Curriculum Challenges for Universities

03.03.2023

Englisch

Englisch

9789811685842

Springer Singapore

Nein

197

Broschiert

Agenda for Change

Professor Jim Nyland is Associate Vice-Chancellor (Queensland) at the Australian Catholic University (ACU), Australia. Prior to this, he held academic appointments at the University of Queensland, Australia, where he was the Director of Corporate Education, and Director of UQ (University of Queensland) Business School Downtown. Previously, Jim was Manager and Principal Advisor in the Vice-Chancellor’s Office for Engagement at Griffith University, Australia, and has held managerial positions in a number of universities in the United Kingdom. He holds a doctorate in Education and has published research covering curriculum change, the nature of learning, and the impact of modernity on educational opportunity. Jim’s work is international in scope, and he has developed education programs in the United Kingdom and Australia, as well as published keynote academic papers in Ireland, Strasbourg and South Africa. He is particularly interested in extending knowledge and capacities in ‘new learning’, both in work and professional settings, and in communities which are in transition and face challenges. He is President of Engagement Australia, Editor of the new Australian journal Transform: Journal of Engaged Scholarship, and represents Australia on the International Consortium for Higher Education, Civic Responsibility and Democracy.

Curriculum matters and critique, Engagement, community and the longing of the century, Education the great equalizer, A crisis of knowledge, The educational supermarket, Indigenous Australians and knowing ‘country’, Freedom through education, A disputing university, Social purpose of learning, Inequalities and social justice, Imagining a different society, An ecology of learning

JNM - Hochschulbildung, Fort- und Weiterbildung JNF - Bildungsstrategien und -politik JN - Pädagogik JHB - Soziologie JNDG - Curricula: Planung und Entwicklung

235 mm

15.5 cm