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The Alternative University
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Author : Mariya P. Ivancheva
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2023-06-13
The Alternative University written by Mariya P. Ivancheva and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-13 with Social Science categories.
Over the last few decades, the decline of the public university has dramatically increased under intensified commercialization and privatization, with market-driven restructurings leading to the deterioration of working and learning conditions. A growing reserve army of scholars and students, who enter precarious learning, teaching, and research arrangements, have joined recent waves of public unrest in both developed and developing countries to advocate for reforms to higher education. Yet even the most visible campaigns have rarely put forward any proposals for an alternative institutional organization. Based on extensive fieldwork in Venezuela, The Alternative University outlines the origins and day-to-day functioning of the colossal effort of late President Hugo Chávez's government to create a university that challenged national and global higher education norms. Through participant observation, extensive interviews with policymakers, senior managers, academics, and students, as well as in-depth archival inquiry, Mariya Ivancheva historicizes the Bolivarian University of Venezuela (UBV), the vanguard institution of the higher education reform, and examines the complex and often contradictory and quixotic visions, policies, and practices that turn the alternative university model into a lived reality. This book offers a serious contribution to debates on the future of the university and the role of the state in the era of neoliberal globalization, and outlines lessons for policymakers and educators who aspire to develop higher education alternatives.
Alternative Universities
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Author : David J. Staley
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2019-03-26
Alternative Universities written by David J. Staley and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-26 with Education categories.
Imagining the universities of the future. How can we re-envision the university? Too many examples of what passes for educational innovation today—MOOCs especially—focus on transactions, on questions of delivery. In Alternative Universities, David J. Staley argues that modern universities suffer from a poverty of imagination about how to reinvent themselves. Anyone seeking innovation in higher education today should concentrate instead, he says, on the kind of transformational experience universities enact. In this exercise in speculative design, Staley proposes ten models of innovation in higher education that expand our ideas of the structure and scope of the university, suggesting possibilities for what its future might look like. What if the university were designed around a curriculum of seven broad cognitive skills or as a series of global gap year experiences? What if, as a condition of matriculation, students had to major in three disparate subjects? What if the university placed the pursuit of play well above the acquisition and production of knowledge? By asking bold "What if?" questions, Staley assumes that the university is always in a state of becoming and that there is not one "idea of the university" to which all institutions must aspire. This book specifically addresses those engaged in university strategy—university presidents, faculty, policy experts, legislators, foundations, and entrepreneurs—those involved in what Simon Marginson calls "university making." Pairing a critique tempered to our current moment with an explanation of how change and disruption might contribute to a new "golden age" for higher education, Alternative Universities is an audacious and essential read.
The Alternative University
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Author : Mariya Ivancheva
language : en
Publisher: Anthropology of Policy
Release Date : 2023
The Alternative University written by Mariya Ivancheva and has been published by Anthropology of Policy this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Education categories.
Over the last few decades, the decline of the public university has dramatically increased under intensified commercialization and privatization, with market-driven restructurings leading to the deterioration of working and learning conditions. A growing reserve army of scholars and students, who enter precarious learning, teaching, and research arrangements, have joined recent waves of public unrest in both developed and developing countries to advocate for reforms to higher education. Yet even the most visible campaigns have rarely put forward any proposals for an alternative institutional organization. Based on extensive fieldwork in Venezuela, The Alternative University outlines the origins and day-to-day functioning of the colossal effort of late President Hugo Chávez's government to create a university that challenged national and global higher education norms. Through participant observation, extensive interviews with policymakers, senior managers, academics, and students, as well as in-depth archival inquiry, Mariya Ivancheva historicizes the Bolivarian University of Venezuela (UBV), the vanguard institution of the higher education reform, and examines the complex and often contradictory and quixotic visions, policies, and practices that turn the alternative university model into a lived reality. This book offers a serious contribution to debates on the future of the university and the role of the state in the era of neoliberal globalization, and outlines lessons for policymakers and educators who aspire to develop higher education alternatives.
Enter The Alternative School
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Author : Alia R. Tyner-Mullings
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-11-17
Enter The Alternative School written by Alia R. Tyner-Mullings and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-17 with Education categories.
