Global perspectives on higher education and lifelong learners / / edited by Maria Slowey and Hans G. Schuetze

• Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Disciplina: 374
• Soggetto topico: Adult education - OECD countries; Adult college students - OECD countries; Education, Higher - OECD countries; Education and globalization - OECD countries
• Classificazione: EDU000000
• Altri autori: SchutzeHans Georg SloweyMaria
• 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: ""Front Cover ""; ""Global Perspectives on Higher Education and Lifelong Learners ""; ""Copyright Page ""; ""Contents""; ""List of figures""; ""List of tables""; ""List of contributors""; ""Part I: Comparative perspectives""; ""1. All change â€? no change? Lifelong learners and higher education revisited: Maria Slowey and Hans G. Schuetze""; ""Part II: Europe""; ""2. Austria: non-traditional students in the 2000s: Hans Pechar and Angela Wroblewski "" ; ""10. United States of America: adult higher education and lifelong learning in the USA: perplexing contradictions: Carol E. Kasworm """"Part IV: Pacific â€? Australia, Japan and New Zealand""; ""11. Australia: intensifying performance and learner-centredness in Australian higher education: Harsh Suri and David Becket""; ""12. Japan: lifelong learning and higher education in Japan: Shinichi Yamamoto""; ""13. New Zealand: lifelong learning and higher education in Aotearoa New Zealand: Brian Findsen""; ""Part V: Perspectives from two â€?BRICSâ€? countries"" ; ""14. South Africa: higher education in lifelong learning in a middle-income country: but by the grace of champions?: Shirley Walters""""15. Brazil: lifelong learning and the role of the university in Brazil: some reflections: Ana Canen""; ""Part VI: Epilogue""; ""16. Afterword: a look around the corner: Maria Slowey and Hans G. Schuetze""; ""Index""
• Sommario/riassunto: "The global expansion of participation rates in higher education continue more or less unabated. However, while the concept of lifelong learning has figured prominently in national and international educational policy discourse for more than three decades, its implications for the field of higher education has remained relatively underdeveloped.This book focuses on a particular dimension of the lifelong learning: higher education for those who have not progressed directly from school to higher education. Some will embark on undergraduate programmes as mature students, part-time and/or distance students; others wish to return to higher education after having completed (or not completed) a previous academic programme, while increasing numbers participate in postgraduate and continuing studies for a complex mix of professional and personal reasons.Adopting a comparative and international longitudinal perspective which goes beyond a snapshot view by building on the cases of a core group of ten OECD countries, this timely book investigates the ways in which important new developments impacting on higher education crystallise around the lifelong learning agenda: new technology and open source resources; the changing role of the state and market in higher education; the blurring of public and private boundaries; issues of equity and access in a time of global economic turmoil; the increased emphasis on research and international league tables; the changing nature of the education; and, the complex interaction of international, national and regional expectations which governments and other stakeholders have of universities and other public and private institutions of higher education. While focussing on the situation in Canada, USA, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and a wide variety of European countries, the book also assesses the issues from the perspective of developing countries"-- Provided by publisher.
• Titolo autorizzato: Global perspectives on higher education and lifelong learners
• ISBN: 1-136-33297-9; 1-280-77699-4; 9786613687388; 0-203-12249-6; 1-136-33298-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807127103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II