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Sustainable Futures for Higher Education - The Making of Knowledge Makers (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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Sustainable Futures for Higher Education - The Making of Knowledge Makers (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Series: Cultural Psychology of Education, 7
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This volume addresses the current situation in higher education and
what creative action needs to be taken for the future development
of the various systems of higher education. Higher education in the
21st centuries is under immense pressure from various sides. First,
there is dramatic limitation of funding from public sources and
limited and selective funding support from private sources that is
re-constructing the landscape of higher education in most societies
around the World. Secondly there is the continuous stream of
administrative re-organization efforts of political origins (e.g.
"the Bologna process") that guide the advancement of higher
education in our present time. Increasing privatization of all
forms of higher education-from bachelor to doctoral levels-and its
corresponding focus on the advancement of the kind of knowledge
that has immediate applicability in various spheres of societies
leads to the question- what kind of creativity is expected from the
new cohorts of students-future makers of knowledge-once the current
social re-organization of higher education systems becomes fully
established. To address these questions the international,
interdisciplinary cast of authors in this volume provides a
multitude of possible scenarios for future development of the
systems of higher education. This book on "Sustainable Futures of
Higher Education" captures the current trends and perspectives of
the Knowledge Makers from various nations of the world on meeting
and greeting the challenges of globalization and the pressures of
the knowledge economy. It makes a strong case for universities of
tomorrow sustaining their autonomous thinking and yet nurturing an
environment of collaborative partnership with society, corporate
and industry to fuel innovations in plenty and continuous supply of
new science and technologies. Higher Education has been and shall
remain a powerful vehicle of national and global transformation. I
see a great value of the publication in impacting the minds of the
leaders in higher education around the globe for revitalizing the
universities. Professor P. B Sharma, President of Association of
Indian Universities, AIU How should the higher education system be
in the globalization era? In this book Jaan Valsiner and his
colleagues analyze, criticize the existing and propose a new higher
education system. When we say "higher education", three different
layers are supposed to be there-- the lower, the middle and the
higher. The latter has the function of production of new
knowledges. Without new knowledge, our societies are never
improving. Authors warn commercialized systems such as the "Bologna
system" overestimate the homogeneity of education. ""Universities
without Borders" would guarantee both diversity and innovation in
the higher education systems. Professor Tatsuya Sato, Dean of
Research, Ritsumekan University
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