Quality in Higher Education as a Tool for Human Development Enhancing Teaching and Learning in Zimbabwe Routledge Studies in Development and Society Series
Auteur : Mukwambo Patience
Whilst many studies have explored how quality in higher education is conceptualised in the Global North, less attention has been paid to quality in higher education in Africa and the Global South. This book uses the human development and capabilities approach to demonstrate how quality in teaching and learning contributes to a range of benefits, such as improved wellbeing, economic outcomes, political engagement, and human capital formation amongst graduates.
The book interrogates the various dimensions of quality as well as factors that impact on the realisation of quality in universities and society at large. Recognising that measures of quality are context and stakeholder specific, the book uses the Zimbabwean context as a Global South case study. It evaluates how quality is conceptualised and operationalised in Zimbabwean universities, and how that impacts on teaching and learning policy and practice. The book also demonstrates the need for economic resources for individuals and universities, and emphasises the importance of a social and educational environment conducive to critical learning, and post-university opportunities.
This book will be of interest to researchers across Education, African and Development Studies, as well as to policymakers and practitioners with an interest in quality assurance and the promotion of teaching and learning in universities in the Global South.
1. Quality as Human development 2. Contextualising quality in Zimbabwean higher education teaching and learning 3. Policy perspectives of qualtity teaching and learning 4. Micro prespectives on the quality of teaching and learning: UI 5. Micro prespectives on the quality of teaching and learning: UJ 6. Quality: Towards a human development perspective 7. What can universities do?
Patience Mukwambo is a Researcher in the SARChI Chair in Higher Education and Human Development (HEHD) Research Group, University of the Free State, South Africa.
Date de parution : 09-2021
15.6x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 04-2019
15.6x23.4 cm
Thème de Quality in Higher Education as a Tool for Human Development :
Mots-clés :
External Quality Assurance Procedures; QA System; Higher Education; Public Good Role; Universities; Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency; Edcuation and Development; Promote Student Wellbeing; Human Development; Conceptualising Education Quality; Quality Education; Zimbabwe’s Political Economy; Teaching and learning; High Publishing Outputs; Capabilities Approach; European Education Area; Zimbabwe; University’s Limited Resources; African Development; Knowledge Acquisition; Global South; QA Process; Stem Subject; University Representative; Parallel Market Exchange Rate; United Nations Development Programme; Academic Performativity; Social Wellbeing; ZANU PF; Student Engagement; Psychology Lecturers; PhD Holder; Human Capital Approach; Human Capital Creation; Part-time Lecturers