Assessing the contributions of higher education : : knowledge for a disordered world / / edited by Simon Marginson [and three others].

• TeilnehmendeR: Marginson, Simon,; Edward Elgar Publishing,
• Place / Publishing House: Northampton : : Edward Elgar Publishing,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (322 pages)
• Notes: Includes index.

"Despite the broad engagement of higher education institutions in most social sectors, limited thinking and hyper-individualistic approaches have dominated discussions of their value to society. Advocating a more rigorous and comprehensive approach, this insightful book discusses the broad range of contributions made by higher education and the many issues entailed in theorising, observing, measuring and evaluating those contributions. Prepared by a group of leading international scholars, the chapters investigate the multiple interconnections between higher education and society and the vast range of social, economic, political and cultural functions carried out by universities, colleges and institutes and their personnel. The benefits of higher education include employable graduates, new knowledge via research and scholarship, climate science and global connections, and the structuring of economic and social opportunities for whole populations, as well as work and advice for government at all levels. Higher education not only lifts earnings and augments careers, it also immerses students in knowledge, helps to shape them as people, and fosters productivity, democracy, tolerance and international understanding. The book highlights the value added by higher education for persons, organisations, communities, cities, nations, and the world. It also focuses on inequalities in the distribution of that value, and finds that the tools for assessing higher education are neither adequate nor complete as yet. International and interdisciplinary in scope, this book will prove an invaluable resource to students and scholars of higher education, educational policy and social policy. It will also prove a useful resource to both university executives and tertiary education policymakers who want to make higher education more effectively accountable to the public"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: higher education and the contributions problem -- PART I Concepts and perspectives -- 2. Intrinsic and extrinsic outcomes of higher education -- 3. Contributions of higher education to society: towards conceptualisation -- 4. Higher education as student self-formation -- PART II Global contributions and comparisons -- 5. Higher education, science and the climate crisis -- 6. Opportunities and challenges for open higher education systems in global context -- 7. A comparison of Chinese and Anglo-American ideas about higher education and public good -- 8. US-China collaboration in science for the global common good -- PART III Contributions to economy, polity, government and culture -- 9. Graduate employability and employment -- 10. UNESCO's common good idea of higher education and democracy -- 11. Understanding the contributions of higher education through the politics of reform -- 12. The professoriate and public policy -- 13. Cultural contributions of higher education -- 14. Higher education and regional elite formation in Russia -- Index.