Graduate Citizens: Issues of Citizenship and Higher Education

ISBN-13: 9780415257237 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 208 str.

John Ahier; John Beck; Rob Moore

Opis

Following the introduction of student loans and tuition fees, the situation of students and new graduates has changed considerably. Set in this context, Graduate Citizens is a thought-provoking, and insightful look at the current generation of students' attitudes towards citizenship and matters of social and moral responsibility.
Drawing on small-scale case studies of students in two universities, the authors explore students' changing sense of citizenship against the backdrop of recent changes in higher education. It addresses students' approaches to being in debt, the role of their families in providing support and their attitudes towards careers. Questioning the claim that the current generation of students is politically apathetic, this book shows that they are in fact socially concerned with, though distant from, official, mainstream politics. It investigates students' responses to such political and economic phenomena as globalisation and the ever-increasing promotion of market forces.
Graduate Citizens illuminates and explores the links between reforms in higher education, student experience of university and issues of citizenship. It poses questions about the condition and future of citizenship in Britain and discusses the implications for citizenship education.

Spis treści

Introduction Part 1: Citizenship and Higher Education in Modern Britain: Some Reflections 1. Citizenship in Britain: Models and Identities 2. Prospects for Social National Citizenship in the United Kingdom: Imperilled but not Impossible? 3. Citizenship and Restructuring of Higher Education Part 2: Being a Graduate and a Citizen in Modern Britain: Evidence and Interpretation 4. Citizenship Themes in Student's Lives 5. Citizenship, Mutuality and Civil Society 6. Conclusion: Concerns, Hopes and Fears

O autorze

John Ahier, John Beck, Rob Moore