Understanding Contemporary Issues in Higher Education: Contradictions, Complexities and Challenges (The Routledge Education Studies Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367374153 ISBN 13: 9780367374150

Publisher: Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

This insightful book offers a wide-ranging collection of lively discussions on contemporary issues, policies and practices in higher education. Bartram integrates contributions from experienced academics, teachers and students in a unique approach and structure, designed to enable students with both specific and wide-ranging interests in higher education to extend their understanding.

Including discussion points, research tasks and suggestions on further reading in each chapter, Understanding Contemporary Issues in Higher Education discusses a range of topics, such as:

• universities and the mental health ‘crisis’;
• knowledge, the state and the market;
• the role of technology in teaching and academic celebrification;
• disability, diversity and inclusive placement learning.

Written specifically for Education Studies students, this book constitutes a timely addition to student-focused themed studies looking at aspects of higher education.

About this title

About the Author

Brendan Bartram is Reader in Education at the University of Wolverhampton, UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367374153
• ISBN 13: 9780367374150
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 182
• Editor: Bartram Brendan