Rethinking universities : the social functions of higher education / / Sally Baker and Brian Brown

• Autore: Baker Sally
• Pubblicazione: London, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Continuum, , 2007; ©2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (191 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.432
• Soggetto topico: Education, Higher - Social aspects
• Persona (resp. second.): BrownB. J (Brian J.)
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 requi
• Titolo autorizzato: Rethinking universities
• ISBN: 1-4411-7060-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786921503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Research in higher education (Continuum (Firm))