Re Inserting The Public Good Into Higher Education Transformation

Author : Council on Higher Education (South Africa).
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Re-inserting the 'public Good' Into Higher Education Transformation written by Council on Higher Education (South Africa). and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Brenda Leibowitz
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
ISBN 13 : 1920338888
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Higher Education for the Public Good written by Brenda Leibowitz and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors of this inspiring collection discuss philosophical approaches and present empirical and practical ideas for teaching and learning at university for the public good. Four major aspects of transforming universities are explored: the purpose and ethos of the university; its conception of graduate attributes; the way programmes and teaching are delivered; and the institution?s approach to academics and their professional development. The book will be indispensable to all universities who are evaluating their own principles and practice.

Author : Adrianna Kezar
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119177952
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Higher Education for the Public Good written by Adrianna Kezar and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-06-22 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important book explores the various ways that higher education contributes to the realization of significant public ends and examines how leaders can promote and enhance their contribution to the social charter through new policies and best practices. It also shows how other sectors of society, government agencies, foundations, and individuals can partner with institutions of higher education to promote the public good. Higher Education for the Public Good includes contributions from leaders in the field—many of whom participated in dialogues hosted by the National Forum on Higher Education for the Public Good. These leaders are responsible for creating successful strategies, programs, and efforts that foster the public’s role in higher education.

Author : Melanie Walker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136188118
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Professional Education, Capabilities and the Public Good written by Melanie Walker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book innovatively explores how universities might be engines of reform and be directed towards social change. Using rich case studies drawn from South African research, the book comprehensively provides a myriad of new perspectives on what constitutes a set of appropriate public-good professional capabilities that will translate successfully into contributions to human development. It challenges universities to produce professionals who have the knowledge, skills and values to improve the lives of people living in poverty in urban and rural settings. It covers issues such as: Conceptualising Public-Good Professionalism Global Issues and Professional Education South African Debates about Higher Education Institutional conditions and professional education arrangements Social Constraints on educating ethically aware public professionals By drawing on an approach that focuses on differing public-good professional capabilities in five professions, this book produces a crucial new framework for the preparation of professionals relevant to the global study of higher education policy. It expands higher education’s contribution to global social justice beyond a concern with human capital, administering a challenge to higher education internationally to address human development in the 21st century. This book will be of great interest to all scholars of higher education involved in higher education studies, comparative education, and development studies. It will also prove valuable to policy makers, higher education leaders and lecturers and graduate professionals in diverse organizations.

Author : Melanie Walker
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137557869
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Socially Just Pedagogies, Capabilities and Quality in Higher Education written by Melanie Walker and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the idea that teaching and learning – pedagogy – at universities is a crucial space for students’ formation as ethical graduates, equipped with knowledge, skills and values to contribute to more equal societies. We know that universities across the globe do not stand apart from social and educational inequalities at multiple levels; they have the potential to reproduce or reduce social inequalities and therefore towards transformative ends. This book suggests how this could be achieved both via policy and practice around the globe

Author : Daniel T. L. Shek
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811038775
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book University Social Responsibility and Quality of Life written by Daniel T. L. Shek and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a critical review of the theory and practice of University Social Responsibility. In addition to addressing the nature of and concepts surrounding University Social Responsibility, as well as its ties to areas such as service learning or engaged scholarship, the book also presents effective practices from around the world. Dedicated chapters demonstrate how University Social Responsibility can manifest itself in different types (civic, moral, economic or global responsibility), levels (local, national, regional or international), and formats (partnership, venture or joint project), depending on local contexts and needs. The book also focuses on three areas of work – educating students to take on social responsibility, broadening access to education, and applying knowledge to societal problems – to highlight the potential and viable ways University Social Responsibility can be employed to promote quality of life in society. Offering a unique resource, it is intended to stimulate thinking and expand the repertoire of all educators, administrators, and organizations who wish to incorporate societal needs into their core mission and promote quality of life in different communities around the world.

Author : Antonia Wulff
Publisher : Brill
ISBN 13 : 9789004430358
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grading Goal Four written by Antonia Wulff and published by Brill. This book was released on 2020 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For the third time in three decades world leaders reaffirmed their promise of "Education For All" when adopting Sustainable Development Goal 4 in 2015. It is the most far-reaching commitment to quality and equity in education so far, yet, there is no consensus on what the agenda means in practice. With a decade left until the 2030 deadline, Grading Goal Four calls upon the education community to engage more thoughtfully and critically with SDG 4 and related efforts. As an ever-growing number of actors and initiatives claim to contribute to its achievement, it is becoming clear that the ambitious but broad priorities within the goal are vulnerable to cherry-picking and misrepresentation, placing it at the heart of tensions between instrumentalist and rights-based approaches to education. This text, a critical analysis of SDG 4, provides a framework for examining trends and developments in education globally. As the first volume that examines early implementation efforts under SDG 4, Grading Goal Four formulates a critique along with strategies for moving forward. By scrutinising the challenges, tensions and power dynamics shaping SDG 4, it advances rights-based perspectives and strategies for effective implementation and builds capacity for strengthened monitoring and analysis of the goal"--

Author : Roger King
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857936239
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook on Globalization and Higher Education written by Roger King and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ô. . . the Handbook constitutes an essential reference source for everyone interested in studying the current meaning, scope and implications of globalization. Strongly recommended.Õ Ð Higher Education Review Higher education has entered centre-stage in the context of the knowledge economy and has been deployed in the search for economic competitiveness and social development. Against this backdrop, this highly illuminating Handbook explores worldwide convergences and divergences in national higher education systems resulting from increased global co-operation and competition. The expert contributors reveal the strategies, practices and governance mechanisms developed by international and regional organizations, national governments and by higher education institutions themselves. They analyse local responses to dominant global templates of higher education and the consequences for knowledge generation, social equity, economic development and the public good. This comprehensive and accessible Handbook will prove an invaluable reference tool for researchers, academics and students with an interest in higher education from economics, international studies and public policy perspectives, as well as for higher education policymakers, and funding and governance bodies.

Author : Ashwin, Paul
Publisher : African Minds
ISBN 13 : 1928331904
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Higher Education Pathways written by Ashwin, Paul and published by African Minds. This book was released on 2018-12-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In what ways does access to undergraduate education have a transformative impact on people and societies? What conditions are required for this impact to occur? What are the pathways from an undergraduate education to the public good, including inclusive economic development? These questions have particular resonance in the South African higher education context, which is attempting to tackle the challenges of widening access and improving completion rates in in a system in which the segregations of the apartheid years are still apparent. Higher education is recognised in core legislation as having a distinctive and crucial role in building post-apartheid society. Undergraduate education is seen as central to addressing skills shortages in South Africa. It is also seen to yield significant social returns, including a consistent positive impact on societal institutions and the development of a range of capabilities that have public, as well as private, benefits. This book offers comprehensive contemporary evidence that allows for a fresh engagement with these pressing issues.

Author : Mokubung O. Nkomo
Publisher : HSRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780796921550
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Within the Realm of Possibility written by Mokubung O. Nkomo and published by HSRC Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Past, present, and future is what this book documents and reveals about higher education in South Africa. Because place and space have contextual effects, the story of university education is told through the experiences of two schools - the University of Fort Hare and the University of the North; they are both similar and different.