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.
Examines how higher education has contributed to widening inequalities and might contribute to change. By exploring questions of access, finance and p...
Timely and original, this book examines gender equality in schooling as an aspiration of global social justice. With nearly one billion people having little or no schooling and women and girls comprising nearly two-thirds of this total, this book analyses the historical, sociological, political and philosophical issues involved as well as exploring actions taken by governments, Inter-Government Organisations, NGOs and women's groups since 1990 to combat this injustice.
Written by a recognised expert in this field, the book is organised clearly into three parts:
the...
Timely and original, this book examines gender equality in schooling as an aspiration of global social justice. With nearly one billion people havi...