Monica Mclean, Andrea Abbas, Paul Ashwin

How Powerful Knowledge Disrupts Inequality Reconceptualising Quality in Undergraduate Education

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 412g
• ISBN-13: 9781350127098
• ISBN-10: 1350127094
• Artikelnr.: 57018732

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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