Global Inequalities and Higher Education: Whose Interests Are You Serving?

ISBN-13: 9780230223516 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 224 str.

Elaine Unterhalter

Opis

Examines how higher education has contributed to widening inequalities and might contribute to change. By exploring questions of access, finance and pedagogy, it considers global higher education as a space for understanding the promises and pressures associated with competing demands for economic growth, equity, sustainability and democracy.

Spis treści

PART I: MAPPING INEQUALITIES CONCEPTUALLY Educating the Other: Standpoint and Theory on the 'Internationalization' of Higher Education Global Learning in a Neo-liberal Age: Implications for Development Equality and Equity in Higher Education Pedagogies in the Context of Globalisation PART II: SOME DIMENSIONS OF INEQUALITIES Global Rankings of Universities: A Perverse and Present Burden Public-private Substitution in Higher Education Funding and Kondratiev Cycles: The Impact on Home and International Students The inter-relationship of Employment, Marriage and Higher Education Among Pakistani Students in the UK Globalisation Perspectives and Cultural Exclusion in Mexican Higher Education PART III: STRUGGLING FOR EQUALITY Pedagogy for Rich Human Being-ness in Global Times Tackling Inequality Through Quality: A Comparative Case Study Exploring University Teachers' Views Development Education, Sustainable Development, Global Citizenship and Higher Education: Towards a Transformatory Approach to Learning Globalisation and the Professional Ethic of the Professoriat.

O autorze

ELAINE UNTERHALTER is Professor of Education and International Development at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK and the co-ordinator of a number of research projects on gender and education in Africa. She teaches on postgraduate courses and has published widely on gender, education and questions of equality.
 
VINCENT CARPENTIER is Senior Lecturer in History of Education at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK. He is the Programme Leader of the MA in Higher and Professional Education. His comparative research on the relationship between educational systems, long economic cycles and social change is located at the interface of the history of education and political economy.