高等教育の今日的論点を理解する Understanding Contemporary Issues in Higher Education : Contradictions, Complexities and Challenges

著者名：Bartram, Brendan (EDT)

Routledge（2020/10/29発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9780367374150
• eISBN：9781000212778

Description

This insightful book offers a wide-ranging collection of lively discussions on contemporary issues, policies and practices in higher education. Bartram integrates contributions from experienced academics, teachers and students in a unique approach and structure, designed to enable students with both specific and wide-ranging interests in higher education to extend their understanding.

Including discussion points, research tasks and suggestions on further reading in each chapter, Understanding Contemporary Issues in Higher Education discusses a range of topics, such as:

• universities and the mental health ‘crisis’;
• knowledge, the state and the market;
• the role of technology in teaching and academic celebrification;
• disability, diversity and inclusive placement learning.

Written specifically for Education Studies students, this book constitutes a timely addition to student-focused themed studies looking at aspects of higher education.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Higher Education: Change, churn and challenges

Brendan Bartram

Chapter 2 Changing Notions of Risk: The realities of studying in a post-92 university

Bethany Sumner

Chapter 3 Transitioning from Higher Education Stories from students in a STEM discipline

Sinead D’Silva and Samantha Pugh

Chapter 4 ‘Academics online’: Self-promotion, competition and celebrification

Brendan Bartram

Chapter 5 Higher standards and better-informed students or false promises and ‘gaming’ the system? Competition, metrics and the consumerism of students in UK higher education

Mark Elliot

Chapter 6 Weaving through the Web: How students navigate information online in the twenty-first century

Carol Bailey, Hazel Bowley and Jodi Withers

Chapter 7 Academic Diversity and its Implications for Teaching and Learning

Anesa Hosein and Namrata Rao

Chapter 8 Let’s keep it casual? Rising precarity and acts of resistance in UK universities

Esther Muddiman, Rowan Campbell and Grace Krause

Chapter 9 Meanings, Models and Muddles: Two tales of the pursuit of teaching excellence

Tanya Hathaway and Namrata Rao

Chapter 10 Mental Health and Wellbeing in Higher Education

Clare Dickens

Chapter 11 The Development of Knowledge in the Modern and Postmodern Universities

Stephen Ward

Chapter 12 Disability, Diversity and Inclusive Placement Learning

Stephanie Brewster and David Thompson

Chapter 13 How to Promote Real Equality in Higher Education

Ruth Mieschbuehler

Chapter 14 Higher Education: Contemplating the contradictions, complexities and challenges

Brendan Bartram