Full Description
This book sets out the theme of a world that is changing rapidly and higher education being an important agent in shaping that change through knowledge generation, transfer and innovation. The chapters in this book focus on this shaping role of higher education along a number of key areas: governance, sustainability, teaching and learning, student agency, quality and internationalization. From these different topics, this volume presents ways in which higher education helps dealing with and shaping the educational and societal changes that we are facing in the aftermath of the pandemic and challenges that we are expecting in the near future.
Contributors are: Victor M. H. Borden, Bruno Broucker, Edel Cassar, Bárbara Coelho Gabriel, Cindy Cogswell, Julia Draghi, Brigitte Ecker, Pınar Eldemir, Klaus Feldmann, Cláudia Figueiredo, Anne Gannon, Jussi Kivistö, Manja Klemenčič, Theodor Leiber, Nandarani Maistry, Sara Moreno Pires, Takalani Muloiwa-Klenam, Darlington Mutakwa, Erna Nairz-Wirth, Ruaidhri Neavyn, Jessica Nooij, Mark O'Hara, Beate Pawle, Alexandra Polido, Maria Pöschl, Silke Preymann, Verena Régent, Lotte Scheeren, Kateryna Suprun, Robertt Valente, Floris J. N. van Berckel Smit, Annemieke van der Horst and Sabine Weiss.
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Shaping the World of Change: Higher Education as a Key Enabler
Jessica Nooij, Bruno Broucker, Anne Gannon, Mark O'Hara and Silke Preymann
1 Understanding the Varieties of New Public Management at the Institutional Level
Floris J. N. van Berckel Smit
2 The Impact of Government Policy on the Re-shaping of the Academic Professional
Anne Gannon
3 Higher Education as Key Enabler of Enlightenment and Humanism: Adjusting Strategies and Organizational Forms
Theodor Leiber
4 Developing a Digital Platform to Embed Environmental Sustainability in Higher Education Ecosystems: Insights into GET-AHED, a New Digital Approach
Verena Régent, Bárbara Coelho Gabriel, Julia Draghi, Brigitte Ecker, Cláudia Figueiredo, Sara Moreno Pires, Ruaidhri Neavyn, Beate Pawle, Alexandra Polido and
Robertt Valente
5 A Post-Pandemic Perspective on Undergraduate Students' Preferred Teaching and Learning Mode at a South African University
Takalani Muloiwa-Klenam, Darlington Mutakwa and Nandarani Maistry
6 Shaping the World of Change - Higher Education Enabling Student Agency: Concepts, Principles and Practices
Manja Klemeni
7 We've Got Your Back! Strengthening Student Wellbeing and Sense of Belonging by Providing Social Support
Jessica Nooij, Lotte Scheeren and Annemieke van der Horst
8 Interplay of Habitus and University Fields
Erna Nairz-Wirth, Klaus Feldmann, Sabine Weiss and Maria Pöschl
9 The Role of Family and Peers in the Persistence and Attrition of Part-Time Doctoral Students
Edel Cassar
10 Reframing Accountability and Quality Assurance to Enable Social Innovation
Victor M. H. Borden and Cynthia A. Cogswell
11 Performance-Based Funding Formula in Ukrainian Higher Education: Policy Implementation and Lessons Learned
Kateryna Suprun and Jussi Kivistö
12 A Literature Review on Internationalisation Strategies in Higher Education Institutions
Pinar Eldemir
