The History of U.S. Higher Education û Methods for Understanding the Past
ISBN: 9780415873642 | 0415873649
Edition: 1stFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Routledge
Pub. Date: 5/19/2010
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The first volume in the Core Concepts of Higher Education series, The History of U.S. Higher Education rebuilds a constructive relationship between the field of higher education and the disciplinary field of history. Written primarily for students in higher education graduate and PhD programs, this book explores critical methodological issues in the history of American higher education, including often-overlooked issues such as race, class, gender, and sexuality.Chapters include: Reflective exercises that combine theory and practice, Research Method Tips , and Further Reading Suggestions . The text allows students to understand the processes that historians use when conducting their own research.Leading historians and those at the forefront of new research explain how historical literature is discovered and written, and provide readers with the methodological approaches to conduct historical higher education research of their own. The contributors guide readers as they develop a rich appreciation for the craft of history and the importance of understanding higher education's past.
| Series Editor Introduction | p. ix |
| List of Figures and Tables | p. xi |
| Acknowledgments | p. xii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Methodological Approaches | p. 7 |
| ôWithin These Wallsö: Reading and Writing Institutional Histories | p. 9 |
| Oral History … As Scholarship | p. 19 |
| Autobiography and Biographical Research in Higher Education | p. 30 |
| ôNo Food, No Drink... MORE | p. 44 |
| The Literature Review as Scholarship: Using Critical Reviews and Historiography | p. 56 |
| Using a New Historical Lens | p. 69 |
| Horizontal History and Higher Education | p. 71 |
| Photographs as Primary Sources | p. 84 |
| Quantification and Cognitive History: Applying Social Science Theory and Method to Historical Data | p. 102 |
| Life History and Voice: On Standpoints and Reflexivity | p. 122 |
| Critical Examinations of Special Issues | p. 135 |
| ôPoorö Research: Historiographical Challenges When Socio-Economic Status is the Unit of Analysis | p. 137 |
| Where is Your ôHomeö? Writing the History of Asian Americans in Higher Education | p. 150 |
| Beyond Black and White: Researching the History of Latinos in American Higher Education | p. 163 |
| Writing through the Past: Federal Higher Education Policy | p. 172 |
| The Challenge of Writing the South | p. 187 |
| Epilogue | p. 201 |
| A Note on Footnotes | p. 203 |
| List of Contributors | p. 209 |
| Index | p. 215 |
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