Curriculum Challenges for Universities

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This book develops a progressive program of engagement with issues, problems and critical thinking which helps universities and students understand and engage with some of the key issues of our time. It focuses on curriculum concerns, and presents a sustained and critical analysis and dialogue about knowledge, culture and ways of seeing important issues. 
This book provides critical and analytical insights into the importance of the emergence of mass higher education into public awareness. It explores what is termed ‘contested knowledge’ as part of modern students’ experiences and expectations. By broadcasting some of the future prospects for a democratic university, especially in relation to its communities, it highlights the need to grasp the significance of global change and instability in teaching and learning, and how an adequate curriculum in higher education can be constructed to address the issues that arise.

This book develops a progressive program of engagement with issues, problems and critical thinking which helps universities and students understand and engage with some of the key issues of our time. It focuses on curriculum concerns, and presents a sustained and critical analysis and dialogue about knowledge, culture and ways of seeing important issues. 
This book provides critical and analytical insights into the importance of the emergence of mass higher education into public awareness. It explores what is termed ‘contested knowledge’ as part of modern students’ experiences and expectations. By broadcasting some of the future prospects for a democratic university, especially in relation to its communities, it highlights the need to grasp the significance of global change and instability in teaching and learning, and how an adequate curriculum in higher education can be constructed to address the issues that arise.

Explores external issues impacting academic curricula in higher education Examines current knowledge systems in higher education sociologically Presents unique curricular examples of engagement with cultural, social and global issues

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James Nyland

Themen in »Curriculum Challenges for Universities«

Curriculum matters and critique Engagement, community and the longing of the century Education the great equalizer A crisis of knowledge The educational supermarket Indigenous Australians and knowing ‘country’ Freedom through education A disputing university Social purpose of learning Inequalities and social justice Imagining a different society An ecology of learning

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