Understanding Contemporary Issues in Higher Education: Contradictions, Complexities and Challenges

ISBN-13: 9780367374136 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 164 str.

Brendan Bartram

Opis

This insightful book offers a wide-ranging collection of lively discussions on contemporary issues, policies and practices in Higher Education. Bartram integrates contributions from experienced academics, teachers and students in a unique approach and structure, designed to enable students to extend their understanding.

Spis treści

1. Higher Education: Change, churn and challenges  2. Changing Notions of Risk: The realities of studying in a post-92 university  3. Transitioning from Higher Education Stories from students in a STEM discipline  4. ‘Academics online’: Self-promotion, competition and celebrification  5. Higher standards and better-informed students or false promises and ‘gaming’ the system? Competition, metrics and the consumerism of students in UK higher education   6. Weaving through the Web: How students navigate information online in the twenty-first century  7. Academic Diversity and its Implications for Teaching and Learning  8. Let’s keep it casual? Rising precarity and acts of resistance in UK universities   9. Meanings, Models and Muddles: Two tales of the pursuit of teaching excellence  10. Mental Health and Wellbeing in Higher Education  11. The Development of Knowledge in the Modern and Postmodern Universities  12. Disability, Diversity and Inclusive Placement Learning  13. How to Promote Real Equality in Higher Education  14. Higher Education: Contemplating the contradictions, complexities and challenges

O autorze

Brendan Bartram is Reader in Education at the University of Wolverhampton, UK.