Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 458 g
The Social Functions of Higher Education
Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 458 g
ISBN: 978-0-8264-9419-1
Verlag: Continnuum-3PL
Universities have often been associated with higher learning and the spirit of free inquiry but in many developed nations they are being subtly transformed to do other jobs for the state and the economy.
Most people who work and study in universities will be aware that they are changing. Yet few have so far grasped the extent of this change or have attempted to put it in a coherent intellectual framework. This volume provides new ways to understand how the university workforce in developed nations is being encouraged to change itself, and how the social role of these institutions has shifted from places of higher learning toward being agents for social change and the promotion of human welfare. Moreover the demands that are being placed on institutions and the kinds of graduates they are required to produce has changed too, with the emphasis on a new brand of vocationalism and a reinvigorated focus on ‘skills’ and ‘employability’. This volume provides a theoretically informed, philosophically sophisticated account of what universities in developed nations are being encouraged to do, and the impact this has on their staff, students and the societies of which they are a part.
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Weitere Infos & Material
1. Thinking about the university: theories, histories, and knowledge.
2. Education, society, economy and culture.
3. Education as power.
4. Education systems and their changing roles: the university and human wellbeing.
5. Education as shaping, growing and cultivating.
6. Higher Education under advanced liberalism
7. The Picture of learning: Thinking about the educational experience in neoliberal times
