., Ketteridge, S., Marshall, S., A handbook for teaching and learning in higher education. Routledge, pp 8-26.
http://mail.biblioteca.ucv.cl/site/colecciones/manuales_u/A%20Handbook%20for%20Teaching%20and%20Learning%20in%20Higher%20Education%20Enhancing%20academic%20and%20Practice.pdf
Henkel, Mary : Evaluation in Higher Education: conceptual and epistemological foundations., 1998. European Journal of Education, Vol. 33. pp. 285-299. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1503584.
Kuh, George D: College Students Today. Why We Can't Leave Serendipity to Chance, 2001. In: Altbach, P. In Defense of American Higher Education. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press. Chapter 11, pp. 277-303.
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/oslo/docDetail.action?docID=10021622.
Lattuca L and Stark : Shaping the College Curriculum. Academic Plans in Context, 2009. San Francisco: Jossey- Bass, p. 1-23.. http://media.wiley.com/product_data/excerpt/54/07879855/0787985554.pdf.
Marambe, K.N., Vermunt, J., Boshuizen, H.: A cross-cultural comparison of student learning patterns in higher education, 2012. Higher Education, 64(3), 299-316. (17 pages)
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10734-011-9494-z
Neumann, T., Parry, S., & Becher, T.: Teaching and Learning in their Disciplinary Contexts: a conceptual analysis, 2002. Studies in Higher Education, vol. 25 issue 4. pp. 405-417. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0307507022000011525.
Nerland, M. (2012). Professions as knowledge cultures. In Jensen, K., Lahn, L., Nerland, M. Professional learning in the knowledge society, pp. 27 – 48. Sense Publishers
https://www.sensepublishers.com/media/1335-professional-learning-in-the-knowledge-society.pdf
Pascarella, Ernest T.: How College Affects Students: Ten Directions for Future Research, 2006. Journal of College Student Development, Volume 47, Number 5, . 508-520. (13 pages). http://geekyartistlibrarian.pbworks.com/f/Zach_EDHE6520_How%20College%20Affects%20Students.pdf.
Tight, Malcom: Researching Higher Education, 2012. Berkshire:SRHE and Open University Press. Chapters 1,4-7, 11.
Xiaoyan Wang, Yelin Su, Stephen Cheung, Eva Wong and Theresa Kwong : An exploration of Biggs’ constructive alignment in course design and its impact on students’ learning approaches, 2013. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 38(4), pages 477-491. (15 pages). http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02602938.2012.658018.
Unit 3 The conditions under which higher education operates
Altbach, P: The Logic of Mass Higher Education, 1999. Tertiary Education and Management, Vol 5. pp 107-124. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13583883.1999.9966985.
Gornitzka, Åse: The Internationalisation of Research and Higher Education., 2008. In:Åse Gornitzka et al (eds) Borderless Knowledge. pp. 1-12.
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4020-8283-2_1
Gornitzka, Åse: Governmental Policies and Organisational Change in Higher Education, 1999. Higher Education, Vol. 38. pp. 5-31. http://www.springerlink.com/content/v7xq94864k221m34/.
Gornitzka, Åse & Maassen, Peter: Hybrid Steering Approaches with respect to European Higher Education, 2000. Higher Education Policy, Vol. 13. pp. 267-285. http://www.palgrave-journals.com/hep/journal/v13/n3/abs/8390152a.html.
Gumport, Patricia: Academic Restructuring: Organizational change and institutional imperatives, 2000. Higher Education, Vol. 39. pp. 43-66. http://www.springerlink.com/content/m3721l6405812p33/.
Huisman, J., Stensaker B. and B. Kehm: Bologna, Quo vadis?, 2009. In: Kehm, B., Huisman, J. and B. Stensaker (eds) The European Higher Education Area: Perspectives on a Moving Target. Rotterdam, Sense Publishers. pp. xiii-xv. https://www.sensepublishers.com/media/1073-the-european-higher-education-area.pdf.
Jongbloed, Ben: The Funding of Higher Education in Developing Countries, 2000. In: Jonbloed, B. & Teekens, H. (eds.) The Financing of Higher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa. pp. 13-43. http://ahero.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=cshe&action=downloadfile&fileid=81806115511950417766563.
Maassen, P. & Cloete, N.: Global Reform Trends in Higher Education, 2002. In: Cloete, N. et al (eds.) The Transformation of Higher Education. Global pressures and local responses in South Africa. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht. pp. 13-58. http://www.springerlink.com/content/j4g5m6216646112q/.
Meek, V. L.: Introduction, 2003. In A. Amaral et al. (eds.) The Higher Education Managerial Revolution? Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 1-29
Musselin, Christine: Chapter 5: Change or Continuity in Higher Education Governance? Lessons Drawn from Twenty Years of National Reforms in European Countries 2005., 2005. In: Ivar Bleiklie and Mary Henkel (eds) Governing Knowledge: A Study of Continuity and Change in Higher Education. A Festschrift in Honour of Maurice Kogan. Dordrecht: Springer. pp. 65-79. http://www.springerlink.com/content/h30t516w14094v74/fulltext.pdf.
Scott, Peter: Massification, Internationalization and Globalization, 1998. In: Scott, P. (ed.) The Globalization of Higher Education. SRHE & Open University Press, Buckingham. pp. 108-130.