Human Development and Capabilities: Re-imagining the university of the twenty-first century

by Alejandra Boni and Melanie Walker

Book Overview

Globally, universities are the subject of public debate and disagreement about their private benefits or public good, and the key policy vehicle for driving human capital development for competitive knowledge economies. Yet what is increasingly lost in the disagreements about who should pay for university education is a more expansive imaginary which risks being lost in reductionist contemporary education policy. This is compounded by the influences...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415536324
• ISBN13: 9780415536325
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"