Higher Education Pedagogies: A Capabilities Approach

by Melanie Walker

What does higher education learning and teaching enable students to do and to become? Which human capabilities are valued in higher education, and how do we identify them? How might the human capability approach lead to improved student learning, as well as to accomplished and ethical university teaching? This book sets out to generate new ways of reflecting ethically about the purposes and values of contemporary higher education in relation to agency,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0335213219
• ISBN13: 9780335213214
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Open University Press
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.3" x 9.0"