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Reconstructing policy in higher education : feminist poststructural perspectives / edited by Elizabeth J. Allan, Susan Van Deventer Iverson, and Rebecca Ropers-Huilman.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women in higher education--Government policy--United States.
- Women in higher education.
- Feminism and higher education--United States.
- Feminism and higher education.
- Poststructuralism.
- Government policy.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 250 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2010.
- Summary:
- 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 practitioner. 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.
- Students enrolled in Higher Education and Educational Policy programs will find this book offers them tools for thinking differently about pojicy analysis and educational practice. Higher Education faculty, managers, deans, presidents, and policy makers will find this book contributes significantly to their own policy analysis, practice, and discourse.
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction / Elizabeth J. Allan, Susan V. Iverson, Rebecca Ropers-Huilman 1
- 2 Feminist Poststructuralism Meets Policy Analysis: An Overview / Elizabeth J. Allan 11
- Part 1 Productions of Power through Presence within Absence 37
- 3 Corrective Lenses: Suffrage, Feminist Poststructural Analysis, and the History of Higher Education / Jana Nidiffer 41
- 4 Purposes of Higher Education and Visions of the Nation in the Writings of the Department of Education / Tatiana Suspitsyna 63
- 5 The Discursive Framing of Women Leaders in Higher Education / Suzanne Gordon, Susan V. Iverson, Elizabeth J. Allan 81
- Part 2 Subjects and Objects of Policy 107
- 6 Developing Students: Becoming Someone But Not Anyone / Susan Talburt 111
- 7 Title LX Policy and Intercollegiate Athletics: A Feminist Poststructural Critique / Jennifer Lee Hoffman, Susan V. Iverson, Elizabeth J. Allan, Rebecca Ropers-Huilman 129
- 8 Consuming Higher Education: Who Is Paying the Price? / Jeni Hart, Jennifer Hubbard 147
- Part 3 Discursive Constructions of Change 167
- 9 Motivated to Make a Difference: Student Change Agents' Gendered Framings of Engagement / Rebecca Ropers-Huilman 171
- 10 Producing Diversity: A Policy Discourse Analysis of Diversity Action Plans / Susan V. Iverson 193
- 11 Knowledge Capital and Excellence: Implications of a Science-Centered University for Gender Equity / Nelly P. Stromquist 215
- 12 Questions and Complexities in Feminist Poststructural Policy Analysis / Rebecca Ropers-Huilman, Susan V. Iverson, Elizabeth J. Allan 235.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415997768
- 0415997763
- 9780415997775
- 0415997771
- 9780203870037
- 0203870034
- OCLC:
- 255903119
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