Assessing the Contributions of Higher Education

Knowledge for a Disordered World

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

AvSimon Marginson,Brendan Cantwell,Daria Platonova,Anna Smolentseva

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Despite the broad engagement of higher education institutions in most social sectors, limited thinking and hyper-individualistic approaches have dominated discussions of their value to society. Advocating a more rigorous and comprehensive approach, this insightful book discusses the broad range of contributions made by higher education and the many issues entailed in theorising, observing, measuring and evaluating those contributions.Prepared by a group of leading international scholars, the chapters investigate the multiple interconnections between higher education and society and the vast range of social, economic, political and cultural functions carried out by universities, colleges and institutes and their personnel. The benefits of higher education include employable graduates, new knowledge via research and scholarship, climate science and global connections, and the structuring of economic and social opportunities for whole populations, as well as work and advice for government at all levels. Higher education not only lifts earnings and augments careers, it also immerses students in knowledge, helps to shape them as people, and fosters productivity, democracy, tolerance and international understanding. The book highlights the value added by higher education for persons, organisations, communities, cities, nations, and the world. It also focuses on inequalities in the distribution of that value, and finds that the tools for assessing higher education are neither adequate nor complete as yet.International and interdisciplinary in scope, this book will prove an invaluable resource to students and scholars of higher education, educational policy and social policy. It will also prove a useful resource to both university executives and tertiary education policymakers who want to make higher education more effectively accountable to the public.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-02-21
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
FörlagEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781035307166

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Contents:Preface xList of contributors xiii1 Introduction: higher education and the contributions problem 1Simon Marginson, Brendan Cantwell, Daria Platonovaand Anna SmolentsevaPART I CONCEPTS AND PERSPECTIVES2 Intrinsic and extrinsic outcomes of higher education 12Simon Marginson, Brendan Cantwell, Daria Platonovaand Anna Smolentseva3 Contributions of higher education to society: towardsconceptualisation 38Anna Smolentseva4 Higher education as student self-formation 61Simon MarginsonPART II GLOBAL CONTRIBUTIONS AND COMPARISONS5 Higher education, science and the climate crisis 89Johanna Witte6 Opportunities and challenges for open higher educationsystems in global context 112Marijk van der Wende7 A comparison of Chinese and Anglo-American ideasabout higher education and public good 131Simon Marginson and Lili Yang8 US–China collaboration in science for the global common good 158John P. Haupt and Jenny J. LeePART III CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECONOMY, POLITY,GOVERNMENT AND CULTURE9 Graduate employability and employment 178James Robson10 UNESCO’s common good idea of higher education anddemocracy 198Rita Locatelli and Simon Marginson11 Understanding the contributions of higher educationthrough the politics of reform 219Brendan Cantwell, Daria Platonova and Isak Froumin12 The professoriate and public policy 244Glen A. Jones13 Cultural contributions of higher education 263Jussi Välimaa, Terhi Nokkala and Ksenia Romanenko14 Higher education and regional elite formation in Russia 287Aleksei Egorov and Sergey MalinovskiyIndex

‘A vital and timely contribution to a debate that is rising in intensity around the world with big implications for higher education. Across 14 chapters, 18 authors collectively and individually explore what higher education “does for persons, organisations, communities, cities, nations and the world…what difference does it make [and] and how do we know" [...] In conclusion, Assessing the Contributions of Higher Education is a giant step forward—pulling all the diverse pieces together and helping us understand the whole picture. That is exactly the role of scholarly endeavour.’