Enter the Alternative School is an in-depth examination of public school alternatives to traditional educational models in the US. This book analyses how urban education can respond to a system growing increasingly standardised and privatised. As an example, Central Park East Secondary School (CPESS), a public alternative schooling model, successfully served predominantly low-income and minority students. It also changed the New York City public school system while promoting methods that allowed educational institutions to make changes in the lives of their students. Written by a sociologist who was both a student at CPESS and a teacher at a school developed from the CPESS model, the book analyses education from a range of vantage points, assesses outcomes, and invites readers to consider the potential of alternative educational models to address the challenges of reforms that attempt to provide quality education to the low-income and minority students otherwise under served by public schools.
An Alternative System
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Author : Open University. Special Needs in Education Course Team
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
An Alternative System written by Open University. Special Needs in Education Course Team and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with categories.
Creative Universities
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Author : Anke Schwittay
language : en
Publisher: Policy Press
Release Date : 2021-10
Creative Universities written by Anke Schwittay and has been published by Policy Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10 with Education categories.
In this wide-ranging book, Anke Schwittay argues that, in order to inspire and equip students to generate better responses to global challenges, we need a new high education pedagogy that develops their imagination, creativity, emotional sensibilities and practical capabilities.
Alternative Solutions To Higher Education S Challenges
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Author : Laura M. Harrison
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-08-27
Alternative Solutions To Higher Education S Challenges written by Laura M. Harrison and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-27 with Education categories.
Moving beyond critique, Alternative Solutions to Higher Education’s Challenges uses an appreciative approach to highlight what is working in colleges and universities and offers an examination of how institutions can improve practice. Drawing on examples and cases from real higher education institutions, this book offers a solution-focused framework that challenges the negative assumptions that have plagued higher education. Chapters explore how current narratives have perpetuated and maintained systematic flaws in our education system and have hindered reform. This invaluable resource breaks from the substantial literature that only highlights the many problems facing higher education today, and instead provides alternative strategies and essential recommendations for moving higher education institutions forward.
The Inner College Of The University Of Connecticut
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Author : University of Connecticut
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969*
The Inner College Of The University Of Connecticut written by University of Connecticut and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969* with Alternative education categories.
Alternative Entry Programs To University For Mature Age Students
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Author : Marguerite Mary Cullity
language : en
Publisher: UoM Custom Book Centre
Release Date : 2010-10
Alternative Entry Programs To University For Mature Age Students written by Marguerite Mary Cullity and has been published by UoM Custom Book Centre this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10 with Education categories.
Australia has a long history of accepting unmatriculated, return-to-study and equity group mature age learners into undergraduate courses. Universities enrol mature age students on the basis of, for example, their equity background, prior learning, work experiences, scores on a mature age entrance test, or results in an alternative entry program. This study examined the nature and outcomes of four alternative entry programs (AEPs) to higher education for mature age learners (21 years plus). Alternative entry programs provide mature age students with a way to explore their academic aptitude for, and confidence to, study.
Reclaiming Universities From A Runaway World
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Author : Melanie Walker
language : en
Publisher: Open University Press
Release Date : 2004-04-01
Reclaiming Universities From A Runaway World written by Melanie Walker and has been published by Open University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-04-01 with Education categories.
· What is the current state of higher education internationally? · How may we construct an alternative vision for higher education? · What might such an alternative look like? Within the knowledge economy, higher education has expanded and changed through policies and practices of audit, performativity and ‘market’ values. In the face of such shifts, Reclaiming Universities from a Runaway World contributes to a timely and important debate around the civic function and democratic values of universities. The book is divided into three parts: · ‘Dark Times’ critiques the effects of contemporary higher education on professional life, research and curricula. · ‘Languages of Reconstruction’ explores alternative conceptualisations of what universities and higher learning are for, reaffirming difference, deliberative dialogue and the intrinsic goods of learning. The book argues that different languages enable different ways of thinking about university life. · ‘Pointing to Hope’ builds upon the foundations of the previous section to demonstrate how practices in pedagogy, new technologies, management, research and scholarship can be developed. This book offers a compelling and workable new vision for higher education. It is unique in bringing together critique with alternative ways of thinking about and doing higher education, providing theoretical and empirical grounding and focusing on international issues. With its international authorship, it provides insight for anyone interested in debates about the directions of higher education, including students, researchers, higher education managers and policy makers.