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Higher Education Pedagogies

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Date

November 1, 2005

Format

Paperback, 176 pages

ISBN

0335213219 / 9780335213214

Edition Number
1

Language
English

Audience
Professional and scholarly

Imprint
Open University Press

Publisher
McGraw-Hill

Country
United Kingdom

Copyright
2005

Dimensions
5.9 in Width x 0.67 in Thick

Weight
0.816 lb

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$77.95



Table of contents

Acknowledgements
Part I: Context
1. Framing the context of Higher Education

Part II: The capability approach and higher education
2. Core ideas from the capability approach
3. What are we distributing?

Part III: Pedagogies and capabilities
4. Learning and capabilities
5. Widening participation capabilities
6. Capabilities for a Higher Education list

Part IV: Change in higher education
7. Pedagogy, capabilities and a criterion of justice

Bibliography
Index

Biographical note

Dr Melanie Walker is Reader in Educational Studies in the School of Education, University of Sheffield. Her previous posts were at the Universities of the West of England, Glasgow and the Western Cape. Her research and publication interests focus on capabilities, student and lecturer identity formation, diversity, equality and social justice in higher education.