International Perspectives on Higher Education: Challenging Values and Practice

✍ Scribed by Trevor Kerry (editor)

• Publisher: Continuum
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 249
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Trevor Kerry draws together contributions from leading academics in the field based in Europe, Canada and Australia to examine key themes in higher education, including:
• academic freedom
• leadership and management
• the nature of learning and teaching
• ethical behaviour
• curriculum innovation
• attitudes to globalization and internationalization
The contributors explore what might constitute effective higher education provision, drawing on innovative practice from around the world and encouraging higher education practitioners to become more analytical and critical about their institutions, about their own roles, and about the ways in which they and their work serve their client-base. In so doing the book confronts the contextual conflicts that arise from political, social and fiscal agendas for higher education.

✦ Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures
Author Biographies
Introduction The Changing Face of Higher Education: Challenge and Opportunity
Trevor Kerry
Part 1: Ethics, Freedom and Spirituality
Chapter 1 The Ethics of Higher Education: Maintaining Ethical Standards in the Twenty-first Century University
Trevor Kerry
Chapter 2 Academic Freedom: A Medieval Concept for a Twenty-first Century University?
Trevor Kerry and Carolle Kerry
Chapter 3 Religion and Spirituality in Student Life
Tom Sherwood
Part 2: Leadership and Management
Chapter 4 Leadership in the Twenty-first Century University: Hard Choices and Effective Management
Muriel Robinson
Chapter 5 Internationalization and Globalization: Implications for Higher Education Learning and Teaching
Terfot A. Ngwana and Fengshu Liu
Chapter 6 Curricular Design and Assessment: Moving Towards a Global Template
Kent Löfgren
Chapter 7 International Experience for Students: The Evansville/Harlaxton Model
Gordon Kingsley
Part 3: Learning and Teaching
Chapter 8 The Myth of the Learning Society Revisited
Christina Hughes and Malcolm Tight
Chapter 9 Impact of e-Learning in the Twenty-first Century University
Paul Bacsich
Chapter 10 A Sustainable Model for Experiential Learning
Rosie LeCornu
Postscript: Parallel Universes in Higher Education
Trevor Kerry with ‘Emma’
Index of Names
Index