FRONT COVER -- THEORY AND METHOD IN HIGHER EDUCATION RESEARCH II -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION -- THEORISING TEACHING AND LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION RESEARCH -- DATA, THEORY AND THEORISING -- SIGNATURE CONCEPTS -- PATHWAYS TO SIGNATURE CONCEPTS BY RESEARCHERS IN HIGHER EDUCATION TEACHING AND LEARNING -- FERENCE MARTON: THEORISING PHENOMENOGRAPHY -- ALEXANDER ASTIN: THEORISING STUDENT INVOLVEMENT -- ALTERNATIVE TRACKS TO THEORISING SIGNATURE CONCEPTS -- SHEILA SLAUGHTER: THEORISING ACADEMIC CAPITALISM -- NOEL ENTWISTLE: THEORISING STUDENT APPROACHES TO LEARNING -- PATTERNS OF THEORISATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION TEACHING AND LEARNING -- DOING THEORISING WORK -- FINAL THOUGHTS -- REFERENCES -- FINDING MEANING IN HIGHER EDUCATION: A SOCIAL HERMENEUTICS APPROACH TO HIGHER EDUCATION RESEARCH -- INTRODUCTION: MEANINGFUL ACADEMIA -- THE METHODOLOGICAL STARTING POINT: COMPREHENDING UNDERSTANDING -- THE METHODOLOGICAL KEY CHARACTERISTICS: EXTENSITY, DECONSTRUCTION AND SEQUENTIALITY -- THE INTERPRETATIVE PROCESS: A STEP BY STEP RECONSTRUCTION OF DIFFERENT LEVELS OF MEANING -- FINDING MEANING IN HIGHER EDUCATION: AN OVERLOOKED POTENTIAL? -- REFERENCES -- NARRATIVES AND ACCOUNTS: THEIR COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS -- INTRODUCTION -- ACADEMIC NARRATIVES -- THE FUTURE OF NARRATIVE RESEARCH IN HIGHER EDUCATION -- REFERENCES -- METHODOLOGICAL MEDITATIONS ON PRODUCING RICH NARRATIVE DATA -- INTRODUCTION -- THEORY AND METHOD -- METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS -- DISCUSSION OF DATA PRODUCTION STRATEGIES -- REFLECTIONS ON THE DATA ANALYSIS -- METHODOLOGICAL MEDITATIONS -- REFERENCES -- MORE-THAN-HUMAN THEORISING - INCLUSIVE COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE IN STUDENT PRACTICE-BASED LEARNING -- INTRODUCTION -- COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE - SITUATED LEARNING -- MORE-THAN-HUMAN AGENCY -- INTERCULTURAL RESEARCH AND METHODOLOGY.

INCLUSIVE COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE - STORIES FROM STUDENT PRACTICE-BASED LEARNING ON COUNTRY -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- RESEARCHING ACADEMIC WRITING: WHAT TEXTOGRAPHY AFFORDS -- INTRODUCTION -- WHAT IS A TEXTOGRAPHY? -- A TEXTOGRAPHY OF DOCTORAL WRITING IN THE VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- LEARNING ARCHITECTURES AND COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE IN HIGHER EDUCATION -- INTRODUCTION -- THE USES AND MISUSES OF THEORY -- DEFINING COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE -- MOVING COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE INTO HIGHER EDUCATION -- THE PEDAGOGY PROBLEM IN COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE: FOREGROUNDING LEARNING ARCHITECTURES -- A LEARNING ARCHITECTURE FOR INITIAL TEACHER EDUCATION -- LEARNING ARCHITECTURES AND COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE IN HIGHER EDUCATION: CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- A TEMPORAL APPROACH TO HIGHER EDUCATION RESEARCH -- INTRODUCTION -- CLOCK TIME: THE FOUR CS -- NETWORK TIME AND SOCIAL ACCELERATION -- TIMESCAPE AND THE FOUR TS -- EMPIRICAL STUDIES ON TIME IN HIGHER EDUCATION -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- USING CRISP AND FUZZY SET-THEORETIC ANALYSES FOR MIDDLE-RANGE THEORISING: A CONFIGURATIONAL COMPARATIVE APPROACH TO CASE-BASED RESEARCH -- INTRODUCTION -- ONTOLOGICAL VIEW OF QCA TECHNIQUES -- BASICS OF QCA -- CRISP SET QCA -- FUZZY SET QCA -- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- ANALYTIC AUTOETHNOGRAPHY: ONE STORY OF THE METHOD -- INTRODUCTION -- BEGINNING -- MIDDLE -- LOG AND AXE TEACHING METAPHOR -- ENDING -- REFERENCES -- THE DILEMMA OF METHODOLOGICAL IDOLATRY IN HIGHER EDUCATION RESEARCH: THE CASE OF PHENOMENOGRAPHY -- INTRODUCTION -- METHOD: STRUCTURALISM AND ACTIVITY THEORY -- THE EXAMPLE OF PHENOMENOGRAPHY -- THE STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS: PHENOMENOGRAPHIC MYTHEMES -- THE ACTIVITY THEORY ANALYSIS: INTERNAL CONTRADICTIONS -- INTERACTING ACTIVITY SYSTEMS: QUATERNARY CONTRADICTIONS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES.

THE POTENTIAL OF COMBINING PHENOMENOGRAPHY, VARIATION THEORY AND THRESHOLD CONCEPTS TO INFORM CURRICULUM DESIGN IN HIGHER EDUCATION -- INTRODUCTION -- THRESHOLD CONCEPTS -- PHENOMENOGRAPHY -- VARIATION THEORY OF LEARNING -- THE CURRICULUM DESIGN METHOD -- VALUE OF THE METHOD TO IMPROVING CURRICULUM DESIGN -- DISCUSSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- THEORY DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION RESEARCH: THE CASE OF THRESHOLD CONCEPTS -- INTRODUCTION -- THEORY -- ORIGINS -- MEANING -- APPLICATION -- ISSUES AND CRITIQUES -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES.