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Rethinking Universities : The Social Functions of Higher Education.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (191 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781441170606
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rethinking UniversitiesDDC classification:
  • 306.432
LOC classification:
  • C191.9.B354 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- 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 -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: 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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Cover -- Contents -- 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 -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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