Journal of Higher Education articles from January 2004

Journal of Higher Education archives from January 2004

Questions of Research and Methodology.
January 1, 2004... Introduction Over the past three decades, researchers' approaches to studying higher education and the questions they explore have changed markedly. In the 1960s and 1970s, the field was dominated by quantitative approaches (Keller, 1998),...

Integrating disciplinary perspectives into higher education research; the example of history.
January 1, 2004... Few would deny that higher education has matured as a field of study: dozens of higher education graduate programs now thrive, scholarly organizations and journals abound with enthusiastic contributors, and new scholars consider themselves...

Making strangers at home: anthropologists studying higher education.
January 1, 2004... Introduction This article seeks to isolate one major strand of work in American cultural anthropology together with its implications for the study of higher education. While the number of anthropologists who do research on higher education...

Wrestling with philosophy: improving scholarship in higher education.
January 1, 2004... Knowing is inevitably practical; it changes the known. Sartre In the last several decades, one of the methodological issues facing the social sciences has been the re-emergence of philosophy. As the social sciences absorbed the...

Using feminist critical policy analysis in the realm of higher education; the case of welfare reform as gendered educational policy.
January 1, 2004... Policy analysis is never value-neutral. However, it is often silent on the issue of gender. As a result, traditional policy analysis results in "partial and perverse understandings" of the ways in which women's lives are affected by policy...

Ethnographic responsibility without the "real".
January 1, 2004... Over a decade ago, Harry Wolcott (1990) wrote about qualitative researchers' preoccupation with persuading readers of the veracity of a study's description and interpretation as distracting researchers from the more important task of...

Doing research that makes a difference.
January 1, 2004... Over the past several years, the chasms between research and practice as well as research and policy have been the topic of commentaries (Keller, 1985; Layzell, 1990) of several addresses given by presidents of the Association for the Study of...

Interviews and the Philosophy of Qualitative Research.
January 1, 2004... Interviews and the Philosophy of Qualitative Research Interviewing as Qualitative Research: A Guide for Researchers in Education and the Social Sciences, by Irving Seidman (2nd ed.). New York: Teachers College Press, 1998. InterViews:...