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Transforming higher education / Lee Harvey and Peter Knight

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Buckingham : Society for Research into Higher Education : Open University Press, c1996Description: ix, 206 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780335195893
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • LA 637 .H3 1996
Contents:
1. Quality and learning -- 2. Students and staff -- 3. Employers -- 4. Policy and Accountability -- 5. External quality monitoring -- 6. Quality as transformation -- 7. A view of learning -- 8. Assessment for learning -- 9. Teaching -- 10. Professional development for transformative learning.
Summary: The theme of the book is that the drive for quality in Britain and elsewhere, and the reform of teaching and learning processes have not been connected, organizationally or in practice: change has been driven by the search for efficiency and by a quest for greater bureaucratic accountability. Harvey and Knight argue that, whatever the merits of these developments, they have not been directly concerned to improve the quality of student learning. They argue not just that student learning ought to be at the center of discussions about quality enhancement, but that the goal ought to be transformation: transformation of universities with a view to transforming learners.
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Books Books National University - Manila LRC - Graduate Studies General Circulation Gen. Ed - CEAS GC LA 637 .H3 1996 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.1 Available NULIB000011834

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Quality and learning -- 2. Students and staff -- 3. Employers -- 4. Policy and Accountability -- 5. External quality monitoring -- 6. Quality as transformation -- 7. A view of learning -- 8. Assessment for learning -- 9. Teaching -- 10. Professional development for transformative learning.

The theme of the book is that the drive for quality in Britain and elsewhere, and the reform of teaching and learning processes have not been connected, organizationally or in practice: change has been driven by the search for efficiency and by a quest for greater bureaucratic accountability. Harvey and Knight argue that, whatever the merits of these developments, they have not been directly concerned to improve the quality of student learning. They argue not just that student learning ought to be at the center of discussions about quality enhancement, but that the goal ought to be transformation: transformation of universities with a view to transforming learners.

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