Global Inequalities and Higher Education by Elaine Unterhalter

Global Inequalities and Higher Education by Elaine Unterhalter

Examines how higher education has contributed to widening inequalities and might contribute to change. By exploring questions of access, finance and pedagogy, it considers global higher education as a space for understanding the promises and pressures associated with competing demands for economic growth, equity, sustainability and democracy.

'A strong feature of the book is that it is timely and freshThe editors have done much work to connect to sensibilities of the global recession and the emerging effects in higher education and the developing world' - Dr Simon Marginson, Professor of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne '...based on genuine scholarship rather than high-class journalism.' - THE

ELAINE UNTERHALTER is Professor of Education and International Development at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK and the co-ordinator of a number of research projects on gender and education in Africa. She teaches on postgraduate courses and has published widely on gender, education and questions of equality.

VINCENT CARPENTIER is Senior Lecturer in History of Education at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK. He is the Programme Leader of the MA in Higher and Professional Education. His comparative research on the relationship between educational systems, long economic cycles and social change is located at the interface of the history of education and political economy.

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ISBN 13	9780230223516
ISBN 10	0230223516
Title	Global Inequalities and Higher Education
Author	Elaine Unterhalter
Series	Universities Into The 21st Century
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2010-06-16
Number of pages	224
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