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Universities, Employability and Human Development
Walker, Melanie; Fongwa, Samuel
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Description for Universities, Employability and Human Development
Hardback. Num Pages: 248 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, 3 colour illustrations, 3 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JNF; JNM; JNR; JNZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 473.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137584519
SKU
V9781137584519
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99-15
About Walker, Melanie; Fongwa, Samuel
Melanie Walker is South African research chair in higher education and human development at the University of the Free State, South Africa. Samuel Fongwa is a post-doctoral fellow and researcher at the Centre for Research on Higher Education and Development at the University of the Free State, South Africa.
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