Challenging Boundaries

Managing the integration of post-secondary education
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-415-98931-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 485 g

This edited volume will be an important and key resource for managers, researchers, and policy makers in the field of Higher Education and Further Education. It offers insights into a radical new way of organizing post-compulsory education on an international basis that directly promotes a social justice agenda (i.e., widening of student participation). Around the world post-compulsory education is divided between Universities and Community-based Colleges. Universities are typically concerned with "higher" education, while community based colleges focus on "further" and technical education. In response to a range of social and economic forces there has been a growth in the number of dual sector institutions (or "duals") that span this divide. Challenging Boundaries brings together leading international thinkers, policy analysts, academic managers, and researchers who question whether duals can provide relevant education to students and appropriate graduates for the economy, while also offering greater opportunities to disadvantaged students. Challenging Boundaries provides an analysis of the potential of "dual sector" institutions in North America, UK, South Africa, and Australasia.

This volume draws on the very latest research findings and effectively looks to:

- Challenge conventional thinking about post-compulsory education

- Demonstrate how a number of institutions internationally are addressing the organizational, managerial, and cultural challenges of operating as dual sector universities

- Combine the latest research in the field from a range of international scholars with operational insights from university leaders

- Provide a key resource for education policy makers and researchers and students of educational policy and management at masters and doctoral level

Autoren/Hrsg.

Garrod, Neil

Macfarlane, Bruce

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1 Challenges; Chapter 1 Further, Higher, Better?, NEIL GARROD, BRUCE MACFARLANE; Chapter 2 Further and Higher: A Philosophical Divide?, JOHN WHITE; Chapter 3 Post-secondary Education and Social Justice, LEESA WHEELAHAN; Part 2 Systems Responses; Chapter 4 Norway: Separate but Connected, ROMULO PINHEIRO, SVEIN KYVIK; Chapter 5 Australia: The Emergence of Dual Sector Universities, GAVIN MOODIE; Chapter 6 England: Merging to Progress, NEIL GARROD; Chapter 7 Canada: What's in a Title?, ROBERT FLEMING, GORDON R. LEE; Chapter 8 New Zealand: The Impact of the Market, JOHN WEBSTER; Chapter 9 South Africa: (re)Forming A Sector, MARTIN OOSTHUIZEN; Part 3 Operational Responses; Chapter 10 Governance, ROGER BARNSLEY, JOHN SPARKS; Chapter 11 Careers, NEIL GARROD, BRUCE MACFARLANE; Chapter 12 Community, BRONTE NEYLAND, LESLIE SKIP TRIPLETT; Chapter 13 Curriculum, NEIL GARROD, LIZ WARR;

Über Autor(innen)

Neil Garrod is Executive Director, Enterprise and Civic Engagement at Glyndwr University, Wrexham (Wales), Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Ljubljana (Slovenija) and Associate at the Centre for Higher Education Studies at the Institute of Education, University of London (UK).

Bruce Macfarlane is Professor of Higher Education at the University of Portsmouth (UK) where he is also Head of Academic Development. His previous books include Teaching with Integrity (Routledge, 2003) and The Academic Citizen (Routledge, 2006). He is a Vice Chair of the Society for Research into Higher Education.