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Human Development and Capabilities - Re-imagining the university of the twenty-first century (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,646
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Human Development and Capabilities - Re-imagining the university of the twenty-first century (Paperback)

Alejandra Boni, Melanie Walker

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Globally, universities are the subject of public debate and disagreement about their private benefits or public good, and the key policy vehicle for driving human capital development for competitive knowledge economies. Yet what is increasingly lost in the disagreements about who should pay for university education is a more expansive imaginary which risks being lost in reductionist contemporary education policy. This is compounded by the influences on practices of students as consumers, of a university education as a private benefit and not a public good, of human capital outcomes over other graduate qualities, and of unfettered markets in education. Policy reductionism comes from a narrow vision of the activities, products, and objectives of the University and a blinkered vision of what is a knowledge society. "

Human Development and Capabilities," therefore, imaginatively applies a theoretical framework to universities as institutions and social practices from human development and the capability approach, attempting to show how universities might advance equalities rather than necessarily widen them, and how they can contribute to a sustainable and democratic society. Picking through the capability approach for human development, in relation to Universities, this book highlights and explores three main ideas:

  • theoretical insights to advance thinking about human development and higher education
  • Policy implications for the responsibilities and potential contributions of universities in a period of significant global change
  • Operationalising a New Imaginary

This fresh take on the work and purpose of the University is essential reading for anyone interested in university education, capability approach and human development; particularly postgraduates, University policy makers, researchers and academics in the field of higher education.

General

Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: April 2013
First published: 2013
Editors: Alejandra Boni • Melanie Walker
Dimensions: 235 x 156 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-53633-2
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > General
Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > General
LSN: 0-415-53633-2
Barcode: 9780415536332

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