Higher Education Pedagogies / Edition 1

by Melanie Walker

Overview

This book sets out to generate new ways of reflecting ethically about the purposes and values of contemporary higher education in relation to agency, learning, public values and democratic life, and the pedagogies which support these. It offers an alternative to human capital theory and the emphasis on the economic returns of education in higher education, arguing for intrinsic as much as instrumental goods. It frames these issues using key ideas from the human capability approach, developed by economist Amartya Sen and philosopher Martha Nussbaum, as a rich resource for thinking about higher education and shows how this moves us to a criterion of justice as a value in higher education. It places human flourishing, human dignity and students as human beings at its centre. It takes up the value Sen attributes to education in the capability approach, and puts the approach demonstrates its relevance for higher education.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780335213214
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Publication date:	11/01/2005
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	0.38(w) x 6.00(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

Dr Melanie Walker is Reader in Educational Studies in the School of Education, University of Sheffield. Her previous posts were at the Universities of the West of England, Glasgow and the Western Cape. Her research and publication interests focus on capabilities, student and lecturer identity formation, diversity, equality and social justice in higher education.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Part I: Context
1. Framing the context of Higher Education

Part II: The capability approach and higher education
2. Core ideas from the capability approach
3. What are we distributing?

Part III: Pedagogies and capabilities
4. Learning and capabilities
5. Widening participation capabilities
6. Capabilities for a Higher Education list

Part IV: Change in higher education
7. Pedagogy, capabilities and a criterion of justice

Bibliography
Index