How Powerful Knowledge Disrupts Inequality - Reconceptualising Quality in Undergraduate Education

Zusatztext An important and grounded critique of the simplistic notion that quality is related primarily to university status. The study offers encouraging findings on how, across four very different university contexts, young people experienced higher education as profoundly transformative. Notably, the authors’ analysis is able to identify the kinds of curricular and pedagogical arrangements that are making the greatest impact in terms of ameliorating social inequities in students' background. Informationen zum Autor Monica McLean is Professor of Education in the School of Education at the University of Nottingham, UK. Her publications includes Pedagogy and the University and Professional Education, Capabilities and the Public Good . Andrea Abbas is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Education at the Department of Education, University of Bath, UK. Paul Ashwin is Professor of Higher Education at Lancaster University, UK. Klappentext Please note, the book was previously published in hardback with the title Quality in Undergraduate Education (ISBN 9781474214490).Globally, the appetite for higher education is great, but what do students and societies gain? This book foregrounds the importance of knowledge acquisition at university. Many argue that university education is no longer a public good due to the costs incurred by students who are then motivated by the promise of lucrative employment rather than by studying a discipline for its own sake. McLean, Abbas and Ashwin, however, reveal a more complex picture and offer a way of thinking about good quality university education for all. Drawing on a study which focused on four sociology-related social science UK university departments of different reputation, the book shows that students value sociological knowledge because it gives them a framework to think about and act on understanding how individuals and society interact. Further, the authors discuss how what was learned from the study about how policy, curriculum and pedagogy might preserve and strengthen the personal and social gains of social science undergraduate education. Vorwort Draws on cutting edge research to explore what students from different backgrounds gain from their degrees, and what enables and constrains these students. Zusammenfassung Please note, the book was previously published in hardback with the title Quality in Undergraduate Education ( ISBN 9781474214490).Globally, the appetite for higher education is great, but what do students and societies gain? This book foregrounds the importance of knowledge acquisition at university. Many argue that university education is no longer a public good due to the costs incurred by students who are then motivated by the promise of lucrative employment rather than by studying a discipline for its own sake. McLean, Abbas and Ashwin, however, reveal a more complex picture and offer a way of thinking about good quality university education for all. Drawing on a study which focused on four sociology-related social science UK university departments of different reputation, the book shows that students value sociological knowledge because it gives them a framework to think about and act on understanding how individuals and society interact. Further, the authors discuss how what was learned from the study about how policy, curriculum and pedagogy might preserve and strengthen the personal and social gains of social science undergraduate education. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: Introduction 1. University Education, Inequality and Knowledge 2. Introducing the Four Universities and Departments Part II: Setting the Scene 3. The Patterning of Inequality in Higher Education 4. The Construction of High- Quality University Education 5. The Power of Sociology- Related Knowledge Part III: Exploring Educational Quality

List of contents

Part I: Introduction
1. University Education, Inequality and Knowledge
2. Introducing the Four Universities and Departments
Part II: Setting the Scene
3. The Patterning of Inequality in Higher Education
4. The Construction of High- Quality University Education
5. The Power of Sociology- Related Knowledge
Part III: Exploring Educational Quality
6. Comparing Sociology- Related Curricula: Th e Pedagogic Device
7. Pedagogy for Powerful Knowledge and Understanding
Part IV: The Powerful Equalizing Effects of Knowledge
8. Disciplinary Identity and Pedagogic Rights
9. Undergraduate Education and Future Lives
Part V: Conclusion
10. Socially Just University Curriculum and Pedagogy
Appendix 1: Research Methodology
Appendix 2: Curricula: Compulsions and Choices
References
Index

About the author

Monica McLean is Professor of Education in the School of Education at the University of Nottingham, UK. Her publications includes Pedagogy and the University and Professional Education, Capabilities and the Public Good.

Product details

• Authors: Andrea Abbas, Andrea (University of Bath Abbas, Paul Ashwin, Paul (Lancaster University Ashwin, Monica McLean, Monica (University of Nottingham Mclean
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781350127098
• ISBN: 978-1-350-12709-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system