Universities and Global Human Development: Theoretical and Empirical Insights for Social Change

ISBN-13: 9781138822450 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 198 str.

Melanie Walker; Alejandra Boni

Opis

This book makes the case for a critical turn in development thinking around universities and their contributions in making a more equal post-2015 world. It puts forward a normative approach based on human development and the capability approach, one which can gain a hearing from policy, scholarship, and practitioners dealing with practical issues of understanding policy, democratising research and knowledge, and fostering student learning - all key university functions.

The book argues that such an approach can elucidate development debates drawing on local, national and international issues and examples to show why higher education matters for sustainable development goals both in educational and social terms. It advocates a new arena of engagement with universities as key sites of development and freedoms beyond human capital and challenges development omissions and gaps around university education. The book explores how the human development approach addresses the following core ideas: the meaning of well-being, the idea of agency, participation and democratic citizenship, how to address inequalities, the relation between local and global, and the idea of equitable partnerships.

This book is addressed to researchers and postgraduate students in development studies, university education, the capability approach and human development community.

Spis treści

Part 1  1. Introduction  2. Universities from an education and development perspective  3. How development theories understand universities  4. A foundation of human development and capabilities for higher education  Part 2  5. Higher education policies from a human development perspective  6. University knowledge contributions and human development  7. Democratizing research: expanding capabilities through participatory action research  8. Student learning opportunities and outcomes  Part 3  9. The Human Development Friendly University

O autorze

Alejandra Boni is Associate Professor at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain, and research fellow of INGENIO Institute (CSIC-UPV). She co-convenor of the thematic Education Group of the Human Development and Capability Association, current vice-president of the International Development Ethics Association and member of the Board of the Spanish Network of Development Studies (REEDES).

Melanie Walker is South African Research Chair in Higher Education and Human Development based in the Institute for Advanced Studies and Scholarship at the University of the Free State, South Africa.. She is also current vice-president of the Human Development and Capability Association.