Rethinking Universities
The Social Functions of Higher Education
1st Edition
Published on 14. September 2007
192 pages
978-1-4411-7060-6 (ISBN)
Description
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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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-7060-6 (9781441170606)
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09/2007
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
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Persons
Sally Baker is Researcher in the School of Social Sciences at University of Wales, Bangor, UK. Brian J. Brown is Reader in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at the De Montfort University, UK.
Content
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
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
