Reconstructing policy in higher education
Subtitle: feminist poststructural perspectives
By: Elizabeth J. Allan, Susan Van Deventer Iverson, Rebecca Ropers-Huilman.
Contributors: Iverson, Susan van Deventer.; Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780415997768; 9780415997775; 9780203870037
Subjects: Women in higher education -- Government policy -- United States; Feminism and higher education -- United States; Poststructuralism
Description: Reconstructing Policy in Higher Education highlights the work of accomplished and award-winning scholars and provides concrete examples of how feminist poststructuralism effectively informs research methods and can serve as a vital tool for policy makers, analysts, and practitioners. The research examines a range of topics of interest to scholars and professionals including: purposes of Higher Education, administrative leadership, athletics, diversity, student activism, social class, the history of women in postsecondary institutions, and quality and science in the globalized university.

Written for Higher Education Masters and PhD programs, this landmark textbook joins the theory of feminist post-structuralism with research methods for the purpose of policy analysis in Higher Education. It showcases the different methods that can be applied to a range of topics in Higher Education policy and policy development. Reconstructing Policy in Higher Education highlights the work of accomplished and award-winning scholars, and provides an in-depth examination of theoretical frameworks and concrete examples of how feminist post-structuralism effectively informs research methods and can serve as a vital tool for policy makers and analysts.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.