Professional Education, Capabilities and the Public Good: The Role of Universities in Promoting Human Development

ISBN-13: 9780415604710 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 212 str.

Melanie Walker;Monica McLean

Opis

This book innovatively explores how universities might be engines of reform and social change.Using rich case studies drawn from South African research, this book comprehensively provides a myriad of new perspectives on what constitutes a set of appropriate professional capabilities that will translate successfully into social progression. It asks challenges universities to produce professionals who have the knowledge, skills and values to improve the lives of people living in poverty in urban and rural settings. It covers issues such as: South African Debates about Higher Education Institutional conditions and professional educational arrangements Social Constraints on educating ethically aware public professionals Global Issues and Professional Education: history, power and normative choice By drawing on an approach that focuses on differing capabilities, this book produces a crucial new framework for the global study of higher education policy.

Spis treści

Part I Higher Education, The Public Good and Professionals  1. Higher Education in a Global Context: Working for the public good  2. Capabilities-Based Public-Good Professionalism  Part II Context, Theoretical Framing and Methodology  3. History, Inequalities and Context: South African universities  4. Professional Capabilities, Educational Arrangements and Social Conditions: A new research design  5. Dialogic Stages of Public-Good Professional Capabilities Index  Part III Applying a Public-Good Professional Capabilities Education Index  6. Participants’ Conceptions of Professional Work in South Africa  7. Pedagogical Environments for the Production of Public-Good Professionals  8. Universities and Social Conditions: Constraints on public-good professionalism in South Africa  9. Public-Good Pathways to Poverty Reduction