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1 online resource (254 pages) |
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Universities, Employability andHuman Development; Preface; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 Contextual and Policy Conditions; University-Employability-Employment; Higher Education for Human Development, Well-Being and Agency; Education Purposes; Tracing Key Policy Developments in South African Higher Education; The Current Higher Education Context: Policy, Participation and Funding; The Employability Research Project; What Follows; Notes; References; 2 Graduate Employability, Global Shifts and Local Realities; Perspectives on What Universities Do |
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Higher Education and Socio-economic DevelopmentGraduate Employability: Assumptions and Tensions; Graduate Employability in South Africa; Contextual Realities; Graduate Demand Predictors; Graduate Supply Predictors; Higher Education as/and the Public Good; Note; References; 3 A Human Capabilities Conceptualization of Graduate Employability; Development as Well-Being (Individual, Social and National) and Agency; Capabilities, Agency Freedoms and Equality; Not to Neglect Functionings; 'Conversion Factors': Education and Inequalities; Resources (Including Income); Capital or Capabilities |
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Which Capabilities?A 'Good' Education; Notes; References; 4 Employability and Conversion Factors; Understandings of 'Graduate Employability'; Personal Conversion Factors; Social-university Conversion Factors Influencing Employability; University Reputation; Field of Study; Aspirations; Misalignment of Theory and Practice; Extra-curricular Activities; Human Development Values as a Conversion Factor for Expansive Employability; Graduate Employability; Notes; References; 5 Access and Participation; University Contributions; Enhancing Inclusive Access; Teaching and Learning |
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The Contribution of the Careers OfficeCan Universities Do More?; Note; References; 6 Democratic Citizenship and Employable Graduates; Why Citizenship When Considering Employability?; Nussbaum and Three Human Development Capabilities; Critical Examination; Global Citizenship; Narrative Imagination; 'Human Development Citizenship': University Visions, Missions and Values; Developing Citizens: University Arrangements; Perspectives from Staff and Students: Fostering Citizenship Values; Teaching and Cultivating Citizenship; Student Agency Freedoms; Towards 'Human Development-Citizenship' |
| Summary |
The book makes a significant contribution to critical higher education studies, specifically to graduate employability research and to capabilities and education research. The book moves beyond the simplistic conception of alleged 'gaps' in graduate skills and 'mismatches' between employers and universities, and instead provides an innovative multi-dimensional and intersectional human capabilities conceptualisation of graduate employability. The book challenges an individualised notion of employability, instead locating employability issues in social and economic conditions, and argues that employability choices cannot be divorced from inequality. Qualitative and quantitative data from multiple case-study universities in South Africa are used to explore the perceptions and experiences of diverse students, lecturers, support officers and employers, regarding what each university is doing, or should be doing, to enhance graduate economic opportunities and contribute to inclusive development. The book will be highly relevant to students, scholars and researchers in the fields of education and sociology, particularly those with an interest in graduate employability |
| Bibliography |
References7 Employers and Graduate Opportunities; Revisiting Uneven Terrain; Employers Preferred Universities; The 'Right' Kind of Person-Functionings Valued by Employers; Note; References; 8 Aspirations, Capabilities and Navigating Future-Forward; Conceptualizing Aspirations; Empirical Student Biographies; Aspirations and Agency: Wits (Table 8.1) ; Valued Capabilities; Aspirations and Agency: UFS (Table 8.2) ; Aspirations and Agency: Univen (Table 8.3) ; Aspirations and Agency: NMMU (Table 8.4) ; Aspirations, Capabilities and Employability; References |
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9 Human Development, Capabilities and Graduate Employability |
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Education.
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Education and state.
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ducation and state
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Educational sociology.
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Education, Higher.
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higher education.
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Education.
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Careers guidance.
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Sociology.
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Study & learning skills: general.
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Educational strategies & policy.
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Higher & further education, tertiary education.
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EDUCATION -- Essays.
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EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
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EDUCATION -- Reference.
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Educational sociology
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Education
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Education and state
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Business and education
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College graduates -- Employment
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Education, Higher
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Beschäftigungsfähigkeit
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Hochschulbildung
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Humankapital
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Großbritannien
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Subsaharisches Afrika
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Fongwa, Samuel
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| LC no. |
2016959603 |
| ISBN |
1137584521 |
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9781137584526 |
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