Global Inequalities and Higher Education

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A01=Elaine Unterhalter
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Author_Elaine Unterhalter
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Product details

  • ISBN 9780230223516
  • Weight: 446g
  • Dimensions: 155 x 235mm
  • Publication Date: 16 Jun 2010
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Examines how higher education has contributed to widening inequalities and might contribute to change. By exploring questions of access, finance and pedagogy, it considers global higher education as a space for understanding the promises and pressures associated with competing demands for economic growth, equity, sustainability and democracy.

ELAINE UNTERHALTER is Professor of Education and International Development at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK and the co-ordinator of a number of research projects on gender and education in Africa. She teaches on postgraduate courses and has published widely on gender, education and questions of equality.

VINCENT CARPENTIER is Senior Lecturer in History of Education at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK. He is the Programme Leader of the MA in Higher and Professional Education. His comparative research on the relationship between educational systems, long economic cycles and social change is located at the interface of the history of education and political economy.

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