Universities With A Social Purpose

Author : Kerry Shephard,V. Santhakumar
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789819989607

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Universities with a Social Purpose by Kerry Shephard,V. Santhakumar Pdf

This book is a narrative of conversations between two professors, with different backgrounds, academic disciplines, life experiences, and from different continents. It shows how their discourse has brought them to a single destination defined by a mutual interest in the social purposes of universities, and a hope in common that their academic efforts will somehow do good in the world. The seventeen internationally-agreed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide focus for aspirations and plans regarding sustainability, but notably, the SDGs’ targets and indicators rarely provide detailed accounts of who is expected to enact change. This book addresses the role of higher education in this context and explores the social purposes of universities and their relation to the Sustainable Development Goals. It presents an academic analysis of this complex situation, based on insights from published literature on higher education, and the personal but very different experiences of two professors with this shared interest.

Author : Jonathan Grant
Publisher : Pearson UK
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781292349435

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The New Power University by Jonathan Grant Pdf

In a changing world, what is the social purpose of higher education? Combining a critique of contemporary universities, a manifesto for the future and a provocation to stimulate change, The New Power University examines how higher education can flourish in the 21st century. Using the framing of ‘new power’, Jonathan Grant illustrates how a different purpose for universities is necessary, through the application of a new set of values that puts social responsibility at the core of the academic mission, allowing the university to become an advocate of the policy and political issues that matter to its communities. The New Power University offers both a warning against the complacency of old power and a voice for many who see the opportunity and necessity for radical change in higher education. ‘Jonathan Grant examines the trends and urges the shedding of old shibboleths in order to embrace a new future. Insightful and engaging, this book will spur and shape the urgent debates learning communities need to have and resolve to avoid being left behind.’ Julia Gillard, Former Australian Prime Minister and Minister for Education; Chair-elect of the Wellcome Trust ‘A must-read for anyone interested in the transformative power of higher education.’ Ed Byrne, Former President King’s College London; co-author of The University Challenge ‘The New Power University is essential material for anyone wondering what universities are for and how they can help provide the answers to the most pressing challenges of our times.’ Jo Johnson, Chairman of Tes Global; former UK Minister for Universities, Science and Innovation

Author : Debbie Haski-Leventhal
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781838672836

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The Purpose-Driven University by Debbie Haski-Leventhal Pdf

This timely book offers the why, how and what of a purpose-driven university, utilising cases, research, concepts and a framework which can be implemented in any university interested in making a difference. This book tells the stories of purpose-driven universities and other organisations.

Author : Enakshi Sengupta,Patrick Blessinger,Craig Mahoney
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781839094385

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University-Community Partnerships for Promoting Social Responsibility in Higher Education by Enakshi Sengupta,Patrick Blessinger,Craig Mahoney Pdf

This book provides empirical evidence on how universities have considered social responsibilities as their prime focus, and engaged with civil society to enhance their values. Case studies from Indonesia to the United Kingdom enrich the book through experience, interventions and narratives.

Author : Enakshi Sengupta,Patrick Blessinger,Craig Mahoney
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781839094408

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University-Community Partnerships for Promoting Social Responsibility in Higher Education by Enakshi Sengupta,Patrick Blessinger,Craig Mahoney Pdf

This book provides empirical evidence on how universities have considered social responsibilities as their prime focus, and engaged with civil society to enhance their values. Case studies from Indonesia to the United Kingdom enrich the book through experience, interventions and narratives.

Author : Enakshi Sengupta,Patrick Blessinger,Craig Mahoney
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781839094262

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Leadership Strategies for Promoting Social Responsibility in Higher Education by Enakshi Sengupta,Patrick Blessinger,Craig Mahoney Pdf

This book explores the theoretical underpinnings and interventions of CSR practised by universities across the globe and the role their leadership plays in promoting this. It provides international examples from the US, Africa, Europe and Asia, with implications and insights for university leadership, staff, and students.

Author : Jack Quarter,Sherida Ryan,Andrea Chan
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781442663794

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Social Purpose Enterprises by Jack Quarter,Sherida Ryan,Andrea Chan Pdf

Social Purpose Enterprises: Case Studies for Social Change presents case studies of twelve organizations that operate in a growing niche within the Canadian social economy: market-based entities supported by a nonprofit organization and operated for the benefit of a workforce who lives on the margins of society. Using a variety of research methods, the contributors examine the work of social purpose enterprises in a range of businesses including food services, child care, furniture, courier services, and microfinance. Combining the experience of academics and practitioners, each chapter analyses the economic, social, and policy implications of the case. Building on research published in Researching the Social Economy (2010) and Businesses with a Difference (2013), Social Purpose Enterprises provides a valuable resource for those involved in the growing push to encourage market-based solutions for those on the social margins.

Author : University Meets Social Responsibility (UNIBILITY),José Pedro Amorim,Mark Wallace,Katharina Resch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3200053283

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Guidelines for Universities Engaging in Social Responsibility by University Meets Social Responsibility (UNIBILITY),José Pedro Amorim,Mark Wallace,Katharina Resch Pdf

Author : Monica Thiel,Gabriele Giorgi,Antonio Ariza-Montes,Nicola Mucci
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889711789

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Advancing Social Purpose in Organizations: An Interdisciplinary Perspective by Monica Thiel,Gabriele Giorgi,Antonio Ariza-Montes,Nicola Mucci Pdf

Author : Deborah C. Poff
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030775322

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University Corporate Social Responsibility and University Governance by Deborah C. Poff Pdf

This book provides new and original research on the purpose and functions of universities from the perspective of corporate social responsibility. It addresses professional ethics questions that relate to universities as corporate citizens. Divided into two sections, the book starts out with an examination of the concept of universities. It explores the differences between historic and contemporary universities, the history and nature of university governance, the role of higher education, and the problem of domination and subjugation in a management context. The second section looks at the faculty, the students, and the role of spirituality in the university and research. It examines such themes as the nature of faculty and professors, faculty as change agents, diversity, inclusivity and incivility, academic integrity, citizenship of students, and ethical responsibility of researchers. The book calls on the expertise from both the fields of business and professional ethics and university management and leadership. It approaches the subject from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Author : Joan McGregor,Mark C. Navin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783031040139

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Education, Inclusion, and Justice by Joan McGregor,Mark C. Navin Pdf

This book approaches education as a vital human good, both because it fosters the development of intellectual, moral and civic virtues, and because it promotes the development of valuable skills for work and for life. Accordingly, debates on justice, democracy, equality and inclusion often focus on questions concerning the kind of education people should receive, how scarce educational goods should be distributed, and the role of education in responding to historical and ongoing injustices. This volume collects 16 new essays that explore these pressing ethical, political and legal issues.

Author : David Watson,Robert Hollister,Susan E. Stroud,Elizabeth Babcock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136738432

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The Engaged University by David Watson,Robert Hollister,Susan E. Stroud,Elizabeth Babcock Pdf

The Engaged University is a comprehensive empirical account of the global civic engagement movement in higher education. In universities around the world, something extraordinary is underway. Mobilizing their human and intellectual resources, institutions of higher education are directly tackling community problems – combating poverty, improving public health, and restoring environmental quality. This book documents and analyzes this exciting trend through studies of civic engagement and social responsibility at twenty institutions worldwide. This timely volume offers three special contributions to the literature on higher education policy and practice: a historical overview of the founding purposes of universities, which almost invariably included a context-specific element of social purpose, together with a survey of how these "founding" intentions have fared in different systems of higher education; a contemporary account of the policy and practice of universities – all over the world – seeking to re-engage with this social purpose; and an overview of generic issues which emerge for the "engaged university."

Author : Enakshi Sengupta,Patrick Blessinger,Craig Mahoney
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781839098543

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International Perspectives on Policies, Practices & Pedagogies for Promoting Social Responsibility in Higher Education by Enakshi Sengupta,Patrick Blessinger,Craig Mahoney Pdf

Understanding that the inculcation of social responsibility within education can lead to social and economic benefits for students and society at large, the authors in this edited collection present case studies of policies and practices used across the globe to give readers an insight into how social responsibility is embedded into curriculums.

Author : International Association of Universities
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Community and college
ISBN : PSU:000026117744

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The Social Responsibility of the University in Asian Countries - Obligations and Opportunities by International Association of Universities Pdf

Author : Jerry Paquette
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351846936

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Social Purpose and Schooling by Jerry Paquette Pdf

First published in 1991, this work critically analyses the competing claims about alternative arrangements for schooling. It does so in light of major popularly understood agendas for social and political purpose, and of the troubled and much less clearly understood assumptions and issues behind them. The book examines closely four generic types of arrangements for schooling in light of a comprehensive framework for understanding the publicness or privateness of schools, and the relationships between social and educational purpose. The book poses key questions about the meaning and purpose of schooling in the rapidly evolving social, demographic and technological realities of the time. It also probes fundamental assumptions, values and beliefs behind educational and public policy-making. In doing so, it offers a way to make sense of unorthodox arrangements for the provision and funding of schools.