Democratizing Higher Education Policy

Author : Patrick Blessinger,John P. Anchan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317695554

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Higher education systems around the world are undergoing fundamental change and reform due to external pressures—including internationalization of higher education, increased international competition for students, less reliance on public funding, and calls to create greater access opportunities for citizens. How are higher education systems evolving structurally as a result of these and other pressures? In light of these changes, how can higher education be a positive force for democratizing societies? This book examines the emerging trends taking place in higher education systems around the world, focusing on the most salient political and social forces that underlie these trends. Each chapter provides a case study of a country, exploring its cultural and political history, the political and social developments that have affected its higher education system, and the result of these changes on the higher education system. In a fast-changing, knowledge-intensive, democratic society, Democratizing Higher Education explores how higher education systems can be developed to provide access, affordability, participation, and quality life-long learning for all.

Author : M.T. Sehoole
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135484590

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This book was written with the purpose of analyzing the challenges faced by the post-apartheid government in South Africa with regard to reform of higher education. It covers the apartheid context of higher education, resistance to the system and its ultimate demise, democratic processes in post-apartheid reform agenda and how this agenda was emptied of its radical content as a result of global and local pressures. Highlighted are key constraints in the reform process, including the compromise pact agreed upon between the apartheid government and the ruling African National Congress, the rapidly globalizing environment underpinned by neoliberal principles within which South Africa's transition took place, shifts in macro-economic policies of government towards neo-liberal policy, the inheritance of the bureaucracy and the inexperience of new government officials. These are presented in a narrative style that combines the author's experience, the voices of key players involved and important data from a range of documentary sources. This is the first single authored book in post-apartheid South African that has systematically looked at higher education reform.

Author : M.T. Sehoole
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135484521

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Democratizing Higher Education Policy by M.T. Sehoole Pdf

This book was written with the purpose of analyzing the challenges faced by the post-apartheid government in South Africa with regard to reform of higher education. It covers the apartheid context of higher education, resistance to the system and its ultimate demise, democratic processes in post-apartheid reform agenda and how this agenda was emptied of its radical content as a result of global and local pressures. Highlighted are key constraints in the reform process, including the compromise pact agreed upon between the apartheid government and the ruling African National Congress, the rapidly globalizing environment underpinned by neoliberal principles within which South Africa's transition took place, shifts in macro-economic policies of government towards neo-liberal policy, the inheritance of the bureaucracy and the inexperience of new government officials. These are presented in a narrative style that combines the author's experience, the voices of key players involved and important data from a range of documentary sources. This is the first single authored book in post-apartheid South African that has systematically looked at higher education reform.

Author : Patrick Blessinger,John P. Anchan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317695561

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Democratizing Higher Education by Patrick Blessinger,John P. Anchan Pdf

Higher education systems around the world are undergoing fundamental change and reform due to external pressures—including internationalization of higher education, increased international competition for students, less reliance on public funding, and calls to create greater access opportunities for citizens. How are higher education systems evolving structurally as a result of these and other pressures? In light of these changes, how can higher education be a positive force for democratizing societies? This book examines the emerging trends taking place in higher education systems around the world, focusing on the most salient political and social forces that underlie these trends. Each chapter provides a case study of a country, exploring its cultural and political history, the political and social developments that have affected its higher education system, and the result of these changes on the higher education system. In a fast-changing, knowledge-intensive, democratic society, Democratizing Higher Education explores how higher education systems can be developed to provide access, affordability, participation, and quality life-long learning for all.

