Higher education : [electronic resource] handbook of theory and research ; published under the sponsorship of the Association for Institutional Research (AIR) and the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) / Michael B Paulsen.

Contributors; About the Authors; 1 A Memoir of My Professional Life: What I Can Remember and What I Can Tell; Hitting the Ground Running: The Impacts Book (1965-1969); Prequel: My Early Years; Starting Out at Stony Brook: Offshoots and Related Matters; On the Home Front; On the Job Front; On the Research and Scholarship Fronts; The Value of Research Integrations and Syntheses; The Accentuation Effect; Approaches to the Study of College Student Change and Stability; Studying Teacher and Course Evaluations: Mid-1970s-Mid-1990s; A Mid-course Correction: An Incident in the Mid-1980s. The Years of Collaboration: 1990s-2000sTeaching and Learning in Higher Education: Collaborating with Michael Paulsen; Teaching and Learning in the College Classroom; Toward a Reconceptualization of Scholarship; Taking Teaching Seriously; Epistemological Beliefs of Students; The Importance of Academic Disciplines in Student's Lives: Collaborating with John Smart and Corinna (Bunty) Ethington; Rounding Out the Picture (a Little); Wrapping It Up; References; 2 A Model of Critical Thinking in Higher Education; Part 1: The Individual Axis; Introduction; Models of Critical Thinking. The Place of Critical Thinking in Higher EducationWhat Is Critical Thinking?; Cognitive Elements to Critical Thinking; Critical Thinking as Argumentation (The "Skills" View); Argumentation and Decision-Making; Critical Thinking as Reflective Thinking (The "Skills-and-Judgments" View); A Taxonomy of Critical Thinking Skills; Propensity Elements to Critical Thinking; Critical Thinking as Dispositions (The "Skills-Plus-Dispositions" View); How Many Dispositions Are There?; A Taxonomy of Critical Thinking Dispositions; What Is the Relationship Between Dispositions? Critical Thinking as a Composite of Skills and AttitudesCritical Thinking as Emotions; Critical Thinking as Action; A Framework of Critical Thinking Skills and Propensities; Dimensions of Criticality: An Axis Diagram; Conclusion; Part 2: The Socio-cultural Axis; Critical Thinking as "Criticality" (The "Skills-Plus-Dispositions-Plus-Actions" View); What Is "Criticality"?; An Example of "Criticality"; Educating for Criticality; The Axis Diagram Revisited; Critical Thinking as Critical Pedagogy (The "Skills-Plus-Dispositions-Plus-Actions-Plus-Social Relations" View); The Aim of Critical Thinking. Critical Thinking for ActionTeaching for a Critical Mindset; Critical Thinking as Conformity; The Axis Diagram Revisited Again; Critical Thinking as Thinking Differently (The "Creativity" View); A Practical Example; A Model of Critical Thinking in Higher Education; Explaining the Model; Advantages of the Model; Conclusion; References; 3 Unbundling the Faculty Role in Higher Education: Utilizing Historical, Theoretical, and Empirical Frameworks to Inform Future Research; Unbundling Defined; A Historical Review of Unbundling.

Published annually since 1985, the Handbook series provides a compendium of thorough and integrative literature reviews on a diverse array of topics of interest to the higher education scholarly and policy communities. Each chapter provides a comprehensive review of research findings on a selected topic, critiques the research literature in terms of its conceptual and methodological rigor and sets forth an agenda for future research intended to advance knowledge on the chosen topic. The Handbook focuses on a comprehensive set of central areas of study in higher education that encompasses the salient dimensions of scholarly and policy inquiries undertaken in the international higher education community. Each annual volume contains chapters on such diverse topics as research on college students and faculty, organization and administration, curriculum and instruction, policy, diversity issues, economics and finance, history and philosophy, community colleges, advances in research methodology and more. The series is fortunate to have attracted annual contributions from distinguished scholars throughout the world.