Assessing the Contributions of Higher Education -

Assessing the Contributions of Higher Education

Knowledge for a Disordered World
Buch | Hardcover
322 Seiten
2023
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-0353-0716-6 (ISBN)
143,40 inkl. MwSt
Despite the broad engagement of higher education institutions in most social sectors, limited thinking and hyper-individualistic approaches have dominated discussions of their value to society. Advocating a more rigorous and comprehensive approach, this insightful book discusses the broad range of contributions made by higher education and the many issues entailed in theorising, observing, measuring and evaluating those contributions.

Prepared by a group of leading international scholars, the chapters investigate the multiple interconnections between higher education and society and the vast range of social, economic, political and cultural functions carried out by universities, colleges and institutes and their personnel. The benefits of higher education include employable graduates, new knowledge via research and scholarship, climate science and global connections, and the structuring of economic and social opportunities for whole populations, as well as work and advice for government at all levels. Higher education not only lifts earnings and augments careers, it also immerses students in knowledge, helps to shape them as people, and fosters productivity, democracy, tolerance and international understanding. The book highlights the value added by higher education for persons, organisations, communities, cities, nations, and the world. It also focuses on inequalities in the distribution of that value, and finds that the tools for assessing higher education are neither adequate nor complete as yet.



International and interdisciplinary in scope, this book will prove an invaluable resource to students and scholars of higher education, educational policy and social policy. It will also prove a useful resource to both university executives and tertiary education policymakers who want to make higher education more effectively accountable to the public.

Edited by Simon Marginson, Professor of Higher Education, Department of Education, University of Oxford, UK, Brendan Cantwell, Associate Professor, Department of Educational Administration, Michigan State University, US, Daria Platonova, Researcher and Anna Smolentseva, Senior Researcher, Institute of Education, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russian Federation

Contents:

Preface x
List of contributors xiii
1 Introduction: higher education and the contributions problem 1
Simon Marginson, Brendan Cantwell, Daria Platonova
and Anna Smolentseva

PART I CONCEPTS AND PERSPECTIVES
2 Intrinsic and extrinsic outcomes of higher education 12
Simon Marginson, Brendan Cantwell, Daria Platonova
and Anna Smolentseva
3 Contributions of higher education to society: towards
conceptualisation 38
Anna Smolentseva
4 Higher education as student self-formation 61
Simon Marginson

PART II GLOBAL CONTRIBUTIONS AND COMPARISONS
5 Higher education, science and the climate crisis 89
Johanna Witte
6 Opportunities and challenges for open higher education
systems in global context 112
Marijk van der Wende
7 A comparison of Chinese and Anglo-American ideas
about higher education and public good 131
Simon Marginson and Lili Yang
8 US–China collaboration in science for the global common good 158
John P. Haupt and Jenny J. Lee

PART III CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECONOMY, POLITY,
GOVERNMENT AND CULTURE
9 Graduate employability and employment 178
James Robson
10 UNESCO’s common good idea of higher education and
democracy 198
Rita Locatelli and Simon Marginson
11 Understanding the contributions of higher education
through the politics of reform 219
Brendan Cantwell, Daria Platonova and Isak Froumin
12 The professoriate and public policy 244
Glen A. Jones
13 Cultural contributions of higher education 263
Jussi Välimaa, Terhi Nokkala and Ksenia Romanenko
14 Higher education and regional elite formation in Russia 287
Aleksei Egorov and Sergey Malinovskiy

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Cheltenham
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Allgemeines / Lexika
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Bildungstheorie
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Erwachsenenbildung
ISBN-10 1-0353-0716-2 / 1035307162
ISBN-13 978-1-0353-0716-6 / 9781035307166
Zustand Neuware
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