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Examines how higher education has contributed to widening inequalities and might contribute to change. By exploring questions of access, finance and pedagogy, it considers global higher education as a space for understanding the promises and pressures associated with competing demands for economic growth, equity, sustainability and democracy.
List of contents
PART I: MAPPING INEQUALITIES CONCEPTUALLY
Educating the Other: Standpoint and Theory on the 'Internationalization' of Higher Education
Global Learning in a Neo-liberal Age: Implications for Development
Equality and Equity in Higher Education Pedagogies in the Context of Globalisation
PART II: SOME DIMENSIONS OF INEQUALITIES
Global Rankings of Universities: A Perverse and Present Burden
Public-private Substitution in Higher Education Funding and Kondratiev Cycles: The Impact on Home and International Students
The inter-relationship of Employment, Marriage and Higher Education Among Pakistani Students in the UK
Globalisation Perspectives and Cultural Exclusion in Mexican Higher Education
PART III: STRUGGLING FOR EQUALITY
Pedagogy for Rich Human Being-ness in Global Times
Tackling Inequality Through Quality: A Comparative Case Study Exploring University Teachers' Views
Development Education, Sustainable Development, Global Citizenship and Higher Education: Towards a Transformatory Approach to Learning
Globalisation and the Professional Ethic of the Professoriat.
About the author
ELAINE UNTERHALTER is Professor of Education and International Development at the University of London, UK.VINCENT CARPENTIER is Senior Lecturer in History of Education at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK.
Summary
Examines how higher education has contributed to widening inequalities and might contribute to change. By exploring questions of access, finance and pedagogy, it considers global higher education as a space for understanding the promises and pressures associated with competing demands for economic growth, equity, sustainability and democracy.
