Professional Education, Capabilities and the Public Good: The role of universities in promoting human development
About this ebook
- Conceptualising Public-Good Professionalism
- Global Issues and Professional Education
- South African Debates about Higher Education
- Institutional conditions and professional education arrangements
- Social Constraints on educating ethically aware public professionals
By drawing on an approach that focuses on differing public-good professional capabilities in five professions, this book produces a crucial new framework for the preparation of professionals relevant to the global study of higher education policy. It expands higher education’s contribution to global social justice beyond a concern with human capital, administering a challenge to higher education internationally to address human development in the 21st century.
This book will be of great interest to all scholars of higher education involved in higher education studies, comparative education, and development studies. It will also prove valuable to policy makers, higher education leaders and lecturers and graduate professionals in diverse organizations.
About the author
Melanie Walker is Senior Research Professor in the Research Institute for Higher Education and Human Development at the University of the Free State, South Africa. Formerly Professor of Higher Education at the University of Nottingham, UK.
Monica McLean
is Professor of Education in the School of Education, University of Nottingham, UK.