Author : Lani Guinier
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807078129

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The Tyranny of the Meritocracy by Lani Guinier Pdf

A fresh and bold argument for revamping our standards of “merit” and a clear blueprint for creating collaborative education models that strengthen our democracy rather than privileging individual elites Standing on the foundations of America’s promise of equal opportunity, our universities purport to serve as engines of social mobility and practitioners of democracy. But as acclaimed scholar and pioneering civil rights advocate Lani Guinier argues, the merit systems that dictate the admissions practices of these institutions are functioning to select and privilege elite individuals rather than create learning communities geared to advance democratic societies. Having studied and taught at schools such as Harvard University, Yale Law School, and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Guinier has spent years examining the experiences of ethnic minorities and of women at the nation’s top institutions of higher education, and here she lays bare the practices that impede the stated missions of these schools. Goaded on by a contemporary culture that establishes value through ranking and sorting, universities assess applicants using the vocabulary of private, highly individualized merit. As a result of private merit standards and ever-increasing tuitions, our colleges and universities increasingly are failing in their mission to provide educational opportunity and to prepare students for productive and engaged citizenship. To reclaim higher education as a cornerstone of democracy, Guinier argues that institutions of higher learning must focus on admitting and educating a class of students who will be critical thinkers, active citizens, and publicly spirited leaders. Guinier presents a plan for considering “democratic merit,” a system that measures the success of higher education not by the personal qualities of the students who enter but by the work and service performed by the graduates who leave. Guinier goes on to offer vivid examples of communities that have developed effective learning strategies based not on an individual’s “merit” but on the collaborative strength of a group, learning and working together, supporting members, and evolving into powerful collectives. Examples are taken from across the country and include a wide range of approaches, each innovative and effective. Guinier argues for reformation, not only of the very premises of admissions practices but of the shape of higher education itself.

Author : Ted I. K. Youn
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781786352330

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Paradoxes of the Democratization of Higher Education by Ted I. K. Youn Pdf

Research in Social Problems and Public Policy presents important themes of: social/crime problems and their treatment; criminal justice; law and public policy; crime, deviance and social control; substance use/abuse and treatment; health and society; and institutional interaction. This volume focuses on the democratization of higher education.

Author : Hugo Horta,Manuel Heitor,Jamil Salmi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319209647

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Trends and Challenges in Science and Higher Education by Hugo Horta,Manuel Heitor,Jamil Salmi Pdf

This book discusses the role that integrated science and higher education policies may play in further democratizing and promoting social-economic development in Latin America. It suggests that such democratizing and development may be achieved in two complementary ways: i) broadening the access to knowledge through formal learning processes of higher education, and ii) promoting the advanced qualification of people while strengthening research institutions. The book shows how this entails a complex process of policy integration, with an emphasis on human resources and institutional issues combined in processes of technical change. It discusses in detail the three main challenges that most Latin American countries face in a globalized age, based on knowledge and ever-evolving learning processes. These challenges are the need to broaden the access to higher education; to make this access more socially balanced; and to recover from a long gap in investing in knowledge production and dissemination. This book treats these issues from a variety of conceptual and methodological perspectives that present a contribution to the field of science policy and higher education studies, and inform policymakers in Latin America.

Author : Emanuel Adewale Bamisaiye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Education, Higher
ISBN : STANFORD:36105032613817

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Democratization of Nigeria's System of Higher Education Through Policy Innovations in Response to the Changing Demands of Society by Emanuel Adewale Bamisaiye Pdf

Author : Simon Schwartzman,Rómulo Pinheiro,Pundy Pillay
Publisher : Springer
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789401795708

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Higher Education in the BRICS Countries by Simon Schwartzman,Rómulo Pinheiro,Pundy Pillay Pdf

In spite of the increasing attention attributed to the rise in prominence of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) countries, few studies have looked at the ways in which broader social expectations with respect to the role of higher education across the BRICS have changed, or not, in recent years. Our point of departure is that, contrary to the conventional wisdom focusing on functionalistic perspectives, higher education systems are not just designed by governments to fulfill certain functions, but have a tendency for evolving in a rather unpredictable fashion as a result of the complex interplay between a number of internal and external factors. In reality, national higher education systems develop and change according to a complex process that encompasses the expectations of governmental agencies, markets, the aspirations of the population for the benefits of education, the specific institutional traditions and cultures of higher education institutions, and, increasingly so, the interests and strategies of the private firms entering and offering services in the higher education market. This basically means that it is of outmost importance to move away from conceiving of "universities" or "higher education" as single, monolithic actors or sector. One way of doing this is by investigating a selected number of distinct, but nonetheless interrelated factors or drivers, which, taken together, help determine the nature and scope of the social compact between higher education (its core actors and institutions) and society at large (government, industry, local communities, professional associations).

