TY  - BOOK
AU  - Walker,Melanie
AU  - Fongwa,Samuel
TI  - Universities, Employability and Human Development
SN  - 9781137584526
AV  - L1-991 .U558 2017
PY  - 2017///
CY  - London
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan UK
KW  - Education
KW  - Education and state
KW  - ducation and state
KW  - Educational sociology
KW  - Education, Higher
KW  - Higher Education
KW  - Sociology of Education
KW  - Career Skills
KW  - Life Skills
KW  - Educational Policy and Politics
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 9 Human Development, Capabilities and Graduate Employability; 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; 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; 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; 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; 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'; 2; b
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