This is the second volume in this series dedicated to Theory and Method in Higher Education Research. Publishing contemporary contributions to international debates regarding the application and development of theory and methodology in researching higher education, this volume aims to offer a channel for discussion, critique and innovation.

Editorial introduction. Copyright page. Theorising teaching and learning in higher education research. Finding meaning in higher education: A social hermeneutics approach to higher education research. Narratives and accounts: their collection and analysis. Methodological meditations on producing rich narrative data. More-than-human theorising – Inclusive communities of practice in student practice-based learning. Researching academic writing: What textography affords. Learning architectures and communities of practice in higher education. A temporal approach to higher education research. Using crisp and fuzzy set-theoretic analyses for middle-range theorising: a configurational comparative approach to case-based research. Analytic autoethnography: one story of the method. The dilemma of methodological idolatry in higher education research: The case of phenomenography. The potential of combining phenomenography, variation theory and threshold concepts to inform curriculum design in higher education. Theory development and application in higher education research: The case of threshold concepts. Theory and method in higher education research II. List of Contributors. International Perspectives on Higher Education Research. Theory and method in higher education research II.