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Higher Education As a Public Good: Critical Perspectives on Theory, Policy and Practice

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This volume focuses on the question of whether it is appropriate and inevitable that higher education systems are becoming so large and so diverse that the only realistic way they can be analysed is as aggregates of market-like transactions.
Higher education is likely to involve the majority of p...

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Product ID:9781433121654
Product Form:Paperback / softback
Country of Manufacture:US
Series:Global Studies in Education
Title:Higher Education As a Public Good
Subtitle:Critical Perspectives on Theory, Policy and Practice
Authors:Author: Gareth Williams, Ourania Filippakou
Page Count:212
Subjects:Sociology, Sociology, Philosophy and theory of education, Philosophy & theory of education
Description:This volume focuses on the question of whether it is appropriate and inevitable that higher education systems are becoming so large and so diverse that the only realistic way they can be analysed is as aggregates of market-like transactions.
Higher education is likely to involve the majority of people at some time in their lives in the twenty-first century. The main drivers of expansion in the previous century were a belief that widening access promotes social equity and the advance of knowledge as the main factor underpinning economic success for individuals and societies. However, universal higher education in rapidly changing economies raises many questions that have been inadequately treated by previous authors. This volume focuses on the question of whether it is appropriate and inevitable that higher education systems are becoming so large and so diverse that the only realistic way they can be analysed is as aggregates of market-like transactions. Most of the authors are not satisfied with this conclusion, but they recognise, from several disciplinary perspectives, that it is no longer possible to take it for granted that higher education is intrinsically a public good. Are there convincing alternatives?
Imprint Name:Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Publisher Name:Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Publication:GB
Publishing Date:2014-12-23