| Higher Education as a Public Good: Critical Perspectives on Theory, Policy and Practice Contributor(s): Besley, Tina (Editor), McCarthy, Cameron (Editor), Peters, Michael Adrian (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1433121654 ISBN-13: 9781433121654 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $49.88 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Higher - Education | Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 378.001 |
| LCCN: 2014017281 |
| Series: Global Studies in Education |
| Physical Information: (0.70 lbs) 212 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Higher education is likely to involve the majority of people at some time in their lives in the twenty-first century. The main drivers of expansion in the previous century were a belief that widening access promotes social equity and the advance of knowledge as the main factor underpinning economic success for individuals and societies. However, universal higher education in rapidly changing economies raises many questions that have been inadequately treated by previous authors. This volume focuses on the question of whether it is appropriate and inevitable that higher education systems are becoming so large and so diverse that the only realistic way they can be analysed is as aggregates of market-like transactions. Most of the authors are not satisfied with this conclusion, but they recognise, from several disciplinary perspectives, that it is no longer possible to take it for granted that higher education is intrinsically a public good. Are there convincing alternatives? |