Author : Morten Levin,Davydd J. Greenwood
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781785333224

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Creating a New Public University and Reviving Democracy by Morten Levin,Davydd J. Greenwood Pdf

Public universities are in crisis, waning in their role as central institutions within democratic societies. Denunciations are abundant, but analyses of the causes and proposals to re-create public universities are not. Based on extensive experience with Action Research-based organizational change in universities and private sector organizations, Levin and Greenwood analyze the wreckage created by neoliberal academic administrators and policymakers. The authors argue that public universities must be democratically organized to perform their educational and societal functions. The book closes by laying out Action Research processes that can transform public universities back into institutions that promote academic freedom, integrity, and democracy.

Author : Lani Guinier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807006276

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The Tyranny of the Meritocracy by Lani Guinier Pdf

"Standing on the foundations of America's promise of equal opportunity, our universities purport to "serve as engines of social mobility" and "practitioners of democracy." But as acclaimed scholar and pioneering civil rights advocate Lani Guinier argues, the merit systems that dictate the admissions practices of these institutions are functioning to select and privilege elite individuals rather than create learning communities geared to advance democratic societies. Having studied and taught at schools such as Harvard University, Yale Law School, and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Guinier has spent years examining the experiences of ethnic minorities at the nation's top institutions of higher education, and here she lays bare the practices that impede the stated missions of these schools. Guinier argues for reformation, not only of the very premises of admissions practices but of the shape of higher education itself, and she offers many examples of new collaborative initiatives that prepare students for engaged citizenship in our increasingly multicultural society"--

Author : Jan McArthur
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781441197535

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Rethinking Knowledge Within Higher Education by Jan McArthur Pdf

Explores the relationship between knowledge in higher education and social justice.

Author : Diane E. Eynon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319531441

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Women, Economic Development, and Higher Education by Diane E. Eynon Pdf

This book is a multi-disciplinary exploration of the intersection, relationship, and connection between higher education, economic development, and gender in post-Apartheid South Africa. In just twenty years, South Africa has rewritten its constitution, restructured its macroeconomic growth and development policies, restructured its higher education system, and made a commitment to provide opportunity for all its citizens, specifically those who have historically been marginalized, women and blacks. Eynon weaves together these unique perspectives to illustrate how these multiple domains map onto women and the critical role they play in the present and future of the country. Gender equality and women’s empowerment and education were considered key drivers to South Africa’s transformation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789087903169

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Higher Education in the New Century by Anonim Pdf

Higher education worldwide faces similar challenges—how to cope with globalization, the provision of access to underserved populations, and others.

Author : Tamara Savelyeva,Gao Fang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811951046

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Sustainable Tertiary Education in Asia by Tamara Savelyeva,Gao Fang Pdf

This edited volume offers a comprehensive reference point to an interdisciplinary and trans-boundary analysis of the sustainability of Asian tertiary education systems. The four sections of the volume –Collaborations, Transformations, Global-Local Tensions, and Future Developments—reflect the current conditions, ongoing changes, and new directions of the universities’ transformative contribution to the 2030 UN Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The chapters in this volume draw on inquiries and experiences from 12 research projects conducted in Asia, featuring cases from South Korea, Kazakhstan, Russia, and China, and include regions such as the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China, Ural-Siberian, and the Far Eastern regions of Russia. The collection of the studies presented in this volume offers a general framework for sustainable tertiary education that, with some adaptations, could be applied to other tertiary education systems in the world. The present volume, Sustainable Tertiary Education in Asia: Policies, Practices, and Developments, contributes to the research arena of Higher Education Sustainability by fostering a cross-cultural dialog among sustainability stakeholders of tertiary education in Asia and beyond.