Assessing the contributions of higher education : knowledge for a disordered world / 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).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marginson, Simon, editor.

Cantwell, Brendan, editor.

Platonova, Daria, editor.

Smolentseva, Anna, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--Social aspects.

Education, Higher.

Education, Higher--Aims and objectives.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Preface

List of contributors

1. Introduction: Higher education and the contributions problem / Simon Marginson, Brendan Cantwell, Daria Platonova and Anna Smolentseva

Part I. Concepts and perspectives

2. Intrinsic and extrinsic outcomes of higher education / Simon Marginson, Brendan Cantwell, Daria Platonova and Anna Smolentseva

3. Contributions of higher education to society: Towards conceptualisation / Anna Smolentseva

4. Higher education as student self-formation / Simon Marginson

Part II. Global contributions and comparisons

5. Higher education, science and the climate crisis / Johanna Witte

6. Opportunities and challenges for open higher education systems in global context / Marijk van der Wende

7. A comparison of Chinese and anglo-american ideas about higher education and public good / Simon Marginson and Lili Yang

8. Us-china collaboration in science for the global common good / John P. Haupt and Jenny J. Lee

Part III. Contributions to economy, polity, government and culture

9. Graduate employability and employment / James Robson

10. Unesco's common good idea of higher education and democracy / Rita Locatelli and Simon Marginson

11. Understanding the contributions of higher education through the politics of reform / Brendan Cantwell, Daria Platonova and Isak Froumin

12. The professoriate and public policy / Glen A. Jones

13. Cultural contributions of higher education / Jussi Välimaa, Terhi Nokkala and Ksenia Romanenko

14. Higher education and regional elite formation in Russia / Aleksei Egorov and Sergey Malinovskiy

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781035307173 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.

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