Understanding Community Colleges (Core Concepts in Higher Education) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415881269 ISBN 13: 9780415881265

Publisher: Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

Understanding Community Colleges provides a comprehensive review of the community college landscape―management and governance, finance, student demographics and development, teaching and learning, policy, faculty, and workforce development―and bridges the gap between research and practice. This contributed volume brings together highly respected scholars in the field who rely upon substantial theoretical perspectives―critical theory, social theory, institutional theory, and organizational theory―for a rich and expansive analysis of community colleges. The latest text to publish in the Core Concepts in Higher Education series, this exciting new text fills a gap in the higher education literature available for students enrolled in Higher Education and Community College graduate programs.

This text provides students with:

• A review of salient research related to the community college field.
• Critical theoretical perspectives underlying current policies.
• An understanding of how theory links to practice, including focused end-of-chapter discussion questions.
• A fresh examination of emerging issues and insight into contemporary community college practices and policy.

About this title

About the Author

John S. Levin is Bank of America Professor of Education Leadership at the Graduate School of Education, University of California, Riverside.

Susan T. Kater is the Director of Institutional Planning, Research, and Effectiveness at GateWay Community College, Phoenix, Arizona.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415881269
• ISBN 13: 9780415881265
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Levin John S., Kater Susan T.