This book focuses on current policy discourse in Higher Education, with special reference to Europe. It discusses globalisation, Lifelong Learning, the EU’s Higher Education discourse, this discourse’s regional ramifications and alternative practices in Higher Education from both the minority and majority worlds with their different learning traditions and epistemologies. It argues that these alternative practices could well provide the germs for the shape of a public good oriented Higher Education for the future. It theoretically expounds on important elements to consider when engaging Higher Education and communities, discussing the nature of the term ‘community’ itself. Special reference is accorded to the difference that lies at the core of these ever-changing communities. It then provides an analysis of an ‘on the ground project’ in University community engagement, before suggesting signposts for further action at the level of policy and provision.
Table of Content
Preface by Budd. L Hall
1 Introduction: Globalisation and the HE market
2 Changing conceptions of lifelong education/learning
3 The EU’s HE discourse and the challenges of globalisation: implications for continuing education
4 Extending the EU’s Higher Education discourse to the rest of the Mediterranean
5 Mainstream and alternative HE discourses in LLL
6 University/HE LLL and the Community
7 University Community Engagement Project: engaging the popular imagination and the ‘Holy Week’ culture
8 Whither European universities and other HE institutions and LLL?
Postscript by Rosemary Deem
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About the author
Michael Osborne is Professor of Adult and Lifelong Learning , Director of the Centre for Research and Development in Adult and Lifelong Learning, and Co-Director of PASCAL, University of Glasgow
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