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Rethinking Universities: The Social Functions of Higher Education
by Sally Baker ; Brian Brown
Binding: Hardcover, 182 pages
Publisher: Continuum
List Price: USD $156
Weight: 93
Dimension: H: 0.75 x L: 9.21 x W: 0.52 inches
ISBN 10: 0826494196
ISBN 13: 9780826494191
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Most people who work and study in universities will be aware that they are changing. Yet few have so far grasped the extent of this change or have attempted to put it in a coherent intellectual framework. This volume provides new ways to understand how the university workforce in developed nations is being encouraged to change itself, and how the social role of these institutions has shifted from places of higher learning toward being agents for social change and the promotion of human welfare. Moreover the demands that are being placed on institutions and the kinds of graduates they are required to produce has changed too, with the emphasis on a new brand of vocationalism and a reinvigorated focus on skills' and employability'. This volume provides a theoretically informed, philosophically sophisticated account of what universities in developed nations are being encouraged to do, and the impact this has on their staff, students and the societies of which they are a part.

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