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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.
Research in higher education could be more useful, innovative and
better designed if we were clearer about the philosophical and
epistemological basis of the theories that underlie our research
methods. People who have to interpret research would do a better
job if they were able to interrogate research more critically and
appreciate its strengths and weaknesses. This volume provides this
information for an audience of researchers, policymakers, students
and lecturers in higher education. The authors seek to create a
dialogue with the reader about issues relevant to the philosophy of
research and stimulate interest in how philosophy plays out in the
real, everyday, political world, not least in education. Unlike
many existing volumes on the market, this book creates a space in
which readers can use the tools for thinking that the authors
describe to interrogate their own experience.
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