Contemporary issues in education (Rodopi, 2005)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Preface; CHAPTER ONE Revitalising Pedagogy? Teaching and Technology in the University Classroom; CHAPTER TWO From Process to Product: Quality Audits and Instrumental Reason; CHAPTER THREE Emergent Skills in Higher Education: The Quest for Emotion and Virtual University; CHAPTER FOUR Myths and Realities of Higher Education as a Vehicle for Nation Building in Developing Countries: The Culture of the University and the New African Diaspora; CHAPTER FIVE From 'Education' to 'Educability': The Changing Nature of the Research/Teaching Nexus in the Modern University
CHAPTER SIX Student Expectations: How Was It For You?CHAPTER SEVEN Let's Go Out and Learn; CHAPTER EIGHT The Hidden Presumptions of Commercially Derived Quality Management in Higher Education; CHAPTER NINE "A Plea for the Highlands of Scotland": University Reform in the Early Twentieth Century; CHAPTER TEN Funding Challenges for a South African University: A Case Study; CHAPTER ELEVEN The Problems Faced By Higher Education Institutions Because of the Constantly Changing Objectives, Sometimes Imposed Externally, Sometimes Self-Imposed; Notes on Contributors; Index
Following the warm reception given to The Idea of Education, a volume of papers in this same Rodopi Series, a second conference around similar themes was held at Oxford University and this book is the result. This edited book provides the reader with a fairly representative, coherent and cohesive statement of the 2003 Oxford conference. Quoting the Chancellor of Paris University with regretting that "in the old days ... lectures were more frequent ... but now the time taken for lectures is being spent in meeting and discussions" our keynote Frank McMahon made the profound observation that some of