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Transforming University Education: A Manifesto

Autor Dr Paul Ashwin
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What is a university degree for? What can it offer to students? Is it only about getting a job? How can we measure the quality of an undergraduate degree? Paul Ashwin shows how, around the world, economic arguments have come to dominate our thinking about the purpose and nature of university education. He argues that we have lost a sense of the educational purposes of an undergraduate degree and the ways in which going to university can transform students' lives. Ashwin challenges a series of myths related to the purposes, educational processes, and quality of an undergraduate education. He argues that these myths have fuelled the current misunderstanding of the educational aspects of higher education and explores what is needed to reinvigorate our understanding of a university education. Throughout, Ashwin draws on his deep engagement with international research to offer an accessible and thought-provoking analysis of the nature of university education.
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ISBN-13: 9781350157231
ISBN-10: 1350157236
Pagini: 176
Ilustrații: 10 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Offers insights into how we can refocus our attention on the educational purposes of universities

Notă biografică

Paul Ashwin is Professor of Higher Education at Lancaster University, UK.

Cuprins

Table of Contents:1. Introduction: Not Another Book about the Higher Education Crisis! Part I: Challenging Myths about University Education 2. Challenging Myths about the Purposes of University Education 3. Challenging Myths about the Key Elements of University Education 4. Challenging Myths about Measuring the Quality of University Education Part II: A Case for University Education 5. The Purposes of University Education 6. The Key Elements of University Education 7. Measuring the Quality of University Education 8. Transforming and Sustaining University Education Endnotes References Index

Recenzii

Eminently readable ... Ashwin indicates that 'The intention is to contribute to the reinvigoration of debates about the educational purposes of higher education'; in this the book is an undoubted success ... I sincerely hope that a great many [people] will engage with the ideas it provides.
In a noisy world filled with a cacophony of sound bites, Paul Ashwin challenges the merits of the current narrative that higher education is failing to provide what students and society need to thrive in uncertain times. His incisive, reasoned analysis is both critical of certain institutional practices while persuasively explaining what the contemporary university needs to do to realize its overarching educational purposes.
Undergraduate education is the primary activity of higher education but this reality is frequently lost whilst pursuing "world-class excellence". Inequalities are rising, facts are denied and truth is what some-one wants it to be. Ashwin presents us with a timely and thought-provoking "manifesto", demanding we re-affirm the transformational role that comes when students engage with bodies of knowledge and ideas. Our complex world necessitates having a critically-informed and engaged citizenry.
This is a lively book which challenges much of the conventional wisdom about higher education. Throughout Paul Ashwin's strong belief in the transformational power of university teaching shines through.
I found this book helped to settle my view of what HE is for, and would recommend it to anyone who has ever found themselves wondering what the point of teaching undergraduates